ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

July 9-13, 2023

Lyon, France

Deadline: February 9, 2023

https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/cfp-flow34

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) calls for academic audio and/or visual work to be presented at Flow34 at the IAMCR 2023 Lyon Conference. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2023, at 23.59 UTC.

The selected works will be presented online from 25 June until 9 September and during the conference in Lyon from 9-13 July.

With this call, IAMCR aims to stimulate the use of a broader range of modes for the communication of academic knowledge, complementing conference papers and oral presentations with audio/visual work. In particular, we seek videos and podcasts that integrate academic and aesthetic dimensions, and that use sound and/or image creatively to communicate academic knowledge. This implies that we will not select audio/visual work that merely consists of recorded lectures.

We call for audio/visual work with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, but shorter contributions are welcomed. 

Guidelines for abstracts

Proposals for the presentation of audio/visual work will consist of one abstract, which will have two parts: 1/ an academic description of the work and 2/ a (basic) script of the audio/visual work. The academic description describes the research communicated by the audio/visual work (its research question, theoretical framework, methodology, research design and corpus etc.), while the script provides a chronological description of the form of the audio/visual work. 

The abstract (with its two parts) has a maximum length of 750 words. The abstract should be submitted online by 9 February 2023 at 23h59 UTC.

The Flow34 evaluation team will review the submitted proposals, and announce their decisions in March 2023. The audio/visual work itself will then need to be submitted by 5 June 2023.

For further information about Flow34 Virtual cinema and podcasts, please contact Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen <mazlum@iamcr.org>.

University of Passau

The University of Passau owes its strong visibility and good repute to excellent research, innovative teaching and its tight-knit international academic networks. Some 12,000 students from 100 countries and more than 1,300 staff study and work on our University campus, which is located a stone’s throw from the historical Old Town of Passau and combines state-of-the- art technical infrastructure with award-winning architecture. Internationally successful high- tech companies and a vibrant start-up scene, coupled with a rich culture and Lower Bavarian traditions, give Passau and the surrounding area a special appeal that makes it a great place to live and work.

The Chair of Science Communication (Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri) and the Research and Training Group “Digital Platform Ecosystems” (DPE) at the University of Passau invites applications for the position of

Doctoral Researcher (Ph.D. candidate)

in the area of political discourses that form around regulatory initiatives of the platform ecosystem

to start at the earliest convenience.

This is a fully-funded part-time position (75%), based on a fixed-term contract valid for a period of three years, with the option of renewal. Remuneration is in accordance with pay grade E13 of the German public-sector collective agreement, TV-L; the salary step depends on your qualifications and experience.

What we seek

• You are a highly motivated master’s graduate with an excellent degree in communication science or a related field of study. You can also apply if you are expecting to finish your degree soon. Preliminary part-time employment up to 0.5 full- time equivalent in line with pay grade E12 TV-L may be arranged temporarily for candidates who have not yet completed their master’s thesis. Please contact us for details.

• Very good analytical skills and most importantly a keen interest in the regulation of digital platform ecosystems and the digital economy.

• Methodological skills especially in the field of quantitative methods (e.g., quantitative content analysis, survey research, computational methods) and in the field of data analysis.

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team, open-mindedness, and the motivation to work on a research project independently and diligently.

• Excellent spoken and written English language skills. Knowledge of German is not a requirement.

What we offer

• The opportunity to pursue a doctoral study at a renowned German university, and as part of a particularly strong research team.

• Membership in the interdisciplinary Research Training Group 2720 Digital Platform Ecosystems (see https://dpe.uni-passau.de/en for details and activities) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• Own research budget for conference visits and hiring student workers to assist with research.

• No formal teaching obligation, but possibility to participate in and contribute to the Chair’s teaching portfolio.

• A tailored and structured doctoral programme at the graduate school DPE; a fully funded research visit abroad, external course programme (summer schools, workshops); co-supervision by international scholars and much more. The research and training programme is designed such that students are enabled to complete their Ph.D. degree within three years.

• You will participate regularly in international conferences, become integrated into an international research network and contribute to the national and international political discourse on the regulation of the digital economy.

• Excellent infrastructure on one of the most beautiful university campuses in Germany.

The University of Passau wishes to increase the proportion of its female staff and expresslyencourages women to apply for the position.

This position is suitable for candidates with disabilities. Those who are registered disabled are given preference over non-disabled applicants who do not otherwise have statutory preferential status if their overall personal aptitudes, skills and qualifications are equal.

If you have any further questions about this position, please contact Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri by e-mail (hannah.schmid-petri@uni-passau.de)

To apply, please send your full application (including motivation letter and school/university, training and work certificates) as a single pdf file to dpe@uni-passau.de. Application details can be found at: www.dpe.uni-passau.de/en/application. This position is for Research Area C.3 under the primary supervision of Prof. Hannah Schmid-Petri. You can apply at any time, as we will be accepting applications until the position is filled. We will start reviewing received applications on 15 March 2023

E-mailed applications are kept on file for up to six months after the conclusion of the appointment procedure, whereupon they are deleted from our systems.

Please visit www.uni-passau.de/en/university/current-vacancies for our data privacy statement.

International Journal of Games and Social Impact Vol. 1 No. 2

Deadline: June 1, 2023

Guest Editor: Micael Sousa (CITTA, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade de Coimbra)

The idea of playing is older than culture itself, presenting a function that transcends physiological phenomena, to support human beings in the construction of interpretations and meanings (Huizinga, 1944/1980). Board games, in particular, have proven to be more than a form of escape from everyday life, but rather a mode of reproduction of its complex problems (Lorenzo, 2017), which can support important critical reflections. Moreover, and unlike a significant part of digital game communities, the board game community tends to be particularly inclusive, valuing diversity, associated with an industry receptive to feedback from those who play (Booth, 2021).

For the second issue of the first volume of IJGSI, we are accepting talk proposals that are related, not exclusively, with one or more of the following aspects:

• The potential social impact of board games
  
• Board games in community development
  
• Board games as a tool for social inclusion
  
• Sustainable proposals for board games design and modding
  
• Board games as a tool or strategy to promote change
  
• Learning through board games
  
• The accessibility of board games
  
• Diversity and representation in the board games industry and community
  
• New spaces and contexts for play
  
• 'Serious' applications for commercial board games
  
• Hybrid games or other mixed approaches
  

Full papers must be sent to glow@ulusofona.pt, respecting the guidelines establishing in the Information for Authors section.

The submission deadline is the 1st of June 2023.

This special issue results from a partnership between the magazine and the event LeiriaTalks at LeiriaCon 2023. More information HERE.

Soapbox Journal

Deadline: February 21, 2023

For the upcoming issue of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative works that critically engage with the theme of Swamped! Muddied Environments and the Ecology of Being Bogged Down. We are inviting extended proposals (500-1000 words) that follow consistent and complete formatting and referencing style to be submitted to submissions@soapboxjournal.net by February 21st, 2023.

You can find the full call for papers and our submission guidelines here: https://www.soapboxjournal.net/join

Nordic Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 6 (2024)

Deadline: April 3, 2023

Find the full call on Nordicom’s website: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordic-journal-media-studies/calls-for-papers

In the years following the #metoo movement, which upended many of the conventional ideas about Scandinavia as a gender-equal utopia, we have seen heated and rapidly shifting public conversations around gender in the Nordic countries. With this issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, we invite scholars to explore the following questions: What new ideas, discussions, concepts, and methods are emerging in studies at the intersection of media and gender in the Nordic countries and beyond? 

Editors:

Tina Askanius, Malmö University, tina.askanius@mau.se

Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen, jill.walker.rettberg@uib.no

Eli Skogerbø, University of Oslo, eli.skogerbo@media.uio.no

Important dates:

Deadline for extended abstracts: 3 April 2023

Deadline for full submissions: 1 September 2023

Peer review: October 2023–December 2023

Expected publication: Spring 2024 

Procedure:

Those with an interest in contributing should write an extended abstract (max. 750 words) where the main theme (or argument) of the intended article is described. The abstract should contain the preliminary title, five keywords, and a rationale for how the article fits within the overall aim of the issue – to critically reflect on recent developments and trends in research on media and gender drawing on new ideas, conceptual discussions, perspectives, and methods emerging at the intersection of these fields in the Nordic countries and beyond. 

Send your extended abstract to tina.askanius@mau.se by 3 April 2023.

September 14-15, 2023

University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Deadline: March 13, 2023

ECREA FILM STUDIES SECTION CONFERENCE 

Keynote speakers:

Mette Hjort (University of Lincoln) Costas Constandinides (University of Cyprus)

https://filmstudiesecrea.wordpress.com/nicosia-conference/

The forthcoming edition of the bi-annual conference of the ECREA Film Studies Section will take place in Cyprus and will be hosted by the Department of Design and Multimedia of the University of Nicosia. Taking its cue from the political and cultural dimensions of its host’s geographical location, the conference will address and seek to reframe the scope of ‘postcolonial cinema’ in the current historical moment.

In an increasingly global and visually-oriented world, cinema functions as one of the key media of cultural exchange between nations and cultures. If the ‘postcolonial’ remains a useful and productive analytic category as ‘the necessary mode of perpetual auto-critique’ (R.J.C. Young, 2012: 22), then how does it help us think about the relationships between representation, knowledge, discourse and power upon which this exchange is predicated? This conference wants to contribute to ongoing work that places diverse geographies, histories and identities in dialogical relation and critiques the ways of seeing, thinking and representing that have grown out of colonisation and/or neo-colonial globalisation.

We encourage proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels on topics that include but are not limited to:

● Postcolonial screen worlds

● Undoing and redoing cinema historiography

● Borders, diaspora and migration in film

● Postcolonial feminist, queer, racial, indigenous and/or intersectional storytelling and

representation in film

● Postcolonial cinema’s aesthetics and politics

● Postcolonial film theory in relation to climate change and ecology

● Postcolonialism and posthumanism

● Alternative modes and circuits of film production, distribution and exhibition

● Postcolonialism and the decolonial turn in Film Studies: synergies and divergences;

• decolonising the discipline; screening the Global South.
  

Abstracts of maximum 300 words, along with key references, institutional affiliation and a short bio (max 150 words); or panel proposals, including a panel presentation (max 300 words) along with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 individual abstracts, should be submitted to the conference email address: filmstudiesecrea@gmail.com     

The conference will be in person only. Submission deadline: 13 March 2023

Proposal acceptance notification: 17 April 2023

ECREA membership is not required to participate in the conference. The conference fee will not exceed 100 EUR and will include coffee breaks, lunches, a film screening, and a guided tour of the divided city of Nicosia.

Conference organisers: Olga Kourelou (University of Nicosia), Mariana Liz (University of Lisbon), Miguel Fernández Labayen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Marco Cucco (University of Bologna).

May 30, 2023, 9:00 - 17:00 (local time)

Charbonnel Lounge, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto (81 St. Mary Street, Toronto)

Abstract deadline: February 6, 2022

Hybrid Conference: In-person and online

Division affiliation: Philosophy, Theory & Critique

Fee: Participation is free but registration is required

Description: The role knowledge and science play with regard to a socially more just and sustainable society is highly topical both in media ethics and in neighboring disciplines. At present, there are discussions on why the current structures of knowledge generation and communication are violent in themselves and how transformation processes can be successful.

While both practical and intercultural philosophy offer approaches to questioning and deconstructing universalisms, media ethics provides an understanding of how master narratives shape societal perceptions of knowledge and science. But how do even these approaches exert epistemic violence and thereby obstruct the vision of greater participation and socio-ecological justice? How does an inclusive understanding of knowledge relate to the value of authenticity? Can the ethics of authenticity (Taylor 1991) help to overcome epistemic injustice? 

When exploring the term ‘epistemic injustice’, general inequalities regarding the dissemination of epistemic goods such as information or education come to mind first. According to Fricker (2007: 1), however, we can also find testimonial and hermeneutical injustice: “Testimonial injustice occurs when prejudice causes a hearer to give a deflated level of credibility to a speaker’s word; hermeneutical injustice occurs at a prior stage, when a gap in collective interpretive resources puts someone at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to making sense of their social experiences.”

In the context of intercultural hermeneutics, there is general skepticism regarding the concepts both of relativism and of universalism when it comes to discussing cultures. In contrast, intercultural hermeneutics search for overlaps or common grounds between cultures (Mall 2014). Furthermore, the concept of identity as an either commensurable or incommensurable set of values, beliefs applying to cultures, religions, etc., is also being questioned. Extreme identities are interpreted as ideologies trying to find clarity and purity (Shotwell 2016) whereas intercultural philosophy seeks to argue that knowing and understanding are always concepts based on and reproducing existing power relations and therefore exert epistemic violence and hegemony.

But how can these constellations be overcome? One suggestion is the perspective of “epistemic modesty” (Mall 2014) that bears in mind our generally biased epistemic positions when it comes to intercultural discourse: We have certain historical, cultural, national, etc., backgrounds we cannot simply put aside, even if we try to do so. But this should not result in a situation of extreme political correctness where less and less can be expressed. Instead, epistemic modesty includes a readiness to learn about cultures “from the outside” – even about our own – in order to broaden the cultural overlap that exists between (all?) cultures.

The objective of our post-conference is

• to identify and name mechanisms of epistemic violence,
  
• to highlight the role of the media in the debate around epistemic violence, and finally
  
• to examine the relationship between the phenomenon of epistemic violence and the value of authenticity.
  

We are particularly interested in research that examines the role of the media in maintaining and spreading epistemic violence and injustice. We also invite scholars to look into the construction of authenticity when it comes to intercultural discourse and digitally mediated authentic experiences, be they non-conscious and habitual, spectacular and deeply meaningful.

We welcome a wide array of methodological approaches – qualitative, quantitative, speculative, creative, participatory, collaborative, and others. We are open to different formats of intervention, from traditional papers to research-creation. We also welcome proposals for short workshops (1 hour length), demonstrations and other modes of collaborative inquiries. The conference will consider both theoretical and empirical papers for review. Accepted authors will be invited to present their papers at the conference as well as considered for an edited volume of proceedings.

Deadline: Please submit abstracts of 150-200 words to ica2023.fbmd@h-da.de by February 6th, 2023. Notices of acceptance will be sent by 3rd of March 2023.

Organizers:

■  Claudia Paganini (Munich University of Philosophy, Germany)

■  Lars Rademacher (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

■    Paolo Granata (University of Toronto, Canada)

For inquiries and information, please contact the organizing committee at ica2023.fbmd@h-da.de

Journal of Global Diaspora & Media. Special Issue

Deadline: January 30, 2023

Guest Editors:

Alicia Ferrández Ferrer, Universidad de Alicante (Spain)

Ola Ogunyemi, University of Lincoln (UK)

Previous studies by social psychologists in the past two decades reveal the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is higher among journalists than the general population (Aoki et al. 2012; Backholm & Björkqvist 2012; Dworznik, 2011). However, we have little understanding of work-related trauma among diaspora journalists, because they were hardly included in these empirical studies. 

Less attention has also been paid to the experiences of work-related trauma among diaspora journalists in diaspora studies which mostly prioritise the diversity and complexity of migratory processes, the motivations that push people to leave their own country to reside in another, and the profiles of those who migrate. 

However, the risks of being a journalist in countries with regimes eager to control freedom of the press and being forced into exile have the potential to cause emotional and psychological trauma among diaspora journalists. To compound the problem, they suffer secondary trauma by reading statistics about physical attacks on and killings of journalists such as ‘2,174 journalists have been killed in the exercise of their profession between 1992 and October 2022’ (Comitee to Protect Journalists, 2022); that ‘48 journalists/media collaborators have been killed, and 524 have been imprisoned in 2022’ (Reporters Without Borders, 2022); and that ‘1,811 have been imprisoned for carrying out their work in the last 6 years’ (Reporters Without Borders, 2022). 

This special issue focuses on exploring the experiences of work-related trauma among diaspora journalists from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to bridge the hiatus in literature. The scope of themes includes, but not limited to, an understanding of the perception and personal experiences of work-related trauma among diaspora journalists; an understanding of the causes of work-related trauma; the coping strategies in response to exposure to traumatic events; the family, organisational and social support available to diaspora journalists to cope with trauma; the ‘training needs’ to cope with work-related trauma in specific cultural and socio-political contexts; the trauma induced by physical and online attacks on diaspora journalists; and the experiences of secondary trauma in the host country. Responses to one or some of these themes, and other related themes, from a diversity of methodological and theoretical approaches are welcome. 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Submissions 

Submission of abstracts should include: name, institutional affiliation, contact information, title and a 300-word abstract.

Email your abstracts to both guest editors: Alicia Ferrández Ferrer, alicia.ferrandez@ua.es ; Ola Ogunyemi, oogunyemi@lincoln.ac.uk 

Publication deadlines and timeline 

Submission of abstracts: 30 January 2023 

Confirmation of acceptance: 01 March 2023 

Full manuscripts: 25 September 2023 

Post-review acceptance decisions: 31 January 2024 

Publication of Special Issue: May/June, 2024 

For more information, visit https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-global-diaspora-media 

Linkoping University

Dear colleagues, 

We are currently looking to hire a post-doc to join our new project  “Megabytes vs Megawatts: Understanding Infrastructural Frictions between Data Centers and Energy Grids for Sustainable Digitalization” funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. 

The project aims to study societal conflicts and sociotechnical imaginaries around “sustainability” that arise at the intersection between energy-intense data infrastructure and energy grids in transition. The project draws upon interdisciplinary perspectives, combining critical studies of media infrastructures; environmental media; anthropology, and science and technology studies (STS). The postdoc is expected to conduct critical qualitative, empirical research, focusing on the interplay between data infrastructure and energy in relation to sustainability. Candidates with a wide variety of backgrounds are eligible for the position, including media studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology, history, human geography, political science or related fields.

The post-doc position is full time, for 2 years with the possibility of extension up to a total maximum of three years. A certain amount of teaching will be part of the post-doc duties, up to a maximum of 20% of working hours.

Deadline to apply: 28 February

More information about the position and link to the application form:  https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/21055

More information about the project: http://juliavelkova.org/megabytes-vs-megawatts-data-vs-energy/ 

Please spread the word among your networks, and do not hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.

February 9, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Connecting ideas + action: communications + sustainability will be presented by Jessie Nagel, Jemma Gould, and Alison Pepper on Thursday 9 February 2023 at 15.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted). Note later time than usual.

What is the webinar content?

Green The Bid’s work is devoted to how advertising can be made sustainably. The webinar will focus on the communications aspects of the climate crisis and discuss the building of transitional movements.

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 Green the Bid

Green The Bid is a non-profit organisation of members commited to working together to share best practices in the sustainability space, reporting successes and acknowledging hurdles. They advocate across industry for consistent and measurable standards to support the building of a net-carbon negative, waste-free future for commercial production. For more see www.greenthebid.earth

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308