European Communication Research and Education Association
November 22-23, 2023
University of Glasgow, UK
Deadline: August 17, 2023
Media are integral to how we both remember and forget conflict. While individuals refer to the family photo album, the collective memories of communities are often shaped by iconic photographs of traumatic events such as popular uprisings, terrorist attacks, and wars. This memory work was traditionally confined to repositories such as historical archives, museums and institutions. In recent years the ‘connective turn’ has ‘unmoored’ memory from these institutions, replacing traditional notions of collective memory with the searchable ‘memory of the multitude’ online (Hoskins, 2017). The automated systems of online platforms like Facebook ‘dig’ for memories on behalf of their users, including those of (Jacobsen and Beer, 2021). Historical photographs shared on photo sharing sites like Instagram facilitate informal learning about events such as the Holocaust among younger generations (Commane and Potton, 2019). This has empowered a new generation of memory activists who leverage the affordances of online platforms for commemoration rituals (Fridman, 2022). More recently, apps like Telegram have made it easier to document human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, whilst simultaneously creating a curated, unsanitized ‘war feed’ for global audiences (Hoskins and Shchelin, 2023).
This hybrid workshop seeks to advance the discussion about the role of media in conflict memory work. We adopt a purposefully broad definition of conflict which includes (but is not limited to) armed insurrections, civil disorder, geopolitical interstate conflict, political violence in divided societies, terrorist attacks, and wars.
We are looking for original and creative contributions that demonstrate the broad range of methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, digital) in this emergent field. Abstract submissions should explicitly address the role of media (e.g. newspapers, social media, television) in conflict memory. We will accept both theoretical and empirical studies provided they are relevant to the workshop’s key themes.
Possible topics for the workshop include:
We especially encourage submissions from early career researchers and those based in Global South countries. There will be a limited number of travel bursaries available for those traveling to Glasgow to attend in-person.
Abstracts of 300-500 words, excluding references, should be sent to paul.reilly@glasgow.ac.uk and virpi.salojarvi@helsinki.fi. Please indicate on your submission whether you will attend in-person or online, and if you wish to be considered for a travel bursary should your abstract be accepted. There will be no registration fee for participants accepted for the workshop. Workshop participants will be invited to submit an abstract for a co-edited volume based on the workshop.
The deadline for submissions is 17 August 2023.
This event is co-sponsored by the Crisis, Security and Conflict Communication and Communication in Post and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Groups of the International Association of Media and Communication Researchers (IAMCR).
If you have any questions about the workshop please contact the organisers:
Dr. Paul Reilly, University of Glasgow (paul.reilly@glasgow.ac.uk)
Dr. Virpi Salojärvi, University of Vaasa/University of Helsinki (virpi.salojarvi@helsinki.fi)
Dr. Katja Lehtisaari, Tampere University (katja.lehtisaari@tuni.fi)
November 16-17, 2023
Cologne, Germany, and online
Deadline for Submission: August 30, 2023 (AoE)
Website: https://www.gesis.org/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/gesis-tagungen/conference-on-harmful-online-communication-choc2023
The event is funded by the Thyssen Foundation.
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ABOUT:
A two-day hybrid conference with sessions focused on different aspects of Harmful Online Communication and talks from leading experts. The main event will take place in Cologne, Germany, with the option of online participation.
ORGANIZED BY:
Katrin Weller, Pascal Siegers, Indira Sen, Christina Dahn (GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne)
Contact: css.events@gesis.org
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OUTLINE:
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Harmful Online Communication refers to a variety of ongoing activities on communication platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and many more. Independent of the platform, harm can, for example, occur in the form of hate speech towards different groups, including racist or sexist content. Harmful online communication can also include aspects of mis- and disinformation, or threats of physical violence. Depending on the type of content, different strategies may be needed to detect it and to apply appropriate counter measures. The aim of this conference is to bring together a group of experts in computer-based detection and analysis of harmful online communication to discuss new developments in the field. The focus will lie on theoretical concept definitions, data quality, and comparative measurement tools. This will benefit the field of harmful online communication studies by building a community around validity and reliability and creating a baseline that can inform the building of comparative research and shared knowledge. The output of the conference will inform the future work in Computational Social Sciences and help more traditional social scientists to improve their use of data from online platforms.
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CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
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- Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
- Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen & University of Washington
- Iginio Gagliardone, University of the Witwatersrand
- Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan
- Homa Hosseinmardi, University of Pennsylvania
- Tetsuro Kobayashi, Waseda University
- Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg
- Philip Lorenz-Spreen, Max-Planck-Institute Berlin
- Ilia Markov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Diana Rieger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München
- Björn Ros, University of Edinburgh
- Mattia Samory, Sapienza University of Rome
- Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (for ONSITE POSTER SESSION in Cologne)
CHOC2023 welcomes proposals for an onsite poster session on 16 November 2023 at the Conference on Harmful Online Communication in person in Cologne. This conference seeks to bring together a community of researchers from the (Computational) Social Sciences and related disciplines to discuss data quality, methods, ethics, theoretical work, and practical challenges related to harmful online communication.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research on topics subsumed under harmful online communication including but not limited to abusive language, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, and online harassment
* Computer-mediated approaches for tackling such types of communication such as content moderation and policy making.
* Computational methods for research on harmful online communication, such as network analysis, textual and image analysis, large language models and machine learning.
* Resource creation for studying harmful online communication such as datasets, codebooks, annotation tasks, and taxonomies
* Theoretical discussions and practical concepts related to countering misinformation and harmful online communication.
* Ethical and legal aspects of Harmful Online Communication research.
* Bias and inequalities of (automated) hate speech detection, datasets, and analysis methods
* Development of communal resources in Harmful Online Communication research
Presentations at the poster session can be of published work, in preparation for publication or work in-progress. Submissions are open to researchers from all career stages, including PhD candidates and Master students. Abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding references) should be submitted via email to css.events@gesis.org until 30 August 2023 (AoE).
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PARTICIPATION:
PLEASE NOTE:The number of poster presentations is limited, given that it will only take place in person in Cologne. In case of a higher number of high-quality submissions, we may have to limit both the number of accepted posters and the registration to first authors of the posters. Co-authors and other attendees will be admitted if space permits and potentially be wait-listed.
Online participation will be available for everyone interested, but registration will be required to receive the access information.
POSTER PRESENTERS NEED TO PRESENT IN PERSON.
REGISTRATION FEE: Eur 60,- for on-site participation in Cologne / free online participation (poster presenters need to present in-person)
Edited By: Margreth Lünenborg, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003365426/affective-formation-publics-margreth-l%C3%BCnenborg-birgitt-r%C3%B6ttger-r%C3%B6ssler
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the interdisciplinary volume "Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media" to be published in September 2023. In it, editors Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler have compiled English-language contributions that analyze contemporary publics with the perspective of affect and emotion theory.
Based on empirical case studies in Europe, India, Pakistan, Tanzania, and the American continents, public spheres are conceived as relational structures that include both people and their mediatized environment. Affectivity is understood as constitutive for all public spheres, whose intensity and characteristics, however, differ considerably. In the three parts "Places", "Networks" and "Media" the authors make visible on which aspects of publics the interdisciplinary view of emotion and affect research can be directed.
The book addresses researchers and advanced students in media and communication studies, theater studies, literary studies, and social and cultural anthropology who are concerned with the unfolding of contemporary public spheres. The book is a result of the work in the second term of the SFB 1171 "Affective Societies", funded by the German Research Foundation.
Peter Bro
Routledge, July 2023
https://www.routledge.com/Constructive-Journalism-Precedents-Principles-and-Practices/Bro/p/book/9781032516097
This book offers a deep and comprehensive overview of constructive journalism, setting out the guiding principles and practices for a journalism that aims to do more than simply inform about problems.
In this authoritative yet concise volume, Peter Bro asks what does constructive journalism mean, what are the underlying principles, how is it practiced, and in what ways does it differ from other types of journalism? Drawing on studies of the rapidly growing number of works by both journalism practitioners and researchers, the book reaches beyond these questions to show how the notion of being constructive has been a part of journalism from the very beginning of the profession.
This introduction to what constructive journalism is and was and what it can accomplish will guide new journalists; journalism, media, and mass communication students; and scholars working on journalistic theory and practice.
A special issue of Journalism and Media (ISSN 2673-5172)
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2024
The future of democracy depends significantly on the individual and collective power of young citizens to develop democratic self-awareness and the ability and interest to participate in the political process. Young citizens, as users, are at the forefront of the digital transformation, leveraging the power of social media and digital tools to access, share, and create information. Over the past few decades, ever-emerging variations of social media have opened a new frontier for information, public debate, and potential democratic participation. This development has provided a constantly interchanging realm of possibilities for media participation in democracy, giving young citizens access to various channels for information and encouragement to express their views and influence public policy.
However, these various opportunities come with substantial challenges in navigating a vast and complex media and information landscape. Young citizens are reliant on social media for news, information, and orientation in current societies. They struggle to stay aware of and manage the validity and consequences of multiple unqualified information sources, the potential for manipulation and misinformation, the noise of an ephemeral information stream, the way that commercial companies and others use their data, the monitoring of online activity, the potential negative repercussions of participating in online debate, and more. Furthermore, in the social media environment, qualifying information and exercising critical source evaluation are the responsibilities of the users instead of professional gatekeepers and editors.
This Special Issue seeks to explore the intersection of social media and youth political participation, emphasizing power, participation, and civic engagement regarding the opportunities and challenges of young citizens, their engagement with social media and democracy, and the implications of these trends for our current and future democratic systems. We define 'young people' as anyone between 15 and 24 years old, as per the United Nations' categorization of the group. Submissions that investigate older or younger groups are welcome if they include the dedicated target group or segments of this.
We invite submissions in the form of original research articles from various disciplinary backgrounds, including journalism, media studies, psychology, sociology, communication, political science, and education, and submissions with an interdisciplinary approach. Submissions should address the influence of digital media and technology on the political participation of youth in various contexts and societies.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
References - examples
Amnå, E. & Ekman, J. 2014. Standby citizens: Diverse faces of political passivity. European Political Science Review, 6(2): 261–281. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175577391300009X.
Boulianne, S., and J. Ohme. 2021. “Pathways to Environmental Activism in Four Countries: Social media, Environmental Concern, and Political Efficacy.” Journal of Youth Studies, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.2011845.
Cammaerts, B. et al. 2014. The myth of youth apathy: Young Europeans’ critical attitudes toward democratic life. American Behavioral Scientist 58(5), 645–664. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515992.
Couldry, N., Livingstone, S., & Markham, T. 2016. Media consumption and public engagement: Beyond the presumption of attention. Palgrave Macmillan.
Cotter, K., & Thorson, K. 2022. Judging Value in a Time of Information Cacophony: Young Adults, Social media, and the Messiness of do-it-Yourself Expertise. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(3), 629–647. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612221082074.
Loader, B.D., Vromen, A. & Xenos, M. 2014. The networked young citizen: Social media, political participation and civic engagement. Information, Communication & Society 17(2), 143–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.871571.
Mascheroni, G. 2017. A Practice-Based Approach to Online Participation: Young People’s Participatory Habitus as a Source of Diverse Online Engagement. International Journal of Communication 11(2017), 4630–4651.
Ohme, J., Andersen, K., Albæk, E., & de Vreese, C. H. (2022). Anything Goes? Youth, News, and Democratic Engagement in the Roaring 2020s. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(3), 557–568. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612221093008.
Dr. Gitte Bang Stald
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
Chapter proposals
Deadline: October 15, 2023
Scholars from a variety of disciplines increasingly investigate how food and foodways, or what we eat, what it means, and why it matters, influence public understanding of culture and society. Communication scholars have much to add to this interdisciplinary conversation since their research attends to food’s communicative elements, including the role of persuasion, symbols, and strategies, in crafting meaning about how food is produced, promoted, and consumed (Cramer, Greene, and Walter, 2011; Frye and Bruner, 2012; Grey, 2014; Stokes and Atkins-Sayre, 2016). Although scholarship about food and communication is growing, there remains a need to understand how food engages (supra)national identity and nationalism in a variety of contexts to convey messages of belonging and pride, and through these, calls to action (see, most notably, e.g. Goodman 2013; Ichijo, Johannes and Ranta 2019; Porciani 2021, also Parasecoli 2022).
In this call, we are looking for abstracts for chapters that address the question of Scottish representation through and around food from devolution (1999) to contemporary and current visions of the future. As Scotland increasingly differentiates itself politically and economically, we ask what foods define Scotland as a UK sub-nation, and how this communicative work helps distinguish it from England, the rest of the UK, and Europe. In this volume, we specifically focus on the role of media, language, and communication broadly in shaping Scotland’s vision about itself and others, addressing a notable gap in discussions around Scotland’s relationship to food. Our discussion contributes to the growing understanding of the role food plays in Scotland’s past, present, and future. The book will offer a perspective that may help shape future discussions around the important connection between food and the question of “national” identity in health, political, economic, and other communication.
Specifically, the volume will ask questions including, but not limited to:
We are looking for chapter proposals that examine these and any other related questions in relation to a range of texts, from social media to advertising, policy, film, and more, with a view to establishing an image of what “Scottish food” may mean, from devolution, to now, and with a look toward its futures.
We are particularly interested in including papers from colleagues located in and outside Scotland and the UK and are circulating this call with a global perspective in mind. The papers will form part of an edited collection, for which we are currently in talks with a number of academic publishers who are principally interested in this topic.
If you are interested in this topic and can contribute, please send a 300-word abstract with your proposed paper focus and a short biography (100 words)
To: mishaq@qmu.ac.uk
Subject line: Communicating Scotland Through Food Abstract
By Sunday, 15 October 2023
The timeline for this project is as follows:
A note about editors:
Ashli Q. Stokes is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A 20-21 Fulbright scholar, she co-authored Tangled Roots: How Food Communicates Resilience in Appalachia and Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South with Wendy Atkins-Sayre, also co-editing City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide (Peter Lang). Her research exploring intersections between identity, activism, and regions has also been published in journals including the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, Southern Communication Journal, Public Relations Inquiry, Journal of Public Interest Communications, and Journal of Public Relations Research.
Ana Tominc is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, UK. She teaches and has published in the area of food media and communication, and is the founder of the Conference on Food and Communication (foodcommunication.net). Her edited book, Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe: Impact on Postwar Foodways, is currently shortlisted for the 2023 Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Outstanding Achievements Award. She is also President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), 2023-25.
Maryam Ishaq is a Ph.D. student and a teaching assistant at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, UK. She has a background in Nutrition and Food Science and MSc in Gastronomy. Alongside teaching media and digital communication, her research currently explores spatial food networks in Scotland and how discourses around local food are construed by social media influencers on Instagram.
October 16-17, 2023
Segovia Campus of the University of Valladolid, Spain/online (hybrid)
Deadline (EXTENDED): September 4, 2023
ECREA Science & Environmental Communication Section
Organised by:
Mette Marie Roslyng, Aalborg University, Denmark
Miguel Vicente Mariño, University of Valladolid, Spain
Mikkel Fugl Eskjær, Aalborg University, Denmark
Biodiversity and climate change – communicating interlocking dimensions of the ecological crisis
The current ecological crisis is a crisis of biodiversity and climate change. Both topics have surpassed the safe limits of our planetary boundaries. However, biodiversity and climate change are also inextricably connected. Climate change accelerates the loss of biodiversity and natural habitats while biodiversity and healthy ecosystems improve resilience to climate change. Despite the obvious links between biodiversity and climate change, biodiversity often seems to slip under the radar compared to global climate change. Some studies suggest that climate change gets up to eight times more media attention compared to the biodiversity crisis.
In recent years, there have been a few noteworthy exceptions to this general pattern. The 2019 rapport by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) concluded that we are facing an alarming increase in the human caused extinction rate of species and natural habitats. The publication triggered considerable media attention and renewed public concern for biodiversity and habitat loss. The 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal (COP15) which led to the 30-by-30 agreement (protection of 30% of Earth’s land and ocean by 2030) had a similar effect. Both events momentarily changed the discourse on the ecological crisis by turning the attention to the deterioration of ecosystems and its consequences for climate change. However, with the publication of IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report on climate change (2022-23) global media has once again turned their attention away from biodiversity and ecosystem services. This suggests that the risks of climate change may be easier to grasp and communicate than the decline in biodiversity. As a recent report concluded: “the scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts”. This raises questions about the dynamics behind media attention to climate change and biodiversity. What are the mechanisms governing the two agendas? When and where do they differ? And why do media report less on biodiversity compared to climate change? It also raises wider communicative questions about global and national environmental policies from key actors that relate to biodiversity and climate change as well as possible scientific controversies underlining the issue.
The ECREA Science and Environment Communication Section’s interim conference intends to investigate the full range of biodiversity communication. Both as a topic on its own, but also in relation to climate change and the wider ecological crisis. We wish to explore how we communicate on biodiversity in the press and digital media. How can communication on biodiversity help raise awareness and encourage public engagement? How do the media communicate the complexities of ecosystem services. And how are habitat loss and the need to rebuild ecosystems visualized. We invite papers that address issues relating broadly to biodiversity communication. We welcome contributions from Environmental and Science Communication, Political Communication, Strategic Communications, Environmental Humanities, or other related fields, as well as papers adopting diverse methodological approaches.
Topics for submission include, but are not limited to:
· Biodiversity as media agenda
· Biodiversity as risk in the Anthropocene
· Crises of biodiversity and climate change: connections and disconnections?
· The politicisation and de-politicisation of biodiversity on global, local, and national agendas
· Scientific conflicts and controversies pertaining to biodiversity
· Biodiversity and issues of inequality and environmental justice
· Biodiversity and more-than-human communication
· Educational communication and biodiversity
Abstracts, including title, name, affiliation, and email of presenter(s), should be no longer than 400 words (excl. references) outlining research questions, methodology and the expected contributions of the presentation. Submission should be sent to Mette Marie Roslyng on the following email mmroslyng@ikp.aau.dk before September 4, 2023.
Human-Machine Communication (Special Issue)
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Special Issue Editors:
Autonomy, originally a key concept of the Enlightenment epitomizing aspirations of modernity, has become one of the central and particularly high-profile concepts in debates on digital transformations. The associated debate comprises polarizing perspectives that oscillate between the restrictive or dangerously uncontrollable effect of digital technologies, such as facial recognition, surveillance or 'autonomous weapons' and the liberating, autonomy-enhancing function (in areas such as 'smart home', 'collaborative robotics', 'assisted living' and privacy protection). Application contexts include, e.g., administration, military and police, social and health-related services, medicine and education, and the digital economy with its diverse challenges regarding the future of work. Given the ongoing datafication, and an increasing influx of artificial intelligence into many sectors of society, the concept of autonomy needs re-definition and reflection under contemporary technological conditions.
The Special Issue wants to provide a platform for the interrogation of the concept of autonomy in the Age of artificial intelligence and the evolving human-machine-relations that result from it. A starting point to understand autonomy in the digital age could be conceptual sensitivity that asserts the possibility of autonomy for both personal subjective and collective social relations. On both levels, conditions for autonomy are subject to rapid change. Outlining the distinction between autonomous and automatic systems, different degrees of autonomy can be distinguished - from weak forms, in which it is a matter of gradual absence of external control, to strong forms, in which the respective 'autonomous' entity shapes social relations and might be able to set its own rules.
With the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and the increasing use of robots and smart machines in everyday life technological transformations have come along with social changes and new conflicts and contestations. Questions of privacy and data use, the future of work or the subsequent dawn of a 'post-capitalist' society, as well as the discussions about the consequences of autonomously acting combat robots and the ethical
regulation of warfare are just a few examples of the present challenges and those still to come. Meanwhile, discourses of technological autonomy address an array of issues concerning the future of democracy. Global digital dependencies, the delegation of authoritative power and the rise of global platform companies challenge the political autonomy of democratic states and their technological sovereignty. On a cultural level, the integration of autonomous systems into society launches a discussion about a technologically induced crisis of humanist values and question the relevance of the enlightenment ideals for today’s socio-technical practices. Studies related to trans- or posthumanism construe technologies as an opportunity to improve or even overcome the human condition. Visions of human enhancement, virtuality, cyborg-societies mingling with autonomous machines and artificial superintelligence might sound utopian today, but perhaps not anymore tomorrow. Such reasoning that includes both optimistic assumptions and skeptical anticipations illustrates the urgency of re-defining not just our idea of personal autonomy within a digital and datafied society but also the need to theorize and analyze new forms of state and system autonomy to understand the scaffoldings of future societies. Interdisciplinary research on the concept of autonomy is needed in order to substantiate our normative, functional, and epistemic claims on the future developments of the relationship between humans and technology.
The Special Issue aims to include diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives. We intend to explore the significance of autonomous living in our digital societies, to question the humanist concept of autonomy itself in our technological reality, and to analyse the implications of our interaction with (semi)autonomous systems. Submissions from all social sciences, humanities and technology disciplines related to the following topics and questions are highly welcomed, but do not need to be limited to these:
Section 1: Theoretical approaches & interdisciplinary perspectives
What is the status of the idea of autonomy in a digital society in which mutually autonomous interactions between humans and technology have become a reality? How to define and conceptualize autonomy of machines? How will the growing influence of autonomous systems affect social structures, political systems, labor and governmental control measures?
Section 2: Contexts & applications
How are (emerging) modes of (technical) autonomy and agency reshaping societies and personal life-worlds? Which different puzzles of “automation” and “autonomy” emerge in practical contexts and fields from art, medicine and political institutions? How can cultural and systemic differences in technology policy be reflected and specified on the basis of the innovation of autonomous systems?
Section 3: Norms and ethics
Which (post-Eurocentric) epistemologies and vocabularies question/enrich the debates about “autonomy” and humanism in the new digital reality? Should autonomy be understood as an intrinsic quality or as an effect in a relationship characterized by power relations? What normative requirements must autonomous systems and infrastructures meet in communication in an ethically engaged digital society?
Section 4: Collaboration
What degree of autonomy do we ascribe to robots in a collaboration situation? What synergies arise from the collaboration between humans and autonomous systems in different contexts? What role do autonomous robots play in hybrid decision-making- processes? Can autonomous robots be conceptualized as part of an automated process?
Keywords: Autonomy, Automation, Human-Machine Communication
Deadline: Submissions are due 1st November, 2023; the publication date will be spring 2024.
For more information or questions, please contact Caja Thimm (thimm@uni-bonn.de) or Gabriele Gramelsberger (gramelsberger@humtec.rwth-aachen.de).
All manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission
system (https://hmcjournal.com) with the remark, “Special Issue Autonomy ” in the cover letter. In the online submission system, there will be a drop-down menu under Document Type. Please choose “Special Issue Submission Autonomy .” For formatting and length specifications, please see the journal’s Instructions for Authors.
Landau in der Pfalz
The research group of Michaela Maier and the project SCOPE offer a position for a PhD student (75%, 4 years) and a postdoctoral researcher (100%, 3 years). The thematic focus is on (Computational) Political Communication.
More information on the positions: https://rptu.de/s/phycrt
PhD position: https://psy.rptu.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=4339&token=57274ec0c2aed5b52599b68abb8ac8d2de97dd96
Postdoctoral position: https://psy.rptu.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=4338&token=7f732f721a2ae9abb24ce06f0e6e66e35d16c641
Please note that the application portal appears to be in German, however, you can change the language to English on the bottom right.
University of Konstanz
The Zukunftskolleg, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Konstanz, has recently opened its 18th call for applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships.
The institute invites researchers in the early stages of their careers who plan to develop and implement an independent research project to apply for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowships are open to researchers from all fields represented at the University of Konstanz, including Communication and Media Studies. The institute offers five 2-year positions.
You will find the call for applications as well as information about the eligibility criteria and the application process under: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/fellowships/postdoctoral-fellowship/
Further questions can be directed to Mihaela Mihaylova via e-mail: zukunftskolleg-application@uni-konstanz.de. Applications should be submitted until 10 October 2023, 11:00am (Konstanz time).
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