ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Deadline: July 16, 2021

Call for chapters, Studies in Media and Communications (Emerald series)

Edited by:

• Jason A. Smith, Center for Social Science Research - George Mason University
• Richard T. Craig, Department of Communication - George Mason University

http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/…tml

Racialization is a term used within the social sciences to highlight the ways that social interactions become racial. This is an important concept in sociological and political science research when looking at structural mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequalities. The state, and its various organizational spaces of action, is often seen as a site for race to be enacted (e.g., Bracey 2015). Public policy sectors such as housing, taxation, and immigration, to name a few, have been ripe areas of research. However, media policy research has not effectively engaged with this critical conception. Media policy research has been driven by political economy perspectives within the field of Communications and Media Studies, and can benefit from an approach that analyzes it in relation to social science perspectives that focus on processes which constitute, or are constituted by, actors, groups, and organizations.

Racializing Media Policy seeks to fill this scholarly gap by providing case studies which focus on media policy issues in the United States through the lens of racialization. It will contribute to a growing body of media policy research within the Communications and Media Studies literature, as well as anchor the role of media policy in Sociological research – where it is lacking. It would also lend itself toward a growing body of work in the Sociology of Organizations which have begun to focus on “raced organizations” (Ray 2019; Wooten 2019) to understand how racial inequalities are embedded within organizational practices.

The volume is under contract with the Emerald series ‘Studies in Media and Communications.’ The series is sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.

Proposals of 750-1000 words are due by July 16, 2021. Submissions that are theoretical and/or empirical are welcomed, although we will give more weight to empirical submissions that can demonstrate the mechanisms of racialization throughout the media policy process. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches will be welcomed, as well as case study approaches which allow authors to connect to larger structural conditions within media policy debates.

Topics of interest for this volume might include, but are not limited to:

-A focus on traditional (print, radio, television) and new (internet, social) media issues

-Historical media policy issues analyzed through the lens of racialization

-Contemporary issues such as: Net Neutrality, Privacy, Telecom Development (5G), Broadband Access

-Tensions over media ownership

-The role of federal agencies in policy formation and decisions

-The role of media activist groups who engage in media policy work/spaces

-Localized media policy decisions at the municipal/county or state level

-Discourses of policy debates

-Racialized outcomes of media policy decisions

Submissions should be sent to Jason A. Smith jsm5@gmu.ed and Richard T. Craig rcraig@gmu.edu .

References

Bracey, G. E. (2015). Toward a critical race theory of state. Critical Sociology, 41(3): 553-572.

Ray, V. (2019). A theory of racialized organizations. American Sociological Review, 84(1): 26-53.

Wooten, M. E. (Ed.). (2019). Race, organizations, and the organizing process. Emerald.

Imke Henkel

This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function of the news media. Using the notoriously false reporting of EU policies by the British press as a starting point, it utilises Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the linguistic properties of false news stories and to understand how they function as myth in Roland Barthes’ sense. The disinformation is essential for the impact these news stories had as it provides the simplification which creates the blissful clarity of myth that Barthes described. As myth, the false news stories depoliticised a political argument and naturalised the claim of antagonistic British-European relations. Henkel shows how news stories used disinformation to articulate a Eurosceptic myth of the feisty, witty Briton who stands up against the European bully. Her main argument is that the disinformation contributed to the Brexit vote because, as myth, it transported an ideology. Henkel argues that the Brexit debate and the news reporting that preceded it for decades can be understood as a case study for how political journalism becomes democratically dysfunctional. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media and culture, political communication, and Critical Discourse Analysis.

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030695026

September 10, 2021

Online conference

Deadline: May 31, 2021

Media and communication studies today especially focus on questions surrounding how digital media and digitization have changed and revolutionized previous media ecologies. Funding opportunities, PhD dissertations, journals and books on digitization and the relevance of digital media are overwhelming. This joint ECREA postconference, organized by the Communication History, Radio Research, and Television Studies Sections, invites colleagues to focus on and discuss claims that studying old media is imperative and still fully relevant to understand our contemporary media landscapes. In several media sectors, traditional media, such as television and radio, printing, analog photography and music, are still the most profitable businesses. The integration of old and new media seems to be more effective than disruptive models, and the so-called “old media” are still used and appreciated by media audiences worldwide. This postconference invites empirical and theoretical contributions from different angles. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Old media persistence in terms of content, political mentality, business, law, regulation, audience and usage;
• Remediation and persistence of old media forms into new media, processes of digitization of old media and persistence of old media business models;
• The significance of traditional media (e.g. broadcasting, printing, analog photography and music, etc.) in contemporary digital culture;
• Production studies of old media industries;
• The persistence of propaganda and fake news from old to new media;
• Old media and how they contribute to the process of datafication;
• The persistence of old media in the everyday life of minoritarian or marginalised audiences;
• New media histories for old media;
• The persistence of old media activism;
• The continuation and renewal of old controversies and debates (on governance, neutrality, etc.);
• Nostalgia and use of old media archives as current practices both in the production of new media contents and in the audience consumptions.
• Analog photography, vinyl, tapes and Super8 movies (among others): the return of nostalgic media

Please send your 500 word abstract and a short bio of 100 words to info@oldnewspersistence.com. Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2021 and the conference will take place as an online event only on 10 September 2021.

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Salary from £36,647 to £44,140 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £47,456 pa inclusive of London allowance

Based in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

This is a fixed term appointment for two years, starting from 1 September 2021, with a possibility of extension for one further year, subject to funding

Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of Media, Communication and Development. The successful candidate will join an established and successful Department which graduates 300+ MSc students a year and is ranked #1 in the UK and #3 globally in our field (2021 QS World University Rankings).

The Department is seeking to appoint an LSE Fellow who can make important contributions to its teaching and research. This post presents an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to expand on their teaching experience while developing their research career.

The postholder will contribute to the core teaching of the MSc in Media, Communication and Development, as well as other Department theories and methods courses, and in addition to lecture and seminar teaching, will act as Academic Mentor to MSc students and supervise their dissertations. The postholder will also be expected to contribute to the research culture of the Department.

Candidates will have a completed PhD in Media and Communications, Development Communication or a closely related discipline/field with a focus on socio-political, economic and communication inequality in the global south (doctoral examination/viva to be completed before post start date). Candidates must demonstrate evidence of high quality teaching at graduate level and an interest in contributing to teaching critical approaches to media, communication and development, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and visual or discourse analysis methods. Candidates will have a developing research record in the field of media and communications, with evidence of a commitment to critically assessing theories and empirical research. Candidates must demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills and a demonstrable commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion in Higher Education.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2199/0/295232/15539/lse-fellow-in-media-communication-and-development.

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the "contact us" links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page.

Should you have any queries about the role, please email Professor Shakuntala Banaji: S.Banaji@lse.ac.uk

The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 9 May 2021 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position. As such, applicants who have already been employed as an LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply. If you have any queries about this please contact the HR Division.

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university.

October 14-16, 2021

Online conference

Deadline for proposal submission: April 12, 2021

The 6th edition of the conference /Narrative, Media and Cognition/ aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning. The 2021 edition of the conference is hosted by the Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, in Portugal, in association with the WG of the Audiovisual Narratives of AIM - The Moving Image Association in Portugal. It will take place on the 14th, 15th, 16th of October 2021, via Zoom.

Upon entering a new decade of the twenty-first century the artistic landscape is increasingly hybrid and veering from the norms; a growing blend of forms, contents and genres is taking place. Therefore, it is imperative to reflect on the interrelation of the three main topics of the conference – narrative, media/arts, and cognition – and to contribute with academic theorization that allows for a broadening of reflection upon the nature and role of narrative as the binding element of a new audiovisual praxis. In this sense, the current edition of the conference focuses on the multiple challenges of artistic contemporaneity, seeking to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue.

There will be a publication with selected, peer-reviewed articles issuing from this conference. 

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• ·Complex, non-linear and fragmentary narrative structures.
• ·Self-reflexivity, metalepsis, ekphrasis, embedding.
• ·Unreliable narration.
• ·Characters and diegetic universes.
• ·Time and space in narrative.
• ·Scriptwriting techniques.
• ·Essay film, webdocumentary.
• ·Autobiography, self-portrait, autofiction.
• ·Transmedia storytelling.
• ·Intermediality: narrative as cutting across different media.
• ·Film adaptation.
• ·Seriality, complex television series.
• ·Narrative and new media.
• ·New exhibition and exposition formats, streaming.
• ·Interactive narrative.
• ·Design, characters and narrative structures in videogames.
• ·Narrative as a cognitive structure.
• ·Relationship between media and cognition.
• ·Narration and altered states of consciousness.
• ·Narrative reception and creation mechanisms.

We are proud to present the following keynote speakers: 

• Professor Jane Alison – University of Virginia.Author of the book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (2019).
• Professor Nitzan Ben Shaul – University of Tel-Aviv.Author of the book Cinema of Choice: Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies (2012).
• * Professor Jens Eder – University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Co-editor of Image Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict (2017) and Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media (2010).
• Professor Marina Grishakova – University of Tartu.Co-author of The Gesamtkunstwerk as a Synergy of the Arts (Peter Lang, 2020); co-editor of Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution (2019) and Intermediality and Storytelling (2010).
• Miklós Kiss – University of Groningen.Co-author of the book Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (2018). 
• Professor Jason Mittell – Middlebury College.Author of the book Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. (2015).

Conference languages: English and Portuguese.

The conference is free of charge for selected participants, but registration is mandatory to be able to access the sessions.

Timetable: (2021)

• April 12: Deadline for proposal submission.
• May 12: Notification of acceptance.
• July 7: Deadline for registration (free of charge).
• October 14-16: Conference dates.

Submission:

We invite each of you to submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation. Each participant is limited to one talk. Both theoretical and analytical-theoretical approaches are accepted.

The proposal must contain an abstract (500 words max.), 5 keywords, 3 bibliographical references and a short bio of the author (250 words max.). Send to Fátima Chinita (chinita.estc@gmail.com ) and Abel Júpiter (estc.conferencia.2021@gmail.com ).

Suggested bibliography and more information available on the conference website: https://reconfiguracoes.estc.ipl.pt

Organizers:

Fátima Chinita, PhD. - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School

Guilhermina Castro, PhD. - Catholic University, School of the Arts, CITAR

Jorge Palinhos, PhD. - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School

Deakin University

The Climate Change Communication and Narratives Network in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University is seeking EOIs for a fully funded PhD scholarship that willexplore the role of narrative practices in a museum context to inspire action on climate change.

Project details

This project will work to create a real-time analysis of the Sydney Powerhouse Museum’s forthcoming ‘100 Conversations’ installation, that aims to grow a substantial video archive of climate change thought leaders communicating their ideas for action, hope, and solutions to climate change. Undertaking deep content analysis and applying critical frameworks for understanding climate change communication to the interviews and exhibition curation, the project will examine the capacities of these climate change narratives to promote and inspire the action that is so critically needed on climate change. It will also investigate the contemporary role of museums in enhancing climate literacy and climate action. The project will advance our understanding of the role of storytelling and narrative in documenting and galvanising inclusive responses to the climate emergency and creating change at both individual and system levels.

The Climate Change Communication and Narratives Network is an interdisciplinary network of humanities, social science and creative arts scholars, critically focused on the politics and practices of climate change narration and communication in a time of climate emergency.

See more here: https://www.cccnn.org.au/

Scholarship and candidate information

Successful candidates will receive scholarships of $28,600 p.a. for 3 years.The scholarship will start in 2021 and is for full time applicants only.

The successful candidate will have a First Class honours degree, or equivalent, and a disciplinary background in communication studies, museum studies, narrative studies or cultural studies, as well as an interest in partnership-based research. A background in climate change scholarship would be an advantage.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, we require prospective candidates to hold Australian citizenship or be international students currently residing in Australia.

Application dates

An EOI needs to be submitted by1 May 2021

Further information and forms:

https://www.deakin.edu.au/…rch

https://www.deakin.edu.au/…prs

Contact

Associate Professor Emily Potter (e.potter@deakin.edu.au )

Dr Gabi Mocatta (gabi.mocatta@deakin.edu.au )

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Call for anthology chapters

Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2021

Editors

• Pia Majbritt Jensen, associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Eva Novrup Redvall, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Christa Lykke Christensen, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The Nordic countries have a long and proud tradition of taking children and adolescents seriously as an audience with their own specific needs, in wider cultural policy frameworks focusing on children’s culture [børnekultur] as well as in specific film and media contexts (Bakøy, 1999; Christensen, 2002, 2006; Drotner, 1997; Jensen, 2017; Mouritsen, 1996; Rydin, 2000). However, the media use and viewing habits of children and adolescents have changed dramatically in the past decade – also in the Nordic region. Audiovisual content in the shape of film, series, and various “media snacks” on, for example, Netflix, Disney+, YouTube, Twitch, Snapchat, and TikTok are now a major part of their media diet, while their encounters with national film, series, and online content are declining.

This anthology invites contributions that further theories about industry notions of conducive production and distribution practices related to content for children and adolescents, and about children and adolescents’ receptionor “produsage” – or both – of audiovisual content and their own notions of relevance and quality in a digital and thoroughly globalised media landscape. Contributions can deal with questions concerning all genres and all aspects of audiovisual content made for or consumed by Nordic children and adolescents – from policy and production perspectives to textual analysisand reception studies. For example:

• How do screenwriters, producers and commissioners conceive of and make content aimed at and consumed by Nordic children and adolescents?
• How do emerging producers – or “produsers”, that is, YouTubers, vloggers, TikTokkers, and so on – conceive of and produce content aimed at and consumed by Nordic children and adolescents?
• What constitutes audiovisual texts and cross-media story worlds aimed at Nordic children and adolescents? How are these texts constructed, and what are the characteristics of their various genres, from traditional films and series to videos on Twitch or TikTok?
• What kinds of content are Nordic children and adolescents actually watching and why? What notions of quality and relevance do they have when it comes to the audiovisual content they choose to watch?
• How does the thoroughly globalised – or some would say, Anglified – media diet of children and adolescents affect the choices of and preferences for media content among Nordic children and adolescents? In what ways do they make sense of or use domestic content? What role do the origin and language of the content play?
• What role do public service media and other national institutions play in the media diet of Nordic children and adolescents? What role do non-domestic or even global players such as Disney+ and YouTube have?
• What are the different policies and funding schemes behind audiovisual content for children and adolescentsin the Nordic countries? And how are they affecting the production, distribution, and reception of domestic content?
• What are important historical trajectories of audiovisual content made for and consumed by Nordic children and adolescents? How has production, texts, and reception changed? How has the view of young media users changed in the industry?
• Finally, how may research undertaken in other countries within the fields above aid our understanding of what goes on in the Nordics in a more comparative perspective? Are there important trends or other lessons to be learned from developments in territories outside of the Nordics?

Interested contributors are invited to submit a 500-word abstract and a short biography to Pia Majbritt Jensen (piamj@cc.au.dk) by 15 June 2021. Please note that all submissions will be peer-reviewed. Abstracts must clearly state the aim and objectives of the study, and the theoretical and methodological approaches contemplated in the study.

Notification of abstract selection will be given in August 2021 with full article submissions by January 2022. We expect the anthology to be published early 2023.

Publisher: NORDICOM

Deadline: September 1, 2021

Department of Communicology and Journalism (Faculty of Philosophy Niš, Serbia) is announcing call for papers for the first issue of peer-reviewed journal “Media Studies and Applied Ethics” (MSAE).

- MSAE encourages contributions from MA and PhD students, media professionals as well as researchers in the field of media studies and applied ethics.

- MSAE accepts original research, review article, critical essays, perspective pieces and book reviews related to communication throughout the world.

MSAE welcomes papers on topics such as: Media and society; Media and culture; Media history; Media and entertainment; Media and religion; Media and violence; Media and advertising; Media effects; Audience and reception studies; New media; Journalism; Communication; Media philosophy; Media aesthetics; Visual Communications; Media Law; Applied Ethics (Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Marketing ethics, Business Ethics).

Considering the aforementioned thematic and the field of your academic interest you are invited to send us your paper.

Papers are to be sent to an e-mail address: msae@filfak.ni.ac.rs

Send papers until: September 1st, 2019

For more information visit: https://msae.filfak.ni.ac.rs/

Editors: Miguel Túñez López, Francisco Campos Freire, Marta Rodríguez Castro

About this book

This book provides a global overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by Public Service Media (PSM) organizations, including the increasing power of digital platforms, changing consumption habits, and reforms on funding models. In order to survive in the new, transforming media ecosystem, PSM organizations need to retain their core values whilst also embracing new values stemming from society’s increasingly complex communication needs and value systems. The contributions of 40 authors from three continents are grouped into three areas in which PSM organizations can create value: innovation, governance and relation to the market, and democratic reinforcement. The book illustrates how PSM can create value for different stakeholders, in different contexts, and through different methods. Contributing to a better understanding of the role of PSM in current media systems, PSM is shown as a key agent for the development of the public sphere and democratic societies.

The book is available online in this link.

April 19 and 22,  May 6, 13 and 20, 2021

University of Oregon

Remote

| Remote • Speaker Series

What is Communication? (2021) will investigate instantiations and permutations of communication via models of exchange, modes of inquiry, and meanings of community. While communication has been conceptualized as models of transportation, transmission, and ritual, communication is also characterized by modes of sharing, imparting, connecting, and participating. These characteristics can contribute to democracy, as well as facilitating the commons and community/fellowship.

Communication is sensorial, including the auditory, visual, kinesthetic, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and interoceptive, and can involve humans, nonhumans, plants, and/or machines. Most importantly, communication imbues meanings—experiences/cultures, languages/ideas, feelings/emotions, interactions/transactions, politics/economics, situations/contexts, and networks/environments.

This year’s event takes a problem-solving approach to communication by examining systems of networks and flows, gender and ICT4D, surveillance and algorithms, platforms and democracies, familial commonalities and ecological interdependencies.

What is Communication? (2021) builds on the previous two years’ gatherings. What is Technology? (2019) examined practical arts and tools, techniques and processes, moral knowledge and imagination, as well as technology as intelligent inquiry and problem-solving. What is Information? (2020) investigated tapestries, temperaments, and topologies of the mathematical and semantic, physical and biological, cultural and environmental, economic and political, as well as information’s transformational æffects. This year marks the eleventh annual What is...? and the sixth collaboration with scholars from the natural sciences, social sciences and arts. The series continues to enact a collaborative network of transdisciplinary research, cultivating communication as the heart of nature and society.

Keynotes:

Monday, April 19, 2021, 9:00-10:00am PT [NOTE: Different day of week and time than others below.]​

• Elihu Katz, Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Yonatan Fialkoff, Smart Family
• Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel​
• “How Did Mass Become Network?”

Thursday, April 22, 2021, 12:00-1:00pm PT ​

• H. Leslie Steeves, African Studies/Media Studies, University of Oregon, and Janet D. Kwami,
• Communication/Film/Center for Sustainability, Furman University​
• “Power, Voice & Influence Through ICTs: Reflections on Digital Inequalities in the Global South”

Thursday, May 6, 2021, 12:00-1:00pm PT ​

• Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Information & Society/Communication, University of Pennsylvania​
• “Algorithmic Manipulation: How Shall We Respond to the Threats and Challenges Before Us?”

Thursday, May 13, 2021, 12:00-1:00pm PT ​

• Kathryn C. Montgomery, Communication, American University, and Jeff Chester, Center for Digital Democracy​
• “Understanding and Regulating the Commercial Surveillance System”

Thursday, May 20, 2021, 12:00-1:00pm PT ​

• Suzanne Simard, Forest & Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada *​
• “Trees Communicate Through Networks in Complex Adaptive Systems”​

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* in cooperation with UO Women in Graduate Science​

FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please see whatis.uoregon.edu for more details.