ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

January 8-9, 2024

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Deadline: October 25, 2023

Central and Eastern European (CEE) nations have undergone profound economic, social, and political transformations in the past four decades, significantly reshaping their societal dynamics. While some countries, particularly those that became part of the European Union during the enlargements of 2004 and 2013, have made significant progress in their transformation and development processes, others still need to grapple with challenges. These challenges include the establishment of democracy (e.g., Belarus), resolution of independence or geopolitical issues and war (e.g., Ukraine and Kosovo), resurgence of civic protests (e.g., Poland), and a rise in support for populist leaders (e.g., Hungary and Poland).

Throughout this period, Central and Eastern Europe has also experienced rapid technological advancements. Although internet access is widespread, it remains lower than in Western Europe, especially concerning broadband access. The digital divide, notably pronounced between rural and urban areas, imposes constraints on access to information, the availability of internet resources for disseminating civic knowledge, participation in political discourse, and engagement in political activities.

New media, including digital and social media, have allowed citizens to express their opinions and engage in collective actions. However, unequal access to the internet can limit these connections to privileged groups, leaving others marginalized. The digital divide, often rooted in educational and financial disparities, exacerbates societal misunderstandings and polarization.

This conference explores the relationship between technological advancements and the sustainability of democratic systems and civil society in CEE. We strongly encourage regional researchers to submit their research grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks and comprehensive qualitative or quantitative methodologies in the areas of (but not only):

• The role of technological development of the media in the consolidation of the democratic processes
  
• Political and civic engagement in the light of new media affordances
  
• Political actors and their employment of new media communication strategies
  
• The challenges to sustainable democratic institutions from online communication  
  

The conference highlights:

Keynote: Sabina Mihelj and Vaclav Stetka (Loughborough University, UK)

Roundtable I: “Digital democracy and civil society in CEE” - a lunch of the Journal of Information,

Technology and Politics special issue.

Roundtable II: “Political Information Environment: Threats and solutions for sustainable democracy”- presentation of the THREATPIE project and discussion with non-academic stakeholders (journalists, NGO representatives, educators, and politicians).

Organizers:

Institute of Journalism and Media Communication and Faculty of Social Sciences University of Silesia in Katowice

Journal of Information, Technology and Politics

THREATPIE: The Threats and Potentials of a Changing Political Information Environment project, http://threatpie.eu/ 

NORFACE Joint Research Programme on Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age and co-funded by FWO, DFF, ANR, DFG, NWO, NCN, AEI, and ESRC, and the European Commission through Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No 822166.

Venue:

University of Silesia in Katowice

Faculty of Social Sciences

Institute of Journalism and Media Communication Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Conference organizers:

Damian Guzek, University of Silesia in Katowice

Karolina Koc-Michalska, Audencia Business School Nantes and University of Silesia in Katowice Agnieszka Stepinska, Adam Mickiewicz University

Schedule:

Submission of the abstracts: October 25, 2023 Acceptance of the abstracts: end-October, 2023

Requirements for the Authors:

Submission of an abstract of max. 300 words to cee.media.conference@gmail.com providing:

• Title
  
• Brief description of the proposed research scope
  
• Research questions
  
• Description of the data (methodological approach, sample, analytical strategy) 
• First analysis (if available)
  
• Short Bio of the Authors (outside of the word limit)
  

March 20, 2024

Online

Deadline: December 2, 2023

We are delighted to announce this Call for Papers, for the fully virtual and free 1 day conference on Emerging Directions in News Use Research on 20th March 2024. 

The event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust funded parents’ news use project - which runs from the fall of 2023 to the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use project aims to examine how parents engage with and respond to news at critical moments of crisis. The project team includes Professor Ranjana Das, Dr Thomas Roberts, Dr Emily Setty and Dr Maria-Nerina Boursinou from the Department of Sociology (University of Surrey)  

Emerging Directions in News Use Research - a day-long, international, virtual conference - aims to bring together a global group of scholars involved with researching news use, news audiences and consumption, and news engagement and disengagement. We are keen to hear from a range of empirical contexts, from projects using tried and tested as well as more creative and innovative methodologies, and to showcase the work of scholars across career stages in the fields of Sociology, Journalism, Media and Communication, and more. 

Keynote speakers at the event include

Professor Brita Ytre-Arne, University of Bergen, Norway; Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Professor Kim Schroeder, Roskilde University, Denmark; Professor Sahana Udupa, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany and Professor Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, Colorado. 

Submission Portal:

We welcome submissions for a 10-12 minute paper presentation on this submission portal in the following areas, which are included below, but not limited to- 

Submission Topics:              

• News use, environmental change and the climate crisis ·               
  
• News use in relation to young people and sex and relationships          
  
• Datafication, algorithms and the news        
  
• Theoretical perspectives on news use       
  
• Methodological aspects of news consumption research         
  
• News use, risk and anxiety     
  
• Families, parenting, children and the news       
  
• News audiences and users          
  
• News literacy      
  
• News use research and global disparities and inequalities           
  
• Disinformation 
  
• News use and disconnection research 
  

Abstract Submission Details: 

Final submission deadline: 5pm BST on Monday 2nd December 2023 

Notification of outcome: Friday 15th December  2023 

Deadline for Registrations (registration is free): Monday 18th March 2024 

Event date (fully online): Wednesday 20 March 2024 , 0900 to 1700* GMT 

Submission portal:

[please submit your abstract here] 

Please email any question you may have about submissions to Dr Nerina Boursinou (m.boursinou@surrey.ac.uk).

Dear all,

Dr Catalina Goanta (University of Utrecht) and I (Sophie Bishop, University of Leeds) wanted to bring to your attention an event that may be of interest for those working on influencer culture, content creation or digital advertising. Together with the European Commission, we have drawn from our research expertise in law and influencer culture to co-develop the first European legal training for influencers on the topic of consumer protection.  

We have helped to develop an approachable (even fun!) range of easy-to-understand resources aimed at explaining relevant regulation to influencers, their management and agency teams, brands, advertisers and audiences.  

The Hub includes short, animated explainer videos; helpful checklists for best practices like advertising disclosures; legal briefs and links to other important national and international authorities. The Influencer Legal Hub will be publicly available on the European Commission website after the launch event below. The Hub goes live on 16 October. 

We would like to invite you to attend a launching event on Monday 16 October at 10.30 CET. The programme includes a range of speakers including us, key EU consumer protection policymakers, and content creators. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AL8oHoy9SjCudgar0343Qw#/registration

Please get in touch if you would like to know more about the resource, or the ERC project HUMANads which this work is broadly a part of.

Best wishes,

Catalina and Sophie 

 Dear Colleagues, 

I hope this email finds you in good health and high spirits. My name is Santhosh Kumar Putta, and I am a PhD candidate at Osmania University, India,  currently working on a thesis titled "Social Networking Sites and Culture of Following." My research aims to develop a new theoretical framework in this domain, and I would be extremely grateful for your assistance in gathering data for this important endeavor.

As esteemed members of the Communication Association, your network and influence play a crucial role in the academic community. I am reaching out to request your support in circulating a survey among your colleagues, students, and other academic contacts. Your participation and assistance in sharing this survey would be invaluable in contributing to the success of this research project.

The survey is designed to gather insights into the dynamics of social networking sites and the evolving culture of following, exploring various dimensions including user behavior, motivations, and the impact on social interactions. Your participation and the participation of your contacts will greatly enhance the diversity and depth of the data collected.

Survey Link: https://forms.gle/LshHosWD9CBXqJaa6

Your collaboration in this endeavor is immensely appreciated, and I am confident that your involvement will greatly enrich the findings of this study. I look forward to the possibility of sharing the outcomes with you and the broader academic community.

Thank you for considering my request, and please feel free to reach out if you have any queries or require additional information.

Warm regards,

Santhosh kumar Putta

UGC - Senior Research Fellow

Member IAMCR, ECREA, iafor

Dept of communication and Journalism

UCASS

Osmania University, Hyderabad

INDIA

University of Stirling

Closing date: 2 November 2023

Open ended, full time

More details: : Vacancy details | University of Stirling

Communications, Media & Culture (CMC) wishes to appoint a qualified candidate at Lecturer Grade 8 (Teaching and Research) with specialist interests in Public Relations to expand the Division’s teaching, research and knowledge exchange activities.

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator who is able to effectively teach, motivate and mentor undergraduates and postgraduates. They will make a contribution to teaching, research and impact activities in public relations and strategic communication, including short-course opportunities in CMC, as well as provide a strategic direction for development in this area. The successful candidate will primarily deliver teaching on our established award-winning MSc Public Relations and Strategic Communication programmes (on campus and online) and MSc Strategic Communication and Public Relations (Joint Degree with Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) as well as contribute across the CMC undergraduate and postgraduate portfolio. Post holders may be required to travel abroad as part of their duties. 

Applicants with specialist knowledge, skills or interests in one or more of the following areas are invited to apply:

• Critical public relations and strategic communication studies
  
• Media relations
  
• Digital communications and social media
  
• Strategic communication planning, research and evaluation
  
• Public affairs, advocacy and activism
  
• Political communication
  
• Health communication
  
• Science and environment communication
  
• Public relations and creative industries
  
• (Digital) publics and the public sphere

The postholder will be a researcher who has expertise in public relations and strategic communications, evidenced by published research and peer reviewed scholarly activity. They will have a growing research profile in public relations and/or communication studies and a strong understanding of professional practice, emerging trends in the 21st century digital media landscape and complex social issues that communication needs to address (e.g. circular economy, sustainability, environment, smart cities, social justice, human rights, health and wellbeing, creative futures). The successful candidate will engage effectively with internal departments within the University and external stakeholders to pursue opportunities for collaboration, income generation and enhancing CMC’s regional, national, and international profile. 

Informal enquiries can be made to Associate Professor Alenka Jelen: alenka.jelen@stir.ac.uk 

Further details about the post can be found here : Vacancy details | University of Stirling

Vassar College, USA

Apply here: https://employment.vassar.edu/postings/3504

Position title: Assistant Professor of Film, Tenure Track

Department: Film Department

Duration of Position: Academic Year/Full Time

Employee Type: Faculty

Posting Number: F088P

Position Introduction:

The Department of Film at Vassar College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Latin American Film and/or Screen Studies to begin Fall semester 2024.

AA Statement:

Vassar College is deeply committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community and the curriculum, and to promoting an environment of equality, inclusion, and respect for difference. Candidates who can contribute to this goal through their teaching, research, advising, and other activities are encouraged to identify their strengths and experiences in this area. The College is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, and especially welcomes applications from veterans, women, individuals with disabilities, and members of racial, ethnic, and other groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding.

About Vassar College:

Vassar is a highly selective, coeducational liberal arts college of about 2400 undergraduate students, located in the Hudson Valley, seventy-five miles north of New York City. Vassar stands upon the homelands of the Munsee Lenape. The College is located in Poughkeepsie, home to a culturally diverse community, and benefits from convenient commuter rail access to New York City. Vassar faculty are committed teachers/scholars who bring research and creative discovery to life for students in classrooms, labs, and studios and in individually-mentored projects. They teach broadly in the curricula of their departments, advise students, and serve on college-wide and departmental committees. The College maintains a generous leave policy, provides strong support for research, and encourages multidisciplinary approaches to teaching.

Position Description:

Competitive candidates will have a PhD in Film Studies or a relevant field. Candidates who are ABD and will have their degree in hand by the start of Fall 2024 are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate is prepared to teach widely in the film studies curriculum, especially foundational screen analysis and film history courses, while also developing and implementing new course offerings on Latin American media. These courses might include various national cinemas and movements, LatinX, AfroLatino, or diasporic studies, transnational studies, indigenous studies, border studies, television, radio, digital platforms, and/or activist media. We welcome candidates with areas of specialization including feminist studies, queer studies, trans studies, and disability studies. We strongly encourage applicants who incorporate creative elements – such as outward-facing scholarship or site-specific learning – to their research and/or teaching to apply.

Applications should be addressed to Erica Stein, chair of the search committee, and submitted online at: https://employment.vassar.edu/postings/3466. For inquiries, please reach out to estein@vassar.edu.

Review of applications will begin on October 16, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications received after that date will not be guaranteed review.

Salary Wage Range:

Pay Transparency Disclosure: The annual base starting salary range for this position is $89,000 to $99,000 (USD). This range includes new faculty appointments beginning the first year of a standard tenure clock as well as Assistant Professors with previous tenure-line experience who will be on an accelerated tenure clock. When extending an offer of employment, Vassar College considers factors such as (but not limited to) candidate’s education/training, work experience, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations. This salary range represents the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate at the time of posting. The starting salary for an Assistant Professor in this position with a PhD beginning the first year of a standard tenure clock in Fall 2024 is $93,000.

How to Apply:

• CV
  
• Cover letter
  
• Graduate transcript (an unofficial copy is acceptable for initial application)
  
• Diversity statement (additional information can be found at https://offices.vassar.edu/dean-of- the-faculty/positions/candidate-diversity-statement/)
  
• Teaching statement
  
• Names and emails of three references

May 23-25, 2024

Lab. CIMEOS (University of Burgundy) 

Deadline: November 15, 2024

International Communication Association 

French Society for Information and Communication Science  

Lab. CIMEOS (University of Burgundy) 

The Regional ICA Conference to be held in May 2024 in Dijon welcomes scholars from all over the worldworking on food-related issues from a Communication Sciences perspective. Today, food is the subject of numerous studies in history, sociology and anthropology.Many reference works have been written in the disciplines of Human and Social Sciences yet reading the food fact by the prism of the Communication Sciences is an original approach which allows to underline aspects until now little treated.   

Eating and food choices are the result of numerous factors: biological, psychological, cultural and social. The latter are made up of a whole range of dimensions, such as the media context, memory traces linked to childhood, our upbringing or the experiences and memories that stem from it. 

From this perspective, food choices require us to adopt a reflexive stance on the social, symbolic and memorial values we incorporate when we eat. As part of the research carried out by the CIMEOS laboratory and its food and gastronomy axis, it's the meaning of our food that we're concerned with. Its gourmet meaning, its environmental and ethical meaning, its nutritional meaning but also its political meaning. 

Communication Sciences have taken on the food issue around several polarities (De Iulio et al., 2015). The first considers food as a system in the sense understood by Greimas, who emphasizes that "food constitutes a form of non-verbal communication through which meaning is shared" (2015: 8). The second polarity addresses our acts, practices and food choices from media perspective, as an object of discourse and images.

It is then a matter of working on food and gastronomy by studying the discourses, their circularity, their impacts on the representations of consumers but also, by extension, on their practices. Various and diversified epistemological approaches are developed questioning a multiplicity of concepts from sensorial and sensitive communication to knowledge constitution and mediation, or digital impacts, challenges and stakes.

The ICA "Food Communication” regional conference offers opportunities for engagement with scholars, students and public intellectuals from around the continent to debate these important and topical issues. The following types of proposal are encouraged: communications, thematic panels, posters (especially by the young scholars).  

Papers, panels (free formats but no longer than one hour and a half) or posters could address the following themes: 

1. Social practices concerning the act of « eating ». 

2. Food communication and digital technologies.

3. Health, food and communication. 

4. Communication strategies of the food science industry: food security, labels, etc. 

5. Food as a medium for constructing a territory’s reputation and notoriety. 

The conference will be held in person and is open to everyone, but scholars who wish to present their works need to submit an extended abstract (400-600 words) that will be double-peer reviewed. 

In the future, an Interest Group Food and Communication could be created participating to the development of research in that area for ICA. 

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS DETAILS:

Following the ICA tradition, multiple methodologies are valued and works conducted from a wide range of paradigmatic perspectives are encouraged. The goal for extended abstracts is to present and discuss current research about food communication and should adhere to the following guidelines:

- Extended abstract should be between 400-600 words (excluding references, tables & figures), and should clearly state the contribution of the work to food communication.

- Research data should already be collected. Abstracts need to present some preliminary analyses to provide a first review of results.

- Theoretical or methodological extended abstracts are also acceptable; authors should lay out the main arguments to be developed.

- Work should be unpublished and not presented at other conferences. 

Please upload a single de-identified PDF file of your paper (including tables, figures, and references) by the deadline (November 15th, 2023) to: https://icafood2024.sciencesconf.org/. To submit an abstract each author must create an account on the website. 

Deadlines: 

Deadline for submission: November 15th, 2023 

Applicants will hear by mid-January 2024 

Provisional Schedule: 

23rd of may

8h45 – 9h30: Reception  

9h30 – 12h30: Plenary session  

9h30 – 9h45: Opening (organizing committee, laboratory direction) 

9h45 – 11h30: Keynote speaker #1 + Keynote speaker #2  

11h30 – 12h30: Round table #1 (4 keynote speakers) 

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break  

14h00 – 15h30: Parallel workshops / panel 

15h30 – 16h00: Coffee break, posters and networking 

16h00 – 17h30: Round table #2  

24th of May:

8h45 – 9h00: Reception 

 9h00 – 10h45: Plenary session (2 keynote speakers) 

10h45 – 11h00: Coffee break, posters and networking 

11h00 – 12h30: Parallel panels  

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break  

14h00 – 15h00: Young scholars session 

15h00 – 15h30: Coffee break, posters and networking 

15h30 – 17h00: Round table #3  

  17h00 – 17h30: Conclusion

25th of May: Cultural visit – details TBA 

Questions? Please contact:  

Estera-Tabita Badau estera-tabita.badau@u-bourgogne.fr 

Aude Chauviat aude.chauviat@u-bourgogne.fr  

Organizing Committee:  

• Estera Badau 
  
• Aude Chauviat
  
• Clémentine Hugol-Gential
  
• Daniel Raichvarg
  

European Journal of Health Communicaiton (Special Issue)

Deadline: February 15, 2024

Guest Editors: Estera Badau (University of Burgundy), Iccha Basnyat (George Mason University), Evelyn Y. Ho (University of San Francisco), & Olivier Galibert (University of Burgundy)

Download Call as PDF

In this special issue of the European Journal of Health Communication, we invite scholars to submit manuscripts which address (in)equalities and (in)equities in digital health communication and provide theorising that goes beyond individual actors and their responsibilities.

As society grapples with inequities in health and disease, scientists throughout the world have recognised that individual-level behaviour change interventions, while common, are not always ideal for improving health outcomes. Recent global health pandemics have highlighted the need for both digital health technologies and collaborations that bring together the public and private sectors at local, regional, national, and international levels for success. This is an area where health communication scholars should offer new and important insights. New technologies, such as AI, digital health and monitoring tools, electronic medical records, and organisational shifts to digitise clinical encounters, are quickly becoming essential for health, well-being and patient empowerment. At the same time, technologies are often created for profit and exist within systems that replicate and often exacerbate inequalities due to unequal access, literacy, or other structural forms of oppression, such as embedded racism, sexism, and ableism.

What counts as digital health communication?

Worldwide technological development and the digitalisation of health technologies are at the heart of healthcare systems promising efficiency, better management, and a patient-centred approach. However, all the tools available to support patients, carers, and healthcare professionals are also at risk of exacerbating implicit and unintentional discrimination or bias. For this special issue, we are particularly interested in papers that focus on either the human use of digital tools/devices to support health communication or examination of digital health contexts such as mobile health, e-health, and AI-based technologies such as conversational agents and telehealth focused on health communication. This special issue calls on health communication scholars to theorise on or empirically examine (beyond individual actors and their responsibilities) interventions and solutions to health inequality/inequity using digital tools/devices.

What do we mean by (in)equality & (in)equity?

In most of Europe and in other parts of the world, the state plays a major role in ensuring public health. As most health technologies are developed by private companies with often different and conflicting objectives (responsibilities to shareholders and profit), it is worth exploring if and how such technologies can improve health and for whom. Inequalities refers to the unequal distribution or usage of health care services supported or enabled by digital technologies. These inequalities may be related to socio-demographic factors such as age, race, region, income, education level, health status, or health literacy. Inequities refers to failures of governments or other structures or organisations that are supposed to ensure public health for all. Inequalities can create inequities, but they can also be used to address inequities. In addition, digital transformations can both improve or reinforce, produce or exacerbate, through health communication, certain forms of inequalities and/or inequities.

All submissions should address the three main components of this special issue:

• A digital health communication context or technology,
  
• an (in)equality or (in)equity aspect,
  
• the issue of responsibility, which may include individual actors/patients but should also include examination of structural, cultural, organisational, economic, or policy levels.
  
• Examples of topics of interest related to (in)equality and (in)equity in digital health communication include (but are not limited to):
  
• Processes for cultural adaptation of digital health messaging
  
• Digital health literacy alongside language literacy in migrant communities using e-health coaching or wearable devices
  
• Mis/dis-information at structural or organisational levels
  
• Telehealth platform for low-income patients without internet access or smartphones/digital devices
  
• User interaction design that accounts for various ability levels of vision and hearing
  
• Web-based directory of local mental health resources
  
• Health messages generated by AI algorithms/ large language models (e.g., GPT) and intrinsic racism, sexism, or other form of discrimination
  
• Chatbots in the distribution of health information and education
  
• AI communication policies/ethics created by organisations or governments
  
• Digitisation of inclusive health reminders for screenings and procedures that consider diverse gender identities (e.g., pap smears, mammogram, prostate screening)
  
• Health-related controversies on an NGO-designed digital platform
  

Submission format

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

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with EJHC author guidelines and be submitted via the journal website.

The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2024.

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 October 2024.

Contact Guest Editors

Estera Badau (France): estera-tabita.badau@u-bourgogne.fr

Iccha Basnyat (United States): ibasnyat@gmu.edu

Evelyn Y. Ho (United States): eyho@usfca.edu

Olivier Galibert (France): olivier.galibert@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr

October 12-14, 2023

Berlin University of the Arts

A Book launch and Symposium

All events take place in the main building of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)

Hardenbergstraße 33

10623 Berlin 

Charlotte-Salomon-Saal / Raum 101 (& 102 for the symposium)

Thursday, 12.10.2023:

18:00: BOOK LAUNCH 

Brief book presentation

Domesticating Domestication? 

A dialogue between Anne-Jorunn Berg (Nord University, NO) & Maren Hartmann (UdK, DE)

Fingerfood & drinks

Friday, 13.10.2023:

SYMPOSIUM

8:30-9:00: Arrival

9:00-9:15: Welcome

9:15-9:45: Domestication - what is it good for?  An interactive workshop-element

9:45-10:00: Coffee break

10:00-12:00: TALKS - ROUND ONE: 

INFRASTRUCTURES & RE-DOMESTICATION

Domestication as User-Led Infrastructuring

Thomas Berker (NTNU, NO)

Meant for the whole household - Self-characterizations of residential communities in the setup of a smart speaker

Niklas Strüver & Tim Hector (University of Siegen, DE)

Conceptualizing re-domestication: theoretical reflections and empirical findings to a neglected concept 

Corinna Peil (University of Salzburg, Austria) & 

Jutta Röser (University of Münster, DE)

Respondent: David Morley (Goldsmiths, UK)

12:00-12:15: Break

12:15-13:15: KEYNOTE: 

Domestication Meets the Big Other

Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary, CAN)

13:15-14:30: LUNCH

14:30-15:00:   MAPPING DOMESTICATION RESEARCH - AN EXERCISE

15:00-17:00: TALKS - ROUND TWO: 

OPENING UP POLICIES, CULTURES & SIMULATIONS

Policy relevance of domestication research: Insights from three Swedish case studies

Tobias Olsson & Carolina Martinez (Malmö University)

Nuanced Domestication of Social Media: Intrigues of Situated Cultural Affordances in Kenyan Local Ecologies of Knowledge

James Ogone (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Kenya)

Domesticating the simulated situations and spaces of video calling and virtual reality technologies

Deborah Chambers (Newcastle, UK)

Respondent: Leslie Haddon (LSE, UK)

17:00-17:15: COFFEE BREAK

17:15-18:15: EMTEL Panel: 

Reflections on the life of a network

Jo Pierson (University of Hasselt, BE); Leslie Haddon (LSE, UK) & Knut Sørensen (NTU, NO)

19:30: DINNER

Saturday, 14.10.2023:

10:00-11:15: TALKS - ROUND THREE: 

OTHER SIDES OF DOMESTICATION

The Dark Side of Domestication? Individualization, Anxieties and FoMO Created by the Use of Media Technologies

Tem Frank Andersen & Peter Vistisen (University of Aalborg, DK)

Domestication Theory: Reflections from the Kalahari

Helle-Valle & Storm-Mathisen (OsloMet, NO)

11:15-11:30: COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:45: TALKS - ROUND FOUR: TAKING CARE OF BODIES 

Lacking the body in the house 

Maren Hartmann (UdK, DE)

Feeling Good, Feeling Safe: Domesticating Phones and Drugs in Clubbing

Kristian Møller (RUC, DK)

12:45-13:30: FINAL REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF DOMESTICATION RESEARCH

October 12, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Diversity: have we got it right in PR? will be presented by Christine Moore on Thursday 12 October 2023 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The webinar leverages Claudine’s long-standing passion for diversity with a focus on how it applies to public relations. She explores a little history and geography and focuses on where we stand today.

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.)

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event. 

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org 

Background to Christine Moore

British born and raised, Claudine lives in New York and owns an impressive PR and communications career. In July 2022 her boutique global agency C. Moore Media, International Public Relations was acquired by Allison+Partners (A+P) a top 15 global agency and one of the fastest-growing and most innovative agencies in the world. The acquisition expands A+P presence in Africa with Claudine at the helm as Managing Director, Africa. 

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308