European Communication Research and Education Association
Task Force Practices of Academic Publishing in Communication (2019 - 2023) has published Recommendations to ECREA Executive Board and to ECREA members.
You can read it HERE.
The aim of the task force is to monitor developments, engage in debate on publishing ethics and standards in the field, develop clear recommendations for ECREA members and therefore support Association’s mission to both promote and protect the highest academic standards.
Members: Lenka Vochocová (chair), Burcu Sumer (vice-chair), Mercedes Medina, Angeliki Monnier, Klaus Rummler, Francisco Segado, Victoria Tur Viñes, Angel Arrese, Cátia Ferreira.
University of Stirling
Open ended, full time
Closing date: 11 July 2023
More details: : https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?jobId=3654&jobTitle=Lecturer%20in%20Public%20Relations%20and%20Strategic%20Communications
Communications, Media & Culture (CMC) wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced candidate at Lecturer Grade 8 (Teaching and Research) with specialist interests in Public Relations to expand the Division’s teaching, research and knowledge exchange activities.
We are looking for an excellent communicator who is able to effectively teach, motivate and mentor undergraduates and postgraduates. They will make a contribution to the strategic direction of CMC through research, teaching and impact activities, including short-course opportunities. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of modules on the MSc in Public Relations and Strategic Communication and postgraduate programmes as well as BA Hons in Journalism Studies. Applicants with specialist knowledge, skills or interests in one or more of the following areas are invited to apply:
The postholder will be researcher who has expertise in public relations and strategic communications, evidenced by published research and peer reviewed scholarly activity. They will have a growing research profile in public relations, a strong understanding of industry practices and emerging trends, and will engage effectively with external stakeholders to pursue opportunities for collaboration, income generation and enhancing CMC’s regional, national, and international profile.
Informal enquiries can be made to Dr William Dinan, Head of the Division of Communications, Media & Culture: william.dinan1@stir.ac.uk
History of Media Studies
History of Media Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholar-run, diamond OA journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication—as expressed through academic institutions; through commercial, governmental, and non-governmental organizations; and through “alter-traditions” of thought and practice often excluded from the academic mainstream. The journal publishes high-quality, original articles, reviews, and commentary on the history of this inter- and extra-disciplinary area as it has intersected with other fields in the social sciences and humanities—and with social practices beyond the academy.
We encourage submissions in any one of our formats, in either Spanish or English: https://hms.mediastudies.press/author-guidelines
We are committed to a humane, care-based, and developmental review process, with the goal to improve manuscripts through collegial exchange.
The journal is published by mediastudies.press, a scholar-led, no-fee nonprofit publisher established in 2019. The journal is edited by three established scholars in the history of media and communication studies field: David W. Park, Peter Simonson, and Jefferson Pooley. See our launch editorial (versión en español).
The journal’s Editorial Board includes scholars from nearly all continents and regions, with the aim to broaden the field’s traditional scope.
The journal is affiliated with (1) the Working Group on the History of Media Studies; and (2) the History of Media Studies Newsletter.
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), the Center for Media@Risk at the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the School of Journalism and Communication (Chinese University of Hong Kong), the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (University of Southern California) 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.
FOR MORE INFORMATION visit lisbonwinterschool.com
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 Research and Teaching Associate/PhD (60%). 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/research-and-teaching-associate-doctoral-position/03bfe57c-e347-41d7-b001-35a6f643c460
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.
September 7-8, 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Deadline: June 30, 2023
The Youth Research Institute and the Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences of Corvinus University of Budapest invite contributions to the conference on “Clout Culture: Youth Cultures in Changing Societies”, to be held in Budapest, Hungary on 7-8 September 2023.
The aim of the conference is to investigate contemporary youth cultures in all of its facets. We thus invite contributions for poster presentations (for Day 1) and oral presentations / panel discussions (for Day 2) on the following themes / topics in both English and Hungarian:
The conference is free of charge. Join other researchers about youth cultures for professional development and networking opportunities. The organizers of the event will provide accommodation for oral presenters and panelists.
General Paper Submission Guide
More information on our website: https://ifjusagkutatointezet.hu/en/news/conference-call
Further information and submissions: info@ifjusagkutatointezet.hu
October 13-14, 2023
University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin (Hardenbergestraße)
Deadline: June 15, 2023
A symposium
This international symposium engages with the concept of domestication as it stands today. It celebrates on this occasion the first ever international Routledge Handbook of Domestication of Media and Technology, scheduled for release in summer of 2023.
(https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Media-and-Technology-Domestication/Hartmann/p/book/9781032184142). The conference brings together authors from the book with other researchers as well as interested colleagues and students from the UdK. The symposium focuses on questions such as:
• What is the domestication concept’s potential value for future research?
• How does it differ from other concepts - or where are the overlaps?
• How does domestication work in times of surveillance capitalism?
The concept of domestication of media and technology is not new. In fact, it was first formulated in the late 1980s, early 1990s. While it has never managed to take center stage, researchers in media and communication studies have used it ever since and the application and development of the concept are still thriving. Additionally, it has been used in other fields, such as technology assessment studies, in design studies, in management studies.
It focuses primarily on the question of what users (of media and/or technologies) do with these, especially when they are new. How do they adopt them into their everyday lives, how do they adapt to the technologies (and vice versa)? These practices are seen to relate to values that are developed over time (the moral economy of the household), both individually as well as socially. The concept also offers an emphasis on the combined notion of media as technology (object) and content (double / triple articulation). At the time of its first development, the emphasis on the users’ ability to act and interpret was high. Since then, this has seen quite a bit of differentiation. Today, the question of the relationship between users and producers as well as technologies is facing new challenges, to which the domestication concept is seen to contribute important notions.
A keynote by Prof. Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary, CAN) will introduce some of the key concerns. Throughout two days, the symposium’s contributors will delve into the above-mentioned questions both theoretically as well as with reference to current empirical material.
The symposium will take place at the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin (Hardenbergestraße).
It will begin with a book launch on Thursday, the 12th of October 2023. This will be followed by a symposium on Friday and Saturday (13-14 October), ending mid-day on Saturday.
Interested parties are invited to submit an abstract (300-500 words) to Maren Hartmann (hartmann@udk-berlin.de) until the 15th of June, 2023.
Feel free to contact us with any additional questions/ comments you might have - and feel free to circulate amongst domestication lovers :-)
November 15-17, 2023
TU Dresden, Germany, hosted by the Chair of Digital Cultures
Submission deadline: 14 July 2023
Format: in-person presentations
Confirmed keynote speaker:
Dr Iván Chaar-López, University of Texas Austin
The conference is organized in collaboration between the Chair of Digital Cultures at TU Dresden, Germany, and the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. The event is funded by the Internationalization Strategy of TU Dresden and the LSE Global Research Fund.
Organizing team:
Dr Michelle Pfeifer (TU Dresden): michelle.pfeifer1@tu-dresden.de
Dr Philipp Seuferling (LSE): p.seuferling@lse.ac.uk
The buzzword “smart borders” commonly captures the widespread digitalization and automation of migration control and the expansion of racial capitalist security regimes by technological means. Yet, the term describes only the most recent instance of media technologies constituting and enabling state bordering. While states around the world rely on and invest in ever newer “smart” technologies to control migration, these developments stand in longer historical continuities, not least hailing from projects of mobility and population control of colonialism, racism, eugenics, or carceral regimes (Chaar-López, 2019; Weitzberg, 2020; Pfeifer, 2021; Leurs & Seuferling, 2022; Tazzioli, 2023).
This conference aims to address the international research field on temporalities and histories of smart borders, to trace genealogies and longue durées of media, communication, and information technologies in the control of borders and migration. Such histories can be traced on different levels: materialities of media technologies, uses and practices around them, struggles against bordering tactics and technologies, as well as socio-technical imaginaries of what these technologies can and cannot do – all of which are characterized by continuities and change. While media shape borders across time, media technologies are also shaped by and emerge from projects of bordering. In this sense, borders can be better understood by attending to their media, and vice versa, media histories more generally can be explored at the border – a “technological testing ground” (Molnar, 2022) historically and today.
Questions guiding the conference are:
How can we understand histories of the “smart border” within histories of media technology and digitalization, as well as within histories of territorialization, biopolitics, racial capitalism, colonialism, and bordered states? How are technological innovation as well as processes of digitalization and computation historically tested, developed, and trialed in the context of border and migration control?How has the entanglement of media technologies with borders evolved over time?How can historical perspectives on smart borders advance critiques of violence and discrimination enacted by smart border regimes today?
We explicitly welcome papers that engage with queer, feminist, decolonial, postcolonial, abolitionist, and critical race perspectives on the histories of mediated bordering.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Theoretical perspectives on “smart borders” across time Methodological approaches to historicizing “smart borders” Histories of digitalization and automation, in contexts of mobility, migration, and border controlStudies of historical empirical contexts of mediated borders Histories of border and technological regulation, policy-making, and law The role of risk, uncertainty, and security in genealogies of border and migration controlGenealogies of datafication of people on the moveHistories of biometrics, surveillance, policing, and carceralityMediated containment, surveillance, and control of people on the move, mobility, and movement concerning imperatives of digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligenceHistories of struggles against and contestations of “smart border” regimes
Submission guidelines:
Submissions should include an abstract (300-400 words), as well as a short biographical note (100-150 words). Please use this form: https://forms.office.com/e/fmhfvNQE5T
The submission deadline is 14 July 2023. We plan to notify applicants about proposal acceptance by 4 August 2023.
Funding will be available to support travel and accommodation of invited speakers. Please note whether you need financial assistance in the submission form.
Koen Leurs, Utrecht University
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/digital-migration/book269996#description
“A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars… It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things.”
- Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“A must read for everyone who is concerned with questions of human mobility, media and communications and the digital border.”
- Myria Georgiou, LSE
“A much-needed addition to scholarship on mobility, technology, and migration… The book is poised to become a touchstone text.”
- C.L. Quinan University of Melbourne
In contemporary discussions on migration, digital technology is often seen as a 'smart' disruptive tool. Bringing efficiencies to management, and safety to migrants. But the reality is always more complex.
This book is a comprehensive and impassioned account of the relationship between digital technology and migration. From 'top-down' governmental and corporate shaping of the migrant condition, to the 'bottom-up' of digital practices helping migrants connect, engage and resist.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Digital Migration explores:
Critical yet hopeful, Koen Leurs opens up the unequal power relations at the heart of digital migration studies, challenging us to imagine more just alternatives.
Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
All author royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a hotline for boatpeople in distress.
November 9 - 10, 2023
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (conference will be held onsite with inclusion of 1 online panel)
Deadline (EXTENDED): June 19, 2023
Conference of the ECREA Temporary Working Group "Communication and Sport"
The myriad technological, economic, and social changes that have been going on in contemporary societies have had a dramatic impact on sports communication, bringing new issues to deal with and new actors coming into what was previously in a European context considered to be mainly a domain of journalism. In this conference, hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague on November 9 - 10, 2023, the ECREA Temporary Working Group on Communication and Sport calls for papers exploring the transition of sports communication from various perspectives. We would like to help expand the contemporary research on topics from different scholarly fields like media studies, cultural studies, sports journalism studies and sports strategic and PR communication, and sports audience studies, not necessarily only from Europe.
The conference will feature one online panel that will allow participation of a select number of researchers who are unable to travel to Prague.
With regard to the overarching topic of the conference, here are many issues that have arisen in recent years, including:
This list is not exclusive, and we call for papers which in a broad sense deal with shifts in sports communication, including both theoretical and analytical perspectives on the tensions, conflicts, many dilemmas and negotiations involved, focusing on the sports communication creators, the sports media content itself or its audiences.
We invite abstracts between 300-500 words (excluding references) submitted in English language by June 19, 2023 via email to the main organiser Dr. Veronika Macková (veronika.mackova@fsv.cuni.cz). The submission should be anonymized.
The abstracts can be both for individual papers and panel proposals. Each panel proposal must include an abstract of the cover topic and the titles of 4-5 involved papers with the names of the authors. Each paper in the panel needs to be presented by people from different universities. Please indicate clearly whether the abstract is for individual paper or a panel proposal.
To support the integration of as many scholars as possible, we will hold approx. 5 onsite panels and 1 online panel for the colleagues who have difficulties travelling to Prague on the dates of the conference. Please indicate clearly whether the abstract is for onsite or online presentation.
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