ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Call for chapters

Deadline: March 30, 2022

Editors of the Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Communication are seeking chapters that address different facets of organizational communication in the context of current societal changes - technological, economic, cultural, and the disruptions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a significant shift taking place in the organizations’ environment. The pervasiveness of digital technology in communication has had profound influence on human interactions and relationships. An increasing percentage of communication is now facilitated by digital communication technologies. We live in a world of instantaneous communications, infinite communication platforms, automated messaging and algorithm- driven communication. Innovations in communication technologies continually push the boundaries of organizational communication. A survey by McKinsey & Company offers a glimpse into how Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the companies ‘over the technology tipping point – and transformed business forever”. Responses to COVID-19 containment measures and restrictions have impelled and hastened the speed of the adoption of digital communication technologies. All indications are that most of these changes are here to stay.

This handbook attempts to revisit and fill the gap in the scholarship of organizational communication in the light of ongoing digital transformation processes. We invite contributions that provide a critical review of the current state and also set the agenda for future directions in the field of organization communication. We seek work that reflect upon the most current theory and practice in the field. We also invite chapters that explore regional issues and trends. We encourage theory-driven contributions, applied scholarship and fresh case studies that reflect on the new realities of today’s organizational environment.

We are especially interested in contributions that address the following areas. Topics may include but are not restricted to;

• Theoretical and conceptual issues
• Digital transformation and organizational communication
• Structures and processes of organizational communication
• Intra- and inter- organizational communication in the digital age
• Organizational culture in the digital age
• Digital workplace communication / Communication in distributed Workspaces
• Workplace diversity and communication
• Interaction patterns
• Communication networks in organizations
• Communication behavior in organizations
• Organizational communication in the age of globalization
• Trends in organizational communication research
• The future of work – how Covid-19 has influenced organizational communication
• Re-imagining organizational communication in a post-COVID world
• Best practices in organizational communication
• Regional trends on organizational communication
• Organizational Crisis Communication in the digital age
• Communication and organizational change /development
• Ethical and moral issues in organizational communication

IMPORTANT DATES

• 30 March 2022 - Extended abstract (approximately 500 words) outlining your chapter idea and keywords. Include also a short biographical note of the contributor (s) including institutional affiliation.
• 30 April 2022 – Decisions on the abstracts will be communicated to the authors
• 15 August 2022 – Full paper submission deadline (7000 – 8000 words). All chapters will go through a peer-review process
• End of 2022 – Final Decisions
• 2023 Publication

Please send all expressions of interest to martin.ndlela@inn.no

Special Issue of Communication, Culture & Critique (Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2023)

Paper Abstract Deadline (500 words): April 1, 2022

Complete Manuscript Deadline (6000-7000 words): November 1st, 2022

Editors:  Edgar Gómez Cruz (University of Texas at Austin), Heather Horst (Western Sydney University), Ignacio Siles (Universidad de Costa Rica), Cheryll Ruth Soriano (De La Salle University, Philippines)

In a recent analysis of the field of digital media, Borah (2017) argues that most researchers tend to reproduce and recirculate key concepts (Ogan, 2014). From “filter bubbles,” “platformization” and “fake news,” to “algorithmic cultures,” and “influencers,” concepts that have emerged in the global north have found their way into analyses of the use of digital media in other parts of the world without much critical analysis that reflects upon where the concepts came from and why they are appropriate for a particular set of practices or empirical realities.

To be sure, “importing” concepts generated in other settings is a product of global academic exchanges. It has also made it possible to engage in comparative work and further dialogue between scholars in various places around shared concepts and ideas. It can also lead to the development of approaches that combine complementary frameworks for making sense of multiple settings and practices.

Yet, airdropping one concept into another arena can also be problematic. First, importing concepts runs the risk of reproducing colonial dynamics of dependency, submission, and obedience, thus exacerbating what de Sousa Santos (2007) called “abyssal thinking,” that is a system of thought that is predicated upon making invisible certain “forms of knowledge that cannot be fitted into [this system]” (p. 47). The growing move towards the internationalization of digital communication and media studies (Lim & Soriano, 2016; Thussu, 2009) and the nudge towards a ‘digital decolonial turn’ (Casilli, 2019) attempt to facilitate the expansion of our conceptual tools, recognizing that digital communication everywhere is shaped by local histories, values, infrastructures, rituals, language, policies, and meanings. However, the centrality of predominant theories remains (Shome, 2019). 

Second, incorporating concepts conceived to understand other contexts runs the risk of naturalizing the realities they were meant to describe. As numerous scholars have noted, metaphors, theories, and methods are not only ways to describe realities but also to create them. Adopting certain theoretical frameworks to make sense of digital realities might imply the exclusion of empirical evidence or contextual matters that do not fit well with the theories that are imported. 

Third, this dynamic has been patterned in one particular way: theoretical concepts travel to the global south but usually not the other way around (that is, from the global south to the rest of the world). This is problematic in that it tends to naturalize another colonial trend: while scholars in certain parts of the world are seen as producers of knowledge, researchers in the global south become ambassadors and audiences of the theories developed elsewhere, helping to consolidate them but are not necessarily encouraged to dialogue with, critique, or dismiss concepts that are not relevant. 

And fourth, and equally important, these imported concepts also become solidified in many cases as public policies. As we know from the extensive work carried out in communication for development (e.g., Lennie & Tacchi, 2013) and, more recently the field of ICT4D, governments often apply, fund and support programs that are developed in other places that recipients of funding are encouraged to reproduce and implement. They also tend to treat digital media and technology as the source for innovation and economic development rather than appreciating some of the nuanced ways they are integrated (e.g., Burrell & Oreglia, 2015). 

Against these challenges, this special issue aims to offer insights into work that has produced novel ways to study, theorize, and enact the specific realities of the global south associated with the use of digital media. South, in this context, can be understood “not merely [as] a geographical or geopolitical marker ... but a plural entity subsuming also the different, the underprivileged, the alternative, the resistant, the invisible, and the subversive” (Milan & Treré, 2019, p. 321). This special issue seeks to make a twofold contribution. On the one hand, it intends to extend de-westernization and decolonizing efforts in the case of research on digital media. On the other hand, it invites scholars in and beyond the global south to engage in a collective “epistemic emancipation,” an invitation to rethink and rewrite digital media theory not just as a “theory ‘about’ the south,” but “about the effects of the south itself on theory, the effects of its ex-centrality” (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2012). Following this idea, theorizing emerges not to denote an exception but as a vantage point for understanding the global power relations underscoring our everyday digital realities.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical and methodological discussions that specifically develop concepts for processes in the global south, how they differ or how they relate to established frameworks for making sense of digital realities.
• Empirical analyses of practices and phenomena that characterize the global south.

• Analyses of concepts that emerged and/or were modified in the global south that are conceptually useful for understanding the global north. 
• Theoretical discussions that problematize the import of theoretical frameworks in the global south.
• Literature reviews of local phenomena associated with the use and development of digital realities in the global south.
• Historical accounts of the implementation of logics or processes that account for the specificities of the global south.
• Discussions of policy implications derived from decolonization analyses. 

References

Borah, P. (2017). Emerging communication technology research: Theoretical and methodological variables in the last 16years and future directions. New Media & Society, 19(4), 616–636.

Burrell, J., & Oreglia, E. (2015). The myth of market price information: Mobile phones and the application of economic knowledge in ICTD. Economy and Society, 44(2), 271–292. doi: 10.1080/03085147.2015.1013742 

Casilli, A. (2017). Digital labor studies go global: Toward a digital decolonial turn. International Journal of Communication, 11, 3934–3954

de Sousa Santos, B. (2007). Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges. Review (Fernand Braudel Center), 30(1), 45-89. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40241677

Comaroff, J., & Comaroff, J. (2012). Theory from the South: A rejoinder. Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/theory-from-the-south-a-rejoinder 

Lennie, J. & Tacchi, Jo. (2013. Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lim, S. S. & Soriano, C.R. (2016). A (digital) giant awakens--Invigorating media studies with Asian perspectives. In S.S. Lim & C.R. Soriano (eds.), Asian perspectives on digital cultures: Emerging phenomena, enduring concepts. Routledge.

Machen, R., & Nost, E. (2021). Thinking algorithmically: The making of hegemonic knowledge in climate governance. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Milan, S., & Treré, E. (2019). Big data from the south(s): Beyond data universalism. Television & New Media, 20(4), 319–335.

Ogan, C. (2014). Round pegs in square holes: Is mass communication theory a useful tool in conducting Internet research? In R. S. Fortner & P. M. Fackler (Eds.), The handbook of media and mass communication theory (pp. 629–644). Wiley.

Shome, R. (2019). When postcolonial studies interrupts media studies, Communication, Culture and Critique, 12(3), 305–322. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz020

Submission Instructions:

Please submit a 500-word abstract as well as a short (2-page) CV by April 1, 2022, to the co-editors of the special issue at edgar.gomezcruz@ischool.utexas.edu, ignacio.siles@ucr.ac.cr, H.Horst@westernsydney.edu.au, cheryll.soriano@dlsu.edu.ph. Please include all co-editors on your email submission.

Authors whose abstracts are selected will be notified by May 1st, 2022 and asked to submit complete manuscripts (6000-7000 words, including notes and references, in Word format, following the 6th APA style) directly to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cccr) by November 1st, 2022. When submitting your manuscript, please designate the submission as “Original Article” on the “Step 1: Type, Title & Abstract” page. No payment from authors is required.

Acceptance of the abstracts does not guarantee publication of the papers, which will be subject to anonymous peer review. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the co-editors at the above four email addresses.

Guest editors’ bios:

Edgar Gómez Cruz is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely on several topics relating to digital culture, particularly in the areas of material visual practices, digital ethnography and critical approaches to digital technologies. His recent publications include the books: Vital Technologies: Thinking Digital Cultures from Latin America (2022), From Kodak Culture to Networked Image: An Ethnography of Digital Photography Practices (2012), and the co-edited volumes Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices (Routledge, 2016) with Asko Lehmuskallio and Refiguring Techniques in Visual Digital Research (Palgrave, 2017), with Shanti Sumartojo and Sarah Pink.

Heather Horst is Professor and Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research focuses upon material culture and the mediation of social relations through digital media and technology in a range of settings including the Caribbean and the Pacific. Her books focused upon these themes include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (Horst and Miller, 2006); Digital Anthropology (Horst and Miller, 2012), Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice (with Sarah Pink, et al. 2016), The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Island Perspectives (Foster and Horst, eds. 2018), Location Technologies in International Context (Wilken, Goggin and Horst, eds. 2019), among others. Her current research focuses upon the global Fijian fashion system, Fintech and agriculture in Laos and Cambodia and automated decision-making in the global south as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence of Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Ignacio Siles is a professor of media and technology studies in the School of Communication and researcher in the Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) at Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of A Transnational History of the Internet in Central America, 1985–2000 (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France (2017, Peter Lang), along with several articles on the relationship between technology, communication, and society.

Cheryll Ruth Soriano is Professor in the Department of Communication at De La Salle University, Manila. Her research deals with questions of power, ideology and resistance in digital cultures. Her current work examines the socio-technical politics of content production and the transformations in labor and organizing in the platform economy. She co-edited the book (with S.S. Lim), Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (Routledge, 2016), and authors the monograph (with E. Cabalquinto), YouTube and Brokerage Dynamics in Philippine Digital Cultures (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming).

KU Leuven

Apply here: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60069121?hl=en&lang=en

(ref. ZAP-2021-119)

The research units Inter-Actions of LUCA School of Arts and the Institute for Media Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences (KU Leuven) jointly have one full-time position vacant. Ninety percent of the position is fulfilled as a lecturer at LUCA School of Arts in Genk (C-Mine), the remaining ten percent as a member of the ‘independent academic staff’ (ZAP) at the Institute for Media Studies on the Social Sciences campus in Leuven.

LUCA School of Arts

The main assignment (90%) within the appointment at LUCA School of Arts includes a clear research and teaching mission. LUCA School of Arts offers space – physically and virtually – to grow and stimulate artistic, technical and design talent. It is a meeting place for many cultures and nationalities, a laboratory where regional and international art is made accessible. To this end, LUCA offers contemporary artistic and design-oriented education with a focus on research. LUCA trains students with a critical view and broadly applicable qualities. Reflection and theoretical foundation are important, as well as coordination with the professional field and the alumni. There is a very diverse range of programmes, profiled around spearheads, and spread across five campuses. LUCA's educational courses include professional, academic and advanced programmes: Product Design, Audiovisual & Visual Arts and Music & Drama and the professional programmes Visual Design, TV-Film, Photography, Interior Design and Construction.

LUCA combines the renowned art colleges Sint-Lucas Ghent, Sint-Lukas Brussels, Narafi (Brussels), Lemmens Institute (Leuven) and campus C-Mine (Genk). Within the campus in Genk, the new colleague will be embedded in the research unit Inter-Actions. Inter-Actions brings together a series of research clusters on topics including sustainable design, meaningful play and care & empathy. The research work at Inter-Actions mainly zooms in on research and creation where the relationship between the maker (designer, animator, filmmaker, etc.), the created artefact (film, photographic work, etc.) and the 'audience' (the user, the viewer, etc.) is questioned.

Institute for Media Studies (IMS) of the KU Leuven

The second part (10%) of the vacant position involves an appointment as a member of the ‘independent academic personnel’ (ZAP) at the Institute for Media Studies, embedded in the KU Leuven Faculty of Social Sciences.

KU Leuven is one of the leading academic institutions in Europe and its mission is to provide excellent academic education, research and service. KU Leuven is a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and is consistently ranked within the top 10 universities in Europe. Leuven is a historic yet dynamic and vibrant city in the centre of Belgium, twenty minutes from Brussels and less than two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam.

Within the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Institute for Media Studies (IMS), in addition to the School for Mass Communication Research (SMCR), is a research unit dedicated to the study of media and communication in society. The focus is on the analysis of media content, its production, effects and use, usually in relation to society and social issues. Much attention is paid in the research to the consequences of the far-reaching digitisation of communication. The IMS is known for its broad orientation, openness and diversity within the team of employees, and this translates into a variety of theoretical perspectives, questions and quantitative and qualitative methodologies in research.

Website unit

Duties

Research

The research assignment comprises artistically oriented scientific research with a view to developing a research cluster in line with the following context:

Rationale: The digitisation of the photographic medium has caused a disruptive upheaval in contemporary visual culture, leading us to consider the digital image as the norm. The naturalisation of the digital image has made it inseparable from the way we perceive, represent and experience our world, ourselves and others. This hyper-documented world, in which thousands of selfies are uploaded in a fraction of a second, automated cameras record every street corner and algorithms increasingly determine our visual culture, is causing a profound shift in our approach to the image, its relationship to society and our view of reality. This process of progressive digitisation and screen culture therefore not only affects the photographic image, but also the social, political and cultural field. The omnipresence of the visual in our mediated culture, with new forms that did not exist two decades ago (for instance, VR, emoticons, memes, deep fakes, viral social media videos), forces us to ask new research questions on media aesthetics and media experiences, the processing of digital media content, human-technology interactions, visual literacy, and visual communication. We may say that we have entered a post-digital era in which we can critically question and dissect this naturalisation of the digital image.

The research programme of this vacancy aims to investigate how photography moves, changes and transforms in this complex post-digital world, and how it can increase its capacity for action (agency) by blending with other domains, disciplines, participatory design methods and technologies. It examines how photography and contemporary visual culture has changed (in the past), is changing (in the present) or can/will change (as a possible future) as a result of the development of digital cameras and computational photography, leaving room for exploration, deep insights, reflection, experimentation and creation in dialogue with other disciplines, including social sciences, such as communication sciences and media studies, as well as disciplines in science and technology.

In this profile we see a maker and an analytical thinker, with a strong feel for the post-digital visual culture and a great research interest in reflecting on, experimenting with and creating within and beyond the boundaries of what was, is and will be.

Within this context, the intention is to find connections with the research programme of LUCA School of Arts as well as with one or more lines of research of the IMS. In view of the interdisciplinary nature of this vacant position, the explicit intention is to bring research at both locations closer together and to facilitate the added value of interdisciplinary cooperation on both a national and international level.

At both locations, research cooperation can take the form of recruiting external project funding, supervising PhD students, interdisciplinary PhD tracks, postdoc tracks and science dissemination.

Education

The teaching assignment at LUCA School of Arts consists of providing academic art education and supervision. The teaching assignment consists of designing educational activities, study counselling or educational concepts in order to provide education tailored to the needs of the student audience; guiding students in conceiving both the artistic and reflective components of final dissertations and interim research assignments; to be the lecturer and coordinator of a number of course units; to supervise assistants within a course unit or a cluster of course units and to take up teaching assignments, in line with the context of the profile vacancy and to contribute to the development of the learning lines in the Genk Fine Arts programme: Experimental Imaging and Future Framing.

There are also opportunities to join relevant educational activities linked to the two research groups on communication sciences at KU Leuven, IMS and SMCR. These research groups are jointly responsible for the organisation of the Bachelor and Master in Communication Sciences, the English-language Master in Digital Media and Society, the Master in Business Communication and the Master in Journalism. Opportunities to be involved in this educational programme include giving guest lectures and supervising master's theses.

Service

This vacant post also includes scholarly, community and internal service at the LUCA School of Arts and IMS. This manifests itself through constructive contribution to teaching and research as partly collective projects of a team, for example through participation in meetings, teacher days, information events, recruitment activities and exchange programmes). In addition, active participation in the academic debate, for example by taking part in conferences, and in councils or committees (artistic organisations, socio-cultural associations, etc.) and any form of engaging in public debate (about your research) are part of your duties.

Profile

• Holding PhD in the visual arts or a related degree
• Having a strong research file; international research experience is an important asset
• Having strong didactical skills
• Representing an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial trigger with inventive ideas and organisational competences
• Being communicative in Dutch and English in accordance with the language requirements that apply in higher education. The management language of KU Leuven is Dutch. If at the time of recruitment the candidate does not know Dutch or knows it insufficiently, KU Leuven provides a training offer that should allow you to participate in board meetings.

Offer

LUCA School of Arts, C-Mine campus (Genk) offers a 90% permanent appointment and KU Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences (Leuven) a 10% temporary appointment. The appointment at LUCA School of Arts is at lecturer level (salary scale 528 or 512 if combined with substantial side activities of an artistic nature) and appointment at a later stage is possible according to the existing rules and procedures. At the Institute for Media Studies, appointment as a member of the academic staff (scales 142 / 14) is renewable after a positive evaluation. More information on the salary scales can be found on the website of the Education Department (www.ond.vlaanderen.be).|

Interested?

More information on the link with LUCA School of Arts can be obtained from Niels Hendriks (coordinator research unit Inter-Actions – tel. +32 24471098, Email niels.hendriks@luca-arts.be) and Maarten Vanvolsem (vice-dean of education – maarten.vanvolsem@luca-arts.be). For the KU Leuven part, information can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Baldwin Van Gorp (research coordinator IMS – tel.: +32 16 32 32 79, Email: baldwin.vangorp@kuleuven.be) and Prof. Dr. Steven Eggermont (Dean Faculty of Social Sciences – tel.: +32 16 32 38, Email: steven.eggermont@kuleuven.be).

For more information please contact Dr. Niels Hendriks, tel.: +32 2 447 10 98, mail: niels.hendriks@luca-arts.be or Prof. dr. Baldwin Van Gorp, tel.: +32 16 32 31 79, mail: baldwin.vangorp@kuleuven.be.For problems with online applying, please contact solliciteren@kuleuven.be.

You can apply for this job no later than February 28, 2022 via the online application tool

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

Prologi (Special Issue)

Deadline: February 10, 2022

Many societal challenges, such as increasing inequality, social marginalization and exclusion, threatened well-being in worklife, preventing pandemia, and climate change, are embedded in communities and social interaction within them. When finding solutions to these wicked problems, it is crucial to ask how actions taken as well as communication and interactions could be enhanced and how to achieve effective and sustainable outcomes. Research-based knowledge and evidence-based practices, policies and decision making have become even more important in societal decision making, developing communities, creating new practices and procedures as well as delivering interventions. Thus, the importance of research-based knowledge is inevitable.

The meaning and usage of research-based knowledge and evidence-based in developing communities, communication and interactions are at the core of this special issue in Prologi. We encourage proposals aligned with Finnish society but we warmly welcome international perspectives on the topic.

The proposals may focus on development of groups, communities and organizations approached for instance from the perspectives of interpersonal relationships and leadership. Research-based development can be considered from the persuasion and argumentation, political communication and decision making point of view. Utilizing research findings may be examined also in the context of intercultural communication and technology-mediated communication. Furthermore, the proposal may consider research-based development of communication education and training.

The proposals may concentrate on the development of communication, interaction and communities from the following view points (but not limited to):

Utilizing survey results and evidence-based knowledge in developing communication and interaction in communities

• Engaged research and co-research focusing on the communication in real life practices
• Action research focusing on evidence and usage of research-based knowledge
• Measuring, evaluating and assessing impact of communication in change processes
• Collaboration and co-development with practitioners and experts by experience
• Developing, evaluating and disseminating interventions
• Strenghtening knowledge translation
• Research-based development of training, teaching, consulting and services aa well as decision making
• Communicating research findings (to different audiences)

Beside peer-reviewed articles, also shorter texts, book reviews, and interesting presentations, such as lectio praecursoria, may be published in the special issue.

PhD Leena Mikkola and PhD Sanna Herkama will serve as guest editors in this special issue. Please, send your abstract (300 - 400 words) to the special issue by 10th of February 2022 to Leena Mikkola via email (leena.mikkola [at] tuni.fi. It is possible to publish in Finnish, Swedish or English in the special issue. You may also send a proposal to publish a shorter text or book review. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15th of February.

Full manuscripts (6000 words) will be sent by 30th of April 2022 via Open Journal Systems (Please, register here https://journal.fi/prologi).

All the scientific articles published in the special issue will be peer-reviewed (see for more (linkki Prologin ohjeisiin). Other text types should be submitted to OJS-system by 15th of August 2022. More information: Leena Mikkola (leena.mikkola [at] tuni.fi) and Sanna Herkama (sanna.herkama [at] utu.fi) & www.prologos.fi/about.

Prologi – Journal of Communication and Social Interaction is a scholarly journal of The Finnish Association of Communication and Social Interaction Prologos. The journal presents the latest research on communication and social interaction. Manuscripts can be submitted for publication in Finnish, Swedish, and English. Until 2020, Prologi was published as an annual yearbook. Today, the journal aims to publish at least two issues per year. The call for papers is ongoing.

European Journal of Communication and European Journal of Cultural Studies on board for organisation of ECC 2022 in Aarhus

We all hope that ECREA 2022 in Aarhus will be remembered as a way back into the good old academic habitus, including flesh and blood colleagues, face-to-face discussions and coffee made by somebody else than yourself. In one word, we envision the next ECREA conference as a comeback of the old. Despite this, it will bring some new, invigorating events as well. ECREA´s presentation of commencement of our collaboration with leading European media and communication journals - European Journal of Communication (EJC) and European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) - will be one of them. We are happy to announce that EJC will provide the travel grant to one young scholar on the grounds of the quality of the submitted abstract. In addition to this, EJCS and ECREA will introduce entirely new Best Paper Award for young scholars which will be handed over to the award winner at the conference. The EJC´s editor Peter Golding and EJCS´s editor Joke Hermes will sit on the two committees responsible for selection of the two ECREA shooting stars together with other four ECREA Board members. Grant and award holders will be invited to submit their papers to the journals (no prior guarantees of publication).

The calls for applications for EJC travel grant and EJCS Best Paper Award will be launched shortly after notifications of acceptance will be distributed on 26 April 2022.

Irena Reifová

ECREA Vice-President

Stefania Vicari

https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Media-and-Participatory-Cultures-of-Health-and-Illness/Vicari/p/book/9781138603127

This book explores how the complex scenario of platforms, practices and content in the contemporary digital landscape is shaping participatory cultures of health and illness.

The everyday use of digital and social media platforms has major implications for the production, seeking and sharing of health information, and raises important questions about health peer support, power relations, trust, privacy and knowledge. To address these questions, the book navigates contemporary forms of participation that develop through mundane digital practices, like tweeting about the latest pandemic news or keeping track of our daily runs with Fitbit or Strava. In doing so, it explores both radical activist practices and more ordinary forms of participation that can gradually lead to social and/or cultural changes in how we understand and experience health and illness.

The book's Table of content can be found below.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Pandemic snapshots, digital media, and participatory cultures of health and illness

PART 1: Theoretical foundations

2. Digital media, participation, and citizenship

3. Health advocacy and activism

PART 2: The rise of digitised and networked health

4. The rise of the epatient in the internet that was

5. From patient organisations to patient networks

PART 3: Platforms

6. Participatory cultures of health and illness on mainstream social media

7. Participatory cultures of health and illness on digital health platforms

8 Conclusion: Understanding participatory cultures of health and illness in contemporary societies

28-29 April 2022

Middlesex University London

Deadline: March 10, 2022

Abstracts are invited for a research symposium to be held at Middlesex University London as part of the project ‘Journalists’ emotional labour in the era of social media’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Emotional labour can be conceptualised as an effort to manage emotions which professional practitioners perceive as an integral part of their working life experience. In journalism it has primarily been investigated with reference to conflict and trauma reporting. More recently academic researchers have begun investigating the importance of emotions in journalism generally, but emotional labour more specifically. Current evidence suggests that journalism is an occupation characterised with high levels of emotional labour. Journalists use and manage emotions to motivate themselves for work. Emotions evoked at work can be intertwined with those from personal life. Indeed, work-related emotions can also be evoked outside of the story production process, for example in dealing with audiences and harassment, as well as being induced by working conditions (e.g., precarious pay, working hours, job insecurity), work relationships (e.g., within newsroom, with editors), the competitive nature of work, and so on. Importantly, there is evidence to suggest that if work-related emotions are not effectively managed, they can have negative consequences on journalists’ mental and physical health, job satisfaction, and the quality of the journalism being produced.

While papers investigating any aspect of journalists’ emotional labour are welcome, this symposium will provide an opportunity to widen the discussion of emotional labour beyond the scope of ‘Journalists’ emotional labour in the era of social media’ project, by broadening the discussion to consider this area of research more generally in the context of media work. There is some evidence that other types of media work might also be high emotional labour occupations, such as work with media photography, management of media outlets’ social media, stringer work etc.

Both theoretical and empirically informed papers are invited, focusing on topics such as (but not limited to):

- the causes and consequences of emotional labour in journalism and other media work

- the relationship between journalists’ freedom and safety and emotional labour

- emotional labour in the context of precarious employment in media

- the impact of covid-19 pandemic on media workers’ emotional labour

- the impact of social media on media workers’ emotional labour

- the impact of digital transformations on media workers’ emotional labour

- the relationship between media workers’ emotional labour and digital technologies

- emotional labour in areas such as photojournalism, camera work, directing, editing/post-production, stringer work, social media journalism, public relations etc.

- strategies for managing emotional labour in media work

- institutional/industry perspectives on media workers’ emotional labour

- support systems for media workers’ emotional labour

Abstracts of around 300 words should be sent to m.simunjak@mdx.ac.uk by 1 March 2022. Abstract notifications will be sent out by 10 March 2022.

Attendance is free. The panels for the research symposium will be held online on 28 April and a public roundtable on 29 April will be organised in a hybrid format, allowing for on-site and online participation.

Opportunities for publishing selected papers in a journal special issue will be explored after the symposium.

Lusofona University

Reference: Youth, News and Digital Citizenship/Jovens, Notícias e Cidadania Digital/YouNDigital - PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021

Scientific areas: PhD in Communication Sciences - Social Sciences / other subareas of Communication Sciences.

Candidates with a PhD in the areas of Sociology of Communication and/or Education Sciences and media/technology are also eligible.

COFAC, Cooperativa de Animação e Formação Cultural crl, opens a call for a Post doc fellowship Research Scholarship in the scope of the project "Youth, News and Digital Citizenship/ Jovens, Notícias e Cidadania Digital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021)”. The project is financed through national funds in the budget of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) - and developed in the research unit CICANT - Research Centre for Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (in Lusófona University, Porto).

YouNDigital aims to understand the attitudes and practices that young people have concerning news and digital citizenship. It is expected to get ,a better understanding of their news interests and needs, socialisation processes for news consumption either in the family, school, peer group context, and their experiences as "produsers” of news. This project is anchored in a participatory action-research approach combined with an initial online survey and a central focus on qualitative methods.

1 - Applicable legislation: Legal Regime of the Research Grant Holder Statute (Law no. 40/2004, of August 18, republished in annex to Decree-Law no. 202/2012, of August 27, and amended by Decree-Law no. 123/2019, of August 28, which proceeds with the fourth amendment to the Research Grant Holder Statute); and Regulation no. 950/2019, of December 16, which approves the FCT Research Grant Regulations - 2019 (https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019.pdf ).

2 - Scientific Area - PhD in Communication Sciences - Social Sciences / other subareas of Communication Sciences. Candidates with a PhD in the areas of Sociology of Communication and/or Education Sciences and media/technology are also eligible.

3 - Principal Investigator: Maria José Brites

4 - Duration of the Fellowship: the fellowship will have a duration of 12 months, and can be renewed up to a maximum of 36 months.

5 - Amount of the grant and method of payment: The monthly payment is 1646€/month, in accordance with the table of values for grants awarded by FCT, I.P. (http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores). The monthly payment of voluntary social insurance is also foreseen.

6 - Host institution: The candidate will work at Lusofona University/CICANT (Porto), where we offer a positive working environment and experience. Our facilities continue to develop and grow and the candidate will have access to quality conditions and digital equipment, and the opportunity to connect with a vivid and engaging research environment with junior and senior researchers.

7 - Research experience and skills - The fellow will work under the supervision of the PI Maria José Brites, the Co-PI, Teresa Sofia Castro, and the other project’s team members.

The candidate CV must evidence previous work that demonstrates the candidate is qualified to carry out activities to support the organisation, implementation, and technical-scientific development of the project, namely:

- To develop and implement activities related with literature review,

- To prepare and implement surveys and semi-structured interviews;

- To conduct qualitative research tasks, namely data analysis and validation;

- To ensure the management of digital research activities;

- To prepare training courses;

- To prepare and conduct dissemination and sustainability tasks;

- To develop field work and dissemination activities in Portuguese and in English.

- To help preparing publications to submit scientific journals, with peer reviewing, on media, young people, and digital citizenship;

- To collaborate in other publications in areas relevant to the project;

- Other tasks to support the project's development.

8 - Admission requirements: Applicants must meet the eligibility conditions set out in Articles 7 and 9 of the FCT I.P. Research Grant Regulations (2019) https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019DR.pdf

All individuals with a PhD in the areas of Communication Sciences - and other subareas of Communication Sciences are eligible to apply for this scholarship.

Preferential admission requirements. Preference will be given to candidates that demonstrate:

a) academic and professional experience skills in the areas of Communication Sciences, with special focus - at least partially - on youth and media/news, digital citizenship, youth activism, audience and reception studies, media literacy, and/or journalism;

b) academic and professional experience capacity in research network construction and the development or implementation of training activities;

c) academic and professional experience to have participated or lead European projects;

d) experience in dissemination activities directed to different audiences, and in creating dissemination products;

e) strong skills using research data analysis softwares (namely MaxQda and SPSS) and experience in qualitative and quantitative methodologies;

f) excellent knowledge of the Portuguese and English languages, both written and spoken, is required;

g) research autonomy, collaborative teamwork, deadlines fulfilment, and ethical skills.

9 - Application deadline and application submission: The call is open from February 4th to March 3rd, 2022 at 6pm WET. Applications and application support documents requested in the call must be submitted via email to cicant@ulusofona.pt, indicating in the email subject: “Youth, News and Digital Citizenship/Jovens, Notícias e Cidadania Digital” - PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021.

The applications must be accompanied by the following documents:

a) Detailed Curriculum Vitae clearly indicating how was acquired the knowledge and experience to meet the selection criteria by giving specific examples.

b) a motivational letter in Portuguese and in English;

c) documents proving that the candidate meets the required conditions for the type of scholarship to which he/she is applying for, namely qualification certificates with final average. In the case of academic degrees awarded by foreign higher education institutions, and in order to ensure the application of the principle of equal treatment to applicants holding foreign and national academic degrees, it is mandatory to recognize these degrees and convert the respective final classification to the Portuguese classification scale. The recognition of foreign degrees and diplomas and the conversion of the final classification into the Portuguese classification scale may be requested at any public higher education institution or at the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES, only in the case of automatic recognition). Regarding this matter, we suggest consulting the DGES portal at the following address: http://www.dges.gov.pt.; updated document proving the professional situation, indicating the nature of the contract and duties, which may be replaced by a sworn statement if there is no professional activity or provision of services;

d) other relevant documents for the candidate evaluation.

The required documentation described in the application submission section is mandatory. Only complete applications will be accepted and considered.

10 - Selection and evaluation procedure:

The selection will be based on the curricular evaluation (15 points) and interview (5 points), with a total value of 20 points. If the selected candidate drops out and there is another candidate on the final list with a score resulting from the curricular evaluation and interview equal to or higher than 15, the jury will proceed to select that candidate. In case of a tie in the first two positions, the candidates will be called for a second interview, with an evaluation between 0 and 5 points. The score of this interview is added to the results of the 1st phase in order to select the final candidate.

Evaluation criteria:

1 - Curriculum:

a) Integrated evaluation of the scientific production in areas related to YouNDigital:

- relevance of the publications to the area of the project;

- fulfilment of the requirements specified in "preferential admission requirements”;

- participation in scientific projects;

- other relevant professional/academic/research experience.

b) evaluation of extension activities and dissemination of knowledge in areas related to YouNDigital:

- organisation of scientific events;

- participation in activities of communication and dissemination of science;

- presentation of oral communications in scientific events;

- organisation and/or delivery of training.

c) motivation letter.

2 - Interview

The evaluation subcriteria to be used will be as follows:

1. Curriculum: a) 50% + b) 40% + c) 10% = 0 to 15 points

2. Interview 100% = 0 to 5 points

11 - Composition of the Jury: President of the Jury PhD Maria José Brites; Effective Member: PhD Teresa Sofia Castro; Effective Member: PhD Carla Cerqueira; Substitute Member: PhD Célia Quico.

12 - Publication and notification of the results: candidates will be notified of the results of the competition via email and the ordered list of candidates will be posted on the CICANT website (https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/careers/).

13 - The candidates will be excluded in the following cases:

1) applications sent by other means or extemporaneously will not be accepted;

2) application not submitted properly or not presenting the requested documents to prove a), b) and c);

3) making false declarations

4) application not in accordance with R2 profile as defined in Euraxess Researchers referencial.

The jury may request more information or documents to validate the information submitted by the candidate.

14 - Policy of non-discrimination and equal access: CICANT actively promotes a policy of non-discrimination and equal access, whereby no candidate may be privileged, benefited, disadvantaged or deprived of any right or exempted from any duty on the grounds of, inter alia, ancestry, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, family situation, economic situation, education, origin or social condition, genetic heritage, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions and trade union membership.

Deadline: February 15, 2022

Preliminary title: The Return of Propaganda

Editors:

• Göran Bolin (Professor, Södertörn University)
• Risto Kunelius (Professor, Helsinki University)

Contact: 

• Göran Bolin: goran.bolin@sh.se
• Risto Kunelius: risto.kunelius@helsinki.fi

Important dates:

• Deadline for extended abstracts: 15 February 2022
• Deadline for full submissions: 1 September 2022
• Peer review: October 2022–December 2022
• Expected publication: Spring 2023

Background and aim

Digitisation has brought with it increased opportunities for individuals, organisations, and loosely formed groups to produce and disseminate information. This new infrastructure has undermined traditional gatekeepers and led to a more plural landscape of information and opinions, creating a media landscape where quality control and accuracy of disseminated knowledge and facts has become increasingly difficult to maintain. At the same time, the potential power to control datafied flows in the platformed media environment of communication has become more centralised and opaque, raising questions about “networked propaganda” and data as a source of social and political power. In recent years, we have witnessed new forms of foreign interventions through social media in national elections, as well as the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories during times of military and civil crises, for instance, the Ukranian–Russian war and the Covid-19 pandemic. Legacy news media have increasingly come under attack from populist movements at the same time as authoritarian political forces are using digital media and datafied techniques to question key democratic institutitions in society. Global tech companies have not only become incredibly rich, but have also acquired unprecedented power to control communication networks and flows.

This twin process of fragmentation of communication infrastructures and centralisation of their control capacity coincides with the rise of new social political movements (on both sides of traditional left–right divides) and formation of new political divisions and identities.

A number of neologisms have thus entered into the vocabulary of research and public debate – such as “fake news”, ”misinformation”, “disinformation”, and “post-truth” – which has revived discussions on persuasion, strategic communication, strategic narratives, soft power, information management, and other concepts for what was once termed propaganda.

The current moment (conjuncture) calls for a collective and critical reflection by the community of communication scholars. This effort demands robust empirical evidence of the dynamics changing information environments and new methodological innovations for better analysis of data-driven communication, but also a reinvigorated conceptual debate.

At the same time – as the history of the field (communication research) is intimately intertwined with the social and political power of media and communication – this points to the need for reengaging with earlier theories of propaganda (for example, contributions by Harold Lasswell, Jaqcues Ellul, Edward Berneys, Hanna Arendt, and Noam Chomsky), paradigm encounters (in the field of communication research) around media power and effects, as well as theoretisations about earlier transformative moments.

How can we read contemporary discussions in the light of previous thinking about political, state, or commercial propaganda and related phenomena? What lessons can be learned from earlier theories, formed in different political and cultural conjunctures and media landscapes? How are new media technologies adopted for strategic purposes, and what does that mean for theorising communication? What new evidence is there of the “return” of propaganda in the digitalised, conflictual, and networked media landscape? What are most promising and innovative methods that could harness communication research with better tools to take part in these debates?

We invite scholars around the world to address these questions in scholarly reflections that can be descriptive, analytical, as well as normative, and can relate to topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Conceptual discussions of propaganda, strategic communication, misinformation, soft power, and adjacent terms
• The relationship between authoritarian and populist movements and newer forms of propaganda
• The role of hacking and algorithms in manipulation of information
• Historical accounts of the development of strategic communication technologies
• Historicizing of the phenomenon of propaganda (strategic communication, PR, etc.)
• Analysis and accounts of national and regional characteristics of propaganda (e.g., Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa)
• Propaganda and ideology: The propaganda model revisited
• Propaganda and digital information management
• Empirical analysis of (past or present) dis/misinformation campaigns
• Analytical and/or methodological approaches to propaganda
• Propagandistic representations in fiction and documentary

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 and five keywords. How the article fits with the overall aim of the issue – to critically reflect on the dynamics changing information environments, propose innovative methodological approaches for analysing data-driven communication, and reinvigorate the conceptual debate around propaganda – should be mentioned. 

Send your extended abstract to Göran Bolin (goran.bolin@sh.se) and Risto Kunelius (risto.kunelius@helsinki.fi) by 15 February 2022.

Scholars invited to submit a full manuscript (6,000–8,000 words) will be notified by e-mail after the extended abstracts have been assessed. All submissions should be original works and must not be under consideration by other publishers. All submissions are submitted to Similarity Check – a Crossref service utilising iThenticate text comparison software to detect text-recycling or self-plagiarism.

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Special issue of Media Practice and Education Journal (March 2023)

Deadline for 500-word Abstract Submissions: 15 March 2022

Guest editors: Patrícia Nogueira, Ana Carvalho and Joana Pestana

disrupting.surveillance[@]ismai.pt

We invite submissions for a special issue of The Journal of Media Practice and Education on the topic of Disrupting Surveillance

Deadline for Full Papers: 31 July 2022

Expected date of publication: March 2023

Surveillance in the 21st Century is characterized by ubiquitous data collection, storing and analysis, both visual and algorithmical, leading to a world of networked media and to diagnoses of surveillance and platform capitalism (Zuboff, 2019; Srnicek, 2017). In contemporary screen culture, namely with the omnipresence of surveillance devices, society has become a space of control (Pisters, 2012). Besides the ubiquitous surveillance, materialized by the proliferation of CCTV cameras scattered everywhere - in indoor and outdoor, public and private spaces - each one of us carries a personal camera, daily capturing everything around us, including ourselves and others, sharing our interests, the places where we go, the daily activities we do, the products we consume… actively contributing to a self-monitored society, or more precisely, to “societies of control” (Deleuze, 1992). Therefore, surveillance is not just an external act, it is a voluntary, embodied everyday practice, which increasingly becomes an integral part of everyday life. It presents new sorting and controlling practices that promote new forms of visibility and control, new modes of power, as well as unintended consequences and disadvantages. Whereas such a scenario seems unavoidable, scholars and artists have been raising numerous questions to critique and reimagine the social and political landscape of contemporary surveillance society, refusing to indulge “technological determinism” (Jordan, 2008; Smith & Marx, 1994). While some artists and practitioners appropriate and repurpose surveillance images and technologies to interrogate the realm, others question the surveillance status quo by proposing strategies of disruption and escape. The special issue therefore aims to provide a space for discussing strategies of subversion and alternatives concerning various forms of surveillance through technological means, relating to the crossover between artistic practices and technologies. The themed issue encourages bringing together a range of artistic, critical and scientific perspectives, affording visibility to recent artistic practices and research works, and exploring, broadly, the interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding contemporary surveillance and, particularly, how surveillance practices intersect with visual technologies, visual culture, and moving image studies. The issue aims to interrogate a manifold of perspectives, from the aestheticization of surveillance to networked images, by exploring their intersections and derivations. We propose to discuss the way in which contemporary visual arts are contributing to the creation of new approaches and perspectives to interrogate the societies of surveillance, re-imagining and proposing alternative futures.

As so, we are seeking contributions of full papers that explore the intersection of Surveillance, Arts, and Technology from various perspectives. We are particularly interested in papers focusing on the practice-based media-arts research and analysis, its communication and circulation that respond to one or more of the special issue strands.

Film and Moving Images — the use, re-use, manipulation, and re-contextualization of surveillance, sousveillance, and self-surveillance moving and still images in contemporary film, video art and art installations, namely:

• The art of CCTV cameras / Cultural plays with CCTV;
• Drone images and aerial perspectives of control;
• Anthropocene and non-human gaze / imagery;
• Panopticism and cinematic surveillance: theories, practices, and representations;
• The relationship between voyeurism and surveillance;
• New visibilities of surveillance / Changing temporalities and spaces of surveillance;
• Surveillance art and the aesthetics of surveillance;
• Surveillance in post-colonial and decolonial film and art.
• Digital Art — How the arts, and in particular the digital arts, the philosophy and theory of art and the reflection upon the arts from other areas of knowledge, has been critically reflecting the contemporary networked landscape of surveillance:
• Photography, film and personal strategies of production and distribution through social media;
• Performance and the technologies for online communication;
• The relationship of bodies to surveillance technologies;
• Interactions, creativity and aesthetics of and with A.I.;
• Individualization and the collective intelligence in times of digital surveillance;
• Artificial environments, personal devices, big data and networks of control;
• Sound ecologies of surveillance and the use of surveillance technologies for digital creation and production.
• Critical Design and Visual Culture — interfaces, structures and technologies revealed or concealed in critical design works, and visual artworks that aim to disrupt surveillance and knowledge monopolies, delving into design fiction and speculative design and approaching broadly the following topics:
• Disrupting surveillance;
• Performative design and surveillance;
• Aesthetics and ethics of surveillance;
• Interfaces of and against surveillance;
• Wearable technology and interactive clothing;
• Structures and systems of resistance in design history;
• Alternative and speculative worlds.

To submit

Please send a 500-word abstract, and a 100-word bio per author to the guest editors at disrupting.surveillance@ismai.pt by 15 March 2022. Authors of accepted abstracts will be contacted in mid-April and invited to submit full contributions by 31 July 2022.

Style guide for authors

Issue Schedule

15 March 2022: 500-word proposals to be submitted (disrupting.surveillance@ismai.pt).

15 April 2022: Response from editors and, if successful, invitation to submit contribution.

31 July: Full Papers submission (5000 to 7000 words, incl. references).

August to November: Peer review period.

31 December: Submission of reviewed final papers.

March 2023: expected date of publication.

About the journal

Media Practice and Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy. Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English. Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review.

Issue Schedule

• 15 March 2022: 500-word proposals to be submitted (disrupting.surveillance@ismai.pt).
• 15 April 2022: Response from editors and, if successful, invitation to submit contribution.
• 31 July: Full Papers submission (5000 to 7000 words, incl. references).
• August to November: Peer review period.
• 31 December: Submission of reviewed final papers.
• March 2023: expected date of publication.

References:

Crawford, Kate (2021). Atlas of AI. Yale University Press.

Deleuze, Gilles (1992). “Postscript on the Societies of Control”, The MIT Press, vol.59. pp.3-7.

Jordan, Tim (2008). Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Foucault, Michel (1991). Discipline and Punish - The Birth of the Prison. London: Penguin.

Pisters, Patricia (2012). The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen. Stanford University Press.

Smith, Merritt Roe & Marx, Leo (1994). Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Srnicek, Nick (2017). Platform Capitalism. Cambridge, Malden: Polity.

Zuboff, Shoshana (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: Public Affairs.