ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

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.

Comunicar

Deadline: September 30, 2021

https://www.revistacomunicar.com/pdf/call/call-71-en.pdf

We would like to announce that the scientific journal JCR-Scopus Q1 'Comunicar' is open for manuscript submission for the Calls for Papers 71, Hate speech in communication: Research and proposals' until 30 September. This issue is coordinated by Dr. Mª Dolores Cáceres-Zapatero (UCM, Spain), Dr. Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern, Switzerland), and Dr. Francisco Segado-Boj (UCM, Spain), contributing to the study of hate speech from the analysis of messages, theirbackground and effects on media, as well as their regulation and action.

Hate speech is considered the conscious and wilful public expression of hostility and rejection towards individuals, groups or collectives, whether based on racial, ethnic, religious or national criteria, on the grounds of gender, sexual identity or orientation, or any other criteria, which promote intolerance, discrimination, stigmatization, violence, aggression or, in its most serious form, physical extermination. These discourses, traditionally reflected in the mass media and alternative circuits, currently, focus their dissemination channel through online media, digital communities and social media. Therefore, this call is open to research that helps to understand this phenomenon, both from a perspective focused on the analysis of the messages, and the background and repercussions of this type of discourse, as well as on prevention and intervention to minimise alleviate the impact of these messages.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Discriminatory and vexatious stereotyping.
• Hate speech on social media and in semi-private communities.
• Hate speech in the mass media.
• Populism and politics.
• Rhetorical and linguistic-discursive strategies of hate speech.
• Bots and troll farms.
• Legislation, self-regulation and discourse moderation.
• Disinformation and hate speech.
• Audiovisual dimension of hate speech in TikTok, Instagram, memes...
• Prevention and containment of hate speech

Full CFP can be found at: https://www.revistacomunicar.com/pdf/call/call-71-en.pdf

The full author guidelines can be read at: https://www.revistacomunicar.com/normas/01-normativa-comunicar-en.pdf

DEADLINE:

Article submissions will be due on September 30th, 2021, with notifications of acceptance before January 2021. Issue editors: Mª Dolores Cáceres Zapatero (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Francisco Segado (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain).

The journal has achieved the best data of its history in the most prestigious world indexes Journal Citation Reports and Scopus. In JCR-JIF it is 7th in the world out of 234 journals in 'Education' (top 3% worldwide), increasing its IF from 3.37 to 6.01. In the area of 'Communication' in JCR-JIF/JCI the journal is ranked 9th in the world (top 10%) among 94 and 204 journals respectively.

The most significant news is that in both areas, 'Comunicar' holds the 1st absolute position in the world as an 'open access' journal, according to the guidelines of Horizon Europe of the European Commission. Similarly, on Scopus the journal has obtained the 2nd position in the world (out of 1,307 journals) in 'Cultural Studies', the 23rd (top 2%) in 'Education' out of 1,319 journals, and the 14th (top 4%) out of 429 journals.

Edited by Daniel Jackson, Alina Bernstein, Michael Butterworth, Younghan Cho, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Michael Devlin and Chuka Onwumechili

Featuring 114 contributors from leading academics from around the world, this publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections, and insights from the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games from the cutting edge of sport, communication and media research.

Published in the wake of the Tokyo 2020 Games, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis of the Olympics and Paralympics, including research findings and new theoretical insights. Contributions come from a rich array of disciplinary influences, including media, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and psychology.

As always, these reports are free to access.

The report can be found on https://olympicanalysis.org

Direct pdf download is available at:

https://bit.ly/Olympic_Paralympic_Analysis-2020_large

https://bit.ly/Olympic_Paralympic_Analysis-2020_small

The table of contents is below.

Section 1: Tokyo & Mega-Events

1. The typhoon games (Toby Miller)

2. A green Olympic legacy for future generations? (Brett Hutchins and Ben Glasson)

3. The rise of critical consciousness in Japan: An intangible and unintended legacy of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (Koji Kobayashi)

4. Host city and mega-events: Olympic legacy in Japan (John Horne)

5. Lessons from Tokyo: the impact of the Paralympics in Japan (Dennis J. Frost)

6. Let’s play! Inspiring an inclusive mindset with a hands-on Paralympic experience for children and teenagers in Japan (Olga Kolotouchkina and Carmen Llorente-Barroso)

7. The Olympic & Paralympic sponsorship without category exclusivity: Background of sponsorship exclusivity in Olympic and Paralympic Games (OPG) (Shintaro Sato)

8. Power sharing: Olympic sponsorship and the athlete’s personal brand (Bettina Cornwell)

9. What happened to Rule 40 at Tokyo 2020? (John Grady)

10. The Olympic Games and ambush marketing via social media (Gashaw Abeza)

11. The soft power of the Olympics in the age of Covid 19 (J. Simon Rofe)

12. Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, nationalism, identity and soft power (Gayle McPherson and Solomon Ilevbare)

13. Tokyo 2020, East Asian geopolitics and Olympic diplomacy (Jung Woo Lee)

14. Cultural programming at Tokyo 2020: the impossible Olympic festival city? (Beatriz Garcia)

15. Anti-sex beds? Fake news! : why this video went massively viral? (Maki Hirayama)

16. Counting cases, counting medals: Containing the Olympic contagion during the Tokyo Games (Courtney M. Cox)

17. Public relations as the key in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games (Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Sungkyung Kim)

18. The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee’s veil of effective public relations to help save itself and the start of the Games (Karen Hartman)

19. Environmental leadership showcased in the Olympic Games (Brian P. McCullough)

20. Simone Biles and prioritizing athlete well-being (Kathleen Bachynski)

21. Pride and burden of striving for perfection at the Olympics (Wycliffe Njonorai)

22. Deliver a medal or apologize: A daunting task imposed on Japanese Olympians (Hatsuko Itaya)

Section 2: Media Coverage & Representation

23. What place is this? Tokyo’s made-for-television Olympics (David Rowe)

24. How do we truly interpret the Tokyo Olympic ratings? (Andrew C. Billings)

25. ‘A Games like no other’: The demise of FTA live Olympic sport? (Raymond Boyle)

26. The fleeting nature of an Olympic meme: Virality and IOC TV rights (Merryn Sherwood)

27. Tokyo 2021: the TV Olympics (Peter English)

28. The Olympic Channel: insights on its distinctive role in Tokyo 2020 (Xavier Ramon)

29. Reshaping the Olympics media coverage through innovation (José Luis Rojas Torrijos)

30. Temporality of emotionalizing athletes (Sae Oshima)

31. New Olympic sports: the mediatization of action sports through the Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo (Thomas Horky)

32. Media wins medal for coverage of athletes as people, instead of entertainers (Ryan Broussard)

33. Reporting at a distance. Stricter working conditions and demands on sports journalists during the Olympics (Jana Wiske)

34. Nigeria: Olympic Games a mystery for rural dwellers in Lagos (Unwana Akpan)

35. Tokyo 2020: A look through the screen of Brazilian television (William Douglas de Almeida and Katia Rubio)

36. Equestrian sports in media through hundred Olympic years. A roundtrip from focus to shade and back again? (Susanna Hedenborg and Aage Radmann)

37. An Olympic utopia: separating politics and sport. Primary notes after analyzing the opening ceremony media coverage of mainstream Spanish sport newspapers (Xavier Ginesta)

38. “Everything seemed very complicated”: Journalist experiences of covering the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (Veronika Mackova)

39. “A ceremony for television”: the Tokyo 2020 media ritual (Andressa Fontes Guimarães-Mataruna, Adriano Lopes de Souza, Renan Petersen-Wagner, Doiara Silva dos Santos, Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos and Otávio Guimarães Tavares da Silva)

40. The paradox of the parade of nations: A South Korean network’s coverage of the opening ceremony at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (Ji-Hyun Ahn)

41. Simone Biles, journalistic authority, and the ideology of sports news (Michael Mirer)

42. Representing high performance: Brazilian sports journalists and mass communication professionals discuss their philosophies on producing progressive Paralympic coverage (Fernanda Silva and John Watson)

43. How digital content creators are shaping meanings about world class para-athletes (Carolyn Jackson-Brown)

44. Is the Paralympic Games a second-class event? (Tatiane Hilgemberg)

45. Representations of gender in media coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (Toni Bruce)

46. Reshaping the superhuman to the super ordinary: Observations on the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic games through Australian broadcasting coverage (Simon Darcy and Tracey J. Dickson)

47. Super heroes among us: A brief discussion of using the superhero genre to promote Paralympic Games and athletes (Cody T. Havard)

48. ”Unity in Diversity” – The varying media representations of female Olympic athletes (Riikka Turtiainen)

49. Why we need to see the “ugly” in women’s sports (Erin Whiteside)

50. Twitter conversations on Indian female athletes in Tokyo (Kulveen Trehan)

51. Between sexualization and de-sexualization: the representation of female athletes in Tokyo 2020 (Jörg-Uwe Nieland)

52. Megan Rapinoe: The scary Bear for many Americans? (Molly Yanity)

53. Representations of gender in the live broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics (Toni Bruce)

54. “The gender-equal games” vs “The IOC is failing black women”: narratives of progress and failure of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (Cheryl Cooky)

55. The male and female sports journalists divide on the Twittersphere during Tokyo 2020 (Haim Hagay and Alina Bernstein)

Section 3: Performance & Identity

56. ‘The Games they are a-changin’’: footnotes on Olympic athletics in transition post-Tokyo 2020 (Christopher D. Tulloch)

57. Tokyo 2020: athlete welfare and coping with new anxieties (Emma Kavanagh and Keith D. Parry)

58. Tokyo Olympics: When athletes are faced with the impossible (Dikaia Chatziefstathiou)

59. Twitter helps normalize discussions on mental health beyond athletes (Yuya Kiuchi)

60. Communication of athlete risk with head injuries in the 2020 Olympics (David Cassilio)

61. Racist slurs, stubborn animals, and colonial fear (Karsten Senkbeil)

62. Tokyo 2021 and the LGBTQ athlete (Rory Magrath)

63. The media coverage of the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games: Visibility, progress and politics (Emma Pullen, Laura Mora and Michael Silk)

64. It’s complicated: Disability media and the Paralympic Games (Katie Ellis)

65. Companies escape attention as debate on women’s uniform rages (Steve Bien-Aime, Melanie Formentin and Michelle Crowley)

66. Policing the uniforms and sportswear of Tokyo 2020: Commercialism in the name of competition (Linda Fuller)

67. Despite “Gender Equal Olympics,” focus still on what women are wearing (Adrianne Grubic)

68. Black women and Tokyo 2020 games: a continued legacy of racial insensitivity and exclusion (Manase Kudzai Chiweshe)

69. Naomi Osaka Bearing the Torch for a Mixed Race Japan (Jennifer McClearen)

70. Bodies of change: Women’s artistic gymnastics in Tokyo 2021 (Carly Stewart and Natalie Barker-Ruchti)

71. How the female athletes of the Tokyo Olympics are reframing the way we think about motherhood (Kim Bissell and Tyana Ellis)

72. When women aren’t women enough to compete (Anne Osborne)

Section 4: Fandom & National Identity

73. Home advantage in the Summer Olympic Games: evidence from Tokyo 2020 and prospects for Paris 2024 (Girish Ramchandani)

74. Fans as MVP, or the need for sensuous audiences in sport (Meredith Bagley)

75. Silence in the stands: Does it matter for fans? (Dorothy Collins)

76. Red, white, and rivalry: A brief discussion of United States rivalry at the Tokyo Olympic Games (Cody Havard)

77. Empty stadiums and the other sites of Olympic fandom (Lou Antolihao)

78. Sports betting and the branded purity of the Olympics (Jason Lopez)

79. National and ethnic Chinese identities on the Indonesian badminton court (Friederike Trotier)

80. How much is too much home-nation focus in Olympic coverage? (Andrew Billings)

81. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: British imperial identity affirmed (Edward Loveman)

82. Communicating corporate social responsibility at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (Jake Kucek)

83. Americans on ideological left more engaged in Summer Olympics (Darin W. White)

84. South Korea’s changing status and perspective on Japan (Seok Lee)

85. The Men’s 1500 metres: Not quite erasing the ghosts of history (Garry Whannel)

86. Ghana: Poor local organizing, and absence of football team dampens interest (Ernest Acheampong and Ralph Frimpong)

87. Historical disputes, national identity, and the South Korea-Japan summit that did not happen (Guy Podoler)

88. Pop culture diplomacy: Japan’s use of videogames, anime to promote the Olympics and appeal to younger audiences (Adolfo Gracia Vázquez)

89. At the intersection of COVID-19 and Tokyo Olympics 2020: Vlogs and the expression of Chinese nationalist sentiments (Tianwei Ren)

90. Fandom and digital media during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: A Brazilian perspective using @TimeBrasil Twitter data (Renan Petersen-Wagner, Andressa Fontes Guimarães-Mataruna, Adriano Lopes de Souza, Doiara Silva dos Santos, Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos and Otávio Guimarães Tavares da Silva)

91. National hierarchy in Israeli Olympic discourses (Ilan Tamir)

Section 5: Politics of Sport

92. At Tokyo Games, athlete activism takes front row seat despite IOC’s attempts to silence athletes (Yannick Kluch, Nina Siegfried, Mary A. Hums and Eli A. Wolff)

93. Transgender participation at the Tokyo Olympics: Laurel Hubbard and a media tempest (Holly Thorpe, Shannon Scovel and Monica Nelson)

94. The sacred space of the Olympics (Anthony Cavaiani)

95. Media frames and the ‘humanity’ of athletes (Adam Rugg)

96. We want reform (Shaun M. Anderson)

97. In search of voice: behind the remarkable lack of protest at the Tokyo Paralympics (Filippo Trevisan)

98. The revolt of the Black athlete continues (Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown)

99. WeThe15 shines a spotlight on disability activism (Damian Haslett and Brett Smith)

100. Will #WeThe85 finally include #WeThe15 as a legacy of Tokyo 2020? (Simon Darcy and Tracey J. Dickson)

101. Activism starts with representation: IPC Section 2.2 and the Paralympics as a platform for social justice (Nina Siegfried, Dr. Yannick Kluch, Mary A. Hums and Eli A. Wolff)

102. The colonization of the athletic body (Billy Hawkins)

103. Forced hijab and female athletes in postrevolutionary Iran (Shahrzad Enderle)

104. Pay equity & the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (Ellen Staurowsky)

105. Equal remuneration for a Paralympian (Mark Brooke)

106. Rooting for U.S. Olympians: Patriotism or polarization? (Amy Bass)

107. Anti-Olympics activism (Jules Boykoff)

108. The new kids on the block: Action sports at the Tokyo Olympic Games (Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton)

109. Is there space on the podium for us all? (Jan Burns)

110. Softball’s field of Olympic dreams (Pamela Creedon)

111. Now you see them, now you don’t: Absent nations at Tokyo Paralympic Games (Nancy Quinn and Laura Misener)

112. The Tokyo Paralympics as a platform for change? Falling well short of sport and media ‘opportunities for all’ (Gerard Goggin and Brett Hutchins)

113. Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: inspirations and legacies (David McGillivray)

114. What social media outrage about Sha’Carri Richardson’s suspension could mean for the future of anti-doping policies (Natalie Brown-Devlin, Gary Wilcox, and Kristen Leah Sussman)

March 2, 2022

Utrecht, Netherlands

Submission deadline for abstracts: November 7, 2021

The YECREA Journalism Studies Section invites doctoral students to submit their proposals for the 3rd PhD-Workshop hosted at the ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference 2022 at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. This workshop aims to connect up-and-coming journalism researchers with experienced colleagues in the field.

The colloquium will take place on March 2, 2022, at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. The aim is to provide mentorship to doctoral student members of the Journalism Studies Section. Participants will get the opportunity to present their PhD projects and receive detailed feedback from scholars working on related topics.

We welcome all theoretical and empirical PhD projects focusing on journalism research. We also strongly support submissions from PhD candidates at the beginning or in the middle of their project as they benefit from feedback the most.

Interested PhD students should submit the following:

• an abstract of 500 words outlining the 1) topic, 2) rationale, 3) theoretical approach, and 4), if applicable, empirical application,
• a separate document with the name, affiliation, expected graduation date and supervisor,
• a ranked list of five potential respondents (please try to choose scholars likely to attend a section conference in the European context).

Please send your submissions e-mail to Phoebe Maares (phoebe.maares@univie.ac.at) no later than November 7, 2021. Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind review process, and we will send a notice of acceptance until December 2021. There will be no fee for the attendance of the workshop as Research Centre Quality Journalism in Digital Transition at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht kindly supports the workshop. To join the ECREA JSS Conference, participants will need to register and pay the conference fee separately.

Participants whose abstracts are successful in the blind review process will be asked to submit a full paper of up to 6000 words by February 2, 2022 (mandatory for participation). It will be sent to the selected respondents to provide them with a comprehensive picture of the project.

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

Job offer for a Junior doctoral researcher (with exclusivity clause) for a maximum period of three years in Communication Sciences, with special focus on Science Communication.

Research activities will be carried out at the Center for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC), part of the School of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon, under CECC’s funding programme (UIDP/00126/2020).

The appointed researcher shall actively contribute to the development of the strategic plan defined for the Center for Communication and Culture Studies for the 2019-2024 sexennium, and shall propose projects in the areas of Culture Studies or Literary Studies and carry out initiatives aimed at increasing the Center’s internationalization. Duties include: developing and monitoring scientific projects, enhancing research networks and submitting projects to national and international competitions between 2021 and 2024; organizing workshops, conferences and seminars during the contract term.

Applications are welcome from 20/09/2021 until 30/09/2021 (at 5pm, Lisbon time).

Benefits

Gross monthly pay is €2,128.34 plus meal allowance, to which will be added annual holiday and Christmas allowances.

Eligibility criteria

The following may apply: any national, foreign or stateless candidates who hold a PhD in Communication Sciences or related scientific fields and who furthermore hold a scientific and professional CV that reveals a profile appropriate to the activities to be developed.

Selection process

Assessment criteria are as follows: scientific production and its relevance; the quality, topicality and impact of academic path; participation in scientific projects and conferences; scientific outreach and knowledge transfer activities; and any other relevant activity and experience.

In the assessment of candidates’ scientific and professional path, the following aspects shall be taken into consideration: research experience; fluency in English and Portuguese, both written and spoken; experience in preparing, submitting and managing research projects; degree of initiative and autonomy shown in conducting scientific work.

The final candidate classification shall be given on a scale of 0 to 100. This value shall be invariably calculated taking into account that, for each item, only those activities relevant to the field of the present invitation to tender are to be considered, with the following weighting:

Scientific and curricular path (SP)

Scientific output: 60%;

Collaboration in scientific projects: 10%;

Project management experience: 5%

Experience in outreach activities and knowledge transfer: 5%

Research plan: 20%

An interview (I) will be conducted with the top three placed candidates, intended to clarify aspects related to their scientific and professional path.

Interviewed candidates will be awarded a new classification in addition to the one initially indicated, based on the following formula:

Final classification = 90% (SP) + 10% (I)

Additional comments

How to apply:

Candidates must send a motivation letter in digital format to the following address: concursos.cecc@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt.

Applications must include the following documentation:

CV;

Research Plan (The plan must include the activities that the candidate intends to develop at CECC during the funding term);

PhD completion certificate, with indication of date of completion.

Where the PhD degree has been awarded by a foreign Higher Education institution, said degree must comply with the provisions of Portuguese legislation regarding recognition of foreign degrees, as set out in Decree-Law no. 66/2018 of 16 August. Entering into a contract with the selected candidate is conditional on the submission of the formal document.

For additional information on this matter candidates are advised to consult the website of the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES):

https://www.dges.gov.pt/pt/pagina/reconhecimento.

For more details visit: https://fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/faculty-knowledge/research-centres/research-centre-communication-and-culture/activities/scolarships-positions-and-funding-opportunities

November 24-29, 2021

Online

Deadline: September 24, 2021

The Media Literacy and Civic Cultures (MeLCi Lab) Autumn School “Science bootcamp to improve research hands-on skills”, to be held 24th to 29th November 2021, aims to capacitate PhD students with a set of hands-on research skills that help them in their projects, supporting their professional development. The school will include keynotes from Emiliano Treré, Julian McDougall, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, and Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt.

By adopting an integrative and multidisciplinary approach, the School will bring together several scholars for a set of workshops and communications to foster research skills related to scientific writing and innovative methodologies. We will address topics about civic engagement, arts-based research, participation, citizen science, datafication, and ethics research. Moreover, the school also intends to be a space for the production of tangible outcomes, through its “72h Paper Development Marathon”. MeLCi Autumn School intends to be an inclusive space, and three equity grants will be available for students from underrepresented communities.

MeLCi Lab is currently looking for proposals of PhD students who want to apply for the Autumn School. These applications can be submitted until the 24th of September.

More information and application: https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/agenda-news/news-events/396-melci-lab-autumn-school

Hugh Downs School of Human Communication

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (HDSHC) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Advanced Assistant or Associate Professor who will be required to teach in-person on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of August 2022. Applicants at the Advanced Assistant or Associate level are encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in applicants whose scholarship and teaching focus is in rhetorical and critical-cultural communication studies. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic faculty working to advance innovative research and excellence in teaching through their efforts with a diverse and growing undergraduate and graduate student population at Arizona State University. The School's mission is to produce transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching that responds to pressing issues in the world today. We invite you to learn more about the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and Arizona State University by visiting https://humancommunication.asu.edu/ and https://newamericanuniversity.asu.edu/, respectively.

The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain a rigorous research program; teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; contribute to curriculum development and graduate advising; serve on school, college, and university committees; and provide service to the school, professional associations, and the community.

Department Statement

A uniquely collaborative group, in 2019 the HDSHC completed a School-wide program review that showcased their notable breadth of teaching and research, collegial and interdisciplinary nature and outlined shared strategic aspirations for the coming years. The HDSHC is comprised of 28 distinguished core faculty and offers BA, BS, MA, and Ph.D. degrees. Our faculty are recognized for teaching and research excellence in areas of Human Communication including: health, intercultural, interpersonal, organizational, performance studies, critical/cultural studies, and rhetoric. Online programs, including a minor, BS, BA and MA, have experienced exponential growth and the School looks forward to continuing the upward trajectory. The HDSHC offers laboratory facilities, computer resources, project support, grant development support, and a performance studio.

ASU's location offers the resources of a major metropolitan area (5+ million) in a state with spectacular natural scenery and recreational areas, sublime winters, and a culturally rich population. Learn more about the HDSHC and ASU at https://humancommunication.asu.edu/ and https://newamericanuniversity.asu.edu/, respectively. Learn more about what The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has to offer by visiting https://thecollege.asu.edu/faculty.

Minimum Qualifications:

* Ph.D. in Communication or a closely related field by the time of appointment

* Scholarship (research and/or creative activity) and teaching focused in rhetorical and critical-cultural communication studies

Desired Qualifications:

* Research and teaching focus in one or more of the following: Latinx and Chicanx Rhetoric, Indigenous and Settler Rhetorics, Racial Rhetorical Criticism, Digital and Technological Rhetorical Communication, BIPOC Rhetorics

* A strong record of publication in the applicant's area(s) of specialization

* Evidence of commitment to service to the university, discipline and community

* Evidence of excellence in graduate and/or advanced undergraduate teaching in area(s) of specialization

* Experience mentoring graduate or advanced undergraduate students' independent research projects

* Ability to contribute to research and teaching in one or more of the School's core areas (rhetoric/public communication, performance studies, intercultural, organizational, or interpersonal)

* Ability to contribute to research and teaching in one or more of the School's research collaboratives (The Intersections of Civil, Critical, and Creative Communication Collective, The Transformation Project, Health Communication Initiative, Intercultural Communication and Global Engagement (ICGlobal) or the Center for Strategic Communication)

* Evidence of the potential to seek external funding

* Demonstrated success meeting the needs of diverse student populations and/or reaching out to diverse communities

* Evidence of commitment to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment

How to Apply:

To apply, please submit the following:

1. A cover letter specifying interest in the position and how qualifications match the required and desired qualifications

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Evidence of excellence in teaching (e.g., syllabi, teaching evaluations)

4. Evidence of excellence in scholarship (e.g., reprints of no more than three articles or book chapters)

5. Two letters of recommendation (to be submitted through Interfolio)

6. A statement on how your past and/or potential contributions to diversity and inclusion will advance ASU's commitment to inclusive excellence

Instructions to apply can be accessed here: http://apply.interfolio.com/94493

The initial deadline to apply is Thursday, October 28, 2021. If not filled, applications will be evaluated every week thereafter until the search is closed.

For additional information:

Email search committee chair: Dr. Jess Alberts at Janet.Alberts@asu.edu

The College values our cultural and intellectual diversity, and continually strives to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment. We are especially interested in applicants who can strengthen the diversity of the academic community.

A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

(https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/)

In compliance with federal law, ASU prepares an annual report on campus security and fire safety programs and resources. ASU's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available online at https://www.asu.edu/police/PDFs/ASU-Clery-Report.pdf. You may request a hard copy of the report by contacting the ASU Police Department at 480-965-3456.

EJHC Special Issue

Deadline: February 28, 2022

European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC) invites submissions to a Special Issue on “Online Health Communities in the Vortex of Healthcare Controversies: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Studies” (Guest Editors: Gregor Petrič & Sara Atanasova, University of Ljubljana).

Online health communities (OHCs) are dynamic and insightful places where a variety of communicative processes can be detected; these processes are linked to tensions between different levels of accessibility, different forms of interaction, various streams of knowledge, tensions between low and high e-health literacy, conflicts between expert and patient expertise, positive and negative aspects of patient empowerment, and the like. This special issue aims to address the tensions, opportunities, and perils of OHCs that have important effects on individuals such as patients, caregivers, and health professionals as well as on patient-health professional interaction, the healthcare system and its services. This special issue is open but not limited to studies that intersect or interconnect with the following topics:

• Communicative dynamics in OHCs and their controversial outcomes
• Quality, validity, credibility of health-related information in OHCs
• Causes and consequences of (dis)trust and (mis)information in OHCs
• Patient empowerment and disempowerment and their effects on the self-management of health issues, decision making processes, and trust in health experts
• Empowerment of health-professionals participating in OHCs
• Impact of patient-health professional interaction in OHCs on offline patient-health professional relationships
• The potential of OHCs for co-creation processes in the context of healthcare policies and businesses
• OHCs’ role in informing policy, regulators, and health decision makers
• Other topics related to OHCs

This special issue welcomes innovative studies and invites both theoretical and empirical papers with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method approaches, so long as they address at least one of the above topics.

More information about the call: https://ejhc.org/calls/SI-OnlineHealthCommunities.