ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

April 28, 2022

Hybrid event (Veranstaltungscentrum C3 Vienna & online)

Click here for registration until the 25th of April (necessary for participation online and in person)!

This conference addresses the issue of evidence-based communication within the media and higher education institutions and the role of these institutions when it comes to media and information literacy in contemporary societies.

The event is organised within the framework of the Erasmus+ project ERUM - Enhancing Research Understanding Through Media and will explore how the media and academia can collaborate, which skills students have to learn and which policy reforms should be developed to increase the quality of information and tackle the issue of the rising spread of mis/disinformation today.

https://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/en/fields-of-work/didactics-of-civic-and-citizenship-education/news-events/conference-facts-figures-evidence-based-information-in-contemporary-societies-the-role-of-academia-and-the-media/

October 19-22, 2022

Online workshop

Deadline: June 15, 2022

ECREA pre-conference workshop

War streaming on Instagram, propaganda in press photography, refugee activism on TikTok? - Recent European crises have shown images and videos as essential tools of communication in politics and protest, a trend mirrored in the increasing use of visuals in research methodologies. Visual data can capture practices of visual, performative or non-verbal communication, text-image relationships, the development of visual formats, notions of aesthetics, as well as underlying meanings of symbols and codes. Extant research has since captured different elements of visual politics and protest, including: social history (e.g. protest photography), political commentary or alignment (e.g. through memes or overlays), social cues in political communication (e.g. GIFs, filters, or emoji), visual activism practices (e.g. culture-jamming, sousveillance video coverage, flesh-witnessing), and visual forms of information documentation and distribution (e.g. infographics).

Even so, new creative practices have at times challenged research practices, for example with regards to image authenticity and appropriation in mis- and disinformation campaigns (e.g. deepfakes), platform affordances in new visual formats and spaces (e.g. short videos on TikTok), (mis)interpretation and visual (il)literacy in communications, trust in image data as factual evidence, and opaqueness in the production of visual materials. These critical debates have been particularly contentious in the arena of politics and protest, where visuals have been seen to shape political opinion and discourse, electoral campaigns, war coverage, and Covid-19 data visualisations.

In response to these trends, the ECREA Visual Cultures section is inviting submissions to the online pre-conference on “Visual Politics & Protest” with a focus on epistemological and methodological challenges, taking place on 6th and 7th October 2022 (= 2 weeks prior to ECREA 2022). The pre-conference workshop will include a keynote by Dr. Jing Zeng (University of Zurich), a series of lightning talks, a panel discussion (including speakers Dr. Stefania Vicari, Dr. Shana MacDonald, & Dr. Jing Zeng), and hands-on discussion rounds with a specific focus on epistemological challenges in research on visual politics and protest.

Topics of interest

We are looking for lightning talks on challenges encountered in research on visual politics and/or protest, which will be allocated to thematic panels. Towards encouraging lively discussions, we are not looking for entire paper proposals, but focussed submissions that outline the challenge along with examples (in written, visual, or other creative forms).

On a broad level this may include (but is not limited to):

• New methodological challenges in visual or multimodal data collection or analysis
• Platform- or format-specific challenges in conducting visual research on politics and protest
• Methodological approaches for capturing visuality or visual cultures surrounding politics and protest
• Challenges in embedding visuals or visuality with textual, audio, or sensory materials
• Issues in interpreting and/or quantifying visual data
• Emerging approaches to visualising image or video data
• Suggestions for the ethical treatment of visuality in politics or protest
• Approaches in analysing specific political visual practices and/or phenomena
• Epistemological discussions of the role of the visual in politics, protest, or social movements
• Theorizing visual issues (example: visibility through aesthetics and visuality)

Submissions should ideally either discuss new challenges, present in-depth illustrations/ examples of specific challenges, or introduce new approaches or nuances.

Submission

Please submit a 200 word description of your challenge in researching visual cultures or materials, along with your contact details on this Google Form link (200 is the maximum incl. references). Proposals can be submitted until 1st June 2022 at 23.59 CEST. Descriptions should be written in English and contain a summary of the challenge that will be presented, as well as a notion of the reflections or approaches that are taken or recommended. The description may follow a conventional abstract structure, but is not bound to it. We encourage creative, unconventional, and work-in-progress submissions, particularly from early-career scholars. The addition of supplementary visual data such as a poster or data excerpt is optional. The submissions should represent a specific issue or challenge encountered in the participant’s visual research.

We are aware that not everyone will be able to use Google services due to regional restrictions or privacy concerns. In those cases we invite participants to submit directly by email vppecrea@gmail.com. The email should contain following information: paper title, participant first and last name, country of affiliation, affiliation, career stage, email contact, names of co-authors, a 200-word description of the challenge, 1-2 visual materials (PDF, Word, or jpg) if applicable (this is optional), and indicate if you would like to be considered for the special issue.

During the workshop, these challenges should be presented as short presentations (7-10 minutes) in panel groups with an adjoining discussion. These presentations do not need to follow conventional presentation formats (creative and purely visual presentations are encouraged). Please note that multi-author submissions are very much welcome, but due to the short nature of lightning talks we ask that only one person (i.e. the submitting author) presents.

Details on the presentation format and full programme will be released in due time.

Workshop follow-up

Post-workshop, a summary (e.g. in the form of a co-authored “living syllabus on visual politics and protest research'') will be created and circulated amongst the participants and the wider public.

Participants will also be invited to join an informal follow-up meeting at ECREA in Aarhus: “visual politics & protest coffee hour”.

Participants will have the opportunity to submit their full papers to a special issue in Journal of Digital Social Research (https://www.jdsr.io/). Extended abstracts of 500 words are due 1st December 2022. Interest in submitting to the special issue should be indicated in the submission form. More information on the special issue will follow in due course.

Further details

The pre-conference workshop is organised by the ECREA Visual Cultures section (see https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/) and will take place online.

Links

Pre-conference website: https://cutt.ly/visual-politics-ecrea

Email contact: vppecrea@gmail.com

Link to profile of keynote speaker: https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/science-crisis-and-risk-communication/team/jing-zeng.html

Key dates 2022

• 1st June: pre-conference submission deadline
• 15th August: communication of acceptance
• 6th & 7th October: ECREA pre-conference on Visual Politics & Protest (online)
• 19th to 22nd October: ECREA general conference
• 1st December 2022: special issue abstract deadline

Pre-conference team

Maria Schreiber, University of Salzburg

Suay Melisa Özkula, University of Trento

Tom Divon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Danka Ninković Slavnić, University of Belgrade

Doron Altaratz, The Hadassah Academic College

Hadas Schlussel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The International Journal of Public Relations (Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas), Vol. XII, No. 23

Deadline: April 30, 2022

We announce the Call for Papers for Issue No 23 of The International Journal of Public Relations (Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas). This new issue will focus on Public Relations in general (non-monographic issue).

The deadline for papers is open until April 30, 2022. We would like to remind authors that the proposals (articles and book reviews) should be submitted via the Journal’s application system with the following link: http://revistarelacionespublicas.uma.es/index.php/revrrpp/user/register.

In order to have the paper for a revision it is necessary to follow the editors’ guidelines and norms of the journal that can be consulted under the following link:

http://revistarelacionespublicas.uma.es/index.php/revrrpp/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

The papers can be submitted in any of the following languages: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

We provide a template that authors can use to prepare articles and reviews. The aim is to facilitate the preparation and editing of the journal. The template is available in the following link http://revistarelacionespublicas.uma.es/index.php/revrrpp/article/view/219.

In order for articles to be more widely distributed, all articles must include an extended abstract (between 500 and 700 words).

The International Journal of Public Relations has been included in the Emerging Source Citation Index -JCR-, Latindex Catalogue, DICE, RESH, CIRC, ISOC, Dialnet, ULRICH, EBSCO, DOAJ, REBIU, MIAR. In Dialnet Metrics, the journal is in Q1. This fact brings an extra value to all authors interested since the published paper may be recognized by the corresponding authorities for further career development.

April 14, 2022

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Deciphering facts from fiction: lessons learned for communicators will be presented by Tommaso Di Giovanni, Vice President of Global Communications, Philip Morris International on Thursday 14 April 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

Misinformation is rampant, and often used to drive opposition to progress. Overcoming misinformation is particularly challenging for PMI, because of historical mistrust and skepticism. The webinar will describe how PMI affiliates around the world are countering misinformation and overcoming entrenched biases to promote science-driven change.

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 Tommaso Di Giovanni

Tommaso Di Giovanni is Vice President of Global Communications at Philip Morris International (PMI). He leads a global team of 150+ communicators working to elevate PMI’s mission for open and meaningful dialogues on how to accelerate the achievement of a smoke-free future, where cigarettes are replaced with less harmful alternatives, in 100+ diverse markets.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)

Deadline (Abstracts): June 15, 2022

Edited by Ulla Autenrieth (Fachhochschule Graubünden), Wolfgang Reißmann (FU Berlin), Rebecca Venema (USI Università della Svizzera italiana)

We are seeking contributions for a thematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) exploring image corpora and dispersed visual practices in and with digital media.

The search for visual patterns has always been core to the field of visual studies. Already classic scholars like Warburg and Panofsky dedicated much of their work to retrace “pathos formula” (cf. Becker, 2013), or to identify “image types,” defined by Panofsky (1978) as specific forms of representation through which certain actors, actions, events, ideas or themes are visualized. Visual communication researchers have adopted previous works in art history, and have stressed the importance to combine iconographic and iconological expertise with profound knowledge of communication processes and image contexts (Knieper & Müller, 2019).

Research on image types has helped to analyze the highly routinized and conventionalized selection and use of images in news media (Grittmann, 2007, 2019) which iterate topic- or discourse-specific repertoires of images with recurring motifs and representational characteristics with which events, constellations of actors and their (inter)actions are depicted. Here, image types bundle visuals with motifs of similar content or meaning and distinct representational features (Grittmann, 2007; Grittmann & Ammann, 2009, 2011). Importantly, image type analysis has shown a way to link a systematic analysis of quantifiable structures and patterns in data sets with a detailed qualitative analysis and interpretation of representation techniques and compositional features and the manifest and latent meaning of image types (for recent applications, e.g., Brantner, Lobinger, & Stehling, 2020; Pentzold, Brantner, & Fölsche, 2019). Furthermore, key features of corpora based on mass media’s image output were carved out by delineating “generic icons” (Perlmutter, 1998, p. 11), or “key images” and “key image sequences” (e.g., handshakes as gestures to symbolize contracts) (Ludes, 2001). Concurrently, communication research has played out its long-standing expertise in quantitative content analysis, and elaborated new forms of quantitative image (content) analysis (Bell, 2006; Geise & Rössler, 2013; Lobinger, 2012, p. 227–243).

Developments in media environments, media- and image-related practices as well as in methodological tools and procedures call for a re-intensified reflection and work on image types and relational and comparative classification such analyses allow and require. In fact, we have witnessed a major shift in media ecologies as well as in research agendas over the last 10–15 years. Whereas mass media and news media coverage were dominant subjects of inquiry until early 2000s, in recent times more and more research efforts focus on the analysis of the multiple visualities in social media (Hand, 2017; Highfield & Leaver, 2016). Visual communication research contributed with both image analyses of selfies, memes and other visuals (Lobinger & Brantner, 2015), and by increasingly taking image-related practices such as “sharing” into account (Autenrieth, 2014; Gomez-Cruz & Lehmuskallio, 2016; Schreiber, 2017). Studies thus have shed light on how different sorts of visuals are appropriated and used in everyday practices of individuals or in different social entities and have tried to make sense of the constant stream of sorts of images with rather short half-lives which molds our visual media ecologies in times of “networked” and “algorithmic images” (Rubinstein & Sluis, 2008, 2013). When it comes to methods and methodological approaches, computational and digital methods promise to provide new insights and ways of grasping large image corpora and related practices (Niederer & Colombo, 2019). Other contributions explore possibilities to cluster “big image data” corpora (Rogers, 2021) with the help of artificial intelligence, machine learning and diverse sorting tools, supervised and unsupervised strategies (e.g., K-means clustering).

Against this background, the Thematic Section invites to reflect on old and new challenges in analyzing and constructing image types on the level of image contents, and / or in typologizing routinized or conventionalized image-related practices on the level of media and image appropriation and usage.

We welcome both, theoretical reflections on methodology and methods as well as qualitative and quantitative empirical studies or mixed approaches. In particular, the Thematic Section asks:

• How do we build up medium-sized or large corpora of images and practices in digital media environments? How do we develop image types or typologies of image-related practices based on those corpora? Which criteria, elements and relations are essential, which are of secondary relevance – why? What (new) legal and research ethics challenges arise from this? How do we deal with them?

• How do we involve manual and automated forms of coding and analyzing? Which limitations have automated and / or AI-driven forms of image clustering? Are image clusters and image types the same thing, or should we nuance conceptual differences? How are procedures of human and automated coding arranged in appropriate ways, e.g., for mutually correcting the “blind spots” of each other?

• How do we deal with the multitude of actors and contexts involved in producing and sharing images in digital media environments? How do we balance the tension between manifest and latent meanings of image types, and the contextual appropriation of specific representatives in different fields by different actors? How do we bring together people’s everyday practices of using or sorting images, folksonomy or platform-driven classifications, and research-centered, corpus-based results?

Submission guidelines​

SComS welcomes submissions in English, German, French, or Italian. However, English and German are the preferred languages of this Thematic Section. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words in length and should explain the main research question(s), scientific literature, methodology, and case studies the authors plan to use. Please submit your abstract via e-mail to wolfgang.reissmann@fuberlin.de.

Manuscripts should be a maximum of 9000 words in length (including the abstract and all references, tables, figures, footnotes, appendices). In addition, authors may submit supplementary material that will be published as an online supplement. Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Articles shall be submitted using the APA reference style, 6th edition. The manuscript itself must be free of any information or references that might reveal the identity of the authors and their institution to allow double-blind peer review. Manuscripts should be submitted via the SComS platform:

https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/about/submissions. We ask authors to carefully prepare submissions according to all rules given in the SComS Submission Guidelines.

Abstract submissions are due June 15 2022. Final acceptance depends on a double-blind peer review process of the manuscripts. The expected publishing date of this thematic section is April / May 2024. However, early submissions that successfully pass the review process will also be immediately published online first.

Contributions that receive positive reviews but are not accepted for the Thematic Section may be considered for publication in a subsequent SComS issue within the General Section

For any further information please contact Wolfgang Reißmann (wolfgang.reissmann@fuberlin.de).

Key dates:

• 15 June 2022:Abstract submission deadline
• 30 June 2022:Decision on acceptance / rejection of abstracts
• 31 October 2022:Full paper submission deadline
• Nov 2022 – Jan 2023:First round of peer review
• 15 March 2023:Resubmission deadline
• March – May 2023:Second round of peer review
• 30 July 2023:Final paper submission
• August 2023:Editorial work / final shape-up

Publication of the Thematic Section is scheduled for April / May 2024

Reference list

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Becker, C. (2013). Aby Warburg’s Pathosformel as methodological paradigm. Journal of Art Historiography, 9, 1–25. Retrieved from https://doaj.org/article/58b051219d61444cb8171e5ebcc44df4

Bell, P. (2006). Content analysis of visual images. In T. van Leeuwen & C. Jewitt (Eds.), Handbook of visual analysis (pp. 10–34). London, UK: SAGE.

Brantner, C., Lobinger, K., & Stehling, M. (2020). Memes against sexism? A multi-method analysis of the feminist protest hashtag #distractinglysexy and its resonance in the mainstream news media. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(3), 674–696. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856519827804

Geise, S., & Rössler, P. (2013). Standardisierte Bildinhaltsanalyse. In W. Möhring & D. Schlütz (Eds.), Handbuch standardisierte Erhebungsverfahren in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18776-1_17

Gomez-Cruz, E., & Lehmuskallio, A. (Eds.) (2016). Digital photography and everyday life. empirical studies on material visual practices. Oxford, UK: Routledge.

Grittmann, E. (2007). Das politische Bild. Fotojournalismus und Pressefotografie in Theorie und Empirie. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.

Grittmann, E. (2019). Methoden der Medienbildanalyse in der Visuellen Kommunikationsforschung: Ein Überblick. In K. Lobinger (Ed.), Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung (pp. 527–546). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06738-0_25-1

Grittmann, E., & Ammann, I. (2009). Die Methode der quantitativen Bildtypenanalyse. Zur Routinisierung der Bildberichterstattung am Beispiel von 9/11 in der journalistischen Erinnerungskultur. In T. Petersen & C. Schwender (Eds.), Visuelle Stereotype (pp. 141–158). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.

Grittmann, E., & Ammann, I. (2011). Quantitative Bildtypenanalyse. In T. Petersen & C. Schwender (Eds.), Die Entschlüsselung der Bilder. Methoden zur Erforschung visueller Kommunikation. Ein Handbuch (pp. 163–177). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.

Hand, M. (2017). Visuality in social media: Researching images, circulations and practices. In L. Sloan & A.

Quan-Haase (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (pp. 215–231). London, UK: SAGE. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473983847

Highfield, T., & Leaver, T. (2016). Instagrammatics and digital methods: Studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji. Communication Research and Practice, 2(1), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155332

Knieper T., & Müller, M. G. (2019). Zur Bedeutung von Bildkontexten und Produktionsprozessen für die Analyse visueller Kommunikation. In K. Lobinger (Ed.), Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung (pp. 515–526).

Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06508-9_23

Lobinger, K. (2012). Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung. Medienbilder als Herausforderung für die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: VS.

Lobinger, K., & Brantner, C. (2015). Selfies | In the eye of the beholder: Subjective views on the authenticity of selfies. International Journal of Communication, 9, 1848–1860. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3151

Ludes, P. (2001). Schlüsselbild-Gewohnheiten. Visuelle Habitualisierungen und visuelle Koordinationen. In T. Knieper & M. G. Müller (Eds.), Kommunikation visuell. Das Bild als Forschungsgegenstand – Grundlagen und Perspektiven (pp. 64–78). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.

Niederer, S., & Colombo, G. (2019). Visual methodologies for networked images: Designing visualizations for collaborative research, cross-platform analysis, and public participation. Disena, 14, 40–67. https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.14.40-67

Panofsky, E. (1978/1996). Sinn und Deutung in der bildenden Kunst. Köln: DuMont.

Pentzold, C., Brantner, C., & Fölsche, L. (2019). Imagining big data: Illustrations of “big data” in US news articles, 2010–2016. New Media & Society, 21(1), 139–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818791326

Perlmutter, D. D. (1998). Photojournalism and foreign policy. Icons of outrage in international crises. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Rogers, R. (2021). Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms. Big Data & Society, 8(1), 1– 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211022370

Rubinstein D., & Sluis, K. (2013). The digital image in photographic culture: Algorithmic photography and the crisis of representation. In M. Lister (Ed.), The photographic image in digital culture (2nd ed., pp. 22–40), London, UK: Routledge.

Rubinstein, D., & Sluis, K. (2008). A life more photographic: Mapping the networked image. Photographies, 1(1), 9–28.

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22 August - 2 September 2022 (online)

Maastricht Summer School, Maastricht University

Deadline: August 1, 2022

The focus of this Summer School course is on critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and news framing. A key objective is to enable you to design an analytical framework to study media representations with textual and/or visual elements (e.g. newspaper/magazine articles with photos, cartoons and social media posts). You can read more about the course content, course objectives and recommended literature below. You also find there the link to the timetable.

The course fee is €399. To apply for the course, please visit the DreamApply website. For more information, please contact course coordinator Leonhardt.

Course Description

The tweets of US-President Donald Trump, the heated social media debate on Greta Thunberg and the many angles on migration stress the pivotal role of texts and images in our societies. This course teaches you the analytical skills to study the possible meanings of textual and visual media representations.

Interactive lectures offer you concepts and methods to examine what combinations of words and/or visual elements mean in terms of a broader debate in society. These lectures further help you to understand how national identities and power relations affect the interpretations of media representations. Your individual assignment concerns a short paper, in which you apply a method to study one or two news articles, cartoons or social media posts.

Dr Leonhardt van Efferink developed an exclusive Summer School template that helps you to write a well-structured course paper. On top of this, he offers individual feedback in class and active personal tutoring by e-mail. Finally, his support includes a simple framework to develop focused, consistent and transparent research questions.

Below you find the course objectives, a link to the timetable and suggested literature.

Course Objectives

1. Designing an analytical framework to study media representations with textual and/or visual elements (e.g. newspaper/magazine articles with photos, cartoons and social media posts).

2. Developing a research method that draws on critical discourse analysis, social semiotic analysis and/or news framing analysis, in line with your research objectives.

3. Explaining the role of the national and ideological contexts in which (social) media content is being produced.

4. Understanding the complexity of text-image relations and their role in meaning-making processes.

5. Producing a research design and dataset for your thesis or dissertation that is manageable.

Timetable

The fourth online edition of this course lasts from 22 August until 2 September 2022. The three earlier online editions in 2020/2021 were fully booked and seven earlier editions took place on-campus in Maastricht between 2014 and 2019. This edition has daily teaching sessions of at most three hours. Teaching days will start at 13.00 (Maastricht time zone/GMT+2) and end at the latest at 16.00 (Maastricht time zone/GMT+2). This makes it easier for students from far away countries to deal with the large time differences. Please check Leonhardt's website for most up-to-date version of the timetable: https://vanefferink.com/en/media-representations-and-research-methods-summer-school-critical-discourse-analysis-social-semiotics-and-news-framing/

Literature

Leonhardt has based this course on publications in various languages (see overview below for some examples). You are not required to do pre-course reading. However, if you would like to do so, you are advised to select one of the publications below. You can also contact Leonhardt for tailor-made reading advice.

1. Caple, H. (2013) Photojournalism. A Social Semiotic Approach.

2. Dahinden, U. (2006). Framing. Eine integrative Theorie der Massenkommunikation.

3. D’Angelo, P. (ed.) (2018) Doing News Framing Analysis II. Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives.

4. Geise, S., & Lobinger, K. (eds.). (2013). Visual Framing. Perspektiven und Herausforderungen der visuellen Kommunikationsforschung.

5. Machin, D. (2007) Introduction to Multimodal Analysis.

6. Machin, D. and Mayr, A. (2012) How to do Critical Discourse Analysis.

7. Richardson, J. (2007) Analysing Newspapers. An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis.

8. Royce, T. D. (2006). Intersemiotic Complementarity. A Framework for Multimodal Discourse Analysis. In T. D. Royce, & W. Bowcher (Eds.), New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse (pp. 63-109).

9. Van Gorp, B. (2010) Strategies to take the Subjectivity out of Framing Analysis. In P. D’Angelo, & J. A. Kuypers (Eds.), Doing News Framing Analysis. Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (pp. 84-109).

10. Wodak, R. and Meyer, M. (eds., 2016) Methods of Critical Discourse Studies.

Student reviews (from LinkedIn recommendations)

1. “I found Leonhardt very well familiar with all the dynamics of his class room, as he very efficiently caters to the need of all his students coming from different social, cultural and educational backgrounds.” – Sadia from Pakistan

2. “Leonhardt is a great lecturer who knows his subject matter. I found his inclusive approach particularly useful in teaching media analysis techniques.” – Koen from Belgium

3. “Not only did Leonhardt demonstrate a high level of expertise in the subject, but he also helped his students understand difficult concepts in a very accessible way, effectively bridging the gap between theory and practice, and fostering fruitful discussions in class.” – Carolina from Brazil

"What could be done to help the Russian civil society against the reinforced censorship implemented by the government since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and to make the Russian population aware of what is succeeding ?

The Denis Diderot Committee, created by various experts in the field of European audiovisual matters has launched the proposal of EU sanctions against the two Russian pay-TV platforms NTV+ and Trikolor, operating on Eutelsat 36E satellites. Taking advantage of their gatekeeper position, those two platforms have since early March eliminated 8 international news channels from their offer. Sanctions by the EU and possibly by the intergovernmental organisation EUTELSAT IGO could allow Eutelsat SA to reallocate capacities to the international news channels and independent Russian or Ukrainian speaking channels, with the possibility of reaching in a free-to-air DTH manner around 30 % of Russian TV households.

The Denis Diderot Committee has published a report and a petition, available on its website https://histv3.wixsite.com/denisdiderot.

The petition was signed by various professionals and by various researchers in communication, including ECREA Chairman John Downey and also by all the Members of the National Council for Radio and Television of Ukraine, the regulatory authority in this country

https://histv3.wixsite.com/denisdiderot/petition

If you wish to have your name included in the list of signatories, you may send an email to me. If you prefer sign it without your name being published, you can sign the petition on Avaaz :

in English https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/l_union_europeenne_et_eutelsat_igo_pour_des_sanctions_contre_ntv_et_trikolor_censeurs_russes_de_l_information_pluraliste

or in French : https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/fr/l_union_europeenne_et_eutelsat_igo_pour_des_sanctions_contre_ntv_et_trikolor_censeurs_russes_de_l_information_pluraliste/

The report and the petition were already submitted to the various concerned bodies of the European Union, to the Executive Secretary of the EUTELSAT IGO and to the national regulatory authorities members of the ERGA.

Further signatures will of course reinforce the possible impact of the proposal.

Thank you in advance for your attention and support.

Dr André Lange

Coordinator of the Denis Diderot Committee

Scientific collaborator of the Department Media, Culture and Communication

Former Head of Department at the European Audiovisual Observatory

histv3@gmail.com

Zylinska, Joanna

How do we combat post-truth in the news? Are social media influencers the journalists of today? What is it like to live in a smart city? Does AI really change ‘everything’? The Future of Media investigates the future of media industries and technologies (journalism, TV, film, photography, radio, publishing, social media), while exploring how media shape our future – on a political, economic, cultural and individual level. Issues of diversity, media reform, labour, activism and art take the discussion into a wider social context. Through this, the book celebrates the importance and vitality of media in the modern world. The Future of Media is also an experiment in collaborative modes of thinking and working. Co-authored by theorists and practitioners from one of the world’s most established media departments and their collaborators, it offers a radical, creative and critical take on media industries – and on world affairs.

An open-access version of the book can be downloaded from the GRO repository [click on the download button]: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/

If you like the book, we hope you will be able to support Goldsmiths Press by ordering a paper copy for yourself and/or your library, via their distributor, MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media

The book also has a companion website, featuring practice works engaging with the future of media: ;https://www.golddust.org.uk/futureofmedia

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, has endorsed a PR initiative to create the Ukraine Communications Support Network (UCSN). The network, hosted by the UK-based Public Relations and Communications Association and the International Communications Consultancy Organisation, seeks to coordinate volunteer communications activity in support of the people of Ukraine.

The UCSN invites PR professionals around the world to submit proposals for voluntary communications activity. A steering committee, comprised of Ukrainian and international communicators, will oversee approval of these proposals.

How to help

Communications professionals are invited to submit proposals across 12 categories including Ukrainian government media relations, assisting journalists, promoting fund raising for refugee organizations, and the countering of misinformation. Proposals can be submitted here.

IPRA President Etsuko Tsugihara comments: “IPRA is proud to support this excellent initiative and will rally its network of global experts to help.”

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.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.orgTelephone +44 1634 818308

Recruitment for the Special Edition „for Ukraine” of the Young Media and Communication Scholars Mentoring Program is open.

If you are a MA or PhD student with affiliation at a Ukrainian university and your scientific interests are related to social sciences and social media, this information is for you. Thanks to the program, you will develop your scientific competence and cooperate with renowned researchers from Poland. Participation in the program is possible in Polish, English and Ukrainian (in the case of mentors who agreed to it) and will be confirmed by a certificate.

To register, please send your application to mentoring.fmmik@gmail.com. It should include your name, type of studies, affiliation, institute/faculty and the name of the master's or doctoral dissertation supervisor. In addition, you should briefly summarize your scientific interests, justify the selection of the PTKS research section, define the purpose of participation in the program and the intended end result (article or conference speech). Applications are accepted in Polish and English. There is continuous recruitment.

Application form and detailed information are available here: https://www.ptks.pl/en/programs/pca-mentoring-program

If you have any additional questions, do not hesitate to contact the program coordinators, Roksana M. Zdunek and Joanna Najbor: mentoring.fmmik@gmail.com