ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

May 30, 2025

Online

Dear colleagues,

Registration is now open for the FREE Online Half-Day, Book Launch and Unconference, "Media Capture in the Global South: Power and Resistance,” Friday, 30 May 2025 (Online, 10:00-15:05 BST).

You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-capture-in-the-global-south-power-and-resistance-tickets-1347887410529?aff=oddtdtcreator

Programme:

10:00-10:15
Welcome & Introduction

10:15–11:00
Book Launch: Media Capture in Africa & Latin America: Power and Resistance (2024, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan)
Chair: Beth Pearson & Hayes Mabweazara (University of Glasgow)

Seige and resistance: Media, journalism and democracy in Colombia
Catalina Montoya Londoño & Jorge Iván Bonilla Vélez (Liverpool Hope University, UK / EAFIT University, Medellín, Columbia)

New and old captured policies, resistances and diversity in media and internet in Argentina
María Soledad Segura, Alejandro Linares, & Ana Bizberge (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina / Universidad Nacional de Formosa, Argentina / Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)

The Nigerian press and its plutocratic relationship
Ufuoma Akpojivi & Olaniyan Akintola (University of Ghana / Centre for Social Media Research, Nigeria)

Resisting media capture: Mobilising for media freedom in Uganda
Carl-Magnus Höglund & Johan Karlsson Schaffer (Fojo Media Institute, Linnaeus University, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

11:00-11:10
BREAK

11:10–12:20
Unconference Panel 1: Power (Indonesia, Colombia, Mexico, The Gambia, South Africa)
Chair: Mo Hume (University of Glasgow and Glasgow Latin America Research Network)

How does media capture operate in contexts of peacebuilding? Evidence from Colombia’s 2012-2016 peace negotiations
Jose David Ortega Chávez (University of Winchester, UK)

Media capture in Indonesia as a transitional democracy
Ardhanareswari Handoko Putri (University of Glasgow, UK)

Media capture in Mexico at the intersections of sports, media, and business
Mireya Marquez-Ramirez (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City)

Media capture and its implications for Sustainable Development Goal attainment in The Gambia
Yaya B. Baldeh (Journalist / independent researcher)

State capture and media-state relations in South Africa: Groundwork for an African media-state model
Adrian Hadland & Bernadine Jones (University of Stirling, UK)

12:20-12:35
BREAK

12:35–13:45
Unconference Panel 2: Resistance (Guinea-Bissau, India/South Asia, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Lebanon)
Chair: Lluis de Nadal Alsina (University of Glasgow and Glasgow University Media Group)

Media capture in Guinea-Bissau: State fragility, external influences, and the roles of media development actors
Johanna Mack (Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism / Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)

What role does transnational mediascape and diaspora play in countering media capture in the Global South?
Cheshta Arora (Western Norway Research Institute, Norway)

Media capture in marginalised communities: Insights from South Africa’s post-apartheid community media sector
Franz Krüger (NLA Høgskolen, Norway & Wits University, South Africa)

Understanding media capture and journalistic resistance in Burkina Faso in a context of autocratic legalism and informational autocracy
Emma Heywood (University of Sheffield, UK)

Examining alternative media and digital activism in Lebanon during the 2019 protests, as a form of resisting algorithmic media capture
Yara El Turk (Euro-Mediterranean University, Slovenia)

13:45-13:55
BREAK

13:55–14:55
Round Table: Media Capture in the Global South: From Research to International Policymaking and Action
Camille Grenier (Forum on Information and Democracy), Sacha Meuter (Foundation Hirondelle), Churchill Otieno (The Africa Editors Forum), Mel Bunce (City St George’s, University of London)
Chair: George Ogola (University of Nottingham, UK)

14:55–15:05
Closing

Organised by members of the Sociological & Cultural Studies and the Glasgow University Media Group at the University of Glasgow in partnership with the Glasgow Latin American Research Network.

June 3, 2025

Online/Cardiff University

The Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media History at Cardiff University is delighted to invite you to a free hybrid event showcasing new books and projects on media history, exploring a diverse range of media forms, including photography, digital technology, film, and journalism.

The presentations will be followed by a discussion on the current role and future directions of media history research.

The hybrid event will take place on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, from 16:00 to 17:30 (BST), both online via Teams and in person at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Cardiff University. 

All welcome!

Featured publications include:

• Conflicting images: Histories of war photography in the news, Stuart Allan and Tom Allbeson (Routledge, 2024)
  
• Picturing peace: photography, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding, Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield, and Jolyon Mitchell (Bloomsbury, 2025)
  
• Incomplete: The feminist possibilities of the unfinished film, Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon (University of California Press, 2023)
  
• Virtual holocaust memory, Matthew Boswell and Antony Rowland (Oxford University Press, 2023)
  
• Reporting skin and the wounded body in Victorian Britain, Diana Garrisi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
  
• Film, feminism and rape culture in the Yorkshire Ripper years, Hannah Hamad (British Film Institute, forthcoming)
  

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-book-launch-at-the-tom-hopkinson-centre-for-media-history-tickets-1362166238889?aff=oddtdtcreator

For any queries email us at: jomecresearch@cardiff.ac.uk

ESRC / Trans-Atlantic Partnership Grant

This is an exciting opportunity for a researcher to play a central role in an international research project on journalism and democracy. The project is funded by an ESRC / Trans-Atlantic Partnership Grant, and it has research teams based in the UK, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa.

The successful candidate will be on “Team UK” working with Mel Bunce (City) and Richard Fletcher (RISJ, Oxford).  The project explores how independent journalism is defined and understood by citizens, journalists, policy makers and academics; how independent journalism is practiced; and the forms of solidarity and support that may protect its independence. 

We’re looking for great skills in data collection, analysis, and writing – and the ability to work independently to really push forward this project.

The job includes a lot of career development opportunities, including leading on publications and presenting at international conferences plus working with a team of supportive international scholars.

We can sponsor an international candidate (although they will need to demonstrate good understanding of UK journalism). They need to have finished their PhD - or at minimum submitted their thesis - by July 1st. 

Full details and to apply:

https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/apply/details.html?jobId=5351&jobTitle=Post-doctoral%20Research%20Fellow%20-%20Journalism%20and%20Democracy

November 19-21, 2025 

Tübingen University, Germany

Deadline: June 30, 2025

https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/278964

Joint conference of the DGPuK Divisions of „Media, Public Sphere, Gender“ and „Visual Communication“

From baby monitors to livestreams, from migrants crossing borders to digital navigation systems in our pockets; from Black Lives Matter demonstrations to COVID-19 tracking apps, and from Woman, Life, Freedom to influencers staging their journeys through social media – these examples demonstrate how people get and are set in motion with and through "their" media.

But who or what is actually mobile? How do people on the move become visible through mobile, networked media technologies, and who or what remains invisible? What role do gender and power relations play in this? How do mobilities and visualities shape each other? To what extent do different social categories and inequalities shape regimes of mobility and visibility from an intersectional perspective? In addition, the discussion of methodological challenges will be given space: How can mobile media use be analysed when both people and media are constantly moving? How can research methods be flexibilised to adequately capture the ephemerality of visual content and the processuality of media practices? This conference invites to engage with the topic of mobility from a media and communication studies perspective, both theoretically and methodologically.

Submission Deadline: 30. June 2025

Local organising team

Dr. Helena Atteneder, Prof. Dr. Martina Thiele, Julia Fischer

University of Tübingen, Institute of Media Studies

Contat: mobility@mewi.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline: : 1 June through 31 July, 2025

mediastudies.press, the scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, is happy to announce our annual proposal window from 1 June to 31 July, 2025. During this date window, authors are encouraged to submit a proposal for review.

mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. We currently publish in four series:

• Media Manifold series — monographs and other book-length works of contemporary media scholarship
  
• Public Domain series — reprints of neglected classics, in new critical editions anchored by framing introductions
  
• Open Reader series — themed collections of openly licensed, public domain, and linked materials curated and introduced by leading experts
  
• History of Media Studies series — monographs and other original scholarly works centered on history of media, communication, and film studies
  

We are small and artisanal by mission, and aim to publish just five books a year. Given the volume of proposals that we receive—and with our production schedule in mind—we maintain an annual proposal window (1 June to 31 July), for the review of manuscripts slated for publication in the following calendar year. You are welcome to send informal queries outside these dates, but our general practice is to only consider proposals within the annual window. Each year, we review proposals with an initial reply by August 30, with the aim to conduct peer review of proposals of expressed interest by the end of September.

mediastudies.press is an open-access publisher for the media and communication studies fields. The press is nonprofit and scholar-led. We publish living works, with iterative updates stitched into our process. And we encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments our authors study. 

Publishing with mediastudies.press is free on principle. Our aim is to demonstrate, on a small scale, an open-access publishing model supported by libraries rather than author fees, via the Open Book Collective. Open access for readers, we believe, should not be traded for new barriers to authorship. 

All our published works are rigorously peer-reviewed, and receive unusual editorial attention. We prioritize discoverability through careful metadata, library records, and directory listings. As a scholar-run operation, our publicity outreach is uncommonly informed by the fields’ intellectual contours. 

We kindly ask that proposals be submitted as a single PDF. Proposals should include the following elements, in addition to at least one draft chapter:

1. Proposed title and subtitle
   
2. A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book
   
3. Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s)
   
4. Proposed series (see above)
   
5. Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated
   
6. Estimated word-length
   
7. Multi-modal components, if any
   
8. Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the portion now complete)
   
9. At least one draft chapter
   

To submit your work to mediastudies.press please follow our submission link.

If you have any questions at all about the proposal process for books, please contact us at press@mediastudies.press

Jeff Pooley, co-director of mediastudies.press

Dave Park, co-director of mediastudies.press

School of English, Media and Creative Arts (SEMCA), University of Galway

Applications are invited for a full-time, funded PhD scholarship in Journalism and Media at the University of Galway. This position is co-funded by Research Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Met Éireann, and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

Project Description:

The PhD is part of a project titled Tackling Climate Misinformation in Ireland (CLiME). The project explores how misleading claims, delay discourses, and climate-sceptic arguments—especially around agricultural decarbonisation—are reproduced and normalised in Irish news media and public discourse.

The PhD researcher will help identify such claims in news coverage and examine how journalistic practices contribute to the spread of misinformation. The project aims to build an evidence base for climate policy misinformation in Ireland and develop resources for journalists and communication professionals.

Supervisors: Dr Brenda McNally (PI), Professor Karyn Morrissey
Location: Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies, University of Galway
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Stipend: €25,000/year (tax-exempt)
Duration: 4 years (includes funding for tuition fees, computer, travel, and summer schools)

Academic Requirements:

• MA/MSc (2:1 or higher) in Media and Communications, Journalism Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, or a related field

• Strong interest in misinformation, journalism, or climate communication

Essential Criteria:

• Master’s degree (2:1 or equivalent)

• Independent research ability

• Motivation and excellent communication skills

• Fluent in spoken and written English

• Teamwork skills

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in climate communication or misinformation studies

• Experience working in a research team

To Apply:
Email a single PDF containing your CV, cover letter, and two academic references to:
brenda.mcnally@universityofgalway.ie
Filename should include your name and “CLiME”.

Cover Letter Guidelines:

• Academic awards/scholarships (max 300 words)

• Previous research experience (max 500 words)

• Motivation for the PhD and relevance to CLiME (max 1000 words)

• Other relevant info (max 500 words)

• Two full references (not “available on request”)

Deadline: 6 June 2025, 17:00 (Irish time)
Keywords: Climate Communication, Misinformation Studies, News Media Analysis, Political Communication, Environmental Communication

October 17-19, 2025

Cairo, Egypt

Deadline: June 15, 2025

In today’s high velocity digital media markets and accelerating AI revolution, competence in management and leadership are critical success factors. It is especially important to develop mastery in leveraging creativity as a strategic resource for strengthening competitive advantages in company processes, products, market relationships, and business models. The complexity of digital disruption makes innovation and creativity a necessity for long-term sustainability. Company success requires competencies in emerging digital technologies and fostering organizational cultures that encourage experimentation, agility and respect for ethical responsibilities. Strategic managers are challenged with demands to rethink orientations, practices, and structures, to redesign business models, and to boost productivity by improving efficiencies that can be gained by harnessing AI technologies. Doing so raises ethical and legal issues pertaining to intellectual property rights and managing human creativity. 

The International Media Management Academic Association (IMMAA) invites submissions for its 19th Annual Conference, hosted by The American University in Cairo (AUC), October 17–19, 2025. Join global scholars and industry leaders to explore “Managing Innovation and Creativity for Sustainability in Media Companies” in the dynamic setting of Cairo, Egypt. Read full call for papers here (www.immaaegypt.com)  

KEY THEMES

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Innovation in media management theory/practice
  
• AI-driven business analytics & ethical frameworks
  
• Leadership for creativity and organizational agility
  
• Evolving media business models & market strategies
  
• Cross-cultural management challenges
  
• Media policy, regulation, and sustainability
  
• Advances in advertising, marketing, and digital tech

IMPORTANT DATES

• June 15, 2025: Abstract/panel proposal deadline
  
• July 7, 2025: Acceptance notifications
  
• July 7 – Sept 15: Early registration
  
• Oct 17–19: Conference dates
  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers: Extended abstracts (750–1,000 words) outlining focus, methods, and relevance to media management.

Panels: 300-word proposal + 300-word abstracts per presentation + panelist bios.

Submit via email to: immaaegypt2025@aucegypt.edu (Double-blind peer-reviewed). 

Discounted rates for global participation. Full details on conference website.

WHY ATTEND?

Engage with cutting-edge research and industry insights.

Network in Cairo—home to the Pyramids, Nile cruises, and a vibrant cultural scene.

Hosted by AUC, a leading MENA institution with world-class facilities. 

LINKS & CONTACT

Conference website: https://immaaegypt.com

IMMAA website: www.immaa.org

Questions? Email: immaaegypt2025@aucegypt.edu

Join us to advance media management scholarship amid Cairo’s historic wonders!

Best regards,

IMMAA 2025 Organizing Team

The American University in Cairo

#IMMAA_Egypt | Follow updates @immaaegypt2025

Edited by: Neil Thurman, Imke Henkel, Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri and Richard Fletcher

This report is based on a survey conducted between September and November 2023 with a representative sample of 1,130 UK journalists, a follow-up to a similar survey in 2015 (Thurman et al. 2016). The survey was carried out as part of the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study project. Our analysis of the survey data and of over 200 other relevant sources of information has produced numerous findings.

This report documents increased precarity in the profession with a shift away from permanent contracts and growth in the number of freelancers, lingering inequalities between specific groups in terms of pay and seniority, the continued adoption of new technologies that bring benefits but also exacerbate risks, and changing conceptions of roles, ethics, and journalism’s relationship with society.

ECREA members can access the publication open access here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalists-2020s

November 26-28, 2025

University of Napoli, Italy

Deadline: June 30, 2025

In an era marked by rapid globalization, digital transformation, and shifting socio-political landscapes, contemporary Canada faces evolving challenges and opportunities in fostering stability and belonging while addressing divisions and conflicts (Simpson 2020; Coulthard 2021).

Canada has long been seen as a bridge between different cultures, identities, and geopolitical forces, yet barriers - both historical and contemporary - persist in shaping its national discourse. The complexities of Indigenous reconciliation efforts, the legacy of residential schools and land rights disputes (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 2015); regional disparities between provinces, particularly regarding economic development and resource distribution (Banting & Thompson 2023); linguistic tensions between English and French-speaking communities (Sioufi & Bourhis 2018); the outbreak and escalation of global conflicts, resulting in further divisions and negotiations; the evolving discourses on ethnicity, cultural diversity and gender equality which resonate in contemporary struggles for resistance and transformation (Abu-Laban 2023); the effects of migration and multiculturalism that shape urban and rural communities, raising questions about integration, identity, and policy responses (Li 2023). Canada's reputation as a welcoming nation for immigrants coexists with growing debates on border security, asylum policies, and systemic discrimination. Moreover, digital and physical infrastructures increasingly impact access to services, exacerbating socio-economic inequalities in an era of rapid technological advancement.

Canada’s dual role as a place of connection and disconnection is therefore evident. The Conference seeks to explore the multifaceted ways in which Canada engages with the notions of connection and separation across cultural, political, linguistic, economic, and social spheres. We invite proposals that critically examine the factors that build bridges and create barriers in contemporary Canadian society, from a range of disciplines in the wider field of the Humanities. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches as well as geographic, historical, sociological, legal, literary, linguistic and cultural perspectives.

Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Indigenous sovereignty, reconciliation, and self-governance

• Bilingualism and multilingualism: policies, identities, and challenges

• Immigration, multiculturalism, and social integration

• Climate change, environmental justice, and Indigenous perspectives

• Digital and physical infrastructures: access, exclusion, and connectivity

• Cultural production and artistic expressions of belonging and alienation

• Social movements and activism: building solidarities or reinforcing divides

• The role of education in shaping national identity

• Inclusion and accessibility: policies, challenges, and opportunities

• Literature and narratives of connection and disconnection

We encourage both theoretical and empirical approaches. Submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers are also welcome.

The official languages of the conference: Italian, English and French

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and be accompanied by a brief biographical note (100 words). Please submit your proposals by June 30 to aiscnapoli2025@gmail.com

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15.

For further inquiries, please contact aiscnapoli2025@gmail.com

Works cited

Abu-Laban, Y. (2023). Contemporary Canadian Multiculturalism and Racial Justice. UBC Press.
Banting, K., & Thompson, D. (2023). Inequality and the Future of the Canadian Federation. University of British Columbia Press.
Coulthard, G. (2021). Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press.
Li, P.S. (2023) Deconstructing Canada’s discourse of immigrant integration. Int. Migration & Integration 4, 315–333
Simpson, L. (2020). As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press.
Sioufi, R., & Bourhis, R. Y. (2018). Acculturation and Linguistic Tensions as Predictors of Quebec Francophone and Anglophone Desire for Internal Migration in Canada. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 37(2), 136-159.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (2015). Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Lorimer.

November 27-28, 2025

Brussels, Belgium

Deadline: June 15, 2025

An international scientific symposium and stakeholder workshop organised by the Belgian Pandemic Intelligence Network (BE-PIN)

This event wants to bring together the research traditions connected to evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM): science communication research, risk communication, political communication, organisational communication, knowledge exchange, journalism studies, crisis management and political sciences.

We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions with a special focus on the communication processes for EIPM in the context of the management of crises such as pandemics and other emergencies (natural disasters or incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear agents, usually grouped under the acronym CBRN).

In those contexts, we propose to analyse two intertwined levels of communication that are crucial to understand: 1) the organisation of scientific knowledge exchange between a diversity of stakeholders (amongst others: researchers, professionals, knowledge brokers, interest organisations and policy-makers); and 2) public communication explaining the policy decisions and managing the risks produced by public administrations, university press offices, scientists, journalists, etc.

Themes:

• Science communication as part of crisis management

• From (scientific) evidence to decisions: the communication processes of EIPM related to crisis preparedness and response

• Public communication of (evidence-informed) policy during a crisis

• Citizen perspectives on and expectations of public policy communication during crises

• Ethics and governance of EIPM in crisis times

• Professional knowledge and competences for an efficient EIPM ecosystem

Participation to the event will be free of charge for those presenting accepted papers.

Please submit a 300-word abstract, indicating the theme you want to contribute to, by 15 June 2025 to ingrid.van.marion@ulb.be

Location and program details will be available at the BE-PIN research project website once the selection of papers has been made:
https://www.pandemicintelligence.be/event-details/getting-ready-for-trouble