ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Special issue of Trípodos

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2020

Publication: June 2020

Editors: Emiliana De Blasio (LUISS University, Italy), Patricia Coll (Ramon Llull University, Spain)

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a communication challenge for mass media and organisations on a global scale. For several months, crisis communication has become a crucial issue in our society, a society which is witnessing the acceleration of the process of digital transformation in all communication disciplines, including journalism, audiovisual communication, advertising and public relations. Trípodos announces a call for papers for a special issue on Communication in COVID-19 Crisis.

The objectives of the special issue are summarised in the following areas:

• Crisis communication.
• Communication of emergency services.
• Political communication during the COVID-19 crisis.
• Institutional relations by videoconference: digital protocol.
• Advertising: advertising creativity, branding at the service of health emergency, and digitalisation of marketing investment.
• Information vs infodemic.
• Journalistic routines: teleworking in mass media, TV set vs confinement, information vs entertainment.
• Scientific communication, experts and data journalism to interpret reality.
• Archive and reruns as an alternative to content production.
• Intensification of the newspaper crisis, paywalls and digital subscription models.
• Digitalisation of the audiovisual industry.
• Apps as means of communication, and big data in a health emergency situation.
• Internal communication and remote working.
• Digital platforms as a leisure area.
• Social networks: information, opinion, new privacy, influencers, newsjacking, memes, fake news.
• Digital transformation of public relations, digital events, and corporate social responsibility.
• Slow journalism vs immediacy.
• Public communication and policies.
• Emotions and loneliness through social media.
• Populist approaches to crisis (also in comparative perspective).
• Digital solidarity.

Call for papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyYhp3JhV2QmwJ-qXkohSjo_1FhA4Q17/view

Papers should be sent by April 30, 2020. In order to submit original papers, authors must be registered with the journal (www.tripodos.com) as authors. Following this step, authors must enter their user name and password, activated in the process of registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be downloaded at www.tripodos.com. For any queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at tripodos@blanquerna.url.edu.

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Cardiff University and Imperial War Museums

Diversifying and decolonising conflict photography: an exploration of how accompanying textual information can influence the reading and understanding of photographs

Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at Cardiff University. This is offered under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme. The partner institutions are Cardiff University and IWM. The studentship will be supervised by Dr Tom Allbeson (School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University) and Helen Mavin (IWM) and co-supervised by Professor Claire Gorrara (School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University). The studentship begins on 1 October 2020 and is funded at standard AHRC rates for 45 months full time (or part-time equivalent) with the potential to be extended for a further 3 months for professional development opportunities. Candidates from EU countries are eligible for full awards if they have been resident in the UK, for education or other purposes, for at least three years prior to the start of their programme. Candidates from EU countries who have not resided in the UK for three years prior to the start of their programme will normally be eligible for a fees-only award.

Closing date for applications: 15 May 2020

Anticipated start date: 1 October 2020

Full details: https://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/2020-04/IWM%20Cardiff%20CDP%20Advert%20final.pdf

Portsmouth University and the Science Museum

Applications are invited for a fully-funded AHRC Collaborative PhD in Partnership with the Science Museum London to commence in October 2020.

The PhD will be based in the School of Art, Design and Performance and will be supervised by Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan (Professor of Design History and Theory), Dr Laurel Forster (Reader in Cultural History), Dr Helen Peavitt (Curator of Consumer and Environmental Technology, Science Museum) and Nick Wyatt (Head of Libraries and Archives, Science Museum).

The project has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) by the Science Museums and Archives Consortium (SMAC).

This studentship is funded for 3 years and 9 months (45 months) full time or part-time equivalent. The studentship has the possibility of being extended for 3 months to more provide professional development opportunities, or up to 3 months of funding be used to pay for the costs the student might incur in taking up professional development opportunities.

CDP students are expected to spend at least 3 to 6 months during their funded time or part-time equivalent on professional development. This can include appropriate placements, work experiences, and attending training courses. The use of this time will need to be agreed by the student with by co-supervisors to best support the individual student’s training requirements and professional development.

The student will need to submit their thesis within four years (48 months) of starting their studies, if studying full time. The successful candidate will receive a bursary to cover tuition fees and up to four years of maintenance stipend at the AHRC UK/EU rate for collaborative awards in (£16,885 for 2020/2021 per annum). The award is available full-time or on a part-time basis at 50% time.

For more details see:

https://www.port.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-research/research-degrees/phd/explore-our-projects/eye-appeal-is-buy-appeal

Please contact Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan (deborah.suggryan@port.ac.uk ) who can give you full details of the project and discuss your interest.

December 3-5, 2020

Prague, Czech Republic​

Submission deadline: June 1, 2020

www.praguemediapoint.com

Our theme in 2020 is (again) WHAT’S WORKING

Back by popular demand! Last year, we at Prague Media Point decided we had had enough of all the doom and gloom around the media industry. Instead of looking backward at all the problems that have plagued the media in the internet age, we wanted to highlight initiatives, projects, and individuals that are actively countering those trends -- and succeeding. This solution-oriented approach resonated strongly with conference attendees, and based on their positive feedback, we have decided to adopt the same theme. Once again, we are encouraging submissions of abstracts and sessions by scholars and PhD candidates from journalism, media, technology, and other related disciplines focusing on examples in the media that are working and generating impact in the following subjects and topics, though this list is not exhaustive:

• Innovative ways to cover climate change
• Pandemic media coverage
• Media projects to counter polarization and disinformation
• Technology & security in editorial work and content delivery
• Effective methods for resisting threats to media freedom
• Engagement through social media
• Solutions and constructive journalism
• Trust-building techniques
• Different forms of storytelling
• Innovative business and ownership models
• Diversity in the newsroom

Confirmed speakers:

Prof. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Director of Research Development and Environment, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University (UK)

Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, Department of Media and Technology Management, The Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Cologne (Germany)

Roman Imielski, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland)

András Pethő, Founder and Editor, Direkt 36 (Hungary)

Bas van Beek, Co-Founder, Investigative Journalist, Platform Authentieke Journalistiek (The Netherlands)

Please submit your 500-word abstracts and a short bio by June 1, 2020.

Download our template for abstracts or for session proposals from this page: https://www.praguemediapoint.com/call-for-abstracts

Deadlines

• Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2020
• Notification of acceptance: Jun 26, 2020
• Early bird payment deadline: Sep 15, 2020
• Regular payment deadline: Oct 25, 2020
• Presentation submission: Nov 5, 2020

Conference fees for presenting participants of scholarly abstracts or at academic sessions:

Presenting participants: Regular - € 250, Early-bird - € 220

Presenting participants ECREA members: Regular - € 220, Early-bird - € 190

Students (PhD candidates) - Regular - € 110, Early-bird - € 90

Note: Regular: payment reception by Oct 25, Early-bird: payment reception by Sep 15.

ECREA members promo code: 2020PMPecrea 

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Registration fee includes: all conference sessions, coffee breaks and lunch, conference documents, and a certificate of attendance if required. Interface for ticket purchases will be opened soon.

Come participate in this much anticipated conference in Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in the world whose center is on the UNESCO list. In addition, you will have the opportunity to experience the atmosphere of the city’s Christmas markets.

Contact: Dagmar Caspe, Project Coordinator, caspe@keynote.cz

Special Issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Deadline: May 1, 2020

Following the establishment of the «people´s democracies» in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, Lenin´s dictum about «film being the most important art» brought change in terms of an improved infrastructure for film production. Often, the Soviet film was seen as a role model for the other Socialist states. The establishment of Socialist film schools or academies, for example, in Czechoslovakia (Prague 1947), Poland (Łódz 1948), Yugoslavia (Belgrade 1948), Romania (Bucuresti 1950), Bulgaria (Sofia 1948), Hungary (Budapest 1948) and the GDR (Potsdam 1954), were all emulated in one way or another after Moscow´s famous VGIK, the first state film school in the world. The idea was, of course, that film was considered an important medium for propaganda and persuasion and that it was necessary to secure Socialist-minded ”cadres” for this cause.

Yet, despite all measures to carefully regulate the film industry, the level of control varied significantly over time and in the different countries – despite the fact that film, for a number of reasons, lends itself to control. Alternative voices, as a number of examples demonstrate, could be heard in all of the Warsaw Pact states. By looking at filmmaking, exhibition and reception, film education and film criticism, this themed issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television considers dissent and dissidents in Central and Eastern European film during the Cold War and its aftermath..

The Journal has a particular historical/archival focus. We especially, but not exclusively, encourage contributions on the following topics and approaches:

Confrontations with the hegemonic ideology

• Questions of censorship
• Questions concerning relationship with the audience
• Trans-national aspects, including the exchange of ideas with other states in the Soviet sphere of interest and the relationship with West
• European and American film industries,
• Different phases of dissent and dissidents, including the post-1968 years and and the New Left

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words and a brief biography before 1 May 2020 to the guest editors, Tobias Hochscherf (tobias.hochscherf@fh-kiel.de ), Bjørn Sørenssen (bjorn.sorenssen@ntnu.no) and Rolf Werenskjold (rof@hivolda.no).

Final submissions (7000-10 000 words) are due on 1 November 2020. Only submissions that follow Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television notes for contributors will be considered (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=chjf20).

All submissions are subject to approval by the blind peer-review process of the journal.

MAI: FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE

Deadline: April, May and early June

https://maifeminism.com/crisis-connection-culture-alternative-responses-to-covid-19/

MAI: FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE is putting together a special issue on creative connection during this pandemic.

At this time of crisis because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our ability to physically touch is severely restricted, in order to protect ourselves and others from illness as well as police intervention. This has resulted in an even bigger shift to digital technologies and online interaction with hashtags such as #togetherapart encouraging more culture and connection on the internet in lieu of in-person events and meet-ups. Indeed being in touch is incredibly important: it helps us to stay safe, informed, and connected for our physical and mental health and our overall wellbeing. However, while people are suffering physically, emotionally, and financially, many in positions of power, including some governments and wealthy big business owners, seem more out of touch than ever.

This call seeks contributions of and on visual culture, broadly defined, including writing, art, short films etc within the themes of COVID-19/crisis and connection. The aim is to create a space for people to connect through the production and consumption of culture during COVID-19, specifically those who are often already the least safe and most silenced in a systemically racist, capitalist, heteropatriarchal society: women; non-binary people; LGBTQ+ people; people of colour; poor and working-class people; people with disabilities; young people; and others who are disenfranchised. The intention is not only to amplify such voices, but also to raise money for those who are struggling financially, or may do so in the near future because of the crisis. Crisis—Connection—Culture is to be published as a special issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, an open- access online journal of new feminist research and creative work. Potential contributors should, therefore, ensure that both feminist and visual elements are clear foundations for submissions.

This special issue will cut across arts, humanities, the social sciences and beyond. Individual submissions could focus on: film; television; other screens; social media; comic and graphic novels; photography; painting; theatre; dance; performance; fashion; games and gaming.

Examples of topics could include but are certainly not limited to:

• crisis, creativity, and mental health;
• the shift from in-person to online ‘events’ such as theatre, film
• festivals and viewing parties, dance classes etc;
• online ‘events’ and isolation;
• digital and/or visual activism at a time of crisis;
• politics, COVID-19, and visual culture;
• the visual and the haptic;
• home/work space and the creation of visual culture;
• inclusivity and accessibility in relation to online culture during COVID-19;
• the impact of the shift to the digital for survival/connection/culture for those without the technology or knowledge;
• crisis and cultural innovation;
• the representation of pandemics, crises etc in visual culture;
• visual culture and trauma.

A variety of submissions are welcome, from accessible academic pieces to personal reflections or creative and video responses. Work-in-progress will also be considered. The style guide as well as information about word length etc. can be found here: https://maifeminism.com/submissions/

We understand that prospective contributors will already have a range of pressing real-life commitments and worries during this crisis (health; finances; childcare etc.) and we would like allow more time for developing your projects/ideas. We will be considering submissions through April, May and early June.

Please be mindful that everyone has more to deal with right now so do check if the MAI website (linked above) can answer your questions before contacting via e-mail.

Potential contributions or expressions of interest should be sent to BOTH Leanne Dawson leanne.dawson@ed.ac.uk AND contact@maifeminism.com

Contributors are encouraged to share their work as well as a donation link (e.g. PayPal if the contributor is in need of money or a link to a food bank or similar for contributors with a secure income) that readers may use to donate directly, if they are in a position to do so.

Deadline (postponed): May 31, 2020

Guest Editors: Sarah Geber, Tobias Frey, and Thomas Friemel

Health and health-related behaviours are embedded in social contexts in various ways, which comprise both risks and opportunities for individual’s health (Sallis & Owen, 2015). Communicable (i.e., infectious) diseases, such as HIV or influenza, are spread through social contacts between persons (e.g., Rothenberg et al., 1998), and unfavorable health behaviours might be reinforced in one's social network (Valente, 2010). On the other hand, social support can ease the coping with diseases in everyday life (e.g., depression; Peirce, Frone, Russell, Cooper, & Mudar, 2000), and social norms may promote favorable health behaviours (e.g., eating healthily; Mollen, Rimal, Ruiter, & Kok, 2013). In the course of the digitalisation, new platforms have emerged that intensify known social processes or enable new ones. On social networking sites, people can directly observe health-related behaviours and thus norms of relevant others (e.g., Beullens & Vandenbosch, 2016); apps allow users to track their health behaviours and share their obtained health goals (e.g., Kristensen & Ruckenstein, 2018); and various online forums provide platforms for exchanging experiences and support regarding specific health issues (e.g., Barak, Boniel-Nissim, & Suler, 2008). Since these social processes unfold their effects through communication, they deserve special attention by health communication scholars to maintain and improve individual and public health.

The special issue aims to address the complexity of individuals’ social contexts and the full breadth of communication — ranging from interpersonal communication to mass media, online to offline, intended to unintended etc. It therefore calls for papers analyzing the interrelations between social aspects, different forms of health-related communication, and health at the individual, interpersonal, and societal level. Submissions can address but are not limited to the following questions and concepts.

Individual level:

• Which health behaviours are especially susceptible to social influence (e.g., private vs. public health behaviour) and what role do different means of communication play in these contexts?
• How are individual social-related characteristics, such as traits (e.g., need to belong), cognitions (e.g., perceived norms), and motives (e.g., need for social integration) associated with health behaviour and health-related communication?
• How are media messages elaborated that address social aspects of health behaviour (e.g., social frames)?

Interpersonal level:

• Which relevance do different settings have for health communication (e.g., family, colleagues, self-help groups)?
• Which role do different actors (e.g., doctors, patients, bystanders) and social roles (e.g., opinion leaders, influencers, followers) play in the context of health communication?
• How does health-related interpersonal communication differ depending on the channel and platform (e.g. face-to-face vs. mediated)?

Societal level:

• Which sociocultural aspects (e.g., collectivistic vs. individualistic societies) and characteristics of the media system are relevant regarding health and health communication?
• What kind of divides related to health communication exist in societies and what are their consequences (e.g., digital divides)?
• How can societal inequalities and health-related stigmatization be addressed by health communication and what guidelines are helpful for journalists to ease these issues?

The special issue calls for basic research describing and explaining these aspects but also refers to applied research seeking to solve practical health communication issues. It is interested in theories, methods, and study designs that allow studying social aspects of health communication at different levels as well as the integration of various levels within a single approach.

Submission format

We welcome submissions that fit any of the EJHC formats: original research papers, theoretical papers, methodological papers, review articles, brief research reports. For further information on the article types, please see www.ejhc.org/about/submissions.

Manuscript should be prepared in accordance with the EJHC author guidelines (www.ejhc.org/about/submissions) and be submitted via the journal website (www.ejhc.org).

Deadline for submission is 31 May 2020.

Review process

All articles will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Once the paper has been assessed as appropriate by the editorial management team (with regard to form, content, and quality), it will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers in a double-blind review process, meaning that reviewers are not disclosed to authors, and authors are not disclosed to reviewers. To ensure short publication processes, EJHC releases articles online on a rolling basis, expected to start in December 2020.

Contact guest editors

Sarah Geber, University of Zurich, s.geber@ikmz.uzh.ch

Tobias Frey, University of Zurich, t.frey@ikmz.uzh.ch

Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich, th.friemel@ikmz.uzh.ch

References

Barak, A., Boniel-Nissim, M., & Suler, J. (2008). Fostering empowerment in online support groups. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 1867–1883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.004

Beullens, K., & Vandenbosch, L. (2016). A conditional process analysis on the relationship between the use of social networking sites, attitudes, peer norms, and adolescents' intentions to consume alcohol. Media Psychology, 19, 310–333. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2015.1049275

Kristensen, D. B., & Ruckenstein, M. (2018). Co-evolving with self-tracking technologies. New Media & Society, 20, 3624–3640. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818755650

Mollen, S., Rimal, R. N., Ruiter, R. A. C., & Kok, G. (2013). Healthy and unhealthy social norms and food selection. Findings from a field-experiment. Appetite, 65, 83–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2013.01.020

Peirce, R. S., Frone, M. R., Russell, M., Cooper, M. L., & Mudar, P. (2000). A longitudinal model of social contact, social support, depression, and alcohol use. Health Psychology, 19, 28–38. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.19.1.28

Rothenberg, R. B., Potterat, J. J., Woodhouse, D. E., Muth, S. Q., Darrow, W. W., & Klovdahl, A. S. (1998). Social network dynamics and HIV transmission. AIDS, 12, 1529–1536. https://doi.org/10.1097/00002030-199812000-00016

Sallis, J. F., & Owen, N. (2015). Ecological models of health behavior. In K. Glanz, B. K. Rimer, & K. Viswanath (Eds.), Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice (5th ed., pp. 43–64). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Valente, T. W. (2010). Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

October 2, 2020 with a Get Together at the October 1, 2020

Braga, Portugal

Deadline: May 15, 2020 (500 word maximum abstract)

Authors Notification: July 2020

Registration: Until 15 September 2020

Venue: Braga, Portugal ( ECREA conference venue, details to be specified)

Organisers:

Program chair: Doreen Reifegerste

Local host: Fernando Catarino (Lusofona University, Portugal)

Contact: TWG Health Communication (Braga2020@uni-erfurt.de)

Aim and Scope of the Pre-Conference

For our preconference we invite proposals that focus on different forms of communication in the context of health. This includes media issues, such as media coverage of health topics, health literacy, information seeking behaviour, usage and effects of health messages; strategic issues, focusing on communication strategies and prevention campaigns, narrowcasting health messages, and health public relations; health technologies issues, such as usage and effects of novel health technologies, communicative challenges related to novel technologies, e-health, telemedicine; social and community issues, such as health-related interpersonal communication, social influence and support, as well as community health risk management; patient-provider issues, such as determinants, content, and outcomes of patient-provider interactions, communication skills, or trust and disclosure in interactions; intercultural issues, such as health communication for ethnic minorities, challenges of intercultural health communication, and cross-cultural differences in health communication issues; methodological issues, comprising methodological innovations and challenges in current health communication research, both qualitative and quantitative approaches; academic issues, such as self-observations and introspective studies in the field of health communication. We welcome empirical studies, theoretical contributions, and literature reviews. Beyond theoretical conceptions and empirical studies from single European countries we are especially interested in contributions reflecting comparions of multiple European countries or overviews of various countries.

The pre-conference aims to assemble scholarship on health communication from across Europe and from a multiplicity of backgrounds. It is also our aim to stimulate joint projects, discussion and to give new impulses for research on health communication in Europe.

Abstracts of 500 words (excluding tables, figures, and references) must be written in English and should outline the research topic as well as the theoretical and methodological approach. Pictures/tables/charts are allowed within the abstract but do not count againts the word count. All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review.

Submit your abstract as an e-mail attachment with no references to the author(s). Author(s) details (name, affiliation and contact details) must be included in the e-mail message to Braga2020@uni-erfurt.de.

Provisional Programme

9:30 – Welcome

9:45 – 1st Session

10:45 – Coffee Break

11:15 – 2nd Session

12:15 – Lunch

13:15 – 3rd Session

14:15 – Coffee Break

14:45 – 4th Session

15:45 – Roundup or Q&A

There will be a very small fee to cover refreshments to be paid at the pre-conference.