ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

June 12-16, 2025

ICA Conference in Denver, USA

Deadline: November 1, 2024

 ICA 2025 Conference Theme: Additional Info for CHD

- In addition to open-call submissions, the CHD encourages members to submit work engaging the ICA 2025 conference theme “ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research,” which is of particular relevance and interest to members of the division. Historical approaches to the conference theme are especially welcome (for more information about the conference theme, see: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2025/ica2025-theme-cfp.pdf).

Submissions might address (though not exclusive to) the following themes:

- Historical case studies about specific practices, institutions, industries, and/or media technologies offering a reflection on media and communication studies;

- Historical trajectories and political economy of media and communication scholarship, especially with regards to disruption and consolidation;

- The public impact of media and communication scholarship (in public discourse, policy-making, cultural artifacts, etc.);

- The “communication” (or “communication research”) label as an element of integration and/or as a repellent, in the context of the increased globalization of the field and inter/trans-disciplinary perspectives;

- Disruptions associated with ideas, technologies, and/or research with a focus on minority contexts or those less represented in scholarship;

- The history of the International Communication Association (its conferences, divisions, journals; leadership, etc.).

If you have any queries about submitting a proposal to CHD, please contact vice chair Dominique Trudel, dtrudel@audencia.com

Types of submissions accepted by the CHD 

For ICA 2025 Conference, CHD will accept four types of submissions: full papers, posters, extended abstracts, and panel session proposals (for more information, see: https://www.icahdq.org/page/SubmissionTypes).

1.    Full papers – “Traditional" full papers should not exceed 8,000 words, excluding title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. Most full papers will be presented in paper sessions and some may be selected for the interactive poster session. Authors will have the option on the submission page to have their submission considered just for paper panels or both paper panels and poster sessions. CHD will award prizes for the best paper and the best student-led paper. 

2.    Posters – A poster presentation is a submission that an author wishes to be considered for presentation in a poster session. Poster proposals should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding the title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. If the submission is accepted as a poster, authors will be expected to prepare a poster display of the research for presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted posters should bring a physical paper or fabric poster.

3.    Extended Abstracts – The extended abstracts session is an opportunity for scholars with a work-in-progress to receive feedback and support to move toward future stages like publication, conference presentation, doctoral dissertation, and others. Submitted Extended abstracts should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding the title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. Extended abstract submissions are not eligible for Top Paper awards but CHD will recognize the best extended abstract and the best student-led extended abstract by awarding Promising Research awards. Accepted extended abstracts will be presented during the scheduled session(s), which will encourage shorter presentations of the work and more encouragement of feedback and assistance from attendees to help advance the work and its contribution.

4.    Panel Proposals – Panel proposals should bring together different scholars focusing on a common topic or problem in media and communication history. They could also take the form of roundtables. Panel proposals require a 400-word rationale, a 75-word panel description and, if there are individual presentations, a 75-word abstract from each panel participant. When submitting a pre-formed panel, you should base your submission-type decision on what the people in your panel are planning to do in terms of attendance (everyone in person or a mix of in-person and remote presentations). Panel proposals should include contributions from at least two different countries, be gender inclusive, and include not more than one contributor from a single faculty, department or school.

While the Communication History Division will not be accepting submissions for a Research Escalator session, we plan to organize informal session(s) of mentorship for students and early career scholars. All students and early career scholars accepted in the CHD program will be contacted at a later stage to inquire about their interest in participating in an informal mentorship program.

Deadlines for submissions

 Authors should submit papers and panel proposals to the Communication History Division online at the ICA website no later than 1 November 2024 at 12 noon EST.

Early submission is strongly recommended to avoid any technical issues since the deadline is firm. ICA will send acceptance/rejection notices to submitters by mid-January 2025.

All the submitters should follow the General Conference Submission Guidelines (https://www.icahdq.org/general/custom.asp?page=ConfSubmissionGuidelines), providing clear and step-by-step information on how to submit your work.

Top Papers and Promising Research Award

- Top papers and top extended abstracts (“Promising Research) will receive recognition awards at the group’s business meeting. Top student papers and Tier B-C countries participants might also receive a fee waive and travel funding awards. To be eligible, student authors must indicate their status: please identify your paper as a student paper when submitting it through ScholarOne, and not within the body of the paper itself. To be considered for any award, the author must be a member of the CHD.

 Reviewing

- If you’re not already part of our reviewer community, please volunteer! Peer-review is the foundation of our academic mission. If you are submitting work it is especially important that you consider serving as a reviewer: We encourage advanced graduate students to volunteer to review submissions along with established scholars. Be sure to indicate your willingness to review on your ScholarOne account (create an account if you are new to ICA). We do our best to match the three or four papers that on average you are asked to review to your own research interests. The Division is very grateful to all who serve in this important way and will grant a Top Reviewer Award that will be presented at the group’s business meeting.

For more info: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CommHistory_CFP

Public Relations Inquiry (special issue)

Deadline: October 17, 2024

This special issue aims to foster productive, interdisciplinary conversations between scholars across media and communications who have an interest in the influence of public relations (PR) and other promotional industries on struggles over rights, inequalities and social justice. Interest has grown in the importance of PR and promotion for both dominant groups and activist movements resisting domination and promoting social change. Interdisciplinary research – drawing on, for example, critical race theory, queer theory, feminism, political economy and cultural studies – has provided new ways of interrogating the power exercised by promotional industries in these contexts and extended our thinking far beyond functional deconstructions of organisational practice in the global North and West.

We invite papers that engage critically with PR and other promotional industries, tools and practices, as well as the ambivalence that promotion introduces both for those who claim rights and recognition, and for those who try to preserve their own power and privilege.

More details can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/pri/publicrelationsinquiry

April 3–5, 2025

University of Oregon Portland

Deadline: December 2, 2024

whatis.uoregon.edu

What is Research? (2025) will bring together scholars to explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.

The thirteenth What is…? gathering delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

Scholars, government and community officials, scientists, artists, students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, public sector and industry professionals, and the public are invited to collaborate. Proposals that take a transdisciplinary perspective are especially encouraged, drawing on insights and methods from multiple fields to shed new light on research processes.

Presentations / panels / experiential installations may include these topics (as well as others):

• How does research and creative scholarship emerge from inquiry? How do they impact society?

• What are relationships between theory, method, and practice in research?

• What are qualitative, quantitative, multimethod, multimodal, participatory & arts-based approaches?

• What influences research design and data analysis?

• What are issues involved in validation (e.g., reproducibility, replicability, and cross-validating)?

• What are various modes of collaboration and how can they be organized?

• What are some considerations in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research?

• How are integrations of natural & artificial intelligence with quantum computing affecting research?

• What are environmental considerations of developments in machine learning & large data centers?

• How is research disseminated? How does it effectively engage publics and inform policy-making?

• How are ethics imbricated in research and how can researchers conduct work with integrity?

• What are benefits and challenges of compliance (e.g., privacy, security, review boards)?

• How can research address global challenges (e.g., health, inequality, poverty, climate change)?

• How is research used to drive solutions-based approaches and what are the challenges involved?

• How does research in academia differ from research in industry and/or community?

• What are the obstacles involved in translating findings into action?

• What issues are involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion in research?

• What are criteria and implications of various forms of research funding?

• How are meta-analyses and systematic reviews engaging human-machine collaboration?

• How can research education be integrated into teaching and learning, and how are next generations of researchers being trained?

Conference Organizers: Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon)

Send 150-200 word abstracts for papers / panels / experiences by DECEMBER 2, 2024, to:

Janet Wasko,  jwasko@uoregon.edu

University of Oregon Portland, 97211

 October 9, 2024 (from 4pm to 5pm)

MS Teams

This YECREA-Ask the early career scholar- meeting is organised to share experiences regarding how to get published while working interdisciplinary within the field of Communication Studies and Aging Studies. This will be facilitated by two early career scholars who have experience with publishing in a variety of journals and conferences: Dr. Cora van Leeuwen and Daniel Blanche-Tarragó.

Link to the event: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2I0ZDljZmItM2Y3NS00ODg1LTkxODEtMTk0Y2E1Yzk3MWMx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22695b7ca8-2da8-4545-a2da-42d03784e585%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228d6fb0a8-11cd-41dc-af80-522cea843720%22%7d

 About emma, the European Media Management Association:  

Since 2003, emma has been shaping the future of media management. As a European not-for-profit, we drive innovation in media management research, education, and practice.

Stay updated at media-management.eu!

Upcoming emma Events:

#emmahub 2024 – Media Management and Migration - - Applications are open until 7th of October (deadline extended!) 

Join us in Berlin for an engaging workshop on Media Management and Migration, focusing on media-making by and for diasporic communities. Hosted by Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, #emmahub offers a space to reflect on emerging trends and innovations in the media industry.

Date: November 13-15, 2024

Location: Berlin, Germany

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#emmarome 2025 – Empowering Media through Sustainable and Human-Centered Innovations

Experience the emma Annual Conference in the heart of Rome! Held at Luiss Business School, this conference will explore how sustainability and human-centered innovation can transform the media landscape, considering environmental, economic, and social dimensions.

Date: June 3-5, 2025

Location: Rome, Italy

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#emmasummerschool 2025 – Doctoral Summer School

A unique opportunity for doctoral researchers in media management! Hosted by imec-SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the emma Doctoral Summer School offers an international setting for knowledge exchange between students, scholars, and industry experts.

Date: September 2-5, 2025

Location: Brussels, Belgium

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University of Zurich 

The Media Change & Innovation Division (Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich invites applications for two open positions at the postdoctoral level: 

Postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). Start of employment: January 1, 2025 (or upon agreement). Two-year contract.

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). The start date will be determined based on the candidate's availability. The duration will be agreed upon, with a minimum commitment of 2 months. 

The division’s research program focuses, among other things, on the societal implications of digitalization and the internet, algorithmic selection and artificial-intelligence (AI) tools in everyday life, dataveillance and privacy, governance of media change, religion-like digitalization and implicit everyday religion, cyborgization, digital inequalities, and digital well-being (see https://www.mediachange.ch/research/ for an overview of our current research projects and https://mediachange.ch/publications/ for the division’s recent publications).  

Further information and application details:

Postdoctoral researcher: 

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/postdoctoral-position-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/2cce0f6a-5e70-4c0d-b330-c2941aa9d47a 

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/short-term-visiting-researchers-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/fbe39727-27ee-4153-92a9-3c01b931435f 

Review of applications starts immediately, but the positions will remain open until qualified candidates are found. 

Please contact Dr. Noemi Festic (n.festic@ikmz.uzh.ch) or myself, Dr. Daniela Jaramillo-Dent (d.jaramillo@ikmz.uzh.ch) for questions.

University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa

Re-advertisement for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in News Translation at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, but we now also invite applicants beyond South Africa to apply.  

The postdoc will be hosted by the UFS and participate in an international research project titled “South-North flows of information through translation in the global news agency AFP”. The principal investigators are Marlie van Rooyen (UFS) and Lucile Davier (University of Geneva), and the project is funded by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNSF). The UFS-appointed postdoc will be based in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and supervised by Marlie van Rooyen. 

The successful applicant must be fluent in English and French, must have graduated with a PhD degree in a relevant discipline within the last five years must have a strong socio-political knowledge of Africa and not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship. We invite applicants with knowledge of and experience in research related to 

• translation studies  
  
• news translation  
  
• news/media and language  
  
• discourse analysis  
  
• pragmatics 
  
• and sociolinguistics.
  

Experience in qualitative research methodologies, such as ethnography, is recommended. 

Please read the full advertisement for all the requirements and the expected duties and responsibilities of the successful applicant.   

Annual salary: R300 000 

Closing date: 6 October 2024 

Commencement date: 1 January 2025

If you want more information about the project, or have any other questions, please email Marlie van Rooyen directly: vanrooyenm1@ufs.ac.za

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Type: Full-Time 

Posted: 9/18/2024 

Category: Public Relations and Advertising 

Job ID 35348

Location: Tampa, FL

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Posting Details

Department: The Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications (ZSAMC) / 0-1247-000

College: College of Arts and Sciences

Salary Plan: Regular / Faculty

Hiring Salary: Negotiable

Position Summary:

The Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at the University of South Florida invites applications for the Zimmerman Endowed Professor in Advertising at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. This is a nine-month, full-time position starting August 7, 2025. Salary is extremely competitive, and the position offers generous funding for research, travel and program development. We seek an innovative and distinguished scholar who will contribute directly to the mission and advancement of the Zimmerman School and enhance the School's undergraduate and graduate programs. 

QUALIFICATIONS (Education & Experience):

Minimum Qualifications:

The successful candidate must have a terminal degree from an accredited institution in advertising or a closely related field; a clearly defined and rigorous research agenda; and an established national/international reputation as a distinguished scholar. The successful candidate must have the experience and qualifications to teach undergraduate and graduate courses and to supervise Master's theses and professional projects in the M.S. in Advertising degree program. Must meet university criteria for appointment to the rank of Associate or Full Professor.

Preferred Qualifications:

Preference will be given to senior faculty members and applicants with ability and experience to teach advertising research, advertising analytics, advertising strategy/planning and/or advertising management; relevant professional experience; and a professional network to build partnerships and opportunities for student and faculty development.

Application Process: When applying, please attach (as a single combined document): a cover letter that speaks to your qualifications for the position, CV, and names and contact information for three references. More documents may be requested for short-listed candidates.

Application Review begins on 10/25/2024 and will continue until the faculty search is concluded. 

The University of South Florida, a high-impact research university dedicated to student success and committed to community engagement, generates an annual economic impact of more than $6 billion. With campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee, USF serves approximately 50,000 students who represent nearly 150 different countries.  For four consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked USF as one of the nation’s top 50 public universities, including USF’s highest ranking ever in 2023 (No. 42). In 2023, USF became the first public university in Florida in nearly 40 years to be invited to join the Association of American Universities, a prestigious group of the leading universities in the United States and Canada. Through hundreds of millions of dollars in research activity each year and as one of top universities in the world for securing new patents, USF is a leader in solving global problems and improving lives. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. Learn more at www.usf.edu.

Conclusion of this search is subject to final budget approval. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public.  USF is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access institution. For disability accommodations, contact Dr. Gregory Perreault at gperreault@usf.edu, a minimum of five working days in advance.

Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII

18-20 June 2025

University of Lincoln (UK)

Deadline: December 6, 2024

This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television and related media. The conference seeks to expand women’s film and TV histories by exploring cross-border and cross-medial relationships. 

An 'entangled’ approach to film, TV and media historiography problematises national and mono-medial histories (Cronqvist and Hilgert, 2017). It recognises the complex processes by which film and television are made, distributed, seen and received across borders, be they geographical, cultural, ideological or otherwise defined, and in dialogue with other media.

This compels us to ‘read against the grain’ of existing histories, paying attention to ‘how historical silences are produced’ (Hilmes, 2017). These are the fundamentals of feminist media historiography, and this conference aims to bring women’s voices, figures, organisations, and stories into the light, giving them sharper focus. The conference will emphasise women’s roles in these entanglements. Our understanding of ‘women’ is inclusive and gender-expansive. 

We encourage transmedial approaches that account for the role of women in the long histories of media convergence in different social and cultural contexts, as well as related practices, such as divergence, conglomeration, inter- and cross-mediality. ‘Media’ is defined broadly.  Work that engages with (interconnected) histories of women’s film and television beyond Western contexts is welcome.   

We are calling for papers in any area of women’s film and television history, but especially those that respond to the theme, on topics such as, but not limited to:  

• Entangled and / or transnational women’s media histories and historiography: theory, practice, challenges  
  
• Case studies of film and TV workers across national or medial borders 
  
• Historicising women’s role in digital or online screen media production, distribution, consumption, promotion, publicity or criticism. 
  
• Media convergence pre- and post-digital media 
  
• Feminist and/or decolonising approaches to media archaeology
  
• Methodological challenges and approaches to entangled media histories 
  
• Entangled histories in cinema and TV industries beyond the mainstream e.g. amateur cinema, community television, independent and activist film and TV. 

We welcome proposals in the following three formats:

15-minute presentations, including the following information: 

• title  
  
• 250-word abstract  
  
• brief biography of the author(s).  
  

pre-constituted panels with a maximum of 4 speakers (panel length will be 90 minutes and should include at least 15 minutes for discussion). Pre-constituted panel proposals should include: 

• short (250-word) rationale statement, explaining the constitution of the panel and types of contributions it will include. 
  
• individual abstracts (250 word)   
  
• brief biography of all contributors. 
  

Panels can also be constituted as roundtables, workshops or other non-standard forms. Please contact the organising team to discuss ideas. 

Practice-led contributions which address women’s histories in film, television and audio/visual media are encouraged. Please submit:  

• a 250-word description  
  
• running time 
  
• display requirements   
  
• links to an excerpt and/or full work 
  
• brief biography of creator(s). 
  

If accepted, practice-led contributions may be presented as part of panels or as a limited number of separate sessions/screenings and/or made available to delegates online.   

Please submit here: https://forms.office.com/e/NvRLHtdNa2

Deadline for proposals: 6 December 2024. The acceptance of your proposal will be communicated to you by the end of January 2025. 

If you have any questions please contact Hannah Andrews (handrews@lincoln.ac.uk) and/or Jeongmee Kim (jkim@lincoln.ac.uk). On behalf of the conference organising team: Hannah Andrews, Diane Charlesworth, Jeongmee Kim, and Frances Morgan.

References 

Cronqvist, M. and Hilgert, C. (2017) Entangled Media Histories: The Value of Transnational and Transmedial Approaches in Media Historiography. Media History 23(1): 130-141. 

Hilmes, M. (2017) Entangled Media Histories: a Response. Media History 23(1): 142-4. 

Routledge 2024

Edited by: Zrinjka Peruško, Epp Lauk & Haliki Harro-Loit

European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication explores how four dimensions of national media systems – the legal framework for freedom of expression and information, media accountability, journalism and audience media usage and competencies – contribute to or are detrimental to the success of deliberative communication.

Drawing on a study of 14 European countries and their media systems, the volume provides comparative and individual perspectives to examine the social consequences of various types of media systems. By using fsQCA (fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis), the authors relate deliberative communication to the legal framework for freedom of expression and freedom of information, media accountability, journalism and media usage and media competencies. The book shows how different combinations of conditions and contexts figure as risks or opportunities that are detrimental to, or supportive of, deliberative communication, measured with an original index on a European level.

This book will interest scholars and students in communication studies, political communication, media and society, media sociology, global media studies, European Studies and journalism.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.