ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Edited volume (full chapters), Helsinki University Press (HUP)

Deadline December 17, 2023 

David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara) and David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) invite full chapters for the edited collection “The pandemic of the Forgotten: strategies of endurance among deprived groups in Ibero-America during the COVID-19 emergency, which will be submitted to Helsinki University Press (HUP).” We are about to complete the volume, but we still need to cover some topics related with ethnic minorities, those marginalized due to their gender or sexuality, refugees, sex workers, disabled people, essential workers (drivers, farm workers), elderly citizens living in nursing homes, the mentally ill, homeless, etc. 

This edited book looks for contributions on relevant cases from Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal) that discuss the negative impact of the pandemic on forgotten members of society from marginalized groups. Possible topics include but are not limited to public repression, negligent attitudes, xenophobic attacks, negative media framing, human rights violations, labor exploitation, etc. Other topics include the strategies that marginalized individuals and communities employed to overcome the economic, social and health challenges of the pandemic. Comparative studies related to past pandemics and historical studies focused on marginalized groups under the context of a pandemic are very welcomed as well. 

We are particularly interested in those chapters that focus on describing the resilience mechanisms developed by these groups. These may include examples of street and digital mobilizations, the use of social media to create solidarity, local and international solidarity networks, the role of social organizations and community initiatives, etc. We are open to include works from multidisciplinary, comparative, and historical approaches. You are warmly invited to send your chapter along with a brief bio (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and a 300-word abstract. The chapter’s length is between 6000-7500 words (US English, Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition). Bear in mind that the acceptance of your proposal does not imply the final approval of your chapter. Please, if you have issues writing in English, we strongly recommend you contact a professional proofreader. Deadline: December 17, 2023. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara)

davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx  

davidrapla@gmail.com

David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

dalton@uncc.edu

University of Copenhagen

Dear ECREA fellows,

We have a job opening as postdoctoral researcher at The Center for Tracking & Society at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Datafied Living project. The position is full-time for a duration of up to 2 years to be filled by 1 January 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position targets researchers in the area of Datafied Work and is part of the Datafied Living research project which runs 2021-2025 and is funded by the ERC (datafiedliving.ku.dk). The candidate’s research activities will advance the aims of the Datafied Living project regarding empirical studies of how digital tracking and datafication affects work practices and decision-making in key welfare institutions (such as education and healthcare) and private sector organisations; and how datafied societies should respond to such developments.

As postdoc in Datafied Living you will be expected to, independently and in collaboration with other researchers in the team, contribute to advancing empirical datafication research along one or more of the following lines:

• Developing organizational studies of datafication that can inform current and future policy making around data, work, and algorithmic management.
  
• Developing empirical studies of how digital tracking and data-driven decision-making transform professional work and workplaces.
  
• Linking empirical developments in datafied work and algorithmic management to current regulatory efforts at the national and EU levels.
  

You will have your daily working space in the Center for Tracking and Society (CTS). CTS is an interdisciplinary research hub that develops and consolidates emerging interdisciplinary and empirical research on the interplay between digital tracking, existing social structures and the various actors that form future society. The interdisciplinary work at CTS spans media and communication, computer science, surveillance, political economy and critical data studies.

For more info on the position, see https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=160069

Kind regards on behalf of the Datafied Living team,

Stine Lomborg, PI and director of Center for Tracking & Society

Journalism (Special issue)

Deadline: October 20, 2023

Reminder that just over two weeks are left to send in your abstract to be considered for the Journalism special issue on

Key Dates

• Deadline for abstracts: October 20th, 2023.
  
• Deadline for full paper submission: January 8th, 2024.
  
• First round of reviews complete: April 30th, 2024.
  
• Resubmission of papers: June 30th, 2024.
  
• Second round of reviews completed: August 2nd, 2024.
  
• Submission of final manuscripts: October 31st, 2024.

Guest Editors: Dr. Saumava Mitra, Prof. Roy Krøvel and Dr. Yennué Zárate Valderrama

We invite submissions for a special issue of Journalism which aims to bring together recent research on how journalists, newsrooms and journalist organizations, by working across professional, cultural and geographical boundaries can improve safety for journalists. Understanding the roles that self-reliance and solidarity among journalists, individually, collectively and structurally, can play in ensuring safety of journalists is key to identifying the possibilities and potentials of the emergent practice of 'radical sharing' of risk as well as information, among journalists. The full call for papers can be found here.

We are keen to include papers on, but not only limited to, the following topics:

• Investigations on experiences from journalistic cooperation projects creating a consensus that 'killing the journalist will not kill the story'.
  
• Investigations into efficacies and efficiencies of approaching safety measures collectively, internationally and cross-continentally.
  
• Investigations into efforts to promote the safety of journalists in authoritarian "democracies" through cross-border collaborative platforms, organisations and interventions.
  
• Measuring the effects of collaborative campaigns and other collective actions to improve the safety of journalists.
  
• Knowledge about and practice of fostering a future culture of safety through international collaborations in journalism education.
  
• Investigations on economic, professional and political implications of collaborative journalistic work.
  
• Different approaches to theorising the safety for journalists based on crossborder solidarity.
  
• Investigations on local and cross-border journalistic collaborative work in, between, and among countries both in the Global South and North.
  
• Other topics that might be relevant within the broad framework of solidarity and self-reliance for safety among journalists will also be given due consideration by the editors for the forthcoming special issue.
  

Extended abstracts (500-800 words), accompanied by a 100-150-word author bio, should be sent to the guest editors at safetyofjournalists@oslomet.no by October 20, 2023. 

If selected, scholars will be invited to submit full papers. We welcome research articles that are empirical or conceptual. These should not be more than 8,000 words in length, including references. All submissions are subject to full blind peer-review, in accordance with the peer-review procedure of Journalism. Manuscripts will be submitted through the journal's ScholarOne website. Authors must indicate that they wish to have their manuscript considered for this Special Issue.

Wednesdays

Online

The School of Journalism, Media and Communication (University of Sheffield) would like to invite you to our hybrid research seminar series. The series includes a range of talks that will be of interest to members of ECREA. Topics include conflict, disinformation, drag performance, feminism, social media, and visual methods. Guest speakers are from universities across Europe, North America, and South America. The talks are focussed on countries such as Chile, Ukraine, Czechia, Latvia, and the United States.

All talks are hybrid or online only and take place on Wednesdays from 2-3pm (UK time). 

The full programme is available here (including links to sign up for virtual attendance)

If you would like to speak in the series in the spring or have any questions, please contact maria.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk

April 13-16, 2023

Las Vegas, USA

Deadline: December 1, 2023

BEA2024 invites media related research papers from academics, students and professionals for presentation in Las Vegas, USA from April 13-16, 2024.

BEA2024, co-located with NAB Show, is a hybrid academic media convention with over 250 virtual and on-site sessions on media pedagogy, collaborative networking events, hands-on technology workshops, research and creative scholarship and the Festival of Media Arts.  BEA2024 will be an in-person convention with limited virtual participation opportunities for presenters and attendees.   

Submit your research to the relevant BEA interest division as a “Debut” or an “Open” paper. “Debut” is open only to those who have never presented a paper at a BEA convention, and “Open” if you have previously presented a paper at BEA.  To help defray costs, 1st and 2nd place “Debut” winners receive $200 and $100 respectively.  Regardless of the number of authors, BEA will award one check to the individual who submitted the paper.  

More details on the 2024 BEA paper competition are available on the BEA website: https://www.beaweb.org/conv/bea2024-call-for-papers/

September 30-October 2, 2024 

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

Deadline: December 10, 2023

Hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at  FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024  

At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformation of social environments. Digitalization impacts the economic, cultural, and historic conditions of the lives we live and the ways we socially interact, communicate, and self-reflect. The turn towards the digital informs cultural structures and practices, it shapes forms of knowledge production and dissemination, and it alters the very fabric of the public sphere. An increasing pluralization and differentiation of public spaces of communication raises renewed questions over the loss of an imagined consensus as well as new potentialities for processes of cultural production, their changing social, political, and cultural functions, and their ethical implications. 

Literature, in its extended sense of textuality, cultural production, and history of material practices, is deeply entangled in the structural shift towards digitality. As circumstances of production and reception change, a general reinterpretation of literature as such, its role and functionality, its possibilities or potential “death” ensues. At the same time, literature itself engages in reflections on the opportunities, challenges, and potential risks of the profound shift towards digitality, as digital media forge new literary forms, conventions, and aesthetic practices. Engaging with social change on the level of content, form, and models of engagement, literature actively positions itself and intervenes in the collective imagination and the shaping of processes of exchange between public spheres and new, digital frontiers. 

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Differentiated Cultures,” funded by the German Research Foundation, investigates the interconnections between various literatures and various publics in multilayered and heterogenous subnational and cross-national social environments since the mid-20th century. 

The international conference aims at investigating the diverse interrelations of literature, the public, and the digital through concrete case studies and readings that elucidate the medial  constitution, processes of communication, social conditions, and various functions of literary phenomena.  

Papers we solicit could address but need not be limited to the following research fields: 

• ∙strategies for generating attention in the literary marketplace (economies of reaction, 
  
• scandalization, forms of polarization and populism, aspects of cancel culture) 
  
• ∙public conditions of literary production and reception (digital spaces, platforms, and their specific forms of communication) 
  
• ∙mechanisms that regulate access, exclusion and canonization, form community, inform political participation, or lead towards practices of opting out  
  
• ∙literary materialities (algorithms and communication, AI and human creativity; altered technologies of publication, altered practices of reading, digitality and materiality) and their function for the adoption of literary aesthetics, shifting forms and genres, and the self-reflexivity of literature on its own affordances 
  
• ∙literary knowledge production (fiction and non-fiction engaging with the future of the digital, posthumanism, the utopian/ dystopian imaginary) 
  
• ∙literary ethics and politics (negotiations of the public sphere as a place of deliberative politics; as a set of platforms providing air time under specific conditions of inclusion and exclusion) 
  

Please submit abstracts (300 words) and short bios by December 10, 2023. 

Organized bySabine Friedrich, Svenja Hagenhoff, Karin Hoepker 

Contact 

E-mail us at grk2806-conf2024@fau.de 

https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/international-conference-digitality-and-the-public-sphere-literature-mediality-practice/ 

November 27, 2023

Online

Deadline: October 14, 2023

Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and Wroclaw Academic Centre in partnership with Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub are continuing research meetings focused on specific issues of mediatization research chaired by eminent experts (Göran Bolin (2017), Johan Fornäs (2018), Andreas Hepp (2019), Mark Deuze (2020) André Jansson (2021), Andrew Hoskins (2022)), this year the workshop will take place online on the 27 November 2023 and it will be led by Professor Kirsten Frandsen, Aarhus University.

REGISTRATION FORM: https://tinyurl.com/24sz8dnf 

MORE INFO: https://www.umcs.pl/pl/towards-development-of-mediatization-research-vii-mediatization-of-sport-physical-activity-and-recreation,27346.htm

University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Media & Internet Governance Division (Prof. Dr. Natascha Just) of the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich invites applications for an open position of Senior Research and Teaching Associate/Postdoc (80%). Start of employment: at the earliest possible / upon agreement.

The Media & Internet Governance Division studies media policy and media economics in the convergent communications sector. Alongside research on traditional mass media, the division focuses on Internet Governance and Platform Studies. The successful applicant will work on dedicated topics that align with the division's research program. 

Further information and application details: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/senior-research-and-teaching-associate-postdoc-position-media-internet-governance-division-ikmz/225d929e-697b-4462-a059-15a86f7e48ab

Review of applications starts immediately, but the position will remain open until a qualified candidate is found.

Please contact Alena Birrer, MA (a.birrer@ikmz.uzh.ch) if you have any further questions.

Burçe Çelik

The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, Çelik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political actors. Throughout, she challenges Anglo- and Eurocentric assumptions that see the non-West as an ahistorical imitation of, or aberration from, the development of Western communications.

Ambitious and comprehensive, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.

Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (HDSHC) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor who will be required to teach in-person on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of August 2024. Applicants who are or will be at the Assistant Professor level in August, 2024 are encouraged to apply. 

Applicants’ scholarship and teaching should focus on intercultural communication. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications. We encourage applications from scholars who work at the intersection of intercultural communication and Indigenous/ Black/ Disability/ Latinx/ Queer studies, and/or are invested in one or more of the following: transnational, international/global, interracial, interethnic, and/or intergroup communication. 

HDSHC, one of the premier schools for studying human communication, offers interdisciplinary Ph.D., M.A., B.A., and B.S. degrees in communication studies. Based on research productivity measured by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarships, the Hugh Downs School is ranked in the Top 10 nationwide in the following areas: Intercultural Communication (6th) Interpersonal Communication (7th) Marriage & Intimacy (5th) Sexuality (6th) Organizational Communication (8th) Nonverbal Communication (10th). HDSHC faculty members and graduate students of intercultural communication (and related domains), embrace diverse theoretical, methodological and paradigmatic lenses, and study a variety of research topics, including communication technology (AI, IoT, Social Robotics); critical and cultural studies; Indigenous and decolonial approaches; performance studies; religion and spirituality; conflict communication and intercultural dialogue; migration and diaspora; identity, class, gender, sexuality and intersectionality; inequalities and disparities; social change communication; activism and advocacy; climate change and the anthropocene. The school actively collaborates with other units and centers at the university, including the following: Hispanic Research Center, Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR), American Indian Policy Institute, Center for Indian Education, Center for Asian Research, The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies, Black African Coalition and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.

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

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

Department Statement

A uniquely collaborative group, in 2019 the HDSHC completed a School-wide program review that showcased their notable breadth of teaching and research, collegial and interdisciplinary nature, and outlined shared strategic aspirations for the coming years. The HDSHC comprises 25 distinguished core faculty recognized for teaching and research excellence in areas of Human Communication including: intercultural, health, interpersonal, organizational, rhetoric/public communication, and performance studies. Our degree programs offer students a range of in-person and online pedagogical opportunities. The HDSHC faculty benefit from the use of laboratory facilities, computer resources, project support, grant development support, and The Empty Space performance venue.

ASU’s location offers the resources of a major metropolitan area (5+ million) in a state with spectacular natural scenery and recreational areas, sublime winters, and a culturally rich population. Arizona, the Grand Canyon state, is home to 22 Sovereign Native Nations that comprise 27% of Arizona’s total land base. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. The school values Arizona's distinctive cultural heritage and diversity; the school respectfully recognizes the legacy and contributions of Indigenous, Latinx, Black communities as well as people with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, age, disabilities, veteran status, nationalities and intellectual perspectives.

Learn more about the HDSHC and ASU at https://humancommunication.asu.edu/ and https://newamericanuniversity.asu.edu/, respectively. Learn more about what The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has to offer by visiting https://thecollege.asu.edu/faculty. In recent years ASU emerged as a global leader for its commitment to inclusive excellence, access and impact; e.g., in 2022, ASU named a Hispanic-Serving Institution by US Department of Education, currently ASU is the No. 1 public university in US for hosting international students; this year, ASU partnered with US Africa Institute to advance college access for Black students.

Minimum Qualifications

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

● Record of scholarship (research and/or creative activity) and teaching focused in intercultural communication

● Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter 

Desired Qualifications

● Research and teaching focus on intercultural communication, including one or more of the following: (a) intergroup, interracial/interethnic, transnational, global, and/or international communication, (b) work at the intersection of intercultural communication and Indigenous/ Black/ Disability/ Latinx/ Queer studies

● A strong record of scholarship in the applicant’s area(s) of specialization commensurate with years of experience            

● Evidence of excellence in teaching in intercultural communication and additional area(s) of specialization at the undergraduate and graduate level

● Evidence of use-inspired, community embedded research, local and global engagement and/or principled innovation as they unfold in multiple settings and contexts

● Evidence of activities related to seeking funded research commensurate with years of experience

● Evidence of activities related to mentoring excellence for graduate and undergraduate students’ independent research projects commensurate with years of experience

● Ability to contribute to research and teaching in one or more of the School’s research collaboratives: Intercultural Communication and Global Engagement (ICGlobal), The Intersections of Civil, Critical, and Creative Communication (I4C), The Transformation Project, Health Communication Initiative, or the Center for Strategic Communication 

● Potential to foster collaborations with other units in the University

● Potential to foster a culture of collegiality and transparency among a large and diverse faculty and staff

● Evidence of commitment to service to the university, discipline, and community commensurate with years of experience           

How to Apply

To apply, please submit the following:

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

2. Curriculum vitae

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

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

5. A list of three references (including, their names, affiliations, and contact details), who may be contacted at a later date

All the aforementioned documents to be submitted through Interfolio.

Application materials should be sent electronically using this link: https://apply.interfolio.com/132652 

Applications received by October 22, 2023 will receive full consideration. If not filled, applications will be evaluated every week thereafter until the search is closed. 

For additional information:

Email search committee chair: Dr. Uttaran Dutta at Uttaran.Dutta@asu.edu

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