ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Vista, n. 11

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Thematic editors: Luís Miguel Loureiro (University of Minho, Portugal) and Juan Francisco Gutierrez Lozano (University of Málaga, Spain)

Television, considered one of the great inventions of the 20th century in the media sphere, has been an imposing medium for producing entertainment content, fiction narratives and information, and journalistic activity. Representing an industry much more expressive in economic terms than the press or the radio, the "small screen", as it has been identified compared to cinema, has played a decisive role in confirming a society marked by visual communication. After photography, cinema and all forms of graphic image production that have experienced impressive development in the last 100 years, television has had — or still has today — an important role in the construction of imaginaries and the expansion of audiovisual communication processes.

Notwithstanding its historical relevance in the communicational and media landscape, around which television studies were founded and consolidated, television coexists today with other video production and distribution mechanisms. Although it is widely diffused and its access is practically universal, drawing images of everyday life, the "magic box" shares the audience with other audiovisual platforms. Video is also on different screens in an increasingly hybrid and versatile language, whether professional or amateur.

In this thematic section of Vista, we propose a reflection on the place of television and video in a time that, despite increasingly questioning the social centrality of television, has confirmed the image as the dominant medium of communication. Therefore, for this thematic section, we invite scholars to submit (full-length in text format) articles, book reviews, interviews and visual projects that address the cultural role of television and video in constructing visual portrayals of reality. Special attention will be given to proposals focusing on the following themes:

• television, visual culture and imagery;
  
• "sequence" and " flow": television and cultural studies;
  
• the political dimension of television as a mechanism of discourse production;
  
• the social and cultural role of television;
  
• television and regimes of visibility;
  
• the informational and communicative potential of the television image;
  
• television, video and media arts;
  
• the visual representations of television and video and cultural pluralism;
  
• new television formats and audiovisual aesthetics;
  
• television, video and visual narratives;
  
• the relation of young people with television and video production;
  
• the relation of television image with social networks;
  
• the television image and the ethical debate on the production of visual representations;
  
• the hybridization of the visual language of television and video;
  
• the television documentary and the web documentary: intersections and cutting lines;
  
• the platformization of television;
  
• audiovisual creativity and fiction production;
  
• the current challenges of television studies.
  

KEY DATES

Proposals submission (full manuscript): September 1 to November 1, 2022

Publication: continuous edition (January-June, 2023)

Vista is an open-access academic journal following the demanding peer-review standards based on a double-blind review process. https://revistavista.pt/index.php/vista/announcement/view/48

November 10, 2022

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Mobile storytelling: why a smartphone is a PR manger's best friend will be presented by Stephen Knifton on Thursday 10 November 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted for summertime). (Please note summertime is ending in Europe and North America between the day of this email and the event). 

What is the webinar content?

At the webinar you will learn the creative possibilities in smartphone filmmaking and discover how to create content for social media, film, TV, brand and commercial work with your smart device. The webinar will help unlock the storytelling tools that engage audiences.

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 Stephen Knifton

Stephen Knifton teaches Smartphone Filmmaking, Smartphone Storytelling and Mobile Journalism in person at a selection of campuses across North America,  and he also teaches remotely at professional workshops globally.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308 

Deadline for Abstracts: 14 November 2022 

Edited by Alexander R. E. Taylor (University of Exeter), Linda Kopitz (University of Amsterdam), Alexandra Kviat (University of Leicester) and Yiğit Soncul (University of Winchester) 

Overflowing email inboxes. Back-to-back Zoom meetings. Unending data extraction. Constant connectivity. Data-driven productivity measurement. Gruelling gig economy work. The pressure to maintain social media presence. Netflix binging. 

Daily life in digital culture can be exhausting. 

This edited collection takes the theme of ‘digital exhaustion’ as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in daily life. We offer ‘exhaustion’ as a broad and versatile conceptual prism for thinking through human-technology relations in the current climate of digital overload.  

Digital exhaustion - along with a range of other related affects and experiences, including digital burnout, Zoom fatigue, information overload and social media overuse – have all emerged as key structures of feeling in the present. With digital technologies entrenching themselves deeper and deeper into our personal and professional lives, the possibilities of ‘disconnection’ and ‘detox’ seem increasingly tempting. At the same time, the need to engage in sustained dialogue about digital futures and the ways that digital technologies are being deployed, embraced and opposed is of pressing importance. This edited collection is responsive to this need. 

We are interested in issues and approaches pertaining to the study of digital exhaustion and welcome contributions from a range of topics, such as:  

• The fatigue arising from back-to-back Zoom calls 
  
• The ‘burnout’ that comes from social media overuse 
  
• Digital labour 
  
• Digital remedies to digital exhaustion 
  
• Digital aesthetics of exhaustion 
  
• Digital detoxing 
  
• The exhaustion of planetary resources generated by digital device manufacture/demand 
  
• Gig economy and app-driven work 
  

Please submit the following by 14 November 2022 for consideration: 

• A 500-word proposed chapter abstract 
  
• A one-page CV 
  
• A 150-word bio (please make sure to include your current position, institutional affiliation and email address) 
  
• One previous writing sample representative of writing style and narrative voice
  

We are looking to balance the disciplines and methods represented in the collection and this will partly inform our selection process. 

Tentative Production Schedule: 

• Please send the above material to a.r.e.taylor@exeter.ac.uk by 14 November 2022   
  
• Authors notified following review – 21 November 2022 
  
• First chapter drafts due (6,000-8,000 words - 10 February 2023 
  
• The deadline for the submission of full contributions will be late Spring 2023 
  

Please send any questions to a.r.e.taylor@exeter.ac.uk 

Ethics International Press is pleased to invite proposals for scholarly books and edited collections. We specialise in publishing for the academic market, so if you are researching and writing in fields broadly related to Ethics or addressing ethical issues, we would be delighted to hear from you. You can download a Book Proposal Form here.

We aim to be broad in scope, inclusive and welcoming of diverse voices and approaches, and to be a friendly and unpretentious place to publish. All proposals are independently reviewed. Please note that we make no charges to publish.

We take a deliberately broad approach to the topic of Ethics. In a sense, ethical questions, considerations and decisions can be said to underpin most, if not all, areas of human endeavour. As examples, we have published books dealing with:

• philosophical issues such as Religion and Faith, Morality, and Decision Making
  
• applied fields, such as Bioethics, Education, Built Environment, Data Science, Legal, Medical, and Business Ethics
  
• explorations in Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling, and Childhood Studies
  
• current challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Climate Change, Food Security, Poverty, and Technology/AI
  
• discussions in Arts, Humanities and Social Science fields such as History, Society and Culture, Politics, and Literature
  

If in doubt about scope, please ask and we will give you an answer on likely suitability very quickly. 

Additionally, we have a number of 'Open Calls for Chapters' in edited collections including Statistics, Technology and AI, Critical Psychology and Psychiatry, and Socio-Technical Systems. You can see more information on our edited collections here.

We aim to build Ethics International Press into the world’s leading specialist academic publisher in Ethics and related fields. For more information about Ethics International Press, including current and forthcoming titles; our Advisory Board members; and our Notes for Authors, please view our website, at www.ethicspress.com.  

The books we select for publication are aimed at scholarly researchers, teachers, and students, worldwide. We publish in English. Ethics International Press was founded in Cambridge, UK in 1993.

Wednesday, May 24 and Thursday, May 25, 2023

Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deadline for abstracts: Friday, December 2, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. GMT

With the support of the International Communication Association (ICA) Popular Media & Culture Division and Media Industry Studies Interest Group.

Proposal submission form: https://bit.ly/podcastprecon23

This, the first ever podcast studies ICA preconference, invites scholars to present, discuss and listen to a range of works focusing on podcasting as a cultural, aesthetic, and institutional communicative form. We aim to promote a broad, cross-field understanding of podcasting, one that is shaped by multiple forces and perspectives that go beyond the early notion of the medium as simply an extension of radio, and open the horizon to fruitful exchanges between media history research, sound studies, creative industries, journalism, platform studies, and more.

 Podcasting is a relatively young medium: It has been 20 years since the first audio file was distributed online via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in 2003. Thanks to software developer Dave Winer’s innovation of media enclosures within RSS feeds, podcasting became an audio distribution form that greatly expanded the utility and popular excitement around Apple’s iPod in the first decade of the 21st century. While podcasting was initially leveraged by broadcast radio networks such as NPR and the BBC to asynchronously retransmit their content online, the key to the medium’s early identity and development was the explosion of amateur content production, thereby opening up the medium to new voices and perspectives, unhindered by the presence of institutional gatekeepers.

 The cultural significance of this medium has since been resonating through various corridors of communication, culture, and everyday life, and is evident in both the exponentially growing popularity of, and the scholarly attention given to, podcasting. As an audio medium, podcasting's familiar cultural anchor is radio. However, from its very inception podcasting has presented a combination of traits that straddle a range of old and new media practices: serialization and syndication (Durrani, Gotkin & Laughlin, 2015; Haugtvedt, 2017), portability and customization (Berry, 2006; Menduni, 2007; Spinelli and Dann, 2019), autonomous scheduling and binge-consumption (Stitcher, 2016), the simultaneous democratization and egalitarianism of cultural production alongside the centralization and industrialization of the field (Sullivan, 2019).

Based on an open architecture of RSS that cultivates a culture of entrepreneurism and aspirational labor (Sullivan, 2018), podcasts allow for new modes and workflows of production (Rime, Francombe & Collins 2022), as well as new styles of delivery and sound aesthetics (Copeland, 2018; Florini, 2015; McHugh, 2016; Salvati, 2015). These coincide with new modes of audience engagement (e.g. Perks & Turner 2018), digital activism (Fox & Ebada, 2022) and para-social relationships (Schlütz, D., & Hedder, 2021; Sharon & John, 2019), that thrive in an era of attention scarcity that privilege sight over hearing (Sterne, 2003), making podcasting a unique site of inquiry in the current social media landscape.

OBJECTIVE

This preconference seeks to bring together researchers and academic practitioners to explore questions such as: How can podcasts and podcasting be theorized? How can the study of podcasting enrich our knowledge of core issues of communication, both conceptually and methodologically? What types of content define the podcasting medium today and what does that signify? How can podcasts mediate complex topics and de-marginalize authentic, diverse voices? How do podcasts change our understanding of notions such as storytelling and narratives? What is the social economy of podcasting? How are major platform providers such as Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartMedia shifting the nature of podcast production, distribution, and consumption? What are the relationships between the practice of podcasting and the study of it?

We invite works that may address the wide range of subject areas relevant to the study of podcasts, including but not limited to:

• The state and future of podcast studies: Mapping the history of the field, theorizing what a podcast is, delineating the borders of podcast studies in relation to other media fields.
  
• The political economy of podcasting: Industry power and control; processes of consolidation, professionalization and platformization of podcasting; monetization and datafication of podcast listening; commercial aspects and advertising in podcasts; podcasting in the age of streaming platforms.
  
• Podcasting as a creative industry: The creative labor of podcasting; audience and production studies about podcast shows and communities.
  
• Non-human podcasts: Generative podcasts, robot hosts, and automated transcripts
  
• Podcasts diversities: The inclusive (and exclusive) nature of podcasts; diverse hosts and audiences; podcasting in the Global South; how podcasts amplify diverse perspectives; making podcasts more accessible; and more.
  
• Podcasts as audio archives: Who is in charge of institutional and informal podcast archives? Who are the gatekeepers of podcasts? How do we preserve human speech and sound, and according to which categories?
  
• Podcast studies methods: Analysis of podcast networks; models for studying podcast delivery modes; theorizing para-social relations between host and listener applying sound studies tools to research podcasts.
  
• Podcasts and journalism: Podcasts and the public sphere; long-form audio news
  
• Podcasts forms and new aural cultures: The rise of new audio genres, narrative and storytelling modes.
  
• Podcasts as academic avenues: Podcasting as a form of intellectual and scholarly engagement; peer review of and through podcasts.
  
• Podcasts as acoustic spaces

SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Given the auditory and often conversational nature of podcasting, this preconference welcomes several types of contributions:

Paper presentations (15 minute presentations)

Audio work presentations (15 minute presentations)

The audio work could be your own (completed or work-in-progress), or you might present the work of others (e.g. clips or sections from a published podcast) for listening and discussion.

Theme-centered podcast episode recording

Recording studios will be available to conduct podcast recordings related to podcast studies. Take advantage of this gathering of experts to get them into the studio! Studios can accommodate up to 6 participants including host(s) and include all necessary equipment. Recorded podcast episodes may be included in a special series of The Podcast Studies Podcast and/or you can release the recording as part of your own podcast if you have one. Technical support staff will be on hand to give you a quick overview of how to run the studio and to help if you run into problems.

Leading a roundtable discussion (of ~20 minutes)

In these roundtable sessions, attendees will participate in three 20-minute roundtable discussions. Attendees may choose to move from one table to another at the end of each 20 minute stretch, or may choose to stay at a particular table to continue to engage with the topic at hand. As a roundtable discussion leader, you would determine the specific theme/topic, summarize the context of the topic, and encourage discussion amongst participants at your table.

Workshops (of up to 90 minutes)

Other: something you want to propose that isn't captured in the categories above

For all submission types, the proposal format is a 500-word abstract (not including bibliography) submitted by Friday, December 2, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. GMT, through the preconference proposal form: https://bit.ly/podcastprecon23

Abstracts should include the main idea/argument, a short literature review and/or theoretical perspectives, and an explanation of the work’s contribution. Aiming to broaden the scholarly imagination through the concept and practice of podcasting, we welcome different delivery modes and approaches, including discussions of literature, historical perspectives, empirical works, critical listening, and other creative forms of academic contributions that can fit with one of the submission types.

Decisions on acceptance will be made by Tuesday, January 31, 2023.

In general, authors of accepted abstracts are expected to attend the preconference in person. However, while we are planning to stream the event, we are exploring options for remote presentation, under certain circumstances.

REGISTRATION FEE (TBC)

100 USD / for registered participants: speakers and attendees who are faculty members

50 USD / for students, and speakers and attendees with no employment

Fee includes: participation in the conference, two snack breaks per day and lunch for both days.

The preconference is open to both ICA members and non-members. Note that you may attend this preconference even if you are not attending the main ICA conference.

ORGANIZERS

Lori Beckstead, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)

Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo

Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tzlil Sharon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

John Sullivan, Muhlenberg College

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions regarding this call for participation, feel free to reach out to our committee at podcastprecon23@gmail.com

October 20-21, 2022

The University of Manchester’s campus and online

Contact: vitaly.kazakov@manchester.ac.uk & dmitrijs.andrejevs@manchester.ac.uk

Programme: please find the full programme here: http://man.ac.uk/MVt7hN

Registration: please register your attendance here: https://forms.gle/JvC9RPjiiWUCeU1j6 

The concept of ‘nation projection’ subsumes classic public and cultural diplomacy efforts and ‘soft power’ activities, such as the hosting of sport and entertainment events. The term also refers to state-sponsored campaigns of external influence activities including international broadcasting and covert meddling in the affairs of foreign states. This hybrid symposium will expand on debates and bring together comparative perspectives on how nation projection differs across: 1) sporting, popular culture, and international media events and channels; 2) liberal and illiberal contexts; 3) different kinds of illiberal regimes; and 4) various media formats and technological platforms.

This multifaceted focus is reflected in the two day programme (access the detailed schedule and programme here: http://man.ac.uk/MVt7hN):

Day 1: 20 October

Panel 1: Nation projection through sport: ‘soft power’, ‘sportswashing’, ‘sports diplomacy’

Participants: Paul Michael Brannagan and Seth Joseph Perkin; James Dorsey; Kaixiao Jiang; Adam Dinsmore; and Laeed Zaghlami.

Keynote 1: “Sport and the ‘Illiberal Turn’: Globalization, Soft Power, and International Development”: Richard Giulianotti

Panel 2: Nation projection through sport: Governance, Values, and Sport Diplomacy Participants: Barrie Houlihan; Solomon Ilevbare; Malte Frank; Michael Skey; and Chris Harvey.

Keynote 2: “The Hard Edge of Soft Power: Mega-Events, Geopolitics, and Making Nations Great Again”: Sven Daniel Wolfe

Panel 3: Sporting events’ legacies and audiences

Participants: Tom Fabian; Jiri Zakravsky; Valerio della Sala; James Saunders; and Richard Arnold 

Day 2: 21 October

Panel 4: Nation projection through media: the case of Russia

Participants: Rui Wang; Maxime Audinet; members of the RUSINFORM research project; Maksim Alyukov; Mikhail Batuev; and Anton Shekhovtsov (presentation on Day 1) 

Keynote 3 “Rethinking agency in il(liberal) nation projection: representing, resisting and reconstructing the nation in wartime”:Precious Chatterje-Doody

Keynote 4 “Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World: Recursive Nationhood”: Stephen Hutchings

Panel 5: Nation projection through cultural production and outputs: cross-regime and historical perspectives

Participants: Pınar Özdemir; Peter Rollberg; Kanika Ahuja; Jonathan Ervine; and Marco Biasioli.

We look forward to seeing you in person or online!

Members of the organising committee are grateful to the NWSSDTP, ESRC, and the University of Manchester for their support of this symposium.

May 24, 2023

Toronto (Canada)

Deadline: December 20, 2022

The conference is organized by the Digital Democracies Institute (Simon Fraser University) and York University and will take place in Toronto on May 24, 2023 (one day before the beginning of ICA).

• For this pre-conference, we seek critical explorations of authenticity and authentication as they relate to digital manipulation and digital artifice. 
  
• How is authenticity caught, created, faked, authenticated and managed through digital assemblages? 
  
• How is it both constructed as a felt experience, as well as machinized though automated recognition patterns? 
  
• If authenticity is key to misinformation, then what kind of interventions can we imagine to question, and undermine such articulation? 
  
• What new algorithms of authenticity could we imagine and deploy?
  

We are particularly interested in research that examines the fabrication of digitally mediated authentic experiences, be they non-conscious and habitual, or spectacular and deeply meaningful. We are interested in research that explores how objects and persons come to be seen and experienced as authentic and inauthentic, which includes paying attention to how authenticity – in its affective, emotional, non-conscious and cognitive dimensions – is constructed via technical affordances, media habits, political rhetoric, mass-personal communication, network rhythms, recommendation algorithms and targeted campaigns. Equally, we are interested in work that critically and creatively challenges the articulation of authenticity with misinformation.

We welcome a wide array of methodological approaches – qualitative, quantitative, speculative, creative, participatory, collaborative and others. We are open to different formats of intervention, from traditional papers to research-creation. We also welcome proposals for short workshops (1 hour length), demonstrations and other modes of collaborative inquiries.

A full description of the conference is available here.

Please submit 150-200 words abstract to ICA2023Preconf@gmail.com by December 20, 2022. Notices of acceptance will be sent on 11 January 2023.

Key details and dates:

• Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2023. 9:00 - 17:00
  
• Venue: York University, Toronto
  
• Division affiliation: Communication & Technology Division
  
• Fee: Registration will be free
  
• Call for Abstract deadline: December 20, 2022
  

Organizers: 

• Ganaele Langlois (Communication and Media Studies, York University)
  
• Wendy Chun (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University)
  
• Alberto Lusoli (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University)
  
• Anthony Burton (School of Communication, Simon Fraser University)
  

Best regards,

Alberto Lusoli

Digital Democracies Institute

Simon Fraser University

June 19-21, 2022

Newcastle University, a University of Sanctuary

Deadline: December 9, 2022

The academic conference will take place between 19-21 June 2023 during UNHCR Refugee week at Newcastle University, a University of Sanctuary. The conference will be in person only, although we will record the keynote presentations. The cultural festival will take place in buildings and sites on campus and at venues around the city of Newcastle, a City of Sanctuary, between 19-25 June, although some exhibitions might extend into the following weeks.  Further details about the cultural festival including a programme of events and activities, will be available nearer the time.

Call for Papers

The experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers remains salient in and for the media as journalists report from one conflict zone to another, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine adding immediacy to the coverage of war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, (re)animating public and political debate about how ‘we’ should respond. At the same time, major crises in regions such as DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Sudan, Nigeria, Burundi and Ethiopia go largely unreported (Wanless et al, 2022). Generations of Palestinians have now grown up in UN-administered refugee camps in the Middle East, around one million Rohingya people from Myanmar are living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and the accelerating climate crisis is leading to the further displacement of millions of people worldwide.  Some scholars suggest that media coverage of war often lacks context or historical perspective, so that discussions about the economic and cultural aspects as well as the wider structural issue of migration, are largely ignored (Fengler et al, 2022). It is scarcely original to suggest that mainstream media outlets play an important role in informing the public about refugees and asylum-seekers – for example, the number of people attempting (and sometimes tragically failing) to enter Britain informally via the English Channel are a regular feature of UK national news – but the way the issue is reported is seen by many commentators as contributing to the rise of hostile populism across Europe and beyond.  However, refugees, asylum-seekers, activists and others interested in calling media to account are not standing passively by, but are increasingly using both legacy and social media platforms and technologies to challenge and contest misinformation and negative and polarising and narratives, not least in order to tell their own stories in their own words. 

For the academic conference, we now welcome abstracts which focus on any aspect of the relationship between refugees, asylum-seekers and the media from a range of contributors including academics, media professionals and media practitioners, especially those with lived experience and/or experience of collaborating with refugee or asylum-seeker communities. We are keen to receive abstracts of work which will be presented in a variety of formats including text, screen and sound-based based forms, as well as multi-media work*.  Topics could range from, but are definitely not limited to:

§   representations in mainstream or social media

§   reporting policy and/or legal responses

§   refugee and asylum-seeking media practices, websites and/or social media accounts

§   refugee and asylum-seeking experiences as sources or subjects of news discourse

§   alternative media and community media representations

§   refugees and asylum-seekers making media

§   citizen journalism and the refugee and asylum-seeking experience

§   participatory media projects with refugees and asylum-seekers

§   practices of journalists and media practitioners with lived experience as refugees   

§   the ethics of reporting

§   refugee and asylum-seeker voices in the public sphere

§   empathy and affect in media discourse

§   journalism education in relation to covering refugees and asylum-seekers

§   collaborative media projects with refugee or asylum-seeker communities

§   refugees, asylum-seekers and the adoption/adaptation of media technologies

Publication opportunity

After the conference, we will be inviting full papers to be submitted for possible inclusion in a special double issue of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics which will be published in 2024 (issue 2, summer; issue 3, autumn).  

Dates for your diary

§   9 December, 2022 – submission of abstracts/posters (350-500 words)

§   6 February, 2023 - decisions announced

§   20 February, 2023 – registration opens

Posters

PhD students are welcome to submit abstracts but can, as an alternative, submit a research poster.

For further information, please contact Karen Ross and David Baines at: sanctuarysongs2023@newcastle.ac.uk    

*depending on the technical requirements

References 

Fengler, S., Bastian, M., Brinkmann, J., Zappe, A.C., Tatah, V., Andindilile, M., Assefa, E., Chibita, M., Mbaine, A., Obonyo, L. and Quashigah, T. (2022) Covering migration - in Africa and Europe: Results from a comparative analysis of 11 countries. Journalism Practice, 16(1), pp.140-160.

Wanless J., Michou H., Peyre-Costa P., Schembri K., Kårstad I., Olivesi M., Foster E, Toure M., Vu M.,  Taylor J., Skarstein T. (2022) The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2021. Norwegian Refugee Council. Availableat: NeglectedList2021_ENG_LR.pdf   

Editors: Franziska Oehmer-Pedrazzi, Sabrina Heike Kessler, Edda Humprecht, Katharina Sommer, Laia Castro

Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-36179-2

The articles in the book are written in English or German.

Abstract:

This open-access handbook identifies and systematizes the status quo of standardized, content-analytic research in communication science and makes it accessible to researchers and students. It addresses topics and research areas in news journalism, fictional content, and communication by professional and lay communicators. The focus is on the central questions and research designs with special attention to the constructs/variables used. In the associated database "Database of Variables for Content Analysis - DOCA" variable descriptions are compiled and made retrievable. The handbook provides the contextual framework for this. Together, they form the basis for the standardization and thus comparability of content analysis studies.

May 23, 2022

Toronto, Canada

The Interpersonal Communication Division of the International Communication Association invites early career scholars to a Research Escalator taking place in the Annual International Communication Association Conference in Toronto (May 2023). The Research Escalator is a great mentorship opportunity for doctoral students and post-docs. You will receive feedback on the paper you submit from senior Interpersonal Communication faculty, who will provide their feedback on a project in development. This feedback can help develop and shape its direction toward a full conference paper or publication. In this way, the Interpersonal Communication Division wants to enhance participation in ICA and warmly encourages early career researchers to submit to the Research Escalator session. This is a low-threshold opportunity for young scholars to attend the ICA conference.

The process has two stages: First, submit your 500-word proposal by email to both Early Career Representative, Dr. Elizabeth Hintz (elizabeth.hintz@uconn.edu) and International Liaison, Dr. Leena Mikkola (leena.mikkola@tuni.fi) by 1 November at 12:00 ICA headquarter time (EDT). Please mention your name, affiliation, and your career stage. Your proposal can focus on one of three options:

• an article manuscript you are currently working on
  
• an extended abstract of your doctoral dissertation
  
• a detailed research plan/dissertation proposal.
  

In the proposal, present the purpose of the paper, main theoretical framework and/or assumptions, and, if applicable, research methods and (preliminary) results.

The submitted proposals will be reviewed by one of the following mentors – to be matched to junior scholars by expertise:

Kathryn Greene – Rutgers University, US 

Jeffrey Hall – University of Kansas, US

Amanda Holmstrom – Michigan State University, US

Pekka Isotalus – Tampere University, Finland

Steven Wilson – University of South Florida, US

Stephen Yoshimura – University of Montana, US

If the proposal is selected for mentorship, the journal scholar submits the most recent version of their paper by 5 April 2023 to the assigned mentor so that they have sufficient time to review the manuscript.

The Research Escalator meeting is a round-table discussion, in which participants and mentors will discuss the papers submitted by the participants, as well as methodological and theoretical issues in communication research. You will also get written personal feedback from your mentor. Your participation will include submitting a paper, giving a short, 2-3 minutes presentation of your work (no slides), and actively engaging in the workshop discussions. You will receive detailed instructions once accepted.

For further information, please contact Elizabeth Hintz (elizabeth.hintz@uconn.edu) or Leena Mikkola (leena.mikkola@tuni.fi).