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  • 12.03.2020 20:31 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    July 10-20, 2020

    St. Petersburg, Russia

    Deadline: April 5, 2020

    National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg Campus) invites you to participate in the 1st International Summer School on CSS Methods, held 10 - 20 July, 2020 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The deadline for applications is April 5, 2020.

    HSE CSS 2020 is an academic and educational event, aimed at mastering computational social science methods and developing international collaboration of scholars in the related fields.

    The School includes two major tracks: Methods Track and Research Track

    METHODS TRACK

    Methods Track is a two-module track organized for intermediate and advanced students. Each module consists of three parallel courses, 2 ECTS each (38 contact hours) and participate in a series of the keynote lectures by invited speakers. Also students will have an opportunity to develop their own project.

    Courses of the 1st Module (July 11 – 14, 2020): 1) Social Network Analysis; 2) Text Mining; 3) Machine Learning in Social Sciences

    Courses of the 2nd Module (July 16 – 19, 2020): 1) Bad Data: Advanced Data Cleaning and Scrapping; 2) Advanced Data Visualization; 3) Machine Learning: Causal and Interpretable Models

    RESEARCH TRACK

    Research Track is a 10-day session held for the students who are already familiar with the CCS Methods and currently working on the research related to some of the CSS Methods. This track is designed as a series of workshops where students can present and discuss their projects, as well as get a valuable feedback from the professors and improve their research.

    To apply for the Research Tracks, students are supposed to submit a short paper based on their current research, which are then selected by the School organization committee. These short papers are to be presented on the first day of the School. During the two weeks of the School students are supposed to advance their research and improve their paper. They will be presented at the second Poster Session.

    Best posters are planned to be submitted for the publication by the international publisher.

    The workshops will cover such topics as: Science Mapping, Statistical Inference, Experimental Research, Causal and Interpretable Machine Learning Models, Texts and Networks, Advanced Visualization for CSS and Poster Design.

    APPLICATION AND ENROLLMENT:

    The deadline for applications is April 5, 2020. Notifications about decisions will be sent to participants no later than April 10, 2020. For the Research Track students are supposed to submit a short paper with their ongoing research. Please visit our website (https://spb.hse.ru/io/sumsch/css/) to apply.

    PARTICIPATION FEES

    The full participation fee for the Methods Track is RUB 15,000 (approximately EUR 210). For the Research Track the full participation fee is RUB 3,500 (approximately EUR 50).

    IMPORTANT DATES

    • February 27, 2020 – Start of the application campaign
    • April 5, 2020 – Deadline for applications
    • April 10, 2020 – Notification about decision (Advanced Track)
    • April 15, 2020 – Registration of participants (deadline for applications for visa invitations from non-EU and UK countries, as well as dormitory accommodation)
    • July 10-20, 2020 – Summer School

    CONTACTS

    Yury Kabanov, HSE CSS Coordinator, ykabanov@hse.ru

    Website: https://spb.hse.ru/io/sumsch/css/

  • 12.03.2020 20:30 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    LSE Department of Media and Communications

    Salary from £36,647 to £44,140 pa inclusive of London allowance with potential to progress to £47,456 pa

    This is a fixed term appointment for one year, starting from 1 September 2020, with a possibility of extension for two further years.

    Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of Media, Communication and Development. The successful candidate will join an established and successful Department which graduates 300+ MSc students a year and which was ranked first in the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

    The Department is seeking to appoint an LSE Fellow who is able to make important contributions to its teaching and research. This post presents an excellent starting point for an academic to gain teaching experience while developing their research career.

    Candidates will have a completed or nearly-completed PhD in Media and Communications with a focus on communication inequalities in the global south (viva to be completed before the date of appointment). Candidates must demonstrate evidence of successful teaching at post-graduate level, an interest in contributing to teaching methods of research in Media and Communications, and experience of teaching media, communication and development histories and theories from a practical and critical perspective. Candidates will have a developing research record in the field of Media and Communications in the global south, with evidence of a commitment to postcolonial theories and empirical research. Candidates must demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills and a demonstrable commitment to equality and diversity.

    We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.

    For further information about the post, please see https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/3313/0/264766/15539/lse-fellow-in-media-communication-and-development

    If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page.

    Should you have any queries about the role, please email Dr Shakuntala Banaji, s.banaji@lse.ac.uk.

    The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 05 April 2020 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

    An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position. As such, applicants who have already been employed as an LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply. If you have any queries about this please contact the HR Division. LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university.

  • 12.03.2020 20:26 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    University of Huddersfield

    The School of Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield invites proposals from researchers seeking to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2020 based at the University. Fellowships are of 12-36 months duration depending on the scheme. All candidates must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience Deadline for submitting an Expression of Interest to the University is Friday 3rd April by 5pm.

    Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships aim to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence through advanced training, international mobility and intersectoral mobility. Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research and innovation in a European context or outside Europe. They develop the careers of individual researchers who show great potential and include a specific opportunity for those returning to the profession. The proposal is built around a concrete plan of training-through-research at the host organisation. In addition to research objectives, this plan comprises the researcher’s training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, planning for publications, and participation in conferences. The scheme offers a highly competitive salary, family allowance, and travel allowance, as well as research and training expenses.

    The School will support up to 10 outstanding applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships for research projects in any field within any area of the School including:

    • Media, Journalism and Film/TV
    • English
    • Creative writing
    • History
    • Drama
    • Linguistics,
    • Modern languages
    • Music (including popular music, performance, musicology, analysis)
    • Music technology

    Two schemes are available under this call:

    The European Fellowships - held in EU Member States or Associated Countries and open to researchers either coming to Europe from any country in the world or moving within Europe. Applicants cannot have resided or carried out the main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the host country for more than 12 months in the last 36 months before the call deadline. Fellowships last for a duration of 12-24 months. An optional secondment period of up to 3 or 6 months in another organisation in Europe is eligible where this would boost the impact of the fellowship.

    A Career Restart option and Reintegration to Europe option is available within the European Fellowships scheme. The fellowship structure is the same, though eligibility requirements for these routes differ. Please see the below link for more information on these routes.

    The Global Fellowships – composed of an outgoing phase during which the researcher first undertakes mobility to a partner organisation in a Third Country (not an EU Member State or Associated Country) for an uninterrupted period of between 12 and 24 months, followed by a mandatory 12-month return period to the single beneficiary located in a Member State or Associated Country, in this case the University of Huddersfield. Applicants must be a national or long-term resident of a Member State or Associated Country (i.e. undertaken a period of full-time research activity in a MS/AC of at least 5 consecutive years). The applicants must not have resided or carried out the main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the Third Country where the initial outgoing phase takes place for more than 12 months in the last 36 months immediately before the call deadline. An optional secondment period of up to 3 or 6 months in another organisation in Europe is eligible where this would boost the impact of the fellowship.

    For the Fellowships the following salary and expenses details will apply when the fellow is based at Huddersfield (during the outgoing phase of the Global Fellowship the salary rate is dependent on the particular rate applicable to the hosting Third Country – please see the Horizon 2020 Work Programme at the link below for further information}:

    • Salary €6,822 per month
    • Family Allowance (where applicable) €500 per month
    • Mobility Allowance €600 per month
    • Research, training and networking activities €800 per month

    The funder’s deadline for the full application is 9th September 2020. In order to allow time for mentoring and development of full applications, expressions of interest should be sent to Professor Monty Adkins (m.adkins@hud.ac.uk) by 5pm on Friday 3rd April, consisting of two PDF documents:

    1) a two-page CV including education, publications, any awards, exhibitions;

    2) a draft statement of the research project to be undertaken (max 2 pages) and intended training/networking requirements (max 1 page)

    A selection process internal to the School of Music, Humanities and Media will determine which proposals will go forward to a full application. A programme of mentoring and development will be offered to applicants deemed successful in this internal process.

    If you are interested in submitting an application in the area of Media, Journalism and/or Film/TV please feel free to contact Professor Catherine Johnson (C.Johnson2@hud.ac.uk) in advance of the deadline for expressions of interest.

    For further information on the scheme, including eligibility requirements, see the European Commission Research and Innovation website (and particularly the Guide for Applicants that can be found at Point 5 under the ‘Topic Conditions and Documents’ heading):

    https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en

    https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/msca-if-2020

  • 12.03.2020 20:21 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    RAE-IC Number 15 (until 11/01/2020)

    Deadline: November 1, 2020

    RAEIC, Revista Española de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, opens its call for papers inside the monograph “Investigar la Comunicación desde Perspectivas, Teorías y Métodos Periféricos” in journal’s issue 15, which will be published in Q1 2021.

    Articles must be submitted through the platform revistaeic.org. The deadline for final texts delivery will be 1st November 2020.

    Further information on http://www.revistaeic.eu/index.php/raeic/proxima-numeros

    This dossier deals with the research that we have called "peripheral", that is, the one composed of alternative methods, theories, topics and practices from the hegemonic ones within the field of communication research. Those that usually have little space within the institutionalized circuits of communicology research.

    These are some of the aspects suggested regarding the proposal of articles:

    Line 1: Emerging objects, perspectives, areas and levels of analysis with less development in the Spanish or Latin American context (e.g. video games, mobile content, interpersonal and group communication, communication and health, etc.)

    Line 2: Research giving voice to the “others” and/or explores alternative interaction contexts (e.g. immigrants, second generation immigrants, LGTBQ groups, older people, interfaith dialogue, racialized populations such as the Romani and Afro-descendant communities, etc.)

    Line 3: Analysis of non-mainstream cultural production (journalistic, cinematographic, advertising, photographic, musical, literary, audio visual, printed, etc.

    Line 4: Research attempting to overcome Western ethnocentrism by putting European and non-European traditions in dialogue.

    Line 5: Participatory, observant and qualitative methodologies.

    Line 6: History of communication research based on non-dominant subjects and objects.

    Line 7: Research on communicative practices in national, regional or local peripheries.

  • 05.03.2020 15:10 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Charles University in Prague

    We would like to ask you to help us a bit with spreading the word about our new academic Master Programme in Media and Area Studies (MARS) at Charles University in Prague.

    You will have to forgive us for being quite proud of this new project. If you find this email too intrusive, please simply delete it. We will not bother you again – this is a one-time mailing.

    But in case you are interested in this project, which combines an interest in media and politics with a strong emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe and on the European Union, extending to other social spheres as well, we have produced a 25-seconds video about it, which you can find here: https://vimeo.com/383173852. We also built a MARS website, which is at http://marsmaster.cz.

    (Potential) students can now apply to this Master Programme, and we would appreciate it, if you could help us with finding (some of) them. You can find a bit more information below, which can be easily forwarded/posted.

    In case you want to help us more, you can also download and distribute the additional material about the MARS MA programme:

    An A3 poster: https://marsmaster.fsv.cuni.cz/docs/marsmaster_poster_january2020.pdf

    An A4 booklet: http://marsmaster.fsv.cuni.cz/docs/marsmaster_flyer_february2020.pdf

    If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the new Programme Coordinator, Jan Miessler at jan.miessler@fsv.cuni.cz.

    The Master in Media and Area Studies (MARS) combines two important contemporary fields of study: Media Studies and Area Studies. This combination provides in-depth and critical knowledge about processes of mediation and signification, and how space and geography - the political and social specificities of an area - intersect with them.

    The backbone of MARS is a groundedness in Prague, the Czech Republic, Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. This enables for two particular spatial focal points, which provide the backbone of the MARS programme, namely Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. At the same time, MARS avoids an exclusive focus on Central and Eastern Europe, and offers (mostly but not exclusively through the electives) knowledge about other European regions, or about Europe as a whole. A second extension relates to more transnational and transcultural approaches, moving away from the logics of nation-state homogeneity, with emphasis on internal conflict and exclusion. This MARS backbone is combined with and strengthened by two main components: A theoretical component, which consists out of a combination of post-colonial theory, media sociology, memory studies and political geography. Moreover, also a methodological component provides the required support. These two focal points and the theoretical and methodological components structure the MARS programme.

    MARS will enable a thorough understanding of the role of context. Media (and communication) studies has a long tradition of emphasizing the importance of context, in dealing, for instance, with media production, content and interpretation/reception. And, of course, contexts are also spatial. Regions and countries, with their imagined communities, their politics, their institutional structures, their insides and outsides, are particular, and they impact in particular ways on media (infra)structures, media content and audience practices. MARS will generate a better understanding of the complexity of this context. Regions and countries are not internally homogeneous, and they cannot be studied in isolation and as structurally different from other regions and countries. MARS still takes into consideration that these regions and countries are particular socio-political and cultural entities that have characterizing but complex (and sometimes contradictory) particularities, which are extremely significant for the study of the media spheres that are embedded in these regions and countries.

    MARS is a MA programme at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). It is organised as a collaboration between the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (ICSJ FSV UK) and the Institute of International Studies (IIS FSV UK). More information can be found at http://marsmaster.cz. For a short video impression of the MARS, see https://vimeo.com/383173852.

  • 05.03.2020 13:58 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    University of Bremen

    The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen is offering a 3-year PhD position (f/m/d) – under the condition of job release – which will be based in the Computational Communication and Democracy (CCD) Lab and will be co-sponsored by the Information Management and Media Technology (IMMT) Lab (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science). The PhD student will work with the lab directors, Prof. Yannis Theocharis and Prof. Andreas Breiter on the broader thematic area *Computational Social Science*.

    Description of the position

    Duration: 3 years

    Starting date: as soon as possible

    Remuneration is based on grade E13 TV-L (100%, full-time position) of

    the German federal employee scale

    Tasks:

    • Writing a PhD Thesis focusing on one of the research areas of the labs
    • Research in the field of political communication, based on computational methods such as text-as-data, network and image analysis
    • Research on new methodological approaches with focus on machine-learning and natural language processing
    • Teaching assistance in computational methods for social scientists (study programs at Faculty 9) and machine learning models in informatics and educational technologies (Faculty 3)

    Description of teaching duties: The position involves 4 hours of teaching per week.

    Essential qualifications

    • Master’s Degree in Media and Communication, Political Science and/or Sociology with a strong focus on computational methods, or in Computer Science and Digital Media with a strong focus on social phenomena
    • * Skills in quantitative methods
    • * Skills in computational methods (a focus on text-as-data methods – especially automated text analysis and machine-learning – is a plus)Proven experience with R, Python, Ruby, Java, or equivalent object-oriented programming language
    • * Interest in political communication
    • * Experience with social media data analysis is desirable
    • * Strong command of English (C1), in German at least B2

    Candidates who already hold a PhD degree will not be considered.

    The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its diversity policies and offers a family-friendly working environment as well as an international atmosphere. The University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of women in science and therefore urges women to apply. Handicapped applicants with the same professional and personal suitability are given priority. Applications from people with a migration background are encouraged.

    For any questions please contact Yannis Theocharis at: yannis.theocharisuni-bremen.de

    Application

    The application should include the following documents:

    • A 2-page letter of motivation. Page 1 should describe your research interests and explain why you believe your profile fits with the main objectives and mission of the ZeMKI Labs. Page 2 should briefly sketch the topic of the PhD project you’d like to pursue.
    • CV
    • A copy of your academic certificates and transcripts
    • A writing sample (research paper, publication, or Master’s thesis)
    • Names of two referees

    Please send your application including the reference number A4/20 until 31 March 2020 to:

    Universität Bremen

    Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI)

    Frau Denise Tansel

    Postfach 33 04 40

    28334 Bremen

    Or as PDF via Email (single file) at: dtanseluni-bremen.de

    The employment is fixed-term and serves the scientific qualification, governed by the Act of Academic Fixed-Term Contract, §2 (1) (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz). Therefore, candidates may only be considered for appointment if they still have the respective qualification periods available in accordance with § 2 (1) WissZeitVG.

    About the Computational Communication and Democracy Lab

    The Lab’s substantive research agenda is driven by the idea that the proliferation of digital media opens up new avenues for social and political interaction that have radical effects on democratic processes: participation, organisation, representation. As such, digital communication offers opportunities, but also poses enormous challenges that fundamentally affect the quality of our democracies. Relying on developments in the field of computational social science as a point of departure, the Lab’s is also interested in methods through which new types of digital information can be processed and repurposed for studying a variety of social and political phenomena enabled by digital technologies. The lab has two main goals. First, to lead research on different but interdependent substantive topics for understanding, the social and political impact of digital communication and address methodological and epistemological issues related to conceptualisation, operationalisation, measurement and inference. Second, to offer BA, Masters, and PhD students a path for specialisation in computational and data science methods, with applications to communication and media research.

    About the Information Management and Media Technologies Lab

    The Lab combines theoretical research on the change of organizations (particularly in the education sector and in connection with mediatisation) with application-oriented research and the development of media technologies. The lab integrates the perspectives of informatics and social sciences. The underlying assumption is that the change of organisations with and through media technologies can only be studied by an empirically substantiated understanding of the particular application context. Accordingly, a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods is used in the research projects with a focus on computational social science.

    About the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI)

    As an inter-faculty research institute, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) bundles research activities at the University of Bremen in the area of media and communicative change regarding a broad range of cultural, social, organisational and technological context fields. The research institute is committed to interdisciplinary cooperation, integrating researchers from the areas of media and communication studies, cultural studies, information management and media pedagogics. In addition to their research activities, ZeMKI members are active in the various media related study programmes at the University of Bremen. The ZeMKI oversees the profile-building research group "Communicative figurations of mediatized worlds" of the University of Bremen. The research group has been supported as a "Creative Unit" by the institutional strategy "Ambitious and Agile" of the University of Bremen funded within the frame of the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments.

    https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-vacancies/details-job-vacancies/joblist/Job/show/1-x-10-doktorandin-doktorand-wmd-im-bereich-computational-social-science-6321/

  • 05.03.2020 13:51 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Aarhus University

    The School of Communication and Culture at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoc position in Intercultural Danish-German communication.

    The postdoc position is a full-time, fixed-term position, which begins on 1 August 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter and ends on 31 January 2022.

    Place of employment: Department of German and Romance Languages, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C Denmark.

    The School of Communication and Culture is committed to diversity and encourages all qualified applicants to apply regardless of their personal background.

    The position

    For the position, funded by an Aarhus University Research Foundation starting grant, we are seeking an applicant who will contribute to the research in the project “Intercultural Danish-German communication”, in close cooperation with the Interreg 5A project kultKIT. The successful applicant will carry out research on Danish-German intercultural communication in close collaboration with principal investigator Erla Hallsteinsdóttir. The successful applicant must be prepared to participate in and contribute to the research activities (data collection and analysis as well as publication and dissemination activities) as they are defined in the project application.

    The focus of the research will be on aspects that are fundamental to intercultural understanding in international strategic communication in a broad sense, with special focus on aspects of intercultural understanding, intercultural competences or linguistic aspects of interculturality. The project is linked to the research programme Communication in International Business and the Professions at the School of Communication and Culture.

    The postdoctoral researcher is expected to have a background in intercultural communication. We are particularly interested in applicants with both research expertise and practical experience in communication in a Danish-German context.

    Qualifications

    Applicants must have a PhD degree or equivalent qualifications in a field of intercultural communication or strategic communication. Applicants must furthermore be able to document:

    • An internationally oriented publication profile in topics of relevance to interculturality (e.g. intercultural understanding and intercultural competences, stereotypes), intercultural linguistics, strategic communication and/or Danish-German cooperation
    • Experience of participation in collective research projects and excellent teamwork skills
    • Experience of interdisciplinary cooperation and of cooperation with non-academic partners
    • Language skills (minimum B2) in Danish and German.
    • Finally, applicants are asked to provide a proposal for research to be undertaken within the stated framework of the research project (max. three pages).
    • Research qualifications will be assessed in relation to the period of active research, the degree of originality and the academic output.

    Work environment

    Active participation in the daily life of the department is a high priority, and we emphasise the importance of good working relationships, both among colleagues and with our students. In order to maintain and develop the department’s excellent teaching and research environment, the successful applicant is expected to be present at the department on a daily basis.

    We respect the balance between work and private life and strive to create a work environment in which that balance can be maintained. See Family and work-life balance for further information.

    International applicant?

    International applicants are encouraged to see Attractive working conditions for further information about the benefits of working at Aarhus University and in Denmark, including healthcare, paid holidays and, if relevant, maternity/paternity leave, childcare and schooling. Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including a relocation service and career counselling for expat partners. For information about taxation, see Taxation aspects of international researchers’ employment by AU.

    School of Communication and Culture

    The school belongs to the Faculty of Arts. You will find relevant information about the school, its research programmes, departments, including the Department of German and Romance Languages, and diverse activities on its website.

    Contact

    For further information about the position, please contact Erla Hallsteinsdóttir, e-mail: ehall@cc.au.dk.

    Interviews will be held in May 2020 in person or via Skype.

    Qualification requirements

    Applicants should hold a PhD or equivalent academic qualifications.

    Formalities

    Faculty of Arts refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities (the Appointment Order).

    Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.

    Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities .

    Further information on the application and supplementary materials may be found in Application Guidelines.

    The application must outline the applicant's motivation for applying for the position, attaching a curriculum vitae, a teaching portfolio, a complete list of published works, copies of degree certificates and examples of academic production (mandatory, but no more than five examples). Please upload this material electronically along with your application.

    All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal background.

    Aarhus University also offers a Junior Researcher Development Programme targeted at career development for postdocs at AU. You can read more about it here: http://talent.au.dk/junior-researchers-at-aarhus-university/the-junior-researcher-development-programme/

    Faculty of Arts

    The Faculty of Arts is one of four main academic areas at Aarhus University.

    The faculty contributes to Aarhus University's research, talent development, knowledge exchange and degree programmes.

    With its 500 academic staff members, 260 PhD students, 10,500 BA and MA students, and 1,500 students following continuing/further education programmes, the faculty constitutes a strong and diverse research and teaching environment.

    The Faculty of Arts consists of the School of Communication and Culture, the School of Culture and Society, the Danish School of Education, and the Centre for Teaching Development and Digital Media. Each of these units has strong academic environments and forms the basis for interdisciplinary research and education.

    The faculty's academic environments and degree programmes engage in international collaboration and share the common goal of contributing to the development of knowledge, welfare and culture in interaction with society.

    Read more at arts.au.dk/en

    The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.

    Aarhus University

    Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 38,000 students (FTEs) and 8,000 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 885 million. Learn more at www.international.au.dk/

  • 05.03.2020 13:48 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Deadline: May 30, 2020

    MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture invites academic authors with expertise in television studies and other related disciplines to contribute to our upcoming special issue on female detectives on TV.

    For decades now, the female detective has occupied space within a genre that has been all-too-often reserved for the celebratory storylines of self-sacrificial men. She has served to break down sexist barriers placed before women within professional and personal frameworks, acting as an on-screen surrogate and inspiration for (female) spectators. The popularity of female-led TV crime drama across the world points to her success in captivating widespread audience attention.

    The topic of women in TV crime drama has inspired a range of significant feminist scholarship (see for example, Pinedo 2019; Coulthard, Horeck, Klinger, McHugh 2018; Greer 2017; Buonanno 2017; Moorti and Cuklanz 2017; Steenberg 2017, 2012; Jermyn 2017; Weissman (2016; 2010; 2007); McCabe 2015; Turnbull 2014; Brunsdon 2013; D’Acci 1994). This work has examined female-led TV crime drama from a variety of angles, including transnational cultural exchanges and currencies, serial form and narrative, gender, class, sexual and racial politics, and postfeminist identities and logics.

    Certain series such as The Killing (Denmark 2007-2012, US 2011-2014), The Bridge (Sweden 2011-2018, US 2013-2014), The Fall (UK 2013-2016), and Top of the Lake (NZ/Australia 2013/2017), have been singled out for how their female protagonists (Sarah Lund/Sarah Linden; Saga Noren; Stella Gibson, and Robin Griffin) resonate with viewers across transnational borders. Meanwhile, on primetime episodic US TV crime drama, Mariska Hargitay’s 21-year stint as Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (US 1999-present) – the longest running live-action TV series in American history – has turned her into a ‘touchstone figure’ (Moorti and Cuklanz 2017). Hargitay’s real-life activism, and her dedication to fighting sexual violence against women, has attained important cultural recognition, as Law & Order: SVU itself has received renewed critical consideration in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

    Notably, though, the female detectives mentioned in the above paragraph are overwhelmingly white. What shifts occur in the genre when a non-white female actor helms the main role as detective? What new possibilities, for example, are opened up by the emergence of black female legal investigators and detectives on network series such as ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder (US 2014-2019) and online TV series such as Netflix’s Seven Seconds (US 2018)? And to what extent is TV crime drama able to meaningfully engage with issues of intersectionality and the precariousness of social justice in twenty-first century society?

    This special issue seeks to build on the existing body of feminist writing on women in TV crime drama, through a further investigation of the figure of the female detective at this critical juncture for feminist television studies. What new feminist visions of the female detective have emerged with changes in industrial practices and the growth of online streaming and niche television? How does the female detective of streaming TV compare to the images of the female detective found in the middlebrow crime dramas of linear TV? In an era of networked media in which popular feminism and popular misogyny (Banet-Weiser 2018) are more intertwined than ever before, what notions of empowerment are articulated through the figure of the female detective? To what extent does the female detective enable an exploration of central issues regarding female subjectivity and political resistance against systemic forms of violence?

    We hope to open further debate on the subject of the female detective in all her guises. Staying true to MAI spirit, we are seeking papers written from intersectional and multivalent feminist perspectives. We hope this issue not only examines the figures and representations of women crime investigators on the screen, but also situates their work in related social, cultural and political contexts.

    Our definition of the female detective is broad and inclusive. She can, but doesn’t have to be a private eye or a police professional, just as long as she pursues social justice or truth.

    While analyses of current and recent examples seem to be an obvious priority as far as contribution to the field knowledge of visual culture analysis, we also welcome papers on female detectives from the past.

    In particular, we would like to encourage authors to consider submitting articles on the following titles:

    • Seven Seconds
    • How to Get Away with Murder
    • Marcella
    • Spiral
    • Unbelievable
    • Killing Eve
    • Safe
    • Top of the Lake
    • The Fall
    • The Bridge
    • Veronica Mars
    • Southland
    • Fargo
    • Prime Suspect
    • La Mante
    • Castle
    • The Killing
    • Broadchurch
    • Lucifer
    • Elementary
    • The Wire
    • The Closer
    • Happy Valley
    • Jessica Jones
    • Absentia
    • Tatort
    • The Bletchley Circle
    • Collateral
    • Suspects
    • Witnesses
    • Loch Ness
    • Cagney and Lacey

    We recognise that there are many more titles of interests, and the list could run quite long. If you wish to propose a paper on any other TV title, please get in touch with the editors to discuss your suggestion: contact@maifeminism.com

    We plan to publish this issue in the first half of 2021.

    The editorial team includes:

    Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

    Jessica Ford (University of Newcastle, Australia)

    Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

    Anna Misiak (Falmouth University, UK)

    300-word Abstracts due: 30 May 2020

    4000-6000-word Full Papers due: 1 December 2020

    Please consult the MAI submission guidelines before submitting: https://maifeminism.com/submissions/

    Please send your abstracts and forward responses to this call to contact@maifeminism.com

  • 05.03.2020 13:35 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Dublin City University - Ireland India Institute and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

    • Qualification Type: PhD
    • Location: Dublin - Ireland
    • Funding for: UK Students, EU Students, International Students
    • Funding amount: €21,000 to €27,000
    • £17,713.50 to £22,774.50 converted salary*
    • Hours: Full Time
    • Placed On: 25th February 2020
    • Closes: 26th March 2020

    Dublin City University’s Ireland India Institute in conjunction with DCU faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences invites applications for four PhD studentships, valued at between €21,000 and €27,000 pa, for up to four years.

    We welcome high quality applications from those interested in working within the wide areas of expertise in the Faculty, but especially in the following topic areas:

    • The connections between the Indian nationalist movement and the new Irish state, covering some or all of the period 1920 to 1980. Contact: Dr Daithi O Corrain, DCU School of History and Geography, daithi.ocorrain@dcu.ie
    • Peace and conflict studies – focused on one or more cases in the North East of India. (Contact: Prof. John Doyle john.doyle@dcu.ie
    • Indian Politics / India’s Foreign Policy – focused on contemporary political issues and / or foreign policy. Contact Dr Jivanta Schottli jivanta.schottli@dcu.ie
    • Digital social media practices in contemporary elections: single country or regional South Asian focus or Changing image practices in South Asian news industries. Contact: Dr Saumava Mitra, School of Communications, saumava.mitra@dcu.ie .
    • Translator interaction with machine translation for Indian languages. Contact Dr Joss Moorkens, joss.moorkens@dcu.ie
    • Languages-in-education policy in India (contact Dr Jennifer Bruen, jennifer.bruen@dcu.ie)
    • Writing India: English-language tales and novels between circa 1800 to 1947 (contact Dr Sharon Murphy sharon.murphy@dcu.ie)
    • Post-colonial connections: The English-language Indian novel and the Irish novel in the 20th century. (contact Prof. Derek Hand derek.hand@dcu.ie)

    DCU has a strong focus on South Asia, with a vibrant PhD community specialising on the region. The University is the host and coordinator for a €3.9m EU funded “European Training Network”, called Global India, focused on India’s emerging international role, linking leading European and South Asian Universities and providing an excellent professional network for our PhD students. The University also hosts the annual South Asia Studies conference in Ireland, now emerging as one of the largest such events in Europe.

    Criteria

    The successful candidates must have a Masters degree in a relevant discipline, fluent English and excellent academic grades. International students will need to meet the university’s English language requirements. http://www.dcu.ie/registry/english.shtml . The PhD programme will provide significant mentoring support and therefore scholars must be resident in Dublin. All positions will begin on 1 October 2020.

    Informal Enquiries are welcomed and can be made to the nominated supervisors listed above or

    • Professor Eileen Connolly, Director Ireland India Institute, E-mail: india@dcu.ie
    • Potential Supervisors listed above will be happy to facilitate discussion on draft research proposals.

    Further information:

    These projects will be hosted by the relevant academic schools and the chosen candidates will also work with DCU’s Ireland India Institute. Further details on

    https://www.dcu.ie/humanities_and_social_sciences/index.shtml

    https://irelandindia.ie

    These PhD scholarships have a value of up to €21,000 to €27,000 (full fees either EU or non-EU rate, plus a living allowance of €16,000pa (usually tax free), for up to 4 years, subject to satisfactory progress. Students will also be provided with excellent supervision and strong professional mentoring along with their own workspace in a shared office.

    Closing date for receipt of applications: 26 March 2020

    Applications should be made to India@dcu.ie and they should include

    • a cv,
    • a one page letter of application.
    • the grades achieved in your Masters degree
    • a research proposal (maximum 2000 words), setting out your research question, how the research relates to existing academic literature and a brief description of your proposed methodology.
  • 05.03.2020 13:22 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Submission of expression of interest: March 30, 2020

    We warmly invite you to submit your book chapter abstract for consideration for our book proposal.

    ABOUT THE BOOK

    The aim of this edited volume is to reflect on the concept of disinformation and its multiple dimensions, as well as the strategies and practices developed around them, particularly those linked to political contexts and electoral processes.

    The Oxford Dictionary declared post-truth word of the year in 2016, highlighting a historical and political moment in which disinformation strategies, fake news and lies are exponentially spread through social networks: facilitating, among others, Trump’s rise to power and having an impact also in Brexit debates (Jankowski, 2018). Since then, the role of manipulative messages has increased (Baudrillard, 1981; Wardle, 2017) – rising concern about their effects in political decisions, particularly in times of crisis (Spence, Lachlan , Edwards, & Edwards, 2016).

    The potential role of social networks in disseminating disinformation (Woolley & Howard, 2016) grows in importance if we take into account that they have become the main source of information (Shearer & Gottfried, 2017), especially during electoral processes (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017). Considering that disinformation takes advantage of the increasing polarization of public opinion (Lewandowsky, Ecker & Cook, 2017; Horta et al,. 2017), its pernicious effects on decision-making and political debate demand a greater knowledge of the motivations behind the dissemination of disinformation (Flynn, Nyhan & Reifler, 2017).

    Theoretical approaches as well as international and comparative research would be very welcome.

    Topics of interest for the book may be related, but not limited, to the following:

    • Genealogy of post-truth and its different expressions: misinformation, disinformation, manipulation, fake-news, conspiracy theories, rumours, memes 
    • Origins and historical evolution of disinformation.
    • Fact-checking and digital platforms for verifying public discourse: Experiences and results.
    • Effects of disinformation on democratic stability.
    • Polarization and success of disinformation: perception and influence.
    • Reception studies of fake-news.
    • Disinformation in politics
    • Active audiences and the fight against the spread of false news: counter-narratives and different civic society initiatives.
    • Bots and dissemination of fake news: who is behind the massive dissemination of false or manipulative messages?
    • Algorithmic transparency: The role of platforms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter in the control of false news
    • Regulation and self-control: viability of regulation.
    • Actions on tacking disinformation around the world
    • News transparency and fact-checkers in the newsrooms.
    • Misinformation and human rights.
    • Media literacy and misinformation.
    • Trends, styles, and narratives of fake news.
    • Dynamics of dissemination.

    PUBLISHER: Wiley

    EDITORS:

    Guillermo López-García (Associate Professor in Journalism Studies University of Valencia) Bio: http://mediaflows.es/en/investigador/guillermo-lopez/

    Bella Palomo (Full Professor in Journalism Studies. University of Malaga). https://www.uma.es/departamento-de-periodismo/info/73080/perfil-bella-palomo/

    Dolors Palau-Sampío (Associate Professor in Journalism Studies. University of Valencia). Bio: http://mediaflows.es/en/investigador/dolors-palau/

    Eva Campos-Domínguez (Associate Professor in Journalism Studies. University of Valladolid). Bio: http://mediaflows.es/en/investigador/eva-campos/

    Pere Masip Masip (Associate Professor in Journalism Studies, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona). Bio: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pere_Masip

    CALL FOR CHAPTERS:

    Submission procedure

    Interested authors should email abstracts of 500-700 words in the form of a word-processed email to Guillermo Lopez (guillermo.lopez@uv.es) or Bella Palomo (bellapalomo@uma.es) no later than 30th of March. Please include the following details:.

    • Proposed chapter title
    • Author(s) and affiliation details
    • Type of contribution (e.g., theoretical, conceptual, methodological, case study)
    • Keywords (maximum of 5)

    If accepted, full contributions are expected to be a maximum of 5000 words including references.

    The fact that an abstract is accepted does not guarantee publication of the final manuscript, as all chapter still undergo a peer-review process.

    Each contribution must be original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere.

    The approximate timeline is as follows:

    • Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2020
    • Chapter acceptance notification: 2 April 2020
    • Full text submission deadline: 31 July 2020
    • Target publication date: May 2021

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