ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

UCLouvain

UCLouvain invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured full-time position in Communication studies

Teaching

The candidate will have teaching assignments in the field of organizational communication and in research methods within the Master of Communication as well as the Bachelor's degree in Information and Communication. Part of the teaching activities can take place on the Mons site and/or in evening programmes.

As such, the candidate should be able to intervene in the following teaching areas:

• Information and communication theories
• Strategy of organizations (in the business sector as well as in the non-profit sector)
• Strategic communication
• Sensitive communication and crisis communication
• Qualitative methods in information and communication studies

Research

The candidate will develop, carry out and lead a cutting-edge research program in the field of organizational communication that could be rooted in one of the following paradigms:

• Critical approaches to organizational communication
• Constructivist and/or interpretative approaches of organizational communication
• Processual approaches of organizational communication
• The candidate should master at least one of the following research methods:
• Ethnography
• Ethnomethodology
• Grounded theory
• Discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
• Mixed methods research in communication

The candidate will contribute to the research activities carried out at the Institute for Language & Communication in collaboration with the members of the research “Laboratoire d’analyse des systèmes de communication d’organisation”. Part of the research activities can be carried out on the Mons site.

Application deadline: Monday, November 15, 2021 at noon

More info here: https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-Communication-studies-%281FTE%29/720721401/

May 2022

Deadline: November 5, 2021

ICA 2022 Paris submissions: Submission to ICA 2022 in Paris is now open for business and we would love to see your papers! Submit your work at this website: https://ica2022.abstractcentral.com/.

GSD will accept full research papers, full theory papers, research escalators (extended abstracts), poster proposals, and panel proposals this year. The full GSD CfP is available here: www.icahdq.org/mpage/GAME_CFP.

Deadline for submission is Friday, 5 November 2021, at 12:00 Noon ICA Headquarters time (EST).

GSD social event in October: GSD leadership is planning a virtual event in GATHERTOWN ( https://bit.ly/GamesMeetGreet) to share information about the division and facilitate collaborations on ICA papers and panels. RSVP form is here: https://forms.gle/xUgNqBSQQNCHfsdW8

​Special Issue of Tourism Geographies

Deadline: October 15, 2021

This special issue examines practices, meanings and impacts of emerging media technologies: digital, mobile, geo/locative and augmented reality technologies within tourism geographies. The special issue aims to situate emerging media technologies within processes of the production and transformation of space, spatial knowledge and social relations within the tourist encounter. We ask contributors to the special issue to consider: What are the configurations of different technologies involved with tourist experiences? In what ways do emerging media technologies shape tourism imaginaries and experiences? What are the particular cultural inflections in the relationship between digital and tourist practices? How do broader infrastructural and economic conditions shape the relationships between digital and tourist practices?

Papers in this special issue will explore the unfolding contexts of media, digital and emerging technologies in tourism geographies across breadth and depth and may include the following topics:

• Culturally and geographically situated explorations of digital practices in tourist sites (including empirical investigations into travel photography, virtual reality headsets, online travel writing, and travel vlogs)
• The role of emerging media technologies for wayfinding and placemaking
• Digital practices and infrastructures in relationship to tourism work and livelihoods
• Specific studies of social and digital media platforms and apps and tourist practices (eg. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp)
• Specific studies of geo/locative and augmented reality technologies and tourist practices (eg. GoPro, WallaMe)
• Non-use and non-digital environments such as sacred and religious sites
• In-depth qualitative or ethnographic studies of emerging media technologies in literary tourism, film tourism, theme parks, fan tourism, music tourism, food tourism, heritage tourism, or roots tourism in comparative contexts (we particularly welcome studies situated in countries in the Global South)
• Tourism locations and technologies and of visual cultures

Guest Editors:

Jolynna Sinanan, University of Manchester

Christian Ritter, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Contact email: emergingmediatourism@gmail.com

Abstract submission: 15 Oct 2021

Full publication timeline: https://www.tgjournal.com/emerging-media-technologies.html

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.

October 15-16, 2021

Sapienza University of Rome and online on Zoom

The Conference has the objectives of advancing discussion about gender and media studies and exchange among scholars from different countries, providing an overview of the most recent and original studies on gender and the media, and giving prominence to research strands that are not always visible in the international arena.

There will be two keynote lectures, three round tables and fifteen parallel panels. The opening lecture will be given by Rosalind Gill (City, University of London). The closing lecture will be a dialogue between Milly Buonanno (Sapienza University of Rome) and Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas at Austin).

Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/yeknskre

Full programme: https://www.gemmaconference.com/wp-content/uploads/Conference-Programme-1.pdf

Contacts:

info@gemmaconference.com

https://www.gemmaconference.com/

November 4-5, 2021

Online conference

The European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC2021) will take place online on 4 and 5 November 2021 on “Health communication dynamics in turbulent times”. Our two keynote speakers, dr. Wyke Stommel (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Koen Wauters (science journalist at VRT, Belgium) will provide exciting insights in their research and journalistic practice in turbulent times.

The academic programme furthermore features over 70 traditional presentations, almost 20 work-in-progress presentations and 3 panels. In addition, we organize a number of themed sessions specifically aimed at PhDs and early career researchers. EACH, ICA and ECREA will present themselves in a dedicated ‘meet the associations’-session.

Registration for the ECHC 2021 conference is now open. Please register here https://www.echc2021.eu/registration/

More information on the program here: https://www.echc2021.eu/programme/

June 10-16, 2022

Barcelona, Spain

https://isea2022.isea-international.org/submit-your.../

We are excited to announce that the International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held in-person from 10 to 16 June 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.

We invite artists, designers, scholars, researchers, educators, innovators, and creators to contribute to this growing discussion about our world of “possibles” and the following sub-themes:

• Humans and Non-humans
• Natures and Worlds
• Futures and Heritages
• Educations and Societies

October 20

— Full and short papers

— Posters

— Panel discussions

October 22

— Artist Talks

— Institutional presentations

— Workshops

— Tutorials

October 30

— Artworks’ Proposals

July 18-19, 2022

Online

Deadline: January 31, 2022

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2022 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)! #SMSociety will be held virtually on July 18th & 19th, 2022. The conference’s two-day program will feature live panels and paper presentations, tutorials, and networking events.

In keeping with the conference’s inter- and transdisciplinary focus, we welcome both quantitative and qualitative scholarly and original submissions that crosses disciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of current and future trends in social media research across many fields including (but not limited to): Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Law, Management, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

#SMSociety is a gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. It is the premier venue for sharing and discovering new peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on how social media affects society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, #SMSociety provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers.

NEW FOR 2022

#SMSociety will switch from being an annual conference to a biennial conference. After 2022, the next iteration of #SMSociety will be in the summer of 2024 (exact date, location and format TBD).

The Program Committee for #SMSociety will be authors who have submitted their papers to the conference for consideration. For a submission to be considered, one author from each submission is required to peer review (double blind) three other conference submissions.

Instead of Full and WIP paper submissions, #SMSociety will now be inviting authors to submit extended abstracts with a 1k-1.5K word limit.

The program will be organized in a way to support attendance across multiple time zones and will allow our authors to safely connect. All presentations will also be recorded and made available to registered attendees for a limited time after the conference.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Cyberbullying, Trolling and Antisocial Behavior
• Digital Methods
• Discourse and Public Opinion
• Health and Wellbeing
• Marketing and Outreach
• Misinformation and Disinformation
• Online and Offline Communities
• Platform Governance and Regulation
• Politics and Policy
• Privacy, Security and Trust
• Use and Users

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: July 18-19, 2022

Papers (Extended Abstracts) Due: Jan. 31, 2022

Workshops & Tutorials Due: Mar. 14, 2022

Panels Due: Mar. 14, 2022

Notification Due: Mar. 31, 2022

SUBMISSION DETAILS

https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/

PUBLICATIONS:

Publication of Pre-prints and Datasets: To promote your work during and after the conference, authors of accepted papers (extended abstracts) are encouraged to share their work as a pre-print via EasyChair Preprint. Preprint will be accessible via the conference online program and other channels. If you have a dataset to share, you can also upload it to one of many data repositories such as Dataverse or figshare. Authors of accepted papers will then have an opportunity to provide a link to their pre-print and/or dataset for inclusion in the conference program.

Journal Publications: We will circulate CFP to relevant journal special issues as they become available in 2022. (We hope that feedback received from other scholars during the review process and the Q&A part of your presentation will help you refine your ideas and develop your work into a full paper after the conference. Once ready, you are encouraged to submit your full paper to a journal of your choice.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University

Philip Mai, Ryerson University

James Cook, University of Maine at Augusta

Zoetanya Sujon, London College of Communication

Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological University

Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago

Céline Yunya Song, Hong Kong Baptist University

Katrin Weller, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences

Felipe Soares, Ryerson University

University of Bern

At the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ikmb) of the University of Bern, a position is available as a PhD student

The position will be available from December 1st, 2021 (or by appointment) for an initial period of three years. It is intended to serve the purpose of scientific qualification (doctorate).

Tasks:

- conducting research and writing of publications (the possibility exists to get involved into an ongoing research project that combines panel surveys, web-tracking and automated text analysis; fields: media usage, media impact, media content)

- teaching of courses in the BA Social Sciences

- contribution to the general tasks of the Institute

Requirements:

- above-average degree in communication science, a related social science discipline and /or in computational social science

- strong interest in online and political communication

- very good skills in the methods of empirical social science

- a plus: affinity for computational methods

- ability to work in a team

We offer:

An attractive working environment awaits you at the Institute for Communication and Media Science

at the University of Bern: a collegial team, cooperation and exchange, as well as the freedom to develop your own ideas. Employment adheres to the regulations of the Canton of Bern.

The University of Bern strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore urges qualified female candidates to apply.

Applications (letter of motivation including a description of your future research interests / ideas; CV

(if available incl. list of publications), certificates, a central chapter of the master thesis / another publication; one letter of reference) should be mailed as pdf file by October 17, 2021 to Prof. Dr. Silke

Adam (silke.adam@unibe.ch). For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Silke Adam. Job interviews will take place at October 26/27th.

Josef Trappel, Tales Tomaz

To what extent do structures and conduct of leading news media correspond with requirements of contemporary democracies? Based on a root concept of democracy and several empirical indicators, the Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM) delivers a panorama of the news media’s performance regarding freedom, equality, and control across several countries. In 2011, the MDM analysed 10 democracies. Ten years later, it covers 18 countries worldwide and pinpoints essential strengths and weaknesses during this decade of digitalisation. Around the globe, news are highly attractive to users, and the journalistic ethos of watchdogs and investigators is paramount. On the downside, journalistic job security eroded over time, and gender gaps both in content and employment patterns remain strikingly excessive in most countries.

Volume one contains countries present in the 2011 MDM edition, allowing for longitudinal comparative analysis: Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Link for the open access version: http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1557246&dswid=-6745.

May 2022

Paris/online

Deadline: November 5, 2021

https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/LGBTQ_CFP

International Communication Association is organizing its annual conference in May 2022 in Paris/online. Our LGBTQ Studies Interest Group welcomes extended abstracts (1,500 to 3,000 words) or panel proposals.

This year, ICA also welcomes non-English submissions. The submission deadline is 5 November, 12:00 noon (New York time/ UTC -4). For the details of our CFP and language support, please refer to https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/LGBTQ_CFP

Our International Liaison Lik Sam Chan and Student and Early Career Representative Jessica Rauchberg will be organizing two information sessions to introduce our Interest Group and explain what qualities our we look for in successful submissions. We welcome anyone who has not been to ICA before, our new Interest Group members, scholars in any geographical location who are working in LGBTQ studies, and student & early career scholars to join.

To cater to audiences in different time zones, we are holding two sessions:

Session 1: Moscow Time (UTC +3) 9am – 10am, September 24 (for audiences from Oceania, Asia, and part of Europe and Africa)

Session 2: New York Time (UTC -4) 3pm – 4pm, September 24 (for audiences from North America, South America, and part of Europe and Africa)

Please make use of this website (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) to convert the respective time zones into your local time zone.

If you are interested in joining any of these sessions, please register here: http://cuhk.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b2vgI7cGh6kyYaa

And please do share this information with colleagues and students—this is open to anyone interested in submitting to our Interest Group.

We look forward to seeing you in one of these pre-submission sessions and at ICA next year.