ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Special issue of the Media Studies and Applied Ethics

Deadline (abstracts): 13 December 2022

Edited by Ana Milojevic (University of Bergen)

Datafication of journalism

Datafication is changing every aspect of our society including journalism as one of the important fundaments of democracy. Following the news production phases (observation, production, distribution, and news consumption) Loosen (2018:4) distinguishes between four forms of datafied journalism: data-based journalism, alogrithmed journalism, automated journalism, and metrics-driven journalism. Different aspects of data driven changes in journalism have been examined in all those forms during last decades, but many blind spots are still to be filled. Therefore, the main aim of this special issue is to put audiences in the forefront of examining different forms of journalism datafication.

Namely, data journalism as the fast-growing phenomena has been attracting scholarly attention. However, most of the research has been focusing on identifying characteristics of data journalism as the emerging subfield (genres, methods, storytelling techniques) and its integration into organizations, practices, and education worldwide (e.g. Bhaskaran, Kashyap & Mishra, 2022; Fink & Anderson, 2015; Munoriyarwa, 2022; Young, Hermida, & Fulda, 2018; Wu, 2022), while far less is known about audience relation to data journalism.

In the strand of the algorithmic journalism research, studies of user interactions with algorithms have been more prominent and diversified, including user perceptions of news personalization process (Monzer, 2020), experiences of news recommender systems (Wieland, 2021), and satisfaction with algorithmic news selections (Swart, 2021; Thurman et al. 2019). However, as Shin (2022: 1168) underlines, “little is known about the ways through which readers understand and actualize the potential for trust or affordances in algorithmic journalism”.

Also, significant body of research considers audiences in form of audience analytics and metrics as central for journalism transformation, including journalistic roles (Belair-Gagnon, Zamith, and Holton, 2020), news values (Kristensen, 2021), news selection (Lamot and Van Aelst, 2020), and journalistic norms and routines (Ekström, Ramsälv and Westlund, 2021). However, this area of research is mainly focused on editors’ and journalists’ work and decision-making processes. Much less attention has been given to data-analysts as growingly important actors in media, companies providing analytics to media, existing metrics and infrastructures for audience datafication.

Therefore, we invite submissions that theorize or empirically study the role of audience datafication in journalism, as well as audience interaction and engagement with data-based and algorithmic journalism. More precisely, studies that aim to answer: How is data journalism perceived, consumed, and valued in different contexts? What kind of audience needs data journalism gratifies? Does data journalism foster audience engagement? Second, we seek submissions that examine how users perceive algorithmic features and experience algorithm systems in the context of algorithmic journalism. Third, we welcome papers that focus on the role of various technological agents and non-journalist actors that intervene in the use of audience analytics and metrics in newsrooms.

Timeline:

Abstract deadline: 13 December 2022

Manuscript deadline: 31 March 2023

No Payment from authors will be required. More information on the call:

https://izdanja.filfak.ni.ac.rs/casopisi/media-studies-and-applied-ethics

For further details please contact Ana Milojevic

(ana.milojevic@gmail.com)

References:

Belair-Gagnon, V., Zamith, R., & Holton, A. E. (2020). Role orientations and audience metrics in newsrooms: An examination of journalistic perceptions and their drivers. Digital Journalism, 8(3), 347-366.

Bhaskaran, H., Kashyap, G., & Mishra, H. (2022). Teaching Data Journalism: A Systematic Review. Journalism Practice, 1-22.

Ekström, M., Ramsälv, A., & Westlund, O. (2021). Data-driven news work culture: Reconciling tensions in epistemic values and practices of news journalism. Journalism, DOI: 14648849211052419.

Fink, K., & Anderson, C. W. (2015). Data Journalism in the United States: Beyond the “usual suspects”. Journalism studies, 16(4), 467-481.

Kristensen, L. M. (2021). Audience Metrics: Operationalizing News Value for the Digital Newsroom. Journalism Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2021.1954058

Lamot, K., & Van Aelst, P. (2020). Beaten by Chartbeat? An experimental study on the effect of real-time audience analytics on journalists’ news judgment. Journalism Studies, 21(4), 477-493.

Monzer, C., Moeller, J., Helberger, N., & Eskens, S. (2020). User perspectives on the news personalisation process: Agency, trust and utility as building blocks. Digital Journalism, 8(9), 1142-1162.

Munoriyarwa, A. (2022). Data journalism uptake in South Africa’s mainstream quotidian business news reporting practices. Journalism, 23(5), 1097-1113.

Shin, D. (2022). Expanding the role of trust in the experience of algorithmic journalism: User sensemaking of algorithmic heuristics in Korean users. Journalism Practice, 16(6), 1168-1191.

Swart, J. (2021). Experiencing algorithms: How young people understand, feel about, and engage with algorithmic news selection on social media. Social media+ society, 7(2), 20563051211008828.

Thurman, N., J. Moeller, N. Helberger, and D. Trilling. 2019. “My Friends, Editors, Algorithms, and I.” Digital Journalism 7 (4): 447–469.

Wieland, M., Von Nordheim, G.(2021). One Recommender Fits All? An Exploration of User Satisfaction With Text-Based News Recommender Systems. Media and Communication, 9(4), 208-221.

Wu, S. (2022). Asian Newsrooms in Transition: A Study of Data Journalism Forms and Functions in Singapore’s State-Mediated Press System. Journalism Studies, 23(4), 469-486.

Young, M. L., Hermida, A., & Fulda, J. (2018). What makes for great data journalism? A content analysis of data journalism awards finalists 2012–2015. Journalism practice, 12(1), 115-135.

Deadline: September 21, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform that CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) consortium in collaboration with HERA (The Humanities in the European Research Area) and NORFACE (The New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe)  Networks pre-announce calls for international research projects in the following themes:

• Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities ­– organised jointly by CHANSE and HERA
  
• Enhancing well-being for the future – organised jointly by CHANSE and NORFACE
  

Information about the calls:

Full calls topic description is available here:

Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities

Enhancing well-being for the future 

Project team: Composed of at least four and maximum six Principal Investigators, i.e. partners, eligible to receive funding from the CHANSE and HERA/NORFACE funding organisations from four or more different countries participating in the call

Project duration: 24-36 months

Cap on funding for one international project: 1 500 000 EUR (across all partners)

Indicative timeline:

• Official calls announcement and launch of the submission system: May 26th, 2023
  
• Deadline for outline proposals: September 21st, 2023, 14.00 CET
  
• Deadline for invited full proposals: March 26th, 2024, 14.00 CET
  
• Call results: October/November 2024
  
• Earliest funded project start: End of 2024/Beginning of 2025
  

Countries participating in the calls:

Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia*, Denmark*, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Enhancing well-being for the future: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia*, Estonia, Germany*, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

*The participation in the calls will be confirmed in the Call announcement on 26 May 2023.

The participation of France will also be confirmed in the Call announcement.

PARTNER SEARCH TOOL:

In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, we offer applicants a partner search tool available here: https://www2.ncn.gov.pl/partners/chanse/. This tool can be used by projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects.  

Contact:

Call Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities: crisis@ncn.gov.pl

Call Enhancing well-being for the future : wellbeing@ncn.gov.pl 

We would appreciate disseminating the news through your online channels. 

Please find the Calls leaflets prepared for that purpose attached to this email.

Detailed information about the Calls can be also found at:

https://chanse.org/pre-announcement-of-the-new-calls-for-transnational-research-projects-on-crisis-and-well-being/

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October 26-27, 2023 

Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona, Barcelona

Deadline: June 10, 2023

ECREA Philosophy of Communication Section workshop 

Philosophy and Communication theory are two inseparable fields of knowledge. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers from philosophy and communication to analyze the need for new communication theories in the face of new research issues, and to discuss the philosophical implications.   

Communication theory started last century with the irruption of mass media and mass culture. At that time, Western societies were going through a profound transformation. Industrialization changed the way people lived: from the countryside to the big city, the irruption of mass media and culture, the threat of political propaganda, the power of media persuasion, the deconstruction of “high” vs. “popular” culture, or the negative effects of television content in children created an atmosphere of renewal as well as uncertainty. All these issues gave rise to the first communication theories: propaganda theories, the two-step flow theory, persuasion theory, cultural studies, entertainment theory, critical theory, information-processing theory, agenda setting theory, frame theory, among others. Underlying communication theorizing, philosophical assumptions were made, regarding epistemology, meaning, ethics, cognition, science, democracy, education. 

Today new problems are the target of communication research and communication theory. Most of these issues are related to the rise of the Internet and social media, as digital communication has profoundly transformed essential aspects of our lives. Here are some examples: new mental health problems have appeared, especially among young people, as a consequence of the use of digital media; media and information literacy have become one the priorities of democratic societies trying to combat the effects of disinformation; political propaganda and discourse have adapted new forms through the politics of algorithms; artificial intelligence is posing huge and uncharted challenges for education, economy, and social order as conceived since now; gender issues are at the center of cultural and social debates, as are other questions of identity and equity. Finally, the relation between the human species and the rest of nature is in flux at all levels, ranging from ideas around the Anthropocene and climate change to trans- and posthumanism. 

In the face of new theoretical challenges, the scientific and academic community needs to reflect on how communication theory and philosophy of communication approach them. Do the “old” theories still help to explain new problems? If so, do they need to be modified? Do we need new theoretical proposals? What are the philosophical assumptions implied in new theorizing? Is philosophy itself affected by these topics?  

These are the kind of questions that will be the focus of the workshop. A space where philosophers and communication researchers will have the opportunity to explore, analyze and discuss actual intellectual challenges at a time when the theoretical renewal of communication studies is becoming a matter of urgency. 

Keynote speaker: Stefania Milan (https://www.stefaniamilan.net/) (Amsterdam). TBC  

Abstracts (up to 300 words) by June 10, 2023 should be sent to gr.dhigecscom@ub.edu  

Abstracts acceptance notice: by July 15, 2023 

Workshop fee: 55 euros.   

Payment due September 15, 2023. Link: https://www.ub.edu/insact/alumnes/inici.php?idioma=3&id=d91a3e89e3bd16be9b8a 

The venue: https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/information-audiovisual-media/home 

May 4, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Environment, social and governance: the new normal for public affairs will be presented by Lukasz Bochenek on Thursday 4 May 2022 at 10.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The webinar will explore the current mantra of environment, social and governance which, while it has become the new normal for public affairs, presents special challenges because it is so wide a set of aspirations. It will also look at nexus of ESG reporting and sustainability communications in the context of changing regulatory landscape in the key jurisdictions.

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.)

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org

Background to Lukasz Bochenek

Lukasz is managing director for Switzerland, Belgium and UK for PR agency Leidar. He oversees international client relationships. Lukasz was co-director of the Executive Certificate Advocacy in International Affairs, Geneva. He is the author of Advocacy and Organizational Engagement. He holds a PhD in management studies from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and an LLM in international corporate and commercial law from King’s College London.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

January 2024

Deadline: July 1, 2023

V15N1 

Papers to be submitted to: https://cutt.ly/HzCSduo

The Mediterranean Journal of Communication seeks the submission of articles for the special issue: Creatives industries in the network, coordinated by Dr. Antonio Castro-Higueras (University of Málaga, Spain), Dr. José Patricio Pérez-Rufí (University of Málaga, Spain)and Dr. Toby Miller (University Autónoma Metropolitana—Cuajimalpa, México), to be published in January 2024 (V15N1). Deadline for submissions: July 1st, 2023. 

Creatives industries in the network

The cultural and creative industries have become a strategic sector in the new knowledge society, both for their economic impact and other factors, such as social cohesion, identity, and the promotion of the local. The digital world has revolutionized the creative sector, like so many others. "Creative Industries and the Internet" aims o explore this new scenario and answer questions such as: 

• Are the traditional creative industries adapting to the digital milieu?
  
• Will purely digital creative industries monopolize new markets? 
  
• What are the new business models? 
  
• How do users/audiences of the creative industries behave on the Internet? 
  
• What is new creative talent like and what work does it perform? 
  
• Is there a relocation or concentration of digital creative industries in particular digital territories?
  

We also invite the analysis and interpretation of the processes and effects of platformization of cultural production and its circulation (Helmond, 2015; Nieborg and Poell, 2018; Magaudda and Solaroli, 2021) in the various sectors of the creative industries.

For more information, you can contact the email acastro@uma.es

Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Sage)

Deadline: May 26, 2023

Following more than a decade of work on the structural properties of datafication and platforms, more recent studies are focussing on how users decode, make sense, avoid or resist algorithmic data. These works have contributed to make the role of users visible and meaningful and show users' reflective engagement with technology. Linking platform perspectives dealing with questions of power, accountability and governance on a macro-level to users' everyday engagement with digital technology represents a fruitful path when aiming to understand complex user-data relations. This special issue aims to connect datafication studies with lived user experiences, inviting scholars to think along and reflect on the concept of data reflectivity in their contributions.

We understand data reflectivity as a synthesizing concept signalling the dualism inherent in data: on the one hand, data reflect human users in specific (datafied) ways aiming to structure user experiences. On the other hand, users have their own ways of engaging in, circumventing, or even rebelling against these data reflections, employing reflective strategies to manipulate and shape data for their own purposes. We encourage submissions that provide theoretical, methodological or empirical venues for better understanding the data/user nexus in relation to media, platforms, infrastructures and algorithms (in particular recommendation systems), metrics and analytics.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptualisations of data reflectivity and the data/user nexus, the role of user reflectivity in the face of black boxing, obscurity, obfuscation, etc.
  
• User practices of algorithmic engagement and resistance, their relation to algorithmic imaginaries and literacies, and their implications for understanding the data/user relationship
  
• Theorizing the challenge of volatility: How to account for temporal variability of algorithmic systems in relation to users' algorithmic literacy? In other words, how to deal with algorithms as moving targets?
  
• New methodological venues for exploring the data/user relations, such as collecting "big" and "small" data, data donations, applying mixed methods in new ways etc.
  
• Examining the link between platform design and agency, reflectivity and literacy
  
• Empirical contributions engaging in questions such as: How reflective are users and what are the potentials and limitations of reflectivity for providing users with agency or literacy? What are users reflective or not reflective about in relation to data? What is the role of affective and tacit knowledge for data reflectivity?
  

Full call: https://ruc.dk/en/cfp-data-reflectivity-new-pathways-bridging-datafication-and-user-studies

Deadline for abstracts (500 words, excluding references): May 26th, 2023

Guest editors: Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke (Roskilde University, Denmark), David Mathieu (Roskilde University, Denmark), Joëlle Swart (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) and Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt (Malmö University, Sweden) 

Contact information: mahnke@ruc.dk

All papers are published under SAGE's publishing options.

December 11-13, 2023

Helsinki, Finland

Deadline for abstracts: May 2, 2023

In the recent years, HEPPsters have been engaging in themes of populist mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the relationship between time and space, and how this relationship informs the construction of ‘Us’. In the previous edition, HEPP3 paid special attention to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2023, this theme is expanded to reflect on the rise of ethno-nationalism. We are here also drawing on our Horizon2020 project on Deradicalisation in Europe and beyond, where the key thematic is social exclusion as the driver for violent radicalisation, emergence of grievance, alienation, and polarisation. We also want to investigate the emergence of religious populism, the formation of epistemic communities, and logics of datafied forms of communication that also deal with polarisation. We hope to incite theoretical and empirical discussions of these themes and more.

The Conference strives to assemble a wide range of international researchers at all career stages, with the aim of examining populism, particularly from a discursive and cultural approach. We welcome contributions from a wide range of fields. All submitted papers will be considered for our Working Papers series. 

The Conference encourages papers that approach the following and related themes: 

•       Political (Mis)use of Time and Space 

•       (De)radicalisation, Radicalism and Violent Extremism

•       (Ethnic) Nationalism and Populism

•       Misogyny, Xenophobia and Racism

•       Euroscepticism, Europhilia, and Eurocentrism

•       (Post-)Pandemic Populisms

•       Epistemic Populisms and Academic Knowledge

•       Populist logics of Datafication and Populism

•       Religion and Populism

•       Populist Dynamics and the Global South 

•       North-South Relations and (Post)Colonialism

•       Imperialism and Emotions

•       Affects and Emotions in Politics and Policy

•       Agonism, Antagonism, and the “Us”

•       Gender in Populism and Polarisation 

•       Cultural Populism and Populist Challenges on Culture

•       Political humour and populist rhetoric

•       Political Communication and Media in Times of War and Crisis

•       Populist Dynamics and the Logic of Populism

Please send in your paper submissions through this form < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-lE4QuePA6XeSsDkeBneK-yyntuleEMdex8oOkEgNR8/viewform?edit_requested=true> by 2nd May 2023. The submission must include your name and institution, a title, a 100-150 word abstract, and five keywords. Please send your panel proposals through this form < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kxI30w8u7HvXT8llBF1kDNseTy21M9pMMMvQ5WXJ6qw/viewform?edit_requested=true>  by 2nd May 2023. We encourage paying attention to diversity in the proposals. The Conference will be held primarily on site, with the possibility of presenting online.

The Conference fee is 200 euros, with a discounted fee of 100 euros for doctoral researchers, non-employed researchers, and colleagues from the Global South and Central and Eastern Europe. Beyond this, fee exemptions will be available in certain cases. If you feel that you require a fee exemption, please email hepp@helsinki.fi.

Organizer

The conference is organised by the HEPPsinki research group. The Organising Committee of HEPP4: Feeza Vasudeva (chair), Alexander Alekseev (co-chair), Dayei Oh, Emilia Palonen, Emilia Lounela, Gwenaëlle Bauvoi, Laura Horsmanheimo, Ionut Chiruta, Katinka Linnamäki, Kleber Carrilho, Rūta Kazlauskaitė, Virpi Salojärvi.

The HEPP4 organising is supported by the following projects:

- D.Rad: Deradicalisation in Europe and Beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate (EC: Horizon 2020)

- Now-Time, Us-Space: Hegemonic Mobilisations in Central and Eastern Europe (Kone Foundation)

- Datafication of Society at the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (PROFI)

- ENDURE: Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World (Trans-Atlantic Partnerships Academy of Finland)

Click the link below for further information:

<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/emotions-populism-and-polarised-politics-media-and-culture/call-for-papers-hepp4>

May 10, 2023

Dear Colleagues at the European Communication Research and Education Association,

EDMO is pleased to share the Training on EU Policy to Tackle Disinformation with you, which will be held online on 10 May, 2023 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CEST.

The training aims to provide a basic introduction to EU policy on disinformation, including the most recent developments in the field, also seen through the lens of different players in the field, in particular the European Commission, European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) and European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) . 

The training is intended as a basic introduction to the policy instruments for those who are not already familiar with them. 

Speakers will include:

Krisztina Stump is Head of the Unit in charge of combatting online disinformation at the European Commission. The Unit drafted the Commission Guidance on how to strengthen the Code of Practice on Disinformation and accompanied the drafting of the new Code by the signatories. She is chairing the Task-force of the Code of Practice. During the last ten years Krisztina has held various positions within the European Commission, in particular in telecommunications, audiovisual media, media freedom & pluralism and copyright.

Stanislav Matějka is the Head of the Analytical Department at the Slovak Council for Media Services, the national regulatory authority for audiovisual media services. In 2023 he serves as a Chair of Subgroup 3 of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services dedicated to countering disinformation and strengthening democracy in the digital environment. He previously served as a Hybrid Threats and Strategic Communication expert at the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. 

Please find here the link to apply. The deadline is set for 3 May 2023 at 10:00 am CEST.

We would be grateful if you could share it with your network.

About EDMO:

EDMO is an independent and multidisciplinary platform designed to build and equip a community to understand and tackle disinformation.

May 5, 2023

Please join us for a free online discussion of Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, “Communication Conduct in an Island Community”—newly published as an open access book.

• A Rosetta Stone for Erving Goffman: An Online Discussion on Goffman’s Newly Published Dissertation (1953)
  
• 5 May 2023, 15:00 UTC (11am EDT/4pm BST/5pm CET) [45 minutes]
  
• Register here
  
• More info
  
• Open access book 
  

Discussants

• Yves Winkin, University of Liège
  
• Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  
• Peter Lunt, University of Leicester
  
• Greg Smith, University of Salford
  
• Filipa Subtil, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
  

Description

Join Yves Winkin, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Peter Lunt, Greg Smith, and Filipa Subtil for a discussion of Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, “Communication Conduct in an Island Community”, recently published as an open access book with a new introduction by Winkin. This free Zoom session, sponsored by https://mediastudies.press, marks the dissertation’s publication with a discussion of the work’s significance by Winkin and other leading Goffman scholars.

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Winkin writes in the new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields.

Questions? Email press@mediastudies.press

Loughborough University, UK

We are looking to appoint two positions either as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Communication and Media Studies who will contribute to our excellent research culture and make a committed, innovative, and collegial contribution to teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

We are a broad-based subject area with particular research and teaching strengths in media, memory and history, political communication, language and social interaction, and cultural analysis. We encourage applications from any relevant specialism. For further details about our research and teaching please see https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/ and https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/media-and-communication-bsc/

The deadline for applications is 15 May 2023 (https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/)

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor David Deacon, Head of Division for Communication and Media: d.n.deacon@lboro.ac.uk

Post reference details:

Lecturer in Communication and Media (REQ230401)

Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media (REQ23402)

Reader (Associate Professor) in Communication and Media Studies (REQ23409)