European Communication Research and Education Association
University of Bergen
There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position within media studies. The position is part of the department's commitment to strategic communication and the postdoctoral fellow will be linked to two of the department's research groups: the rhetoric group and the media use group. The position is for a period of four years with 25% of the total appointment time is a duty to be performed at the department.
The research theme for the post-doctoral fellow is trust, credibility (ethos), and strategic communication. In unison with the research groups for rhetoric and audience studies the fellow will develop a project examining how citizens view and engage with strategic communication and communication from experts. A core question is how utterances from experts are interpreted, negotiated, and used in a society characterized by media platforms run by algorithms, decreasing trust in experts and a high degree of competing claims from different sources.
The applicant should focus the project on the fields of rhetoric and audience studies and is encouraged to tie the project to one or more themes of global challenges, such as climate, migration, or health.
Deadline: January 8, 2021
Read more about and apply for the position here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/…ies
KU Leuven, Belgium
The School for Mass Communication Research (KU Leuven, Belgium) is offering a academic staff position (open rank) on Media and Health communication. SMCR is looking for a colleague who is an expert in one of the following subdomains of health communication:
(1) effects of media use on various health (e.g., addiction, suicide,…) or societal issues (e.g., hate speech, sustainability,…), and ways of responding to these effects with communication and intervention,
(2) the development and testing of mediated promotion and intervention campaigns aiming to advance public health or societal wellbeing,
(3) health information seeking and effects (e.g., resistance to health
information, public service announcements,…), and/or
(4) technological perspectives on health communication (e.g., effects of VR on health outcomes, potential of mHealth in health promotion, artificial intelligence,…).
Teaching will contain several courses at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level and will include theoretical and methodological courses on communication science in general and digital media in particular.
Interested candidates can apply for this job no later than February 21, 2021 via the online application tool. For more information see https://www.kuleuven.be/…=en
Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies
Two posts available in digital media studies/media studies/cultural studies at Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer levels
The School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa, is consistently ranked among the best in Africa. With two positions opening, this is a time of transformation.
We are looking for two experienced colleagues at Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer level in the areas of digital, media and/or cultural studies.
Candidates from within our field as well as related disciplines are warmly encouraged to apply.
Feel free to peruse our website (www.ru.ac.za/jms ) and contact Prof Anthea Garman (a.garman@ru.ac.za ), Prof Lorenzo Dalvit (l.dalvit@ru.ac.za ) or Dr Priscilla Boshoff (p.a.boshoff@ru.ac.za ) to find out more about us.
Documents about the posts and application forms and instructions are available at https://www.placementpartner.co.za/…417
If you have any questions about the application or are experiencing challenges on the system, please contact Ms Ntosh Gongqa on +27 (0)46 603 8616 or submit your application to jobs-red@ru.ac.za
Application closing date: 30 November 2020
Thematic issue of the scientific journal "Comunicologia" (Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Deadline: February 1, 2021
The public-health crisis caused by Covid-19 accelerated the process of migration towards online technology and the digital restructuring of social relations – notably concerning work and affective relationships.
Thus, not only the structural deficiencies in accessing technologies of digital information and communication (TDIC) but also a deficiency in technological literacy itself were evidenced in an unprecedented way. This acceleration in the use of TDIC, combined with the growing social and political discredit of scientific research, as well as the economic crisis, require a renewed intellectual effort in the light of theoretical and methodological perspectives that dare to radically re-articulate the relations between media, culture, technology, and education.
In this sense, the thematic number of Comunicologia “New theoretical perspectives on culture, technology, and education” invites the submission of articles with a robust theoretical component which propose to analyze:
– The role of the media in scientific literacy and the dissemination of information about (but not limited to) Covid-19;
– Cultural actions and the alternatives developed for culture as a profession;
– Reconfigurations of the use of TDIC in cultural and educational institutions (such as in museums, libraries, movie theatres, public and private schools, among others);
– The colonization of everyday life by digital information and communication technologies;
– The haphazard migration of education to virtual environments;
– The resignification of work relations in times of working from home. "Comunicologia" welcomes submissions from holders of Master’s or PhD degrees, especially those from Communication and Media Studies and related academic fields.
Submission deadline: February 1st, 2021
Publication: July 2021
The manuscript can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Please, note that no payment from the authors will be required. Guidelines for authors can be found at the journal website: https://portalrevistas.ucb.br/…ons
Further information: bolsista.ppgeucb@gmail.com
Dossier editors:
December 3, 2020
Virtual Conference
The use of automation in journalism is encroaching more and more on what many would consider to be journalists’ core professional roles, such as the identification of story leads, verification, and decisions about which stories are shown, and with what prominence. Automation has also started to play a role in the creation of news texts, initially by helping to generate natural language—the written word—but now also in the production of news videos.
The proportion of consumers who watch online news videos each week has increased substantially—from 24% in 2016 to 67% in 2020 (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Digital News Report 2020). Over the same period, there has been an increase in the use of automation in news video production.
This online event brings together researchers (including Irene Costera Meijer, Nick Diakopoulos, Michael Koliska, Sally Stares, Kim Schrøder, and Neil Thurman) technology-providers (Wibbitz), and publishers (PA Media, Deutsche Welle, and Conde Nast) to explore what audiences want from online news video, and whether automation can help deliver.
For registration, conference program and the full list of speakers, please visit the event website:
https://sites.ifkw.lmu.de/video-automation/
August 25-27, 2021
Örebro, Sweden
Deadline: January 30, 2021
Our conference theme is “Bringing research together.”
The conference theme targets how business administration is one discipline, but too often is discussed, researched, taught, and indeed conferenced in silos. Together, we are researchers in marketing, accounting, organization, and so on. Yet, together, more importantly, we are business and management researchers. The conference theme ‘bringing research together’ is therefore about tearing down the silos of business administration and starting to think more holistically about the firm, its context, offerings, and performance. None of the individual subject areas matter without the other. Put more strongly: none of us matter without the rest of us.
Bringing research together is also about tearing down boundaries between research, teaching, and business. The conference theme poses us to think about: How we are relevant, yet independent; what we need from industry; what industry needs from us; and, how can we bring our research into teaching and practice.
Bringing research together furthermore gives us the opportunity to meet as researchers, teachers, and practitioners among the Nordic countries. Recent developments have brought relevance to the actual meeting of academics; to discuss research, teaching, and business practice with peers, as well as to socialize. Let’s make NFF 2021 a time to reunite and meet new friends!
To submit your abstract to NFF 2021:
For each step of the process, from track calls to abstract and final paper submissions, we follow guidance within the Nordic countries regarding the current Corona pandemic. Our idea – supported by the NFF board – is to postpone up to August 2022, rather than go digital. Your interest to participate – through track calls, abstracts, and later paper submissions – is vital for any decisions made and we dearly look forward to welcoming you in Örebro!
February 11–12, 2021
Virtual conference
Deadline: December 22, 2020
The symposium is arranged under the theme of Workplace Communication.
The symposium will be held virtually via Zoom. The symposium is free of charge.
The plenary speakers are:
- Assistant Professor Emma Christensen (Roskilde University) and Professor Lars Thøger Christensen (Copenhagen Business School): “Examining the (Re)presentational Voice”
- Professor Samantha Warren (University of Portsmouth): “Using Instagram in a participant-led field study: Reflections on the politics of organizational communication and identity”
The symposium features six thematic panel sessions, two of which are open for presentations.
These are:
Please submit your abstract by December 22, 2020 to symposium@vakki.net.
Registration for the symposium’s keynotes and/or thematic panel sessions opens on December 17, 2020.
The 2nd Call for Papers and further information is available on the symposium's website:
https://sites.univaasa.fi/vakki2021/en
Best regards
Members of the VAKKI-committee
Edited by: Paolo Ruffino
The edited collection maps the current trajectories of independent game development, at a time when game makers engage with videogame production in a myriad of different ways, ranging from full-time employment to brief and casual investments of time and resources.
The book focuses on four key thematic areas (cultures, networks, techniques and politics), which open up questions surrounding gender inclusivity, creative freedom, funding and publishing strategies, labour, precarity, and social practices taking place in the new contexts of production of the videogame industry. The collection includes a section of geographically specific case studies, with contributions from Latin America, Finland, Australia, United States and the United Kingdom. A final afterword by Bart Simon from Concordia University makes the point on what ‘indie game studies’ have achieved so far, and points at future challenges.
It has been a great pleasure and honour to be responsible for the curation of this collection. It has given me the opportunity to work with some of the most brilliant authors who have been researching videogame production over the past 10-15 years. I would like to thank the authors for their invaluable contribution, and Routledge for their support throughout the publication.
I hope that the book will be useful for scholars, researchers and students interested in independent videogames and game production studies. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about the publication.
For more information:
https://www.routledge.com/Independent-Videogames-Cultures-Networks-Techniques-And-Politics/Ruffino/p/book/9780367336202
Table of Contents
1. After Independence
Paolo Ruffino (University of Liverpool, UK)
Part I: Cultures
2. Decoding and Recoding Game Jams and Independent Game-making Spaces for Diversity and Inclusion
Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University, Ireland)
3. Queering Indie: How LGBTQ Experiences Challenge Dominant Narratives of Independent Games
Bonnie Ruberg (University of California Irvine, USA)
4. Virtually Indie: On the Characteristics of Independent Game Development for Virtual Reality Headsets
Paweł Grabarczyk (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Part II: Networks
5. Network or Die? What Social Networking Analysis Can Tell Us About Indie Game Development
Pierson Browne and Jennifer Whitson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
6. Strange Bedfellows: Indie Games and Academia
Celia Pearce (Northeastern University, USA)
Part III: Techniques
7. The Conditions of Videogame Production: The Nature and Stakes of Creative Freedom in Stiegler’s Philosophy of Technicity
Patrick Crogan (University of the West of England, UK)
8. Boutique Indie: Annapurna Interactive and Contemporary Independent Game Development
Felan Parker (University of Toronto, Canada)
9. Game Production Studies: Studio Studies Theory, Method and Practice
Casey O’Donnell (Michigan State University, USA)
Part IV: Politics
10. Game Workers Unite: Unionization Among Independent Developers
Jamie Woodcock (The Open University, UK)
11. Playing with Risk: Political-Economy, Independent Games, and the Precarity of Development in Crowded Commercial Markets
Nadav Lipkin (La Roche University, USA)
Part V: Local Indie Game Studies
12. Playful Peripheries: The Consolidation of Independent Game Production in Latin America
Orlando Guevara-Villalobos (University of Costa Rica)
13. The Melbourne Indie Game Scenes: Value Regimes in Localized Game Development
Brendan Keogh (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
14. Modes of Independence in the Finnish Game Development Scene
Olli Sotamaa (Tampere University, Finland)
15. The Rebels Across the Street: IndiE3 and the Strategic Geography of Indie Game Promotion
John Vanderhoef (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA)
16. Freedom from the Industry Standard: Student Working Imaginaries and Independence in Games Higher Education
Alison Harvey (York University, Canada)
17. Afterword: The Cultural Conditions of Being Indie
Bart Simon (Concordia University, Canada)
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a “CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship.” This is a one-year position renewable for a second year based on successful performance.
Description
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) produces and promotes scholarly research on global communication and public life. As an institute for advanced study dedicated to global media studies, we revisit enduring questions and engage pressing matters in geopolitics and communication. Our vision of “inclusive globalization” recognizes plurality and inequality in global media, politics, and culture. Our translocal approach fuses multidisciplinary “area studies” knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities and social sciences. This synthesis of deep expertise and interdisciplinary inquiry stimulates critical conversations about entrenched and emerging communicative structures, practices, flows, and struggles. We explore new ways of understanding and explaining the world, including public scholarship, algorithmic culture, the arts, multi-modal scholarship, and digital archives. With a core commitment to the development of early career scholars worldwide, CARGC hosts postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty fellows who collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press publications, and organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and summer institutes.
CARGC postdoctoral fellows work on their own research, typically a book manuscript, and collaborate with staff and postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate fellows. They may design and teach one undergraduate course during their second year. They present a CARGC Colloquium and publish one CARGC Paper with CARGC Press. Fellows are provided a stipend of $55,000, a research fund of $3000, health insurance, a workspace, computer and library access.
CARGC Fellows integrate primary sources and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal and transnational analyses of media, technology, geopolitics and culture. Candidates challenging normative paradigms and incorporating non-Western theories, sources and contexts, are especially welcome. Ongoing research groups focus on theory and history in global media studies, geopolitics and the popular, digital sovereignty, and radical media and culture. We recommend that applicants read our 5 year-report to familiarize themselves with our mission and priorities.
This is a residential fellowship. CARGC strives to be an inclusive community of scholars driven by intellectual curiosity and exchange, and rooted in the life of the Annenberg School, the University of Pennsylvania, and the city of Philadelphia. To foster mentoring and collaboration at all levels, we expect fellows to be fully engaged in the life of the center. Typically, postdocs are therefore expected to work at our beautiful sixth floor premises—CARGC’s “World Headquarters”—on the Penn campus at least four days a week. However, the final determination of the residency requirement for the 2021-2022 academic year will be made in the coming months based on university policy related to COVID-19.
Eligibility
We welcome applications from scholars with PhDs awarded by an institution other than the University of Pennsylvania between May 1, 2019 and May 1, 2021. The appointment typically starts on August 15.
Submitting Your Application
A complete application consists of:
Timeline
All materials except reference letters must be sent as a single PDF document to cargc@asc.upenn.edu by February 1, 2021. Because of the volume of applications, we are unable to read drafts of submissions. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Applicants should arrange for their letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address by the same date. We expect to contact finalists for phone interviews by mid-March and make final decisions shortly thereafter.
Additional Information
If you have additional questions, please email us at cargc@asc.upenn.edu. Do not contact CARGC staff individually.
The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability , veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, go to http://www.upenn.edu/affirm-action/eoaa.html.
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Edited by: Daniel Jackson, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker and Einar Thorsen
Featuring 91 contributions from over 115 leading US and international academics, this publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2020 U.S. presidential election from the cutting edge of media and politics research.
Published within eleven days of the election, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis – including research findings and new theoretical insights – to bring readers original ways of understanding the campaign. Contributions also bring a rich range of disciplinary influences, from political science to cultural studies, journalism studies to geography.
As always, these reports are free to access.
The report can be found on https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/ alongside our previous reports on UK and U.S. elections.
Direct pdf download is available at: http://j.mp/USElectionAnalysis2020_Jackson-et_al_v1 (please note, large file size!)
The table of contents is below.
1. Introduction: Daniel Jackson, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker and Einar Thorsen
Policy and Political Context
2. The far-too-normal election
Dave Karpf
3. One pandemic, two Americas and a week-long election day
Ioana Coman
4. Political emotion and the global pandemic: factors at odds with a Trump presidency
Erik P. Bucy
5. The pandemic did not produce the predominant headwinds that changed the course of the country
Amanda Weinstein
6. Confessions of a vampire
Kirk Combe
7. COVID-19 and the 2020 election
Timothy Coombs
8. President Trump promised a vaccine by Election Day: that politicized vaccination intentions
Matthew Motta
9. The enduring impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on the 2020 elections
Gabriel B. Tait
10. Where do we go from here? The 2020 U.S. presidential election, immigration, and crisis
Jamie Winders
11. A nation divided on abortion?
Zoe Brigley Thompson
12. Ending the policy of erasure: transgender issues in 2020
Anne C. Osborne
13. U.S. presidential politics and planetary crisis in 2020
Reed Kurtz
14. Joe Biden and America’s role in the world
Jason Edwards
15. President Biden’s foreign policy: engagement, multilateralism, and cautious globalization
Klaus W. Larres
16. Presidential primary outcomes as evidence of levels of party unity
Judd Thornton
17. A movable force: the armed forces voting bloc
18. Guns and the 2020 elections
Robert Spitzer
19. Can Biden's win stop the decline of the West and restore the role of the United States in the world?
Roman Gerodimos
Voters
20. A divided America guarantees the longevity of Trumpism
Panos Koliastasis and Darren Lilleker
21. Cartographic perspectives of the 2020 U.S. election
Ben Hennig
22. Vote Switching From 2016 to 2020
Diana Mutz and Sam Wolken
23. It’s the democracy, stupid
Petros Ioannidis and Elias Tsaousakis
24. Election in a time of distrust
John Rennie Short
25. Polarization before and after the 2020 election
Barry Richards
26. The political psychology of Trumpism
Richard Perloff
27. White evangelicals and white born again Christians in 2020
Ryan Claassen
28. Angry voters are (often) misinformed voters
Brian Weeks
29. A Black, Latinx, and Independent alliance: 2020
Omar Ali
30. Believing Black women
Lindsey Meeks
31. The sleeping giant awakens: Latinos in the 2020 election
Lisa Sanchez
32. Trump won the senior vote because they thought he was best on the economy – not immigration
Peter McLeod
33. Did German Americans again support Donald Trump?
Per Urlaub & David Huenlich
Candidates and the Campaign
34. The emotional politics of 2020: fear and loathing in the United States
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
35. Character and image in the U.S. presidential election: a psychological perspective
Geoffrey Beattie
36. Branding and its limits
Ken Cosgrove
37. Celtic connections: reading the roots of Biden and Trump
Michael Higgins and Russ Eshleman
38. Kamala Harris, Bobby Jindal, and the construction of Indian American identity
Madhavi Reddi
39. Stratagems of hate: decoding Donald Trump’s denigrating rhetoric in the 2020 campaign
Rita Kirk and Stephanie Martin
40. Campaign finance and the 2020 U.S. election
Cayce Myers
41. The Emperor had no clothes, after all
Marc Hooghe
42. Trump’s tribal appeal: us vs. them
Stephen D. Reese
News and Journalism
43. When journalism’s relevance is also on the ballot
Seth C. Lewis, Matt Carlson and Sue Robinson
44. Beyond the horse race: voting process coverage in 2020
Kathleen Searles
45. YouTube as a space for news
Stephanie Edgerly
46. 2020 shows the need for institutional news media to make racial justice a core value of journalism
Nikki Usher
47. Newspaper endorsements, presidential fitness and democracy
Kenneth Campbell
48. Alternative to what?A faltering alternative-as-independent media
Scott A. Eldridge II
49. Collaboration, connections, and continuity in media innovation
Valerie Belair-Gagnon
50. Learning from the news in a time of highly polarized media
Marion Just and Ann Crigler
51. Partisan media ecosystems and polarization in the 2020 U.S. election
Michael Beam
52. What do news audiences think about ‘cutting away’ from news that could contain misinformation?
Richard Fletcher
53. The day the music died: turning off the cameras on President Trump
Sarah Oates
54. When worlds collide: contentious politics in a fragmented media regime
Michael X. Delli Carpini
55. Forecasting the future of election forecasting
Benjamin Toff
56. A new horse race begins: the scramble for a post-election narrative
Victor Pickard
Social media
57. Media and social media platforms finally begin to embrace their roles as democratic gatekeepers
Daniel Kreiss
58. Did social media make us more or less politically unequal in 2020?
Dan Lane and Nancy Molina-Rogers
59. Platform transparency in the fight against disinformation
Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Bente Kalsnas, Lucas Graves and Oscar Westlund
60. Why Trump's determination to sow doubt about data undermines democracy
Alfred Hermida
61. A banner year for advertising and a look at differences across platforms
Markus Neumann, Jielu Yao, Spencer Dean and Erika Franklin Fowler
62. How Joe Biden conveyed empathy
Dorian Davis
63. The debates and the election conversation on Twitter
G.R. Boynton and Glenn W. Richardson
64. Did the economy, COVID-19, or Black Lives Matter to the Senate candidates in 2020?
Heather K. Evans and Rian F. Moore
65. Leadership through showmanship: Trump's ability to coin nicknames for opponents on Twitter
Marco Morini
66. Election countdown: Instagram's role in visualizing the 2020 campaign
Terri L. Towner and Caroline L. Munoz
67. Candidates did lackluster youth targeting on Instagram
John Parmelee
68. College students, political engagement and Snapchat in the 2020 general election
Laurie L. Rice and Kenneth W. Moffett
69. Advertising on Facebook: transparency, but not transparent enough
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Patricia Rossini, Brian McKernan and Jeff Hemsley
70. Detecting emotions in Facebook political ads with computer vision
Michael Bossetta and Rasmus Schmøkel
Popular culture and public critique
71. On campaigns and political trash talk
Michael Butterworth
72. It's all about my "team": what we can learn about politics from sport
Natalie Brown-Devlin and Michael Devlin
73. Kelly Loeffler uses battle with the WNBA as springboard into Georgia Senate runoff
Guy Harrison
74. Made for the fight, WNBA players used their platform for anti-racism activism in 2020
Molly Yanity
75. Do National Basketball Association (NBA) teams really support Black Lives Matter?
Kwame Agyemang
76. The presidential debates: the media frames it all wrong
Mehnaaz Momen
77. Live... from California, it's Kamala Harris
Mark Turner
78. Who needs anger management? Dismissing young engagement
Joanna Doona
79. Meme war is merely the continuation of politics by other means
Rodney Taveira
80. Satire failed to pack a punch in the 2020 election
Allaina Kilby
81. Election memes 2020, or, how to be funny when nothing is fun
Ryan M. Milner and Whitney Phillips
Democracy in crisis
82. Social media moderation of political talk
Shannon McGregor
83. The speed of technology vs. the speed of democracy
Ben Epstein
84. The future of election administration: how will states respond?
Jennifer L. Selin
85. How the movement to change voting procedures was derailed by the 2020 election results
Martin P. Wattenberg
86. From "clown" to "community": the democratic potential of civility and incivility
Emily Sydnor
87. Searching for misinformation
David Silva
88. Relational listening as political listening in a polarized country
Kathryn Coduto
89. QAnon, the election and an evolving American conservativism
Harrison Lejeune
90. President Trump, disinformation, and the threat of extremist violence
Kurt Braddock
91. The disinformed election
Saif Shahin
92. Election 2020 and the further degradation of local journalism
Philip Napoli
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