ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

November 24-25, 2023

Sofia, Bulgaria

Deadline: October 11, 2023

Partial grants for  Early Stage Researchers available

Dear Colleagues and Change-makers,

We are excited to invite you to the “Gender, Disability, and Social Change” international conference – a dynamic platform that aims to explore how transformation in gender and disability is actively shaped. In an era marked by groundbreaking social change, we find ourselves amidst a wave of transformative movements. From the resurgent fight for gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights to the ongoing disability movement, society is evolving at a pace unseen before. The push for inclusivity, representation, and empowerment is echoing through various spheres of life.

In recent times, we have witnessed remarkable strides in advancing women’s rights, empowering sexual communities, and championing the disability movement. On the other hand, we have been witnessing a backlash coming from right wing actors that oppose and often ridicule these changes and aim to overturn and shut down different policies, movements and inspiring practices and examples. This conference aims to explore, and explain these evolving landscapes. 

The conference is organized by the MILIEU project team and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 

The main strains of the conference are:

• Arts and Expression:
  

Explore how the arts, including visual arts, literature, theater, and music, can be powerful tools for challenging stereotypes and fostering inclusion. Celebrate the contributions of artists with disabilities and those of diverse gender identities in shaping our culture.

• Pop Culture and Media:
  

Analyze the influence of pop culture, film, television, streaming platforms and social media in reshaping perceptions of gender and disability. Discuss the role of media in promoting or hindering social change and inclusivity.

• Social Policies and Legislation:
  

Evaluate existing social policies and legislation that impact individuals with disabilities and those from marginalized gender groups. Explore opportunities for policy reform to better support these communities.

• Best Practices and Case Studies:
  

Showcase successful initiatives and best practices in advancing gender and disability rights. Highlight case studies of organizations and individuals making a significant impact.

• Social Movements and Grassroots Activism:
  

Hear from activists and advocates at the forefront of gender and disability movements. Discuss the challenges, successes, and future directions of these transformative movements.

• Backlash and populism:
  

Explore various forms of backlash and organized mobilization against movements, policies, practices, arts and pop-culture that advocate for social change and empowerment of marginalized communities. Investigate political and religious opportunism and populism. 

Call for Participation:

We welcome researchers, activists, artists, policymakers, and all interested parties to submit proposals for individual presentations. Share your insights, research findings, success stories, and creative expressions that contribute to the ongoing conversation surrounding gender, disability, and social change.

Candidates are asked to send an abstract (max 250 words) indicating the title, the main research question(s), the methodology and the results  (if the study has been completed). The conference welcomes different types and formats of research approaches, therefore your proposal may be a standard presentation of research results, a presentation of a research concept, a work in progress or a theoretical reflection.

The conference welcomes non-standard formats of presentations focusing on creativity and artistic expression, e.g. performances, short films or videos. You may also bring your works of art to be exhibited at the conference venue for the entire duration of the event.

Practical info: 

The official language of the event is English. The conference will be carried out in person in Sofia, Bulgaria with a possibility for online participation and you will be asked to indicate your preference upon registration. The organizers will provide lunch and coffee breaks on both days of the conference. There is no participation fee for the conference. However, the participants will have to cover travel and accommodation expenses themselves. 

Accommodation grants: 

Ph.D. students and early-stage researchers (up to 4 years from the beginning of their scientific or academic career, inlcuding their Ph.D studies – to be proved with a relevant document upon registration) may be provided with 10 partial grants for accommodation (single rooms) for the nights of the 22nd and the 23rd of November. The grants are for people participating in the conference in person. Unfortunately the organizers cannot cover any travel expenses.

Important Dates:

Proposal Submission Deadline: 11 October 2023

Notification of Acceptance: 13 October 2023 

Registration Deadline: 27 October 2023

Conference Dates: 24-25 November 2023

Join us in this illuminating exploration of the intricate dynamics of change in gender and disability. Together, we can uncover new avenues for empowerment, inclusion, and social transformation. Let’s come together to inspire and enact meaningful change. We look forward to your participation!

Stay tuned for further updates. For proposal submissions, please access the submission form (also via the button on the right).

For any questions or inquiries, please contact us at: info@milieu-h2020.eu  

MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research (special issue)

Deadline: November 1, 2023

Media and migration studies, and digital migration studies in particular (Leurs & Smets 2018; Smets et al. 2020, Leurs, 2023), have carved out an increasingly consolidated field. Building on these insights, this special issue emphasizes that migratory experiences and unfoldings are always already mediated: represented through media, and embedded in migrants’ media practices using digital (communication) technologies. Media not only set the frames of how crises are discursively constructed, perceived, and handled, but also how migration can be enacted and experienced via media, for example, by affecting decisions to migrate, possibilities of navigating routes, crossing technologized borders, maintaining communication across distances or diasporic communities, as well as through public representations and imaginations.

Moving away from seeing migration as an isolated event that constitutes a crisis in itself (De Genova 2018; Sahin-Mencutek et al. 2022), migration has been and is a constant phenomenon, often simultaneously occurring in times of crises (pandemic, global warming, natural disasters, war in Ukraine etc.) and thereby leading to new forms of media usage and media representations. We invite scholars to enlarge their perspectives by includling multiple crises as an alarming background to study how media usage and media dependency produce, affect and shape migration movements.

In this special issue, we explicitly draw attention to migrants’ media use, practices, and migrants’ media portrayal concerning a broader historical moment characterized by crises. We welcome theoretical, methodological, or empirical contributions addressing the following topics as well as other foci within the field of media and migration:

•  Media practices, uses, and experiences among privileged, forced, economic migrants affected by multiple crises, such as the war in Ukraine during the Covid-19 pandemic
  
•   Media use during climate-driven migration and political disruptions, disabling communication across distances, diasporic disconnections, impeded migration, etc.
  
•   Mediating migrants’ social relations in sender and receiver countries
  
•   Cross-national comparisons of governmental media practices in communicating migration during multiple simultaneous crises
  
•   Media representations of migration
  
•   Media as a connecting tool for remigration during crises
  
•   Media and deportation
  
•   Mediated experiences of family migration during crises
  
•   Comparison of migration in two or more crises
  
•   Withdrawal from media use during crises
  
•   Media productions by migrants
  
•   Research on artistic media practices among migrants
  
•   Media activism among and for migrants
  
•   Experiences of (im)mobility and inhibited mobility and their mediations during crises
  
•   Media and affect during multiple crises
  
•   Media and materiality in times of crisis
  
•   Mediatization as a background to study media in crises situations
  
•   Media technologies in the governance and management of migration and borders
  
•   Challenges and innovations in the methodology of media and migration during crises
  

Submission guidelines

Abstracts should contain a maximum of 500 words excluding references. It should include the research question(s) addressed, theoretical and methodological approaches as well as preliminary conclusions. Abstracts should be submitted as a Word document via our open  journal system at https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur, where you will need to create a user account if you do not already have one. Please indicate in “comments for the editor” section that you are submitting to the special issue “Media and migration in times of crises”. In case of any questions regarding the uploading process, please contact: lynge@cc.au.dk or majanord@oslomet.no

Timeline

Deadline for abstract submission: November 1st, 2023

Acknowledgement of acceptance for full paper submission: November 23rd, 2023

Deadline for full paper: March 10th, 2024

Expected publication: Fall, 2024

Guest Editors

Jeannine Teichert, Paderborn University

Heike Graf, Södertörn University

Philipp Seuferling, LSE

Issue Editors

Maja Nordtug, Oslo Metropolitan University

Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aarhus University

References:

Leurs, K., & Smets, K. (2018). Five questions for digital migration studies: Learning from digital connectivity and forced migration in (to) Europe. Social Media+ Society, 4(1), 2056305118764425.

Smets, K. et. al. (2020). The Sage handbook of media and migration. Sage.

Leurs, K. (2023). Digital migration. Sage.

De Genova, N. (2018). ’The migrant crisis’ as racial crisis: Do Black Lives Matter in Europe?. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41, 1765–1782.

Sahin-Mencutek, Z., Barthoma, S., Gökalp-Aras, N. E., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2022). A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights. Comparative migration studies, 10(1), 12.

Preliminary title: What do We Know about Media, Communication, Journalism, and Democracy? 

Deadline: February 9, 2023

Editors: 

Magnus Fredriksson, Nordicom,

magnus.fredriksson@nordicom.gu.se 

Johannes Bjerling, Nordicom,

johannes.bjerling@nordicom.gu.se  

Important dates: 

• Workshop registration deadline: 15 December 2023 
  
• Workshop (hybrid): 18 January 2024  
  
• Deadline for extended abstracts:   9 February 2024 
  
• Invitation to submit full paper: 26 February 2024 
  
• Deadline for full submissions: 27 September 2024 
  
• Peer review: October 2024 and onwards  
  
• Expected publication: Early autumn 2025  

Nordicom invites authors to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of Nordicom Review. The Call is for literature reviews of research on media communication and journalism and their dependence and influence on democracy. Proposals should include relevance for the Nordic region. 

Accompanying the Call is a workshop, where we welcome authors who are about to submit an abstract to participate. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussions with relevance for the special issue. 

Background and aim 

Media, communication, and journalism are important elements of a well-functioning democracy, and at the same time a well-functioning democracy is in many ways a condition for dynamic media systems, independent journalism, and the rights to communicate freely and access information freely. 

In response to this, research on media, communication, and journalism has always been focused on matters related to democracy – though all scholars don’t neccessarily put democracy at the forefront. However, irrespective of knowledge interest, theoretical position, or methodological approach, scholars interested in media use or effects, public discourses, media technologies, journalism, public opinion, or organised communication activities have frequently motivated their research with its implications and importance for politics and democracy. Accordingly, researchers of media, communication, and journalism have a long history of bringing important knowledge to society.  

Recent developments in research with higher levels of specialisation and a strong tendency towards compartmentalisation have made it difficult to gain thorough overviews of

 the knowledge developments in research. This is a shortcoming that not only affects scholars’ abilities to gain valid overviews of their research domains, but it also influences the research community’s abilities to provide substantiated knowledge to society and to be policy relevant.  

In tandem with recent developments in media systems, the circumstances for media production, the developments of communication technologies, and value transformations in the citizenry have increased the need for qualified and reliable knowledge. Particulary in a time when democracy is contested and contentious issues demand purposeful systems for knowledge distribution as well as arenas for open and inclusive public debates. 

Bringing all this together, there is a call for scholars who will take responsibility for the collection, consolidation, and distribution of knowledge regarding media, communication, journalism – and democracy. This can be done in different ways, but to systematically produce and publish comprehensive and reliable research reviews is one that evidently can contribute to the research community, public debate, and policy formation.  

For Nordicom, it is of relevance to provide a platform for this kind of work and to actively distribute it. To promote democratic values is part of our mission, and another is to actively contribute to the supply of science-based knowledge in media policy processes in the Nordic region. Thereby, our  activities and publications aim to strengthen and highlight Nordic perspectives in international media research. Here, Nordicom has a unique position at the interface between academia, industry, and politics and between Nordic and international levels. 

Topics 

The theme for the special issue is media, communication, and/or journalism, with emphasis on matters relevant for democracy.

We aim for a collection of articles with a clear relevance for contemporary democracy in the Nordic region, and we will give priority to papers with a broader approach rather than a review with focus on a single theory or similar. The articles are expected to answer the question “What do we know about X?” The topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:  

• The effects of journalism, campaigns, and other forms of communication on voting behaviour, political participation, or other forms of political activities among the citizenry. 
  
• Openness and secrecy among actors with democratic relevance, including public administrations, corporations, and nongovernmental organisations. 
  
• Populism, racism, misogyny, polarisation, and disintegrative aspects of media, communication, and journalism. 
  
• Practices and discourses of disinformation, manipulation, and propaganda in public debates, journalism, and other contexts. 
  
• Communication activities, activism, advocacy, and strategies to gain political influence. 
  
• Journalism and communication in times of crises.  
  
• Institutional, professional, and organisational conditions for the production of media, communication, and journalism. 
  
• The role of and conditions for public service as well as local, national, and international media systems. 
  
• The technological, political, and economic, conditions for the production, distribution, and consumption of media, communication, and journalism. 
  
• Media literacy and the knowledge and abilities among the citizenry to gain, validate, and make use of information they gain in digital and analogue contexts.  
  
• The role of media, communication, and journalism in creating, maintaining, and disrupting trust for the institutions of democracy, including media, political actors, public administrations, and actors in civil society. 
  
• Censorship, regulation, and the autonomy of journalism. 
  
• The role of media, communication, and journalism in creating and maintaining (dis)integration in multicultural contexts  

The Nordic perspective  

The Nordic perspective implies that the articles should focus on an issue or a theme that is relevant given the conditions and circumstances that characterise democracy in

 the Nordic region as a whole or individual countries in the region. That is to say, the Nordic perspective doesn’t mean that the overviews should be limited to research conducted by scholars in the Nordic region or limited to research focusing on the Nordic region. The Nordic relevance is to be made explicit and discussed in the article. 

Types of reviews 

There are a number of different types of literature reviews – from highly formalised methods that seek to systematically search for, appraise, and synthesise research evidence to less-formalised approaches which provide assessments of current literature regarding a theme or domain.  

For this issue, we welcome all types of reviews, but we expect all to focus on empirical research. In addition, all contributions must include a discussion regarding the following: 

• Search strategies and an argument for why certain keywords and sources have been included or excluded throughout the search process. 
  
• Selection criteria and a discussion of what material the authors have decided to include and exclude in the review 
  
• An overall assessment of the overview’s quality, strengths, and shortcomings.  
  

Procedure 

Those with an interest in contributing should write an extended abstract (max. 750 words excluding references) where the subject is described. In addition to this, the abstract should include a discussion about how the article fits with the overall theme, how the Nordic perspective is made relevant, and what type of review the authors will apply. 

Send your extended abstract by 9 February 2024 to editors@nordicom.gu.s and include in the subject line: “Submission to special issue”. 

Scholars invited to submit a full manuscript (6,000–8,000 words excluding references) will be notified by e-mail after the abstracts have been assessed.

 All submissions should be original works and must not be under consideration by other publishers. 

Workshop 

To create a platform for knowledge exchange and to support authors who want to contribute to the special issue, Nordicom will arrange a workshop on 18 January 2024. The workshop will take place at Nordicom’s facilities at the University of Gothenburg, and there will be possibilities for online participation. The workshop is free of charge and coffee, lunch, and dinner is included for all participants onsite. The idea is to provide scholars who are preparing a submission for the special issue the opportunity to present their ideas and receive qualified feedback from fellow scholars.  

If you want to participate, you should send an e-mail to magnus.fredriksson@nordicom.gu.se and please state if you will participate onsite or online. The last day to sign up for the workshop is 15 December 2023. 

Please note that acceptance of a paper for the special issue is not dependent upon participation at the workshop, nor is participation in the workshop a guarantee of full paper invitation.  

Contact 

Questions about the special issue and the related workshop can be addressed to Magnus Fredriksson: magnus.fredriksson@nordicom.gu.se 

About Nordicom Review 

Nordicom Review adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy, and articles are published Open Access with no processing charges for authors. Nordicom Review includes research with relevance for the Nordic context and welcomes interdisciplinary submissions from a worldwide authorship. 

Read more about Nordicom Review here: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordicom-review 

January 9-12, 2024

Lisbon (Portugal)

Deadline: December 15, 2023

The 4th Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication takes a comparative and global approach to the study of media and ambivalence. Jointly organized by the Faculty of Human Sciences (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and the Center for Media@Risk at the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania), in cooperation with the School of Journalism and Communication (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (University of Helsinki), the 4th Lisbon Winter School offers an opportunity for doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers to strategize around the study of media and ambivalence together with senior scholars in the field.

Call for Applications

It is perhaps paradoxical that media scholars tend to regard ambivalence in ambivalent ways. Many maintain that ambivalence undercuts and undermines the media environments it inhabits, introducing a level of uncertainty that obscures not only multiple aspects of the media’s workings—including its messages, roles, technologies, practices and effects—but also what is most patterned and exceptional about the media writ large. Others see ambivalence as a necessary complication of the tired and overused binaries of late modernity, sustaining what the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald described as the “test of a first-rate intelligence,” whose “ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function” would produce generative opportunities built around the “the improbable, the implausible, often the impossible.” 

Regardless, then, of how positively or negatively scholars feel about ambivalence, its presence is a clear component of media environments everywhere. But what kind of presence does it have? What are its primary attributes and pitfalls? In what ways does ambivalence make media environments better or worse? In what ways does it foster or complicate widely-adopted notions of media practices, processes, production, consumption and effects? How does it foster resistance and under which conditions?

This Winter School will examine the pairing of media and ambivalence in all its recognizable forms. Orienting to the broad spread of ways in which ambivalence can be understood to inhabit the media, it aims to develop a fuller understanding of why ambivalence is such a longstanding inhabitant of media environments. Possible questions stretch across the wide range of entry points for contemplating the media that allow for media representation and processing, media use and media refusal, media production and consumption. They include, how do the media and ambivalence shape each other? What role do the media and associated technologies play in structuring ambivalence, and what role does ambivalence play when associated with the media? Under which conditions does ambivalence emerge? How is it represented and where? How is it recognized and by whom? What impact does it have on media fare, the representation of marginalized groups or the shape of audience engagement? How does it affect the capacity to form identities, make informed decisions or embrace polarization? How does it figure in decisions to refuse or reject the media? How is ambivalence being weaponized in current political climates, and to what end? How has it been weaponized in the past?

We welcome proposals by doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers from all over the world to discuss the intertwined relation between media and ambivalence in different geographies and temporalities. The list below illustrates some topics for possible consideration. Other topics dealing with media and ambivalence are also welcome: 

·       Ambivalence towards media platforms, content, practices or effects

·       Ambivalence and AI

·       Techniques to counter ambivalence 

·       Ambivalence and identity formation

·       Ambivalence and human rights

·       Promoting ambivalent representations of the past

·       Ambivalence in the public arena in specific national or regional contexts

·       Ambivalent discourses on science and climate change

·       Ambivalent discourses on racism, misogyny, classism, settler colonialism 

·       Ambivalence and journalism

·       Ambivalence and popular culture

·       Resistance to media, including media rejection, media detox, pushback on social media, news avoidance or domestic practices to control media usage

·       Children and media ambivalence 

·       Ambivalence, media and imaginative future 

·       Ambivalence and conflict

·       Ambivalence and overload

·       …

PAPER PROPOSALS

Proposals should be sent to lisbonwinterschool@gmail.com no later than 30 September 2023 and include a paper title, extended abstract in English (700 words), name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning ongoing research. Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by mid-October.

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION 

Presenters will be required to send in full papers (max. 20 pages, 1.5 spacing) by 15 December 2023.  

CONFIRMED KEYNOTES

Juliane Prade-Weiss, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Larry Gross, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

Patrícia Dias, Catholic University of Portugal

Valerie Traub, University of Michigan

More to be announced 

October 6, 2023

Chicago, USA

We are looking for some Chicago-based fans, scholars, professionals who can talk about Chicago's importance to professional wrestling.

This panel would be for an upcoming academic, popular culture conference from MPCA/ACA called "Wrestling in the Windy City."

When: Friday, October 6th, 2:15-3:45  

Where: DePaul Campus, Downtown Chicago  

Possible Topics of Discussion:    

- History of Chicago’s Importance to Professional Wrestling  

- Touring Pro Wrestling Hotspots  

- Chicago’s Approach for Pro Wrestling

and more!

Also, this April in Chicago, PCA/ACA returns to the Windy City, and so does the Professional Wrestling area! Share your research, scholarship, fandom, creative works with us at the conference -- especially if it's about Chicago's place in professional wrestling! https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines. 

If you are interested in either, please email me at creinhard@dom.edu.

June 20-24, 2023

Australia

Deadline: October 15, 2023

For those who might be interested in presenting at the 2024 ICA Conference in Australia, June 20-24, we (Lois Foreman-Wernet, David Schaefer, and CarrieLynn Reinhard) are drafting a proposal for a Conference Theme panel to celebrate the work of Brenda Dervin.

The theme this year is Communication and Global Human Rights, and it is intended to: 1) take stock of the contributions of communication scholarship to the study of human rights; 2) to foreground current research and practice; and 3) to outline promising directions for communication studies.

We think that Dervin’s work would fit well under this umbrella given her concern for dialogue and ensuring the voices of the unheard, her work focused on the communication practices of government and organizations, and SMM’s ability to bridge divides (disciplinary, methodological, and otherwise). It is clearly relevant to the topic and – of course, we would argue – more important than ever.

Submission guidelines require cross-divisional participation and contributions from at least two countries. Panelist diversity is also encouraged. The proposal should include a 500-word rationale explaining how the panel fits the conference theme plus a shorter 150-word rationale to appear in the conference program.

Please let us know if you are interested in participating and, if so, what you might contribute. Here is the link to the conference theme call for papers: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2024/2024-cfp.pdf.

If you are interested, then please email CarrieLynn Reinhard at creinhard@dom.edu with your idea for how to contribute by October 15th, 2023.

December 12, 2023

PhD research webinar

Deadline: October 20, 2023

The IAMCR Presidential PhD Research Webinar on "De-Westernizing Global Media Studies" aims to challenge the field's Western-centric bias and pave the way for a more inclusive future. Scheduled for 12 December 2023, the event will explore strategies to diversify perspectives and foster global collaboration. With applications open until October 20, doctoral students, particularly those focusing on the Global South, are encouraged to participate. 

IAMCR invites applications for the IAMCR Presidential PhD Research Webinar on “De-Westernizing Global Media Studies: Bridging Disciplinary, National, and Regional Divides for a More Inclusive and Decolonized Future” to be held 12 December 2023. Applications will be received until 20 October 2023. 

This PhD webinar will investigate how media studies can progress towards a more inclusive and decolonised future by promoting the incorporation of diverse perspectives and theories from various disciplinary, national, and regional contexts. It will investigate how the historical dominance of Western perspectives and theories in shaping the discipline has led to a dearth of diversity and inclusion. 

The webinar will examine potential strategies for de-Westernizing global media studies, such as promoting the incorporation of non-Western perspectives and theories and reconsidering the role of Western theories and approaches in shaping the field. In addition, it will investigate how to create more equitable and inclusive collaborations across disciplinary, national, and regional boundaries, as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with such collaborations. 

This webinar could not be timelier given that two major academic organisations in the field—the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)—are scheduled to hold conferences on the subject of decolonisation and intercultural dialogue in media and communication studies in Bandung, Indonesia in September 2023 and Christchurch, New Zealand in July 2024, respectively. Doctoral students researching Global South topics or case studies and who are IAMCR members are especially encouraged to apply. 

Potential topics include (but are not limited to): 

* The legacy of Western dominance in communication and media studies and its implications for diversity and representation. 

* Strategies for incorporating non-Western theories and perspectives into global communication and media studies. 

* Re-evaluating the role of Western theories in shaping the field and their relevance in a contemporary, global context. 

* Fostering collaborations that span disciplinary, national, and regional boundaries for more inclusive research. 

* Challenges and opportunities in cross-cultural collaborations within communication and media studies. 

* Amplifying Global South voices and case studies in media research. 

* Exploring the relationship between decolonisation, intercultural dialogue, and media and communication studies 

How to apply 

To submit your paper to present in the webinar, download and complete the application form and send it to Karl Patrick R. Mendoza (karl.mendoza@pg.canterbury.ac.nz), one of the co-convenors of the webinar, and also Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen (mazlum@iamcr.org), the assistant of Nico Carpentier, IAMCR president, with the subject “IAMCR Presidential PhD Research Webinar: {title of your paper proposal}" by 20 October 2023. If there are several presenters, each should fill in an individual application form and send all the forms in one email. 

Please note that only IAMCR member PhD students are eligible to present in the IAMCR Presidential PhD Research Webinar. 

Timeline 

-Deadline for applications – 20 October 2023 

-Announcement of the results – 06 November 2023 

-Submission of the final presentations (and a brief note on the research) – 01 December 2023 

-Webinar date – 12 December 2023 at 09h00 UTC 

Download the application form: 

https://iamcr.org/system/files/PresenterApplicationForm_De-WesternizingGlobalMediaStudies.docx 

You may be interested in checking out a short video produced by the PANCOPOP research project help disseminate its key findings and recommendations to date. In the video, members of the PANCOPOP project, including Prof Sabina Mihelj, Prof Dan Hallin, Prof Beata Klimkiewicz, and Dr Václav Štětka present the key findings arising from three of the five strands of the project – government health crisis communication, media policy and public attitudes. They also explain the significance of research on pandemic communication and populism at this particular time and identify some of the practical recommendations arising from findings. 

The video was developed by Andrew Clark (Black Hawk Productions) and is available to watch on YouTube. 

To read more about the PANCOPOP Project updates, visit the project website‘s news section and Twitter.  

PANCOPOP Team

Journalism & Media (Special issue)

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2024 

Proximity has always been a key factor in journalism practice, where the offer of nearby content is linked to the very exercise of journalism as a social activity and a creator of public opinion (Huxford, 2007). As noted by previous research, proximity journalism not only favours citizen participation in the public sphere by addressing critical information (Al-Rawi, 2017; Napoli et al., 2017) but also gives visibility to local and regional communities (Morlandstø & Mathisen, 2022). In today's media environment, where global companies operate in platform capitalism and territorial boundaries have been diluted, reconceptualizing this value becomes an essential matter.

In this Special Issue, we aim to delve into the way proximity is conceived as an essential value of contemporary journalistic practice. Therefore, we welcome submissions on both theoretical essays and empirical research. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Studies on communication and territory from a proximity perspective;
  
• Media theories applied to proximity journalism;
  
• Functions and characteristics of proximity journalism;
  
• Methodological proposals for the study of proximity media systems;
  
• Proximity media policy, governance, or economy;
  
• Case studies on proximity media systems or companies;
  
• Journalistic routines in proximity media systems;
  
• Audience studies in proximity media systems;
  
• Proximity media platformization processes;
  
• Social media and proximity media systems;
  
• Proximity journalism and political engagement.

Check the Call for Papers here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/special_issues/7MYCU6ZO02#info

November 7-10, 2023

Online

Deadline: September 22, 2023

The Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Lab (MeLCi Lab) Autumn School is organising its third Autumn School on 7-10 November 2023 in the form of a bootcamp to boost research hands-on skills. The school is designed to provide PhD students and postdocs with practical knowledge of classical and cutting-edge research methods. To this end, the school embraces an interdisciplinary approach by welcoming debate from different theories and methodological integration (qualitative and quantitative). The School will bring together a group of international scholars for workshops and keynotes. 

Topics covered will include:

-digital citizenship,

-civic cultures and social networks,

-linking big and small data methods,

-civic cultures and artificial intelligence,

-civic cultures and algorithmic mediation,

-participation

-arts-based research,

-datafication,

-ethics research.

The School is committed to creating an inclusive space that welcomes students from underrepresented communities. At least one equity grant will be available to ensure the program is accessible to all who wish to participate. By adopting an integrative and multidisciplinary approach, the MeLCi Autumn School is well-positioned to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of research methodologies related to scientific writing and innovative approaches. Please know more here: https://melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/iii-melci-lab-autumn-school-science-bootcamp-to-boost-your-research-hands-on-skills/

Deadline for applications

Interested PhD students and postdocs must send their application by 22nd September 2023, including:

-Updated Curriculum Vitae (máx. 4 pages)

-Candidate’s research statement that includes a description of their doctoral dissertation, research questions and methods (máx. 4 pages)

-Motivation letter specifying what you bring and expect from the school (indicating explicitly what themes and sub-themes are of your particular interest) máx. 2 pages

Send your application as a ZIP file to melci.lab@ulusofona.pt with subject “Application for the III MelCi Lab Autumn School”

Deadline

Call for Proposals Deadline: 22 September 2023

Format

Online

Themes

-Communicating Research: Writing, Filming, Disseminating

-Scientific writing (specifically for the school themes)

-Innovative approaches to science communication

-Innovative Methodologies

-Linking big and small data methods

-Arts-based research and civic participation

-Citizen science

-Social Platforms for Research

Sub-themes

-Participation and Digital Citizenship

-Participation in the Datafied Society

-Artificial intelligence, and algorithmic mediation

-Intersectionality and Activism(s)

-Ethics in research

School Dates

7-10 November 2023

Target audience

PhD Students, post-docs and early career researchers (with PhD obtained in the last three years)

Maximum number of participants - 20 students

Fees*

Lusófona University - PhD students and Post-doc  70 euros

PhD students and Post-doc from other Institutions 100 euros

Other 150 euros 

*The best participant will not pay the fee; one Equity Scholarship to support the fee will also be awarded (more details to be published soon)

More information

For more information please check <https://melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/iii-melci-lab-autumn-school-science-bootcamp-to-boost-your-research-hands-on-skills/> or reach out to us at melci.lab@ulusofona.pt