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Human-Centered, Ethical Design of Technology-Enhanced Cultural Experiences 

Location: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 

Application deadline: 30th of September 2024 

About the position: 

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position (3 years) where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The postdoctoral fellow will perform research within the context of an EU-funded project focusing on sustainable digital transition in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). More specifically, the project will explore and exploit the use of eXtended Reality (XR) technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other transformative technologies to enable novel forms of presence and immersive, cultural (co-) experiences and that revolve around music. The project team consists of artists, technologists and researchers from 8 European countries dedicated to facilitating the sustainable digital transition in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).

The project aims to develop, test and pilot different solutions building on digital technologies empowered by Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality (XR) technology for CCIs, based on a genuine human-centric design process. The focus will be on music and different types of musical experiences aiming to foster meaningful co-experiences (e.g., between on-site and remote audiences or artists). The methodological cornerstone is an inherently human-centric, inclusive, and ethical approach towards the design and evaluation of novel digital tools that can enhance the deep human-to-human connections, and emotional and aesthetic co-experiences mediated by music in diverse settings. NTNU’s main responsibility in the project is the ethical and human-centric design and evaluation of the developed tools and enabled experiences. 

This position offers a unique opportunity to work within an interdisciplinary setting of researchers from different fields, professional artists and representatives from the creative industries and to perform impactful user research on real-world use cases. 

More information and application submission portal: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/266971/postdoctoral-fellow-in-human-centred-ethical-design-of-technology-enhanced-cultural-experiences 

Contact: Associate professor Katrien De Moor (katrien.demoor@ntnu.no) and Associate professor David Palma (david.palma@ntnu.no) 

November 30, 2024

Irish Radio will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2026. To mark this anniversary, ICR are issuing a special issue that will critically reflect on the development of radio in Ireland.

Abstracts for articles on any aspect of radio in Ireland over the past 100 years are invited.

A number of potential topics are listed below but please feel free to submit an abstract for articles beyond the scope of this list. Articles may review any aspect of the development of radio over the entire period or may concentrate on one genre, one station or one event in any time frame. 

There is scope for a wide variety of topics but all articles should be grounded in original research and should offer more than a description of events and programming. The study of radio, like the medium itself, has been neglected in academia for too long and this issue is an attempt to fill a major gap in Irish Media Studies. 

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words and should outline the key points/findings, including a single sentence stating why this paper would form an important contribution to the existing literature on radio in Ireland, scant though that is.

Articles will be between 4,000 to 6,000 words and will be peer reviewed. 

Deadlines:

• November 30, 2024: Submission of abstract directly to the editor at Rosemary.Day@mic.ul.ie. 
  

Please do not use the facility on TUDublin’s website or the ICR email address.

• January 10, 2025: Response from the editor  
  
• May 30, 2025: Submission of full draft article for peer review 
  
• October 30, 2025: Submission of revised and final draft of article
  

Guidelines from ICR are available here: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/icr/

Please feel free to consult with the editor by email at Rosemary.day@mic.ul.ie at any stage.

Suggestions for topics that may be of interest to you and could form the basis of an article include:

• Foundation of RTE
  
• RTE radio at critical points
  
• RTE radio as public service broadcaster
  
• Development of any genre of radio programming e.g. documentary; news and current affairs; drama; magazine; sports; music in all its forms…..
  
• Specific programmes and programme topics e.g. religious programming; agricultural shows; ecology programmes; educational programming……
  
• Cult of celebrity e.g. talk show hosts; shock jocks…
  
• Pirate radio
  
• Dawn of independent radio 
  
• Commercial independent radio – national, regional, local
  
• Community radio
  
• Technological developments
  
• Finance e.g. advertising; sponsored programmes; radio bingo!
  
• Employment practices
  
• Women and radio
  
• Diversity and radio
  
• Radio for development
  
• Relations with the BBC and or other stations
  
• Listeners – the process of listening
  
• Nostalgia
  
• Radio and politics
  
• Radio and identity
  
• Radio and culture
  
• Radio and society
  
• The future of radio
  
• Podcasting and radio
  
• Audience participation
  

October 24, 2024

Lisbon (Lusófona University) and online

This one-day hybrid workshop will bring together scholars from Audience Studies and Digital Culture to discuss the notions of atmospheres, moods, and vibes. It is the final presentation of the On&Off project, which focuses on disconnection across Activisms, Pilgrimage, Mourning, and Parenting (https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/research/projects/668-on-off-atmospheres-of-dis-connection).

Presentations by Peter Lunt (University of Leicester) and Ludmila Lupinacci (University of Leeds).

The event will join the project's international advisors Aleena Chia (Goldsmiths, University of London) and André Jansson (Karlstad University).

Organisers: Ana Jorge and Sofia Caldeira, Lusófona University

Free registration at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atmospheres-of-connection-and-disconnection-tickets-968591883397

More information: ana.jorge@ulusofona.pt

March 6-8, 2025

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

Deadline: October 31, 2024

Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes runs for three days (March 6-8, 2025) at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and other venues in Lisbon, Portugal, and includes a series of keynote lectures, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and off-site excursions with curated culinary programming.

At this multi-disciplinary and international forum, we address the essential role of food for communication and transmission of traditions, and the (re)establishment of peoples and communities throughout time. We are particularly interested in the relationship between food and processes of cultural transformation and change, as well as the centrality of food to/the impact of food on technology, migration, media and communications, political and economic development, social initiatives, and cultural and artistic expressions.

Through this conference, we hope to share and discuss food practices with the awareness that all food-related studies can and should benefit from shared perspectives on how food is both an instrument and a vehicle of culture.

We welcome contributions for paper sessions, interactive workshops, or presentation of case studies related to food studies from researchers with different backgrounds. The aim of this conference is to offer a shared experience through a unique approach based on bringing together theory and practice.

This event brings together researchers from different scientific areas to generate cross-disciplinary debate on how food shapes our everyday lives at various levels of society and culture. Food practices such as production, consumption, and intangible food culture together form what is the most intricately connective web of human experience. Beginning from the primal need of an individual body while simultaneously demanding inter-reliance and community, we are undeniably in a food-webbed world. Despite this, food-related studies have traditionally been delegated to strictly separate academic spheres, which is why this conference aims to offer an opportunity for truly interdisciplinary dialogue.

Possible topics (although not exclusive):

• Culinary histories on recipes or menus
  
• Cookbooks and menus as narrative text / in translation
  
• Food writing and journalism/food in the news 
  
• Food in film, literature and fine arts
  
• Food and social media/ food and influencers
  
• Food and migration/ as vehicle for hospitality
  
• Food and human rights and/or activism
  
• Food with social impact/ the social impact food
  
• Food of policies/ the politics/economics of food
• Food and the senses
• Food and memory or cognition
• Industrial food practices production
• Food and the environment
• Food, health and nutrition
• Food in/ and institutions (ex. Schools, hospitals, prisons)
• Food and community
• Food and religion/ food and ritual
• Food and tourism

Keynote speakers

Marília dos Santos Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa/ CECC)

Sarah E. Worth (Furman University)

Interactive Tasting Workshops

Olive Oil: production, consumption, socio-ecological cultures in the Mediterranean Johnny Madge, olive oil and honey sommelier, gustatory educator and author

Wine: Socio-political and cultural systems of consumption in Ancient Greece Sarah E. Worth, full professor of aesthetics, philosophy of food

Interdisciplinary Workshop

CellAgri Portugal – the Portuguese Association for Cellular Agriculture

Joaquim Cabral, distinguished full professor of bioengineering and biosciences (Instituto Superior Técnico), and President of CellAgri Portugal

Carlos Rodrigues, coordinator of the Bioreactor and Biomaterial Technologies for Stem Cell Manufacturing Lab (Instituto Superior Técnico)

Roundtable: “Food in Migration: diasporic cooking and futures of fusion”

Speakers TBA

Paper proposals

Proposals should be sent to foodconf2025@gmail.com no later than October 31, 2024, and include:

• Paper title
  
• Abstract in English (max. 250 words)
  
• Name, email address, institutional affiliation
  
• Brief Bio (100 words)
  

Applicants will be informed of their submission results by December 2, 2024.

Registration is open only to those with an accepted abstract. Registration deadline is December 31, 2024.

Paper sessions will run 1.5 hours. Each participant will have 20 minutes for speaking, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A.

All participants are expected to attend the full conference, for the benefit of knowledge production and knowledge exchange.

Fees

Organizing Committee

Annimari Juvonen

Márcia Dias Sousa

Rissa Miller

Verena Lindemann Lino

Scientific Committee

Adriana Martins | UCP

Ana Margarida Abrantes | UCP

Isabel Drumond Braga | FLUL

Ana Isabel Buescu | NOVA de Lisboa Luísa Santos | UCP

Sofia Pinto | UCP

Peter Hanenberg |UCP

Rissa Miller | UCP

Márcia Dias Sousa | UCP

Maria Graça da Silveira | Univ. dos Açores

With just one week to go until the 10th ECREA ECC 2024 in Ljubljana, here are some important information to help you prepare:

• Traveling to Ljubljana? Get essential tips on reaching the city
  
• Planning Your Stay? Explore helpful information about staying in Ljubljana and Slovenia
  
• Conference Kickoff: Registration, the opening ceremony, and the welcome reception will be held on 24 September at Cankarjev dom, Slovenia’s premier cultural and congress center located in the city center. Registration opens at 15:00.
  
• Getting Around Ljubljana: Upon registration, you’ll receive a badge that also serves as a free pass for Ljubljana city buses. Learn more about navigating the city
  
• Day 2 Venue: The second day of the conference will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Find details on how to reach the venue
  
• Interested in the programme: Check the online programme and social programme, Conference App will be also available soon.
  

We look forward to welcoming you to Ljubljana!

We are excited to announce the social events lined up for this year’s conference in Ljubljana. The start with the Welcome Reception on Tuesday, 24 September, at Cankarjev dom, Slovenia’s leading cultural and congress center. Following the conference opening and plenary session, enjoy a delightful evening with refreshments and seasonal Slovenian cuisine.

On Thursday, 26 September, don’t miss the YECREA Meet-and-Greet at Nebotičnik Café, where you can connect with colleagues while taking in stunning views of the city. Later that evening, the Conference Party will take place at the historic Križanke venue, featuring DJ NinaBelle, local delicacies, and special ECREA cocktails.

All events are included in the registration fee, so be sure to join us for these memorable occasions.

ECREA ECC 2024 also offers conference participants the opportunity to register for various tours that are part of the conference’s cultural and social programme:

• Computer History Museum Slovenia,
  
• Feminist walking tour,
  
• Punk walking tour,
  
• Post-communist walking tour,
  
• Ljubljana alternative walking tour,
  
• Visit to Radio Študent.
  

Read more about the social events and the tours.

South East Technological University

This research project aims to empower teenage girls (13-17 years old) in Ireland to develop a social media literacy programme. Recent research indicates that social media spaces are distinctly gendered, with teenage girls experiencing higher levels of abuse, sexualisation and cyberbullying (SapienLabs, 2023; Milosevic et al., 2022; Ging and Siapera, 2019). Current social media literacy programmes mainly focus on dispensing knowledge rather than allowing teenage girls to construct the programme themselves. To drive change, empowering teenage girls to shape the structure of the programmes is crucial. Thus, the project adopts Participatory Action Research (PAR) principles, placing teenage girls at the forefront of the research process, enabling them to voice their experiences and influence the research design.

This research project will utilise qualitative methods to explore the following:

1. Teenage girls’ perspectives/suggestions on how to develop a social media literacy programme

2. Co-creation of such a programme through workshops

3. Evaluation of the programme through diary entry

The findings of the study are anticipated to inform policy developers, schoolteachers, youth and social care workers, as well as families, on ways to deliver social media literacy programmes. The project's novelty lies in its participatory and inclusive approach, addressing gendered challenges in social media spaces, and empowering teenage girls to drive change.

Duties and Responsibilities

The successful applicant will:

• Be based at SETU Cork Road/College Street, Waterford Campus.

• Complete research modules and training as agreed with supervisors.

• Present research findings at academic conferences.

• Provide periodic progress reports.

• Contribute to public dissemination of the research through various media.

• Engage with the academic community at SETU.

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours Degree (minimum 2:1) or equivalent in Social Care, Social Science, Humanities, or a related discipline.

Desirable

• Masters Degree or Level 9 equivalent in Social Care, Social Science, Humanities, or a related discipline.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of research process and ethics.

• Knowledge of qualitative research methods. Desirable

• Experience working with young people.

• Knowledge of social media platforms.

• Experience working in applied social care or related contexts.

Skills & Competencies

Essential

• Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate on application that they meet SETU’s English language requirements and provide all necessary documentation. See Page 7 of the Code of Practice

• In order to be shortlisted for interview, you must meet the SETU English speaking requirements so please provide evidence in your application.

• Strong written, oral, and audio-visual communication skills.

• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary research team and on their own initiative.

• The successful candidate will have to obtain Garda Vetting Clearance.

Desirable

• IT skills and familiarity with the MS suite of applications.

• Project management and organisation skills.

• Keen interest in working with young people.

Further information

For any informal queries, please contact Dr Irena Loveikaite (PI) on email irena.loveikaite@setu.ie.

For queries relating to the application and admission process, please contact the Postgraduate Admissions Office researchadmissions@setu.ie or telephone +353 (0)51 302883.

For queries relating to the funding programme, please email scholarships2024@setu.ie University Website https://www.setu.ie/

Application procedure

Download the Research Postgraduate Application Form from here:

https://www.setu.ie/research-innovation/researcher-support/current-funding-and-open- calls/internal-setu-funding-calls/funded-research-opportunities and return the completed application to researchadmissions@setu.ie quoting SETU_2024_202_2 in the email subject line.

Please note that paper submissions will not be accepted.

The University may decide to interview only those applicants who appear from the information they provided, to be the most suitable in terms of experience, qualifications and other requirements of the post.

The University will short-list and interview those applicants who provide the most suitable information in terms of experience, qualifications and other requirements relevant to the scholarship.

SOUTH EAST TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (SETU) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

Bahruz Samadov is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. On 21 August 2024, when he was visiting Baku, Samadov was detained by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service. On 23 August 2024, it became known that he had been charged with 'high treason' and that he would remain imprisoned during (at least) a 4-month pre-trial detention. Based on the limited information available, the accusations appear to be directly related to Samadov's research and advocacy interests in peace in the South Caucasus and his meetings with Armenian counterparts at civil society and academic fora.

DESIRE is deeply concerned by Samadov’s detention, and by the accusation of treason. Together with PSA populism we have started a petition to free Samadov. Another open letter on this subject by international scholars can be found here. The Université Libre de Bruxelles, where Samadov has spent a research stay, has published a statement concerning his detention as well. PEN America, Amnesty International (repeatedly), the International Press Institute, Human Rights Watch, and Le Monde have all reported about the case and shown their concern.

Edited by: Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

We are delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It includes an introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces. They are all amazing! :) You can read the Special Issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media

Special Issue Editors: Yener Bayramo[1]glu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

Original Articles

Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction

YENER BAYRAMOGLU, [1] ŁUKASZ SZULC, AND RADHIKA GAJJALA

A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics

PENG QIAO AND YUQI HU

“Instagram is like a karela:” Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India

TANVI KANCHAN 

RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness

ZANE AUSTIN WILLARD AND RACHEL E. DUBROFSKY

Trans (on) YouTube: Localizing transnational narratives on two Polish trans YouTube channels

JOANNA CHOJNICKA

Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online

HATIM RACHDI

“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay:” BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires

ESIHLE LUPINDO 

What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community

BEATRICE MELIS, CHIARA PAOLINI, MARTA FIORAVANTI, AND DANIELE METILLI 

Forum 

The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture: Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China

JAMIE J. ZHAO 

When the homo deamon went digital: Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora

B. CAMMINGA

“Middle East conflict in Berlin schools:” On the affectability of “fake news”

JIN HARITAWORN

“How do I put this gently?” Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city

NICHOLAS BOSTON 

Gay for pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape

SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

Nordicom Review

Deadline: October 11, 2024

The SMIDGE research project (HorizonEurope), Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen, and Nordicom invite scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of Nordicom Review. The issue will focus on contemporary trends in extremism on social media in the Nordic countries, including mainstreaming processes, hybrid threats, conspiracy theories, and social media practices and phenomena, which enable shifts toward the extremes of the Nordic public cultures.

Editors:  

Mikkel Bækby Johansen, University of Copenhagen  

Line Nybro Petersen, University of Copenhagen  

Contact: 

Mikkel Bækby Johansen: mikkel.johansen@hum.ku.dk 

Important dates: 

• Deadline for extended abstracts: 11 October 2024 
  
• Invitation to submit full paper: 1 November 2024 
  
• Full paper submission: 17 February 2025 
  
• Peer review process: Spring 2025 
  
• Expected publication (Open Access): Early 2026  
  

Background and aim 

Recent years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in emerging forms of extremism on social media. Extremist content, ranging from hateful yet ironic and ambiguous memes over misinformation-based narratives to malicious conspiracy theories and hardcore extremist ideologies, circulates on mainstream social media platforms on a large scale (Bryant, 2020; Rothut et al., 2024). Everyday social media users are exposed to radical and subversive content on the same platforms they use for the most common practices of catching up with the news and keeping in touch with their network. On the one hand, mainstream actors such as influencers, journalists, celebrities, activists, and politicians use their social media visibility to platform ideas and opinions previously considered fringe (Baker, 2022). On the other hand, extremist narratives have become a matter of co-creation, as social media users accumulate ad hoc convictions, political opinions, personal grievances and inclinations, conspiracy beliefs, and ideology fragments to construct new narratives located outside the window of what is typically considered morally or politically acceptable (Petersen & Johansen, forthcoming; see also Makinac Center for Public Policy, 2019). 

This type of amalgamated and crowdsourced extremism challenges established classifications of extremism and obfuscates the process of tracing its origin. In a fragmented digital media landscape, antagonism against the center of society – that is, the political and institutional mainstream – may not necessarily originate from the most well-known extreme positions, for example, the far-right, the far-left, or militant Islamism. Today, extremist narratives also emerge from diffuse online communities, which cut across ideological divides. This type of hybrid extremism has recently caught the attention of security practitioners and law enforcement in the Nordic region (see PET, 2024; SÄPO, 2023). Highlighting the ontological connection between extremism and conspiracism (Cassam, 2021), the hybridisation trend is closely linked to the online proliferation and increased salience of conspiracy theories, which accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic (Brennen et al., 2020). This, combined with the perpetually ironic and ambiguous tone of online environments, challenges security practitioners and scholars alike to distinguish real threats from playful rhetoric. 

While Nordic societies are traditionally recognised as relatively peaceful, homogenous, pragmatic, and consensus-seeking, the recent pandemic and polarising effects of “the dark side” of social media culture (Zeng & Schäfer, 2021) are currently unsettling the categories by which Nordic public discourse may be understood. This includes Nordic perceptions of extremism vis-à-vis the mainstream and the perceived presence and influence of conspiracy theories in the Nordic public cultures. How, for instance, is the QAnon conspiracy theory imported and adapted to fit a Nordic context? What characterises the sentiments of anti-authority groups in the Nordic region, and what role do cross-national conspiracy theories like The Great Reset and The Great Replacement play in these movements? Are there any patterns, similarities as well as differences, in the way extremist narratives emerge through social media use across the Nordic countries? 

Further empirical studies of dynamic, ambiguous, and unclear spaces of online extremism in the Nordic context may help not only security practitioners and scholars but also a wider public audience to understand the emerging environments from which new extremist ideas and potential threats originate. 

Focusing particularly on contemporary forms of extremism and conspiracism in the context of social media, we invite empirical as well as theoretical contributions to elucidate potential Nordic particularities within current developments in online extremism. We prioritise contributions that 1) specifically address social media and engage with social media theories and 2) have a clear focus on the Nordic region. We welcome a broad range of methods, both qualitative and/or quantitative approaches, (comparative) case studies, ethnographic studies, and so on. Topics may include but are not limited to the following: 

• Social media practices and communities, e.g., (co-)creation and dissemination of extremist narratives and conspiracy theories. 
  
• Social media technologies, affordances, and the communicative infrastructure of extremism. 
  
• Changing forms of extremist expression: aesthetics and genres. 
  
• Hybridisation processes and the amalgamation of ideologies, conspiracy beliefs, religious convictions, current events, etc. 
  
• Conditions of mainstreaming and processes of normalisation, e.g., conceptualisations of the mainstream-extreme continuum. 
  
• Nordic import of conspiracy theories and extremist narratives from other national contexts. 
  
• Actors engaged in mainstreaming, legitimating, or promoting extremism, e.g., journalists, influencers, celebrities, activists, politicians, and public intellectuals. 
  
• Case studies of extremist phenomena, i.e., movements, incidents. 
  
• Comparisons between spaces of extremist discourse in the Nordic countries. 

Procedure 

Please send an extended abstract of no more than 750 words to mikkel.johansen@hum.ku.dk by 11 October 2024. The abstract should outline the main theme and approach of the intended paper and mention how it fits with the overall theme of the special issue. 

Authors invited to submit a full manuscript (7,000–9,000 words) will be notified by e-mail when all abstracts are assessed by the editors. All submissions should be original works and must not be under consideration by other publishers. 

After the initial submission and review process, manuscripts that are accepted for publication must adhere to our guidelines upon final manuscript delivery. You may choose to use our templates to assist you in correctly formatting your manuscript. 

Read the full instructions for authors and download a manuscript template 

References 

Baker, S. A. (2022). Alt. health influencers: How wellness culture and web culture have been weaponised to promote conspiracy theories and far-right extremism during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(1), 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494211062623 

Brennen, J. S., Simon, F. M., Howard, P. N., & Nielsen, R. K. (2020). Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/types-sources-and-claims-covid-19-misinformation 

Bryant, L. V. (2020). The YouTube algorithm and the alt-right filter bubble. Open Information Science, 4(1), 85–90. https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0007  

Cassam, Q. (2021). Extremism: A philosophical analysis. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978042932547

Makinac Center for Public Policy. (2019). The Overton window. https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow

PET (Danish Security and Intelligence Service). (2024). Assessment of the terrorist threat to Denmark 2024. https://pet.dk/en/-/media/mediefiler/pet/dokumenter/analyser-og-vurderinger/vurdering-af-terrortruslen-mod-danmark/vurdering-af-terrortruslen-mod-danmark-2024-eng.pdf

Petersen, L. N., & Johansen, M. B. (forthcoming). Spaces of hybridized prefatory extremism.  

Rothut, S., Schulze, H., Rieger, D., & Naderer, B. (2024). Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions. Communication Theory, 34(2), 49–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae001

SÄPO (Swedish Security Service). (2023). The Swedish Security Service 2023–2024. https://tinyurl.com/4v8yfthd

Zeng, J., & Schäfer, M. S. (2021). Conceptualizing “dark platforms”: Covid-19-related conspiracy theories on 8kun and Gab. Digital Journalism, 9(9), 1321–1343. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1938165 

About the publisher 

Nordicom is a centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Nordicom publishes all works under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, which allows for non-commercial, non-derivative types of reuse and sharing with proper attribution. All works are published Open Access and are available to read free of charge and without requirement for registration. There are no article processing charges (APC), and authors retain copyright. 

Nordicom Review is an international peer reviewed journal devoted to new Nordic media and communication research. In 2023, Nordicom Review recorded a Journal Impact Factor of 2.0, a CiteScore of 2.8, and an H-Index of 23.

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Read the call for papers on Nordicom’s website: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-extremism-social-media-nordic-perspectives