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Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook (Special issue)

Deadline: October 1, 2022

Abstracts of 400–500 words, together with a brief biographical note, shouldbe submitted by 1 October 2022. Please email these directly to belen.puebla@urjc.es and sgomez@uva.es

Full papers of 6500–7000 words are due on 15 December 2022.

Description and Thematic Areas:

The contemporary challenges facing the political culture are to be seen as risks to the well-being and proper functioning of democratic systems.

A functioning democracy requires that the role of the media, as vehicles of political socialization, but also as instruments of participation and public opinion, be taken into account. Consequently, the media are seen as both parts of the problem and part of the solution.

The scope of the Special Issue, ‘Pop Politics on a Mutable Screen’, attempts to broaden the vision of political communication beyond hard news and to consider that the messages received by the audience increasingly include soft news and media associated with entertainment and popular culture.

From cinema and television to video games, through the different social platforms and the figure of the prosumer.

For this thematic issue, we invite theoretical and empirical contributions that explore how technological change affects and is affected by political communication processes and what characteristics make up the politainment. We would like to explore a wide range of topics involving political communication, entertainment, digital engagement, platformization, infotainment, screen time and alternative forms of communication as their central themes.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Audiovisual content platforms with politainment formats, selective consumption, and social audiences.
• Viral political content distributed through social media and platforms.
• Gamification, politicking and digital games with political content.
• Myth and ideology in contemporary video games
• Ideological polarization, political spectacularization and hate speech through the reception of information on social networks.

• Social algorithms in personalized information dissemination of spectacular political content.
• Complexity and political discourses in entertainment contexts.
• Mobilization and democratic constraints in the new digital ecosystem of the ideological polarization
• Strategic use of entertainment in social networks for online campaigning and political engagement.
• Democratic consequences and citizen perception of politainment.
• The role of the prosumer of political infotainment on the internet.
• Characteristics, transmedia narratives and formats of the new political fiction in cinema and television.
• Political storytelling: storytelling by politicians for strategic purposes.
• Music entertainment to generate engagement among social audiences and other uses of music by political parties.
• New strategies in digital campaigns, disguised advertising through infotainment, and gate-watching techniques to generate campaign content.

• Political personification of politics and appearance of the political figure in unusual media and formats.
• Representation of politicians in political infotainment content.
• Emergence of political movements in new media.
• Technification of politics.
• Political ethics in infotainment.

Full CFP can be found at: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/66825/1/NewCinema_Pop_Politics_on_a_Mutable_Screen_CfP.pdf

The full author guidelines can be read at: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/8890/1/NL_NFC.pdf

December 5-6, 2022

Lisbon, Portugal

Deadline: September 15, 2022

The concept of ‘captured media’ has been used to describe media systems in countries that have transitioned from authoritarian to democratic regimes in the late 20th century (Mungiu-Puppidi 2013; Guerrero & Marquez-Ramirez 2014). Despite being far from a homogenous reality, young democracies have experienced difficulties in building strong, independent media ecosystems, and are still characterized by self-censorship and both political and economic pressures as part of the daily routine of newsrooms. These systems either go down “the path toward an Authoritarian/Communist type media system” (Batorfy, 2019) or “serve as propagandists and political instruments to befuddle, misinform, and disinform audiences and thus oppose civil society and democratization.” (Armanca & Gross, 2020). In this respect, the concept of captured media exhibits many of the dimensions that factually stifle freedom of expression and its role in a democracy. Hallin and Mancini (2004) speak of political parallelism which, in its extreme form, may lead to political instrumentalization, party colonization (Bajomi-Lazar, 2014), and oligarchization (Ryabinska, 2014), with the creation of a media system that is merely a mouthpiece of political elites (Zankova, 2021).

Thus, the conference “Captured Media: Researching Media Systems in and after Transitions” aims to bring together researchers working on media systems in countries that participated in the third wave of democratization, from Portugal in 1974 to Asia-Pacific and Latin American countries in the 1980s and Eastern Europe, following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The aim is to discuss how media systems have evolved after the establishment of democracy, and to debate how media and journalistic institutions are co-opted by political and economic structures in countries that lack a strong tradition of press freedom and adequate guarantees.

While the media are traditionally perceived as performing a central role in the democratic process, responsible for scrutinizing power structures, this role has been particularly questioned and undermined in the last decade by populist movements (which label journalism as an ‘enemy of the people’), the collapse of traditional business models, the emergence of new reception practices and ultimately a climate of uncertainty that has led to profound changes in the relationship between the media and the outside world (Ribeiro & Zelizer, 2022). While these tendencies can be found in most countries, in young democracies they may be particularly disruptive, due to the lack of a strong culture of press freedom and media independence, close ties between the media and the political class and ineffective legal frameworks. They may result in self-censorship and deficiencies in media professional standards and accountability. Thus, the conference welcomes papers with comparative research, and others, focusing on case studies from countries and media systems that have undergone a transformation from authoritarian to democratic regimes. Papers dealing with the following topics are especially welcome but many others may be proposed:

• Press Freedom and media independence in young democracies;
• Self-censorship;
• The evolution of media systems in young democracies;
• Political parallelism;
• Journalism practices in times of uncertainty;
• Media and journalism and new business models;
• Media and populist discourses;
• Media concentration and opacity of media ownership;
• Comparing news practices in different countries;
• Media in transition;
• Democratic culture and media;
• Media frameworks and media freedom guarantees.

Abstracts for paper proposals between 300-400 words may be submitted until 15 September (deadline) by email: conferencecapturedmedia@gmail.com

All abstracts will be peer reviewed before final acceptance. A collection of some of the papers may be published after the conference

Conference organization

The conference is organized by the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) hosted at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in cooperation with the project ‘The Media System and Journalism Culture in Bulgaria (A Study in the Light of the Three Models of Media – Politics Relations by Hallin and Mancini)’, hosted by Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and St. Medhodius and funded by the Bulgarian Scientific Fund.

The conference will be held at the Lisbon campus of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, which can be easily accessed via metro (30-minute ride), bus or taxi (10-minute ride) from the Lisbon airport.

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

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, corporate communications director at Millicom, Miami on Thursday 14 July 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

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

Vivian Kobeh is corporate communications director for Millicom, a leading provider of cable and mobile services under the brand TIGO, in Latin America and Africa. She is responsible for the company’s corporate conversation. Vivian has spent more than 25 years in the technology sector, formerly with Nokia, Blackberry, and Dell. Born in Mexico City, Vivian has a BA in Communications. She was a pioneer of LinkedIn’s Latin America communicators group. In 2020 she was named a Top Women in PR by PRNews.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

September 26-29, 2022

Online

Deadline: June 14, 2022

The Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG), invites you to attend its 3rd International Conference on Education (EDU2022) ‘Communicating in Education and Educating in Communication’

that will take place 26-29 September 2022, in remote mode

Click here for the call for participation

Supported by:

Beijing Normal University, China , Zhejiang University, China, Journal of Education, Innovation and Communication (JEICOM) , Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching (JALT)

After the organization of ten (10) successful international conferences (see previous conferences), the 3rd International Conference on Education (EDU2022) provides an opportunity for academics, professionals, and industry experts from various fields, with cross-disciplinary interests, to discuss the future directives and innovations in Education.

Our world today stands at a turning point. ‘Gaping inequalities, a damaged planet, growing polarization and the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic put us before a generational choice: Continue on an unsustainable path or radically change course’ (Unesco, 2022). This conference is a step to share knowledge, adapt to what is happening and continue on a sustainable path for a better future. This year’s conference, entitled ‘Communicating in Education and Educating in Communication’ favorise themes that promote communication, equality, empathy, exchange, knowledge sharing and propose solutions to the actual strange situation of this world.

During the conference we propose a workshop facilitated by well known academics around the world, entitled Qualities we should aspire as academics, facilitated across two days. Please click here for the tentative program.

The conference will take place remotely, 4 (four) days in connection with the ICCM2022 conference (2 + 2 days), as we believe that educators in education has a great connection with educators in communication, leadership, management, etc.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Education skills and learning in the Pandemic Era (related to innovation, virtual and augmented reality, education technology, online education, computer education, digital communication, Inequality in education). Arts Education and Communication (arts education permits academics and students to explore and express ideas through the art disciplines of performing and visual arts- music, dance, drama, architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, Film- and communicate better). Longevity and education (intergenerational relationships, technology, and longevity). And categories as follow: education and communication, bilingual education, identity and education, educational psychology, teaching approaches, teacher and student, education strategy, teacher education, educational foundations, special education, teaching methodology, art education/art therapy, early childhood education, elementary education, secondary education, higher education, multicultural education, science education, educational psychology, educational foundations, health education, career and technical education, adult education, business education, education leadership, ethical issues in education, diversity and equality in education, cross-disciplinary areas of education, and life-long learning education.

Participants can propose either a traditional paper presentation or an alternative presentation format, such as a poster. Please find here all the different formats you can propose.

For research paper presentations, please submit your abstract by email to registration@coming.gr , in .doc file using our Abstract_template. Decisions are reached within two weeks from the abstract submission. The deadline to register and to submit full papers will be specified on your acceptance letter.

Abstact submissions deadline: Tuesday 14 June 2022

In case you would like to participate without presenting a paper, please send an email to Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, President, Communication Institute of Greece & Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Open University, at kefalaki.margarita@ac.eap.gr.

Here is the provisional conference program

Conference scientific committee

*Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, President and Founder, COMinG.

*Dr. Chen Wang, Vice Dean /Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

*Dr. Kan Yue, Vice Dean & Professor, Zhejiang University, China.

*Dr. Fotini Diamantidaki, Vice President of Research and Academic Affairs, COMinG & Associate Professor in Education, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

*Dr. Jurgen Rudolph, Vice President of international research development and relations, COMinG & Head of Research & Academic Partner Liaison, Kaplan Higher Education, Singapore & Editor, JALT Journal, Singapore.

*Dr. Bill Baker, Program Director Postgraduate Courses & Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Tasmania, Australia.

*Mr. Louis-Caleb Remanda, PhD Candidate, LAREQUOI Research Center of Management, University of Versailles – Paris Saclay, France

*Pr. Sophie Karanicolas, Vice President of Learning Innovations and International Relations, COMinG & Hon. Associate Professor, University of Adelaide, Australia.

*Dr. Robert J. Bonk, Vice President for Written Communication and Convenor of COMinG Special Interest Writing Groups & Emeritus Professor of Professional Writing, School of Human Service Professions, Widener University, Chester, USA.

*Ailson J. De Moraes, Vice President of Business and Public Affairs, COMinG & Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway School of Management, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK.

*Dr. Elpida Sklika, Teaching Fellow, University of Strasbourg, France.

*Dr. Lydia Lymperis, School of Education, Newcastle University, UK.

*Dr. Matt Glowatz, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin, Ireland.

*Dr. Nikleia Eteokleous, Assistant Professor in Educational Technology, School of Education and Social Sciences & Head of the Distance Learning Committee Coordinator of M.Ed. in Curriculum Development and Instruction, Co-founder Robotics Academy, Cyprus.

Publication Possibilities:

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings online with ISBN (abstract book of the conference proceedings).

Selected papers, after the peer review process, will have the possibility to be published in one of the following journals:

*Journal of Education, Innovation and Communication (JEICOM)

*Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching (JALT)

*Cambridge Scholars

*Strategy and Development Review

Registration

To register, pleace click here

Our Ambassadors and participants of our workshops (see https://coming.gr/events-2022/ ) will have a 50% discount (100 euros) to the conference fee, as we aim for interaction and knowledge sharing.

The Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG) was established in 2003 in France. Based in Greece since 2013, it is an independent academic association that has for mission to become a forum, where academics, researchers, professionals, and friends – from all over the world – can meet in Greece to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines.

You are more than welcome to become a member and contribute to the Institute’s objectives. If you would like to become a member, please download the relevant form (membership form).

For any information/proposal etc., please send us an email to info@coming.gr.

September 26-29, 2022

Online

Deadline: June 14, 2022

The Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG) invites you at its 7th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2022), 26-29 September 2022, which will be held remotely

Click here for the call for participation

with the endorsement of

University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

King Graduate School at Monroe College, USA

Media Informatics Lab, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Journal of Education, Innovation and Communication (JEICOM) & Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching (JALT)

After the organization of ten (10) successful Annual International Conferences (see the Previous Conferences of COMinG), the 7th International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2022), entitled ‘Communicate to Innovate and Innovate to Communicate’ provides opportunities for academics, students and professionals, from various fields and cross-disciplinary interests, to discuss the future directives and innovations in communication, marketing and management. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers that deal with innovation and communication, especially when they treat and propose solutions to the actual ‘strange’ situation around the world.

The conference will take place remotely, during 4 (four) days in connection with the EDU2022 conference (2+2 days ), as we believe that educators in communication and in education have a lot to learn from one another.

The conference themes will be under four thematic panels:

a) Panel on Leadership and Management

b) Panel on Multidisciplinary Approaches to New Media Technologies

c) Panel on New Horizons in Journalism

d) Panel on Sustainable development

During the conference we also propose a workshop facilitated by well known academics around the world, entitled Qualities we should aspire as academics, facilitated across two days. Please click here for the tentative program.

Conference scientific committee

*Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, President and founder COMinG, Greece.

*Dr. Michael A. Altamirano, Vice President of Strategic Management, COMinG & Professor, King Graduate School, Monroe College, USA.

*Dr. Carolin Rekar Munro, Vice President of Leadership Development, COMinG & Professor of Leadership, Faculty of Management, Royal Roads University, Canada.

*Dr. Andreas Veglis, Professor, and Head, Media Informatics Lab and School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

* Dr. Michael Nevradakis, Communication Instructor, Hellenic American University (Athens, Greece & Nashua, NH, USA).

*Dr. Katerina Diamantaki, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator – MA in Digital Communication and Social Media DEREE-The American College of Greece.

*Dr. Andjelka Mihajlov, Professor, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia/Advisor, Environmental Ambassadors for Sustainable Development, Belgrade, Serbia.

*Dr. Athanasios Podaras, Assistant Professor, Technical University of Liberec, Department of Informatics, Liberec, Czech Republic.

*Dr. Song Yingfa, Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, China & Chair, Research Committee on Political Socialization and Education, International Political Science Association (IPSA)

*Dr. Steen Sauerberg, Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

*Dr. Elena Shestopal, Professor, Head of the Chair of Sociology and Psychology of Politics, Department of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

*Dr. Argyro Kefala, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator- MA in Strategic Communication & Public Relations, Communication Department, Deree-The American College of Greece

*Mr. Louis-Caleb Remanda, Ph.D. Candidate, LAREQUOI Research Center of Management, University of Versailles – Paris Saclay, France

*Dr. Sotirios Maipas, Physicist, MSc, Ph.D., MBA Cd, Environmental Health Specialist & Research Associate at the Master Program “Environment and Health. Management of Environmental Health Effects”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

*Dr. Bradley Freeman, Head, Department of Communication, Sunway University, Malaysia.

*Dr. Mohsen Bensalem Brahmi, FEM Sfax University, Co-Editor-in-Chief Strategy & Development Review, Tunisia.

* Dr. Emmanouil Takas, Instructor, Cardiff Metropolitan University, City Unity College, Greece.

*Dr. Asha Kaul, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.

*Dr. Khaled Gaweesh, Assistant Dean, College of Communication, University of Sharjah, UAE.

Participants can propose either a traditional paper presentation, or an alternative presentation format, such as a poster, round table discussion, or workshop. Please find here all the different formats you can propose for this conference.

For paper presentations, please submit your abstract by email to registration@coming.gr , as a .doc file using the Abstract_template. Decisions are reached within two weeks of the abstract submission. The deadline to register and to submit full papers will be specified in your acceptance letter.

In case you would like to participate without presenting a paper, please send an email to Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, President, Communication Institute of Greece & Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Open University at kefalaki.margarita@ac.eap.gr.

Please take a look at the provisional conference program

Abstact submissions deadline: Tuesday 14 June 2022

Publications:

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings online with ISBN (abstract book /conference proceedings).

Selected papers, after the peer review process, will be offered various possibilities to be published :

*Journal of Education, Innovation and Communication (JEICOM)

*Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching (JALT)

*Cambridge Scholars

*Strategy and Development Review

Conference Topics

Papers can broadly include topics in the areas of Communication and Management, from an educative principle. To be more precise, topics are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following:

COMMUNICATION Rhetorical communication, mass communication, political communication, cultural and intercultural communication, advertising, journalism, business communication, communication technology & digital media, communication and education, crisis/risk communication, internal communication, public relations, ethics communication and negotiation, media studies, corporate communication, communication education and curriculum development (CECD), communications advocacy and activism (CAA), climate change and Communication- understanding climate risks, investing in climate action ( sustainable development, cities, and urbanization, Investors, global governance).

Aging and longevity in communication and education– technology and innovation (digital communications, artificial intelligence, diversity, and inclusion, inequality).Political communication, International relations

Media and politics, internet and politics, political use of (social) media, political visuals, political metaphor, political rhetoric, deliberative democracy, political campaigns, political image, studies in perception, political impression management, presentation performance and personality of leaders, communication and political socialization, public opinion formation, political participation, communication of interest groups and political parties, political marketing, PR processes in government, communication in local and informal forms of governance, methods in political communication, political discourse analysis, geopolitics and communication, comparative politics, national systems, democratic innovations, green politics, cross-national political analysis, supranational and intergovernmental politics, political development, foreign policy analysis, intelligence governance, conflict analysis, international law and politics, public administration and local government studies, political psychology, interdisciplinary perspective on violence and politics, globalization, global governance, international political economy, ecological sustainability, nuclear proliferation, global crisis and global change, change and order in world politics, managing global capitalism, international terrorism, territorial conflicts, international security, diplomacy and international negotiations, European studies.Arts and Communication

All papers/workshops/ posters related to humanities and performing, visual, and media arts. Additionally issues on creativity in the arts, music and dance (midern and traditional) creation expression are also welcomed.

MANAGEMENT Event management, cultural management, enterprise resource management, human resource management, strategic management, leadership management, performance management, risk management, health management, media management, knowledge management, management creativity and innovation, advertising and brand management, strategic management, financial service management & banking management, investment and portfolio management, risk, and insurance management, supply chain management, information technology management, managing people, managing yourself, human resource management, decision-making management, productivity management, management competencies, problem-solving, team building, change management.

Registration

To register, pleace click here

Our Ambassadors and participants of our workshops (see https://coming.gr/events-2022/ ) will have a 50% discount (100 euros) to the conference fee, as we aim for interaction and knowledge sharing.

The Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG) was established in 2003 in France. Based in Greece since 2013, it is an independent academic association that has for mission to become a forum, where academics, researchers, and professionals – from all over the world – can meet in Greece to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines.

You are more than welcome to become a member and contribute to the Institute’s objectives. If you would like to become a member, please download the relevant form (membership form).

For any information/proposal etc., please send us an email at info@coming.gr

Fee payment here

Post-graduate & early career seminar

June 20, 2022 (10 AM - 6 PM)

Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

To attend in person register here / To attend online register here

This all-day post-graduate & early career seminar seeks to understand the relationship between communication, global politics, and war. It examines the role of global media in shaping the global conversation around war, global security, resistance, and refuge.

The seminar evaluates how media’s coverage of recent wars, and their discursive production of knowledge informs and legitimizes practice in global politics. The interdisciplinary character of the seminar and of the case studies of media from Western and non-Western traditions brings together conceptual and theoretical strands from multiple disciplines: media and communications, history, politics, war studies, migration studies.

In particular, the seminar seeks to address the following questions:

• How is war imagined and narrated by internationally oriented media?
• Who speaks in the stories of war, resistance, and refuge?
• What specific issues are promoted? What identities are constructed?
• What goals, norms, values, and moral purposes are endorsed?
• What kind of new world order is emerging from the mediated discourse of wars, resistance, and refuge?

THE SEMINAR IS ORGANISED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

LSE Media, Collegium Civitas, NAWA, POLIS

THE SEMINAR IS FINANCED BY:

Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) Project No.: PPI/APM/2018/1/00019

PROGRAMME

PANEL 1: GLOBAL MEDIA AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF WAR

The Consequences of Diplomatic Neutrality in the Russia/Ukraine Conflict: An analysis of media coverage in two Global South countries; Camila Bailey and Talia Nanton

The impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on international security framed in CGTN’s news reports; Zichen Jess Hu, Suheng Issac Fu and Zhigang David Dong, Xinyu Kurt Deng

French portrayal of the major political actors involved in the War in Ukraine; Liliana Alloueche, Ella Startt, Malvina Adorno

German broadcaster’s coverage of the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts; Luke Gonnella and Yasmina El Farkh

PANEL 2: WARS, RESISTANCE AND THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT

Settler Colonialism: Presence and Absences in Media Narratives of Palestine; Vartika Rastogi

How do mainstream news media uphold American imperialism within contexts of Israel and Palestine? Comparing BBC and Al-Jazeera; Shivani Mathur

The western principles of journalism cannot support the Palestinian struggle: A case study of how the BBC mediated Palestine; Lea Markidis

Hierarchy of resistance: media framing of anti-occupation resistance in Ukraine and Palestine; Lea Markidis and Cima Chehab

PANEL 3: NARRATORS AND AUDIENCES IN THE COVERAGE OF WAR

Speaking to whom? Comparing CGTN and China Daily in reporting the Russia-Ukraine War;

Zichen Jess Hu, Xinyu Kurt Deng, Botao Xu and Zhigang David Dong

Who really builds the narratives of wars: a study of the Ukrainian National News Agency; Petra Radic

Voice of Palestinians in Gaza raid, comparison of BBC and Al-Jazeera reporting; Haelin Jeon

A critical analysis of media coverage of Ukraine: the voices elevated through war reporting; Hunter Morgan

PANEL 4: THE CONSTRUCTION OF REFUGEES

Changing attitudes towards refugees in Europe: ‘Hierarchy of being a refugee: comparative perspective of Syrian and Ukrainian refugee crises’; Katarina Zajacova

Distant Suffering as Political Agenda: The Mediated Spectacle of Operation Ganga by Indian national press; Vaishnavi Nair

How are South-Eastern Asian refugees (underdeveloped ‘other’) represented by mainstream Western media outlets during Russian-Ukraine War? Karlav Joshi and Fanmeng Wu

PANEL 5: GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS AROUND WAR, RACE AND GENDER

Discursive construction of Ukrainian refugees on CNN: are displaced Ukrainians framed as more deserving of sympathy? Xinyu Kurt Deng, Kedi Zhou

War doesn't have a woman's face' again: visualised values of wartime: the case of Ukrinform; Anna Tashchenko

Women, Gender, and Refugees: The differentiated focus of media representation between China Daily and CNN; Kedi Zhou

Exploring discursive formation of mediated Palestinian masculinities; a comparative study of Al Jazeera and the BBC; Anoushka Schellekens, Vartika Rastogi

University of Augsburg, Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication

The Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication at the University of Augsburg (research area “Media Effects and Processes”, Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic) is hiring a Post Doc researcher and lecturer to support teaching and contribute to the area’s research agenda. The Post Doc would teach 5 weekly hours per semester in the BA and MA program “Media and Communication” in the areas of media effects and empirical methods, and supervise BA and MA theses. The candidate is expected to contribute to and develop research in fields of media processes and effects, including, but not limited to, media use, digital communication, health communication, environmental communication, science communication, narrative persuasion, or strategic communication. Also, the candidate will seek grant opportunities, work with team members to develop research proposals, work on peer-reviewed journal articles and present research to the scientific community. The tasks also include service assignments, for example, regarding departmental and public service.

The position is two-year appointment.

What we require:

Applicants must have a PhD in Communications or another relevant field (e.g., Psychology, Sociology), or foreign equivalent. Candidates are expected to be familiar with quantitative methods and statistics, and with at least one field of media processes and effects. In addition, fluency in English (speaking and writing) is expected.

Our offer:

We offer a Postdoc position (full-time employment of 40,1 hours per week; German tariff: TV-L 13) for a fixed term of 2 years. This position can be varied as part-time employment. Preferred starting date is October, 1st, 2022. You will work with a highly motivated team of researchers focusing on media effects, media use, as well as quantitative methods. Interdisciplinary research centers at the University of Augsburg enable networking with researchers from other disciplines.

The University of Augsburg promotes the professional equality of women. Female candidates are explicitly invited to submit their application. The University of Augsburg stands up for compatibility of family and professional life. For more information, please contact the woman’s representative office. Severely disabled applicants are given preferential consideration in the event of equal qualification.

Application Instructions:

Your complete application documents must include a cover letter, your CV, your degree certificate, as well as a publication list. Application deadline is June 30, 2022.

Application materials must be submitted by email (pdf) to Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic, helena.bilandzic@phil.uni-augsburg.de.

Please note that the authoritative version of this advertisement is the German one, which can be found at the website: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote.

University of Augsburg, Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication

The Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication at the University of Augsburg (research area “Media Effects and Processes”, Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic) is hiring a doctoral researcher and lecturer to support teaching and contribute to the area’s research agenda.

The doctoral candidate would teach 3 weekly hours per semester in the BA and MA program “Media and Communication” in the areas of media effects and empirical methods, and supervise BA and MA theses. The candidate is expected to contribute to research in fields of media processes and effects, including, but not limited to, media use, digital communication, health communication, environmental communication, science communication, narrative persuasion, or strategic communication. Also, the candidate will develop a topic for a PhD thesis, and carry out empirical studies. The tasks also include service assignments, for example, regarding departmental and public service.

The position is two-year appointment.

What we require:

Applicants must have an M.A. degree in Communications or another relevant field (e.g., Psychology, Sociology), or foreign equivalent. Candidates are expected to be familiar with quantitative methods and statistics, and with at least one field of media processes and effects. In addition, fluency in English (speaking and writing) is expected.

Our offer:

We offer a PhD position (part-time employment of 20,05 hours per week; German tariff: TV-L 13) for a fixed term of 2 years. Preferred starting date is October, 1st, 2022. You will work with a highly motivated team of researchers focusing on media effects, media use, as well as quantitative methods. Interdisciplinary research centers at the University of Augsburg enable networking with researchers from other disciplines.

The University of Augsburg promotes the professional equality of women. Female candidates are explicitly invited to submit their application. The University of Augsburg stands up for compatibility of family and professional life. For more information, please contact the woman’s representative office. Severely disabled applicants are given preferential consideration in the event of equal qualification.

Application Instructions:

Your complete application documents must include a cover letter, your CV, your degree certificate, as well as a publication list. Application deadline is June 30, 2022.

Application materials must be submitted by email (PDF) to Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic, helena.bilandzic@phil.uni-augsburg.de.

Please note that the authoritative version of this advertisement is the German one, which can be found at the website: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote.

March 23-24, 2023

Brussels (Belgium)

Deadline: September 1, 2022

DESIRE, the centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistanceis happy to invite you to submit paper and panel proposals for the second edition of the colloquium ‘Discourse Theory: Ways Forward’. After the success of the first edition of 2019(https://www.researchcenterdesire.eu/discourse-theory.html) we are looking forward to continuing the conversation.

The colloquium will take place on 23-24 March 2023 in the Palace of the Academies in Brussels (https://kvab.be/en/palace-academies)

The aim of the colloquium is to bring together scholars working with constructivist and post-structuralist discursive approaches, broadly defined. The colloquium is open to scholars working on a wide range of themes across disciplines, with work on the following themes especially welcomed:

• Environment and climate
• Media and journalism
• Political communication and propaganda
• Health and care
• The discursive and the material
• Discourse, class, and political economy
• The past, present and future of progressive politics
• Nationalism, racism, and the (populist) far right
• Sex and gender
• International relations, conflict and war
• Discourse studies, critique and practice

Confirmed keynote speakers are Emmy Eklundh (Cardiff University) and Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia).

Submissions

We invite paper proposals as well as panel proposals. The deadline for paper proposals and panel proposals is 1 September 2022.

Paper proposals should include, in the following order:

-Paper title

-Author name(s), email(s) and affiliation(s)

-Indication of which of the colloquium topics (one or several) the paper fits with most closely

-A 300-word abstract giving a clear indication of the tradition(s) of discursive research the paper builds upon, central concepts in the paper, method, and main arguments and results.

Panel proposals should include four paper presentations. Panel proposals should be submitted by the panel convener(s) as one document (the individual paper proposals should not be submitted individually).

Panel proposal should include, in the following order:

-Panel title

-The name(s) of the panel convenor(s), emails and affiliations

-Indication of which of the colloquium topics (one or several) the panel fits with most closely

-A 200-word panel abstract

-The 300-word abstracts for each of the four individual papers (following the instructions for individual abstracts (see above)

Paper and panel proposals should be submitted by 1 September 2022 at the latest via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dtfw2

Colloquium fee

The colloquium fee includes lunch and coffee breaks on both days of the colloquium.

The standard colloquium fee is €250.

The reduced colloquium fee for PhD students and researchers in precarious positions is €100.

When applying, please indicate whether you qualify for the reduced colloquium fee.

For members of the DESIRE research group, participation in the colloquiumis free.

Participants are expected to arrange their own travel and accommodation.

Organisers

The colloquium program committee consists of Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, colloquium co-coordinator), Jana Goyvaerts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, colloquium co-coordinator), Nico Carpentier (Charles University), Jason Glynos (University of Essex), Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (University of Ljubljana).

The local organizing committee consists of Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Max Grönegräs, Savvas Voutyras (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and Pieter Maeseele (Universiteit Antwerpen).

PhD masterclasses

The day before the collloquium, on 22 March 2023, we organise PhD masterclasses on Discourse-theoretical Approaches to Politics, Society, Communication and Media. Confirmed masterclasses are with Nico Carpentier (Charles University in Prague), Emmy Eklundh (Cardiff University), Jenny Gunnarsson Payne (Södertörn University), Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia) and Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

More information on the PhD masterclass and how to apply can be found at https://www.researchcenterdesire.eu/masterclass-dtwf-2.html/__/

The application and selection process for the colloquium and the masterclasses are independent of each other.