ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

August 26, 2022

Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and online (Zoom)

Deadline: August 9, 2022

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to attend the VIth inter-institutional seminar “Cyber socialization in the conditions of increased uncertainty”. In addition, we invite you to share the results of your work during this seminar in the form of a short presentation. The seminar will unite scientists and practitioners from different disciplines to discuss processes of personality development in view of modern technological interventions that have become commonplace in our daily life.

This seminar aims to increase the capacity of the media and digital literacy network, as well as to enhance international collaboration in the domain of cyberpsychology and cybertechnology. It brings together different evidence-based perspectives on the phenomena and provides a platform for discussing the prevention of various cyber risks and tracking changes in cyber practices under the conditions of global challenges and indeterminate situations. The seminar is also focused on discussing the potential threats of the technology to health and personal development while acknowledging its positive impact on society and education.

When: August 26, 2022, 10 AM - 4 PM CEST

Where: Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and online (Zoom)

Host: Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

The seminar is offered by the Laboratory of Mass Communication and Media Education Institute of Social and Political Psychology National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine in cooperation with the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences.

Scope of topics:

● philosophical conceptualization of cyber socialization phenomena in circumstances of global changes and uncertainty (posthumanism, transhumanism, digital humanism, cyborgization, biohacking, territoriality, physicality, extended reality critical issues);

● information safety and cybersecurity challenges (infodemic, deepfakes, bot farms, cyber interventions);

● social communication and socially creative role in the modern media during uncertainty period (problems of journalism, social media, visualization, self-regulation);

● new technologies and trends in changes of cyber practices during the last decade and thereafter (technological trends and hype, cyber accessibility, digital inequality, cyberbullying, cyber theft, sex exploitation, etc.);

● virtual and augmented reality in education and health care (gamification, robotization, parasocial relationships, media art therapy, psychotherapy in cyberspace);

● psychological and age-appropriate peculiarities of cyber practices in conditions of distance education (ICT, big data, AI, edutech for teaching; UX needs);

● children rights in cyberspace, cyber education, digital parenting;

● media art and children / adolescence subcultures in cyberspace (social networks, blogging, cybersport, cyberpunk, fanfiction, fandoms, etc.);

● media education and media literacy, cyber pedagogy (critical thinking, digital literacy, netiquette, cyber literacy, and cyber hygiene);

● neuropsychological and psychophysiological aspects of cyber socialization, rehabilitation;

● robotic psychology and related scientific challenges;

● new directions in cyberpsychology;

● cyber socialization in wartime.

To be able to present your work on one of the above-listed topics, we invite you to submit the abstract that will be published online. Accepted abstracts will be published on the website of the Laboratory of Mass Communication and Media Education of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and Electronic library of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.

The video abstracts will be published on the Youtube channel of the Laboratory of Mass Communication and Media Education of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine.

Deadline for abstract submission: August 9, 2022

Notification of acceptance: August 19, 2022

Registration deadline: August 24, 2022

Conference language (including abstracts): English.

Guidelines for authors (text)

● max. length: 2.500 words;

● file format: docx or pdf;

● font – Times New Roman, size – 11. Style «Normal»; line spacing – 1,5; indentation special – 1,25; alignment – justify. Margins: 20 mm. Tables and images size in the text – 104×170; captions above the table. The minimal size of tables font – 8. References in square brackets, listed alphabetically; arrange in accordance to APA bibliographic style;

● header elements: in the first row left – initials and author’s last names, academic rank, scientific degree; the second row – educational institution, city, country; the next row – theses/article title (center, capital letters);

● file name format: CS22_Kozak_O.O._title.doc

Participants can also submit a pre-recorded presentation.

We ask you to use the recommended formatting. Authors are responsible for the content and reliability of the materials.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersocialization20

In case you want to take part in the seminar as a listener, please register in this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczPwcGoSZDYmr_lf77WsAy3Uqv7GsnO5mGsqbQTMi-z6LjpQ/viewform?pli=1

The day before the seminar, we will send a Zoom link to the e-mail address of the registered participants of the seminar.

In collaboration with: Institute of Social and Political Psychology National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences.

With the assistance of Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Department of Sociology and Law of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute», Institute of Journalism Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Department of Political Psychology and International Relations of the Faculty of Psychology National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Media Psychology and Cyberpsychology Divisions Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Association of Media Psychologists and Media Educators

Contact:

Chaplinska Iuliia – I.Chaplinska@tilburguniversity.edu (EN; UK)

Nadia Diatel – N393848290@gmail.com (UK)

Julija Vaitonyte – J.Vaitonyte@tilburguniversity.edu (NL)

Information support:

https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/inter-institutional-seminar-2022

https://ispp.org.ua/2022/06/29/the-vith-inter-institutional-seminar-cyber-socialization-in-the-conditions-of-increased-uncertainty/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1363727170784732/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22group_featured_unit%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22group%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

Special Issue 2022

Vol. 15 No. 1(30) (2022)

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/issue/view/vol15-no1-30-special-2022

Editors: Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier, Michał Głowacki

This Special Issue of CEJC widely demonstrates the blend of Mediating Change and Changing Media. It brings together studies concerning various types of media and communication practices (e.g., public service media, newspapers, social media, music, photography, poetry, and so on), and subjects of investigation (e.g., climate change, pandemics, homelessness, social protests and activism). All the while the Special Issue maintains an international perspective – with studies situated in Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands), Africa (Egypt) and Asia (Lebanon, China, Indonesia). Furthermore, these studies on change comprise a diversity of methodologies (e.g., semi-structured interviews, arts-based research, interventions, content analysis-quantitative and qualitative) and theoretical premises (embedded, e.g., in discourse studies, critical theory, journalism studies, participatory theory, alternative media studies). To this end, we believe that the scholarly contributions of this collection address the complex and multidimensional character of change. We also hope that the specific case studies shed light on the diversity of dimensions and concepts of change.

Table of Content

Editorial

Mediating Change, Changing Media: Dimensions and Perspectives

Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier, Michał Głowacki

1-14

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/449/221

Scientific Papers

“Not a Political Virus”: Manufacturing Consent by Czech Public Service Media in the Pandemic

Jan Motal

15-32

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/340/231

Climate Change in Chinese Newspapers 2000–2020: Discursive Strategies of Consolidating Hegemony

Mengrong Zhang

33-51

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/357/232

Facebook Groups in Sweden Constructing Sustainability: Resisting Hegemonic Anthropocentrism

Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier

52-71

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/424/233

Politicizing Poland’s Public Service Media: The Analysis of Wiadomości News Program

Katarzyna Gajlewicz-Korab, Łukasz Szurmiński

72-91

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/386/234

Silencing/Unsilencing Nature: A ‘Lupocentric’ Remediation of Animal-Nature Relationships

Nico Carpentier

92-111

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/338/235

Design and Development of Mediated Participation for Environmental Governance Transformation: Experiences with Community Art and Visual Problem Appraisal

Loes Witteveen, Pleun van Arensbergen, Jan Maria Fliervoet

112-131

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/344/236

Homeless People as Agents of Self-representation: Exploring the

Potential of Enhanced Participation in a Community Newspaper Project

Vojtěch Dvořák

132-149

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/328/237

Revolutionary Music in Lebanon and Egypt: Alternative Imaginaries for Self-representation and Participation

Sahar Bou Hamdan Ghanem, Bouthaina El-Kheshn

150-167

https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/356/219

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful for the financial support we received from Mistra, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (through its Mistra Environmental Communication research program),and from the 4EU+ European University Alliance which supported the “Mediating Change” project. Each contribution has gone through the double blind review processes; the names of the referees have been anonymised.

October 14, 2022

Online on Zoom and on-site in Rome

Deadline: July 31 2022

The ever-increasing mediation of social life and the evolving relationship of virtual and physical spaces unfold a multi-faceted field of interdisciplinary research. Especially the last few years with their unexpected challenges, most notably the Covid-19 pandemic, have propelled digitalisation processes forward, profoundly impacting the relationship between people’s lives and the physical and virtual spaces surrounding them.

This hybrid pre-conference workshop is a collaboration between the ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, the YECREA young scholars network and the Department of Communication and Social Research of Sapienza University of Rome with the PhD Course in Communication, Social Research and Marketing. We invite researchers, particularly early-career, doctoral or postdoctoral scholars, to present and discuss their work related to the interaction between media and communications with cities and other spatial contexts.

The pre-conference is planned in a workshop format, promoting conversation and collaboration. Participants will get the chance to discuss their projects with their peers and get feedback regarding epistemological, methodological, theoretical, or conceptual issues. The focus lies on how to develop and further research linked to the inherently interdisciplinary field(s) of media, cities and (digital/physical) space. We welcome work-in-progress contributions as well as finished works, with an empirical, theoretical, or methodological focus, from a broad spectrum of disciplines such as communication and media studies, sociology, human geography, urban studies, or science and technology studies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

● Digital platforms as disruptive actors, transforming urban communication, economies, and cultures

● The ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic regarding the spatial dimensions of private and professional lives

● Algorithms as pervasive agents structuring new forms of inhabiting material space

● Media history and mediated public art in (and about) the city

● Urban spaces as fields of mediated activism, protest, and other forms of social practice

To enable early-career scholars to participate, this will be a hybrid offline/online event on Zoom and in Rome at Sapienza University. Participants are asked to indicate how they want to participate. Please submit a short abstract of ca. 300 words as a PDF to lou.brandner[at]uni-tuebingen.de and stefania.parisi[at]uniroma1.it until July 31 2022. Decisions will be communicated to the authors by September 1. Abstracts by early-career scholars, particularly PhD students, are encouraged.

July 15, 2022

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Communicating with GenZ: the challenges and opportunities will be presented by Vivian Kobeh, group head of external communications at BAI, Miami on Friday 15 July 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted). (Note change of date).

What is the webinar content?

I head a communications practice where the majority of our +21,000 employees are young. This generation has different ways of receiving and digesting information. The webinar will be about the major differences between Millennials and GenZ communications at a time when companies are measured by their values and by how they walk the talk.

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 Vivian Kobeh

For the past 5 years I led a communications practice where the majority of our +21,000 employees were young. This generation has different ways of receiving and digesting information. The webinar will be about the major differences between Millennials and GenZ communications at a time when companies are measured by their values and by how they walk the talk.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

NECSUS Spring 2023

Deadline: August 15, 2022

edited by Dr. Maria Vélez-Serna and Dr. Markus Stauff

Ports – the harbours that allow and regulate circulation across land and sea and the interfaces that connect electric devices with peripherals – are places of especially intense mediation and thus of heightened socio-technological drama. The seaport is the condition for transport and hence for capitalism, inseparable as it is from the ongoing histories of slavery and colonialism. As infrastructure that connects infrastructures, ports offer scenes of rigid standardisation (from shipping containers to EU standards for phone chargers) and of unruly movement (whether of people, drugs, data or viruses). Ports enable media convergence and globalisation through increasing heterogeneity and local fixes, permitting or impeding movement along social and cultural hierarchies.

As sites of mediation, ports actualise technical compatibilities, political discourses, and the taming of nature with an imaginary and symbolic layer in which the visibility and legitimacy of different kinds of circulation get negotiated. Often, ports are a black-boxed machinery, yet they produce visible moments of labour when dock-workers strike or when the slides on your laptop won’t connect to the local projector at a conference. Their drive for efficiency, flow and ‘plug-and-play' produces spectacles of scale and frictionless movement, but also moments of resistance and stoppage.

As the industrial version of the beach, ports undermine and re-organize established cultural binaries, and have given media culture some of its most memorable scenes. Farewells and reunions, contraband and intrigue, escapes and new beginnings all unfold amidst the sea-going ships, the outsized cranes and mazes of container stacks. Some ports left behind by the changing tides of global logistics have found new uses as studio lots or media quarters, as part of seaside regeneration schemes favouring creative industries. In documentary and factual media, ports are key sites in stories of labour, migration, protest, war, logistics and thus play a particular role for the visualisation of otherwise abstract relations and thus contribute to cognitive mapping. Their scale and choreography also appeal to non-theatrical and experimental media’s interest in process and infrastructure.

The technical dramas and cultural representations call out for critical contextualisation, as ports are nodes in networks of capital and trade, as well as interfaces between human and non-human worlds. Ports and media are also in specific and concrete relation through practices of circulation. Throughout the 20th century, for instance, American films arrived in Europe through its port cities, which were at the vanguard of cinema culture. Disruptions in shipping such as those caused by war made ripples in European film industries. Electronic components and devices have arrived in containers to enable the adoption of mass media and the rise of digital cultures, also dependent on the fossil fuels shipped directly to European power stations. The mounting waste from ever-faster consumer cycles gets shipped out through the same docks, allowing Europe to externalise the costs of capitalism. At the same time, the spectre of China’s increasing dominance of all types of ports is harnessed to call for European infrastructure projects. Finally, by enabling the installation of undersea cables, ports are integral to the infrastructure of the internet. They are themselves heavily mediated sites, reliant on computer vision for automated container handling within just-in-time operations organised from across the world.

This special section seeks to explore the multiple functions of ports in media cultures, understood both in a specific geographic sense (e.g. the port cities of Europe as objects and subjects of mediation) and in a more expansive way (e.g. the connecting requirements of device culture), thinking about material processes of mediation, commodification and transport. It centres the port as a site of relation, enabling the circulation of people, things and ideas, but also enacting colonial practices of extractivism, bordering, and exploitation. Thinking about these sites thus offers opportunities to think about European media in a relational way, as well as benefiting from the infrastructural and materialist approaches that are emerging in media studies.

We welcome contributions on any aspect of the media-port nexus, both historical and contemporary, including for example:

# Ports and/as media infrastructures

# Ports as scenes of regulatory, technical, and economic conflict, ambivalence, and negotiation

# Protests at port facilities and activist media

# Ports in film and TV narratives, or in industrial media

# Representations and aesthetics of labour and the ‘logistical sublime’

# Media industries and the urban transformation of seaside towns

# Ports as chokepoints and as symbolic sites in media coverage of migration and refuge, of war and disaster

# Shipping of media from film reels to media adapters

# Hardware ports and software porting in gaming and digital media

# Electronics commodity chains, e-waste and environmental impacts of media circulation

# Speculative media and interdimensional ports

We look forward to receiving abstracts of 300 words, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a short biography of 100 words by 15 August 2022 to necsus.info@gmail.com. On the basis of selected abstracts, writers will be invited to submit full manuscripts before mid-February 2023 (6,000-8,000 words, revised abstract, 4-5 keywords) which will subsequently go through a double-blind peer review process before final acceptance for publication. Please check the guidelines at: https://necsus-ejms.org/guidelines-for-submission/

NECSUS also accepts proposals throughout the year for festival, exhibition, and book reviews, as well as proposals for guest edited audiovisual essay sections. We will soon open a general call for research article proposals not tied to a special section theme. Please note that we do not accept full manuscripts for consideration without an invitation.

Submission of open access book chapters proposals

Deadline: July 31, 2022

We are currently seeking contributions for a forthcoming book proposal for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series.

Meta comes from the Greek word meta, which means “after” or “beyond”. When combined with words in English, meta- often signifies “change” or “alteration” as in the words metamorphic. So, we are at the entrance of a new universe in communication that the companies and social media groups are building, like Facebook or Instagram, that pour its resources into constructing virtual reality products and setting up the Metaverse.

This is a concept that blends augmented reality and virtual reality together, providing people with the future of the internet, where the new generations create their new digital communication universe. How will the new communication in this new universe be constructed? Are we facing a complete change of how we communicate on the internet?

Submit your 300-word abstracts and 5 key words about any of the following themes: Metauniverse and : Communication, the Future, Violence, Narrative, Law, FakeNews,Business, Journalism, Art, etc.

Deadline July 31st., 2022. 0.00 hours Central European Time (CET). Send proposals to raqubeni@ucm.es and to elisagut@ucm.es

1–3 June 2023

Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Deadline: September 30, 2022

8th Rhetoric in Society Conference

Organized by the Rhetoric Society of Europe in collaboration with the Institute for General Rhetoric and the Institute for Media Studies at Tübingen University

http://ris8.org/

We are very happy to announce that proposals are now invited for panels, papers, roundtables, and other forms of presentation to be delivered at Rhetoric in Society 8, which is the biannual conference organized by the Rhetoric Society of Europe. The conference is scheduled to take place from June 1st to 3rd, 2023 at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany.

We are planning a real conference with face-to-face conversations and in-person meetings on our campus and in town. Yet, the incalculable nature of the COVID-19 pandemic obliges us to remain precautious. However, we are optimistic and very much looking forward to welcoming you in Tübingen.

We invite proposals for:

- Papers or panels which speak directly to the conference theme (explained below);

- Papers or panels which address general issues related to the theory, analysis & practice of rhetoric in society;

- Other kinds of presentations such as roundtables, world cafés or debates.

Please note:

If you already submitted a paper for the planned and postponed conference in 2021, you have two options:

- You are either invited to submit your original proposal once again.

- Or you are of course invited to submit a new proposal in case you would like to change the subject or the focus of your proposal.

In any case you will be obliged to submit again. Already submitted papers will not be included in the reviewing process for the conference in 2023.

If you did not submit a paper for the planned conference in 2021, please feel encouraged and welcome to submit a proposal now.

Rhetoric as Strategic Thinking

With its focus on ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic thinking,’ the Rhetoric in Society 8 conference discusses the ways we define rhetoric as a specific form of communication, argumentation, persuasion, or mediation. Strategic thinking as a complex cognitive activity involves the mental representation of a goal as well as an understanding of the ways and means to achieve this goal through communicative action. Rhetors are expected to imagine a number of possible scenarios before deciding on a specific strategy and even to adjust this strategy during a campaign or even during a single speech. As Quintilian famously put it in his Institutio oratoria (II, 13, 2, transl. Butler): “If the whole of rhetoric could be thus embodied in one compact code, it would be an easy task of little compass: but most rules are liable to be altered by the nature of the

case, circumstances, time and place and by hard necessity itself. Consequently, the allimportant gift for an orator is a wise adaptability since he is called upon to meet the most varied emergencies.” The bellicose metaphor of the commander (strategos) is often used in ancient rhetorical theories to conceive of the orator’s ability to adjust a strategic plan to specific circumstances or specific audiences. Like the commander, Quintilian’s orator has to find answers “in the circumstances of the case.” (Institutio oratoria, II, 13, 5, transl. Butler)

The conference endeavors to discuss rhetoric as strategic thinking in order to both define and question a key characteristic of rhetorical communication––one that has recently gained significance in the public eye due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the verbal rearmament of public discourse. The conference intends to explore different concepts from different disciplinary backgrounds, such as argumentation, strategic maneuvering, imagination and mental simulation, rhetorical agency, situational rhetoric, literature and linguistics, political theory, communication and media studies, organizational rhetoric/communication, public relations, philosophy of language and many more. We would also like to discuss the blurring boundaries between rhetoric and

other forms of strategic communication such as manipulation, propaganda, populism, or

warfare, to assess the strategies applied by human and non-human actors in scripted or artificial media environments, and to explore the conditions responsible for the success or failure of rhetorical strategies and tactics in societies that are increasingly coping with polarization, radicalization, and deception.

General papers

We also invite proposals for papers and panels more generally concerned with the theory, practice or analysis of rhetoric. This may include, for example, historical scholarship, theoretical analysis and contemporary cultural or political critique; work grounded in political theory, philosophy, languages and linguistics, argumentation, literary studies, communication studies, composition, media studies, psychology, sociology, history, cultural studies and more. Papers might be comparative, national or transnational in focus, concerned with particular orators, ideologies or movements and focus on spoken, written or audio-visual communication.

Alternative presentations

We welcome proposals for forms of presentation other than panels and papers. This might include: roundtables addressing key rhetorical themes, works or phenomena; debates between contending positions; other, novel and effective ways of communicating research findings, claims and arguments.

How to submit a proposal

Please submit your paper proposals by September 30th, 2022 to ris8@rhetorik.unituebingen.de

We will inform you about our decision in November 2022.

Please do not submit more than two proposals. Panel proposals should not comprise more than four individual papers.

Individual Paper Proposals

All individual paper proposals must be written in English and submitted to the

Committee with the following information:

- Title

- Author name

- Email address

- Affiliation

- Abstract (300 words maximum)

Session Proposals

Session Organizers should submit session proposals written in English to the Committee

with the following information:

- Session title

- Session abstract of 300 words maximum

- List of participants including chair, presenters and discussants (if applicable),

their email addresses, and the names of the institutions that they are associated with

- The related paper abstracts (300 words maximum/ paper)

Journalism and Media (SPECIAL ISSUE)

Deadline: October 15, 2022

Progressively more instances of weather and climate extremes are reported to impact human society, the societal infrastructure, and the natural environment. The coverage of climate issues in the media has led to an increase in public attention to these topics. As an arena for public debate, media shapes public knowledge and awareness of the situation, at times merely reporting ecological and climate events, often, however, linking cyclones, wildfires, tornados, tropical storms and melting of the permafrost to humans’ activities and (lack) of care for a sustainable future. As stakeholders try to engage the public on climate change, it is important to understand how climate change is communicated to the public through the media, to understand the role that the media plays in communicating information about climatic changes. The special Issue of Journalism and Media (ISSN 2673-5172) is dedicated to Media and Climate Change. Financial support (in the form of APC waiver) is available to authors after the blind peer-review. Submissions should be done through the journal website. The call and further information at www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/special_issues/media_and_climate_change

University of Zurich

The Media Change & Innovation Division (Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich invites applications for an open position as senior research and teaching associate / postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). Start of employment: October 1, 2022 (or upon agreement).

The Media Change & Innovation Division studies societal implications of digitalization and the internet, algorithmic selection and AI in everyday life, dataveillance and privacy, governance of media change, digital inequalities, and digital well-being (see https://mediachange.ch/publications/ for the division’s recent publications).

Further information and application details:

https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/senior-research-and-teaching-associate-postdoctoral-position-in-societal-implications-of-the-internet/434036f5-a9e2-46ea-b682-e98aed407e56

Review of applications starts immediately, but the position will remain open until a qualified candidate is found.

Please contact Dr. Moritz Büchi (m.buechi@ikmz.uzh.ch) for questions.

September 30, 2022

Deadline: July 1, 2022

Online conference (Zoom)

Approval deadline: 2 September 2022 (Friday)

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Law and University of Bucharest (UB) Faculty of Law are pleased to announce a conference entitled "Audiovisual Media Regulation during the COVID-19 in Central and Eastern Europe", for which we invite applications for speakers.

The international pandemic situation, which has been going on for two years now, impacts our daily lives. However, this natural phenomenon does not leave the world of media world  untouched either. Moreover, in Central and Eastern Europe, these processes are often covert: as if governments are using the viral situation to achieve their unstated goals.

Freedom of expression as a fundamental human right can very quickly face severe restrictions in such cases, raising the problem of conflicting fundamental rights. In addition, legislation, the functioning of the media system and other media rights issues have been on the agenda in many Central and Eastern European countries. The exercise of exceptional powers has reached the region: extraordinary seems to become the norm.

The conference thus aims to bring together the historical and contemporary challenges of the press, the media and our mediatised world, i.e. to explore the issue from the perspectives of (legal) history and existing law, as well as social and political science, identifying the intersections where past experience can help to address the social and regulatory challenges of the present.

The main objective of the conference is to make the links visible to the broader audience between the pandemic situation and media legislation (negative and positive), its history, its social impact, its effects on the exercise of fundamental rights, and the experience, research findings and academic positions in Central and Eastern Europe on past and current regulatory issues. Therefore, the organisers of the conference will welcome contributions from the fields of law, political science, journalism, history and social science. The deadline for the application for the conference is 1 July 2022. Please, send a title with a short abstract (maximum 400 words) in English on the topic of the presentation to gosztonyi@ajk.elte.hu.

The conference will be held online via Zoom platform. If there are enough applicants, a separate Master and PhD session will be organised. In adddition, the organizers will provide publication opportunities for manuscripts based on the best presentations.