ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Edited by Claudia Mellado

This book contests and challenges pre-established assumptions about a dominant type of journalism prevailing in different political, economic, and geographical contexts to posit the fluid, and dynamic nature of journalistic roles.

The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe, specifically in relation to challenges that journalists face in performing their journalistic roles. The study measures, compares, and analyzes the materialization of the interventionist, the watchdog, the loyal-facilitator, the service, the infotainment, and the civic roles in more than 30,000 print news stories from 18 countries. It also draws from hundreds of surveys with journalists to explain the link between ideals and practices, and the conditions that shape this divide.

This book will be of great relevance to scholars and researchers working in the fields of journalism, journalism practices, philosophy of journalism, sociology of media, and comparative journalism research.

You can pre-order our book on this link: https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-Journalistic-Norms-Role-Performance-and-News-in-Comparative- Perspective/Mellado/p/book/9781138388499

March 15-16, 2021

University College Cork (Ireland)

Deadline: October 30, 2020

Conference Theme

The Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA), in collaboration with University College Cork, presents- “EXCITING NEWS! Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present,” bringing together a broad range of current research in Ireland and abroad, regarding an issue of crucial importance for the understanding of past cultures and our own. The conference is organised in collaboration with the EURONEWS project, an IRC-funded effort to trace the concept and use of news back to the early modern origins, as Ireland became integrated within a European network of shared experiences. The conference will take place on 15-16 March 2021 (either virtually or socially distanced subject to government Covid-19 advice and regulations at that time).

Call for Papers

Papers will discuss the many ramifications of media-induced anxiety and anxiety-induced mediality, engaging the humanities, including history, film studies, literature, folklore, creative writing and adjacent fields intersected by sociology, politology, psychology, anthropology. News Media here include all means of mass communication impinging on daily experience, from books to music, from the social web to films, on multiple platforms and in multiple languages across municipal, state, regional boundaries.

Irish humanities have a key role to play in understanding the wider ramifications of traumatised media space that are fresh as today’s news reporting about BREXIT or COVID19 and as serious as the recurring nightmares about catastrophic events which have occurred on these and other shores from time to time.

Panels will be oriented around the basic themes of production (form and narration), distribution (reproduction and exchange), translation (cultural and linguistic), vocabularies (narrative representations), iconographies (visual representations), consumption (usage, redistribution), response (appropriation, agency), control (institutions, individuals), pathologies (biological, psychological and social), etc., including such specific analytical categories as disasters, scapegoating, traumatic memory, and the like, as well as methodological insights regarding text analysis and data mining. The two-day conference will close with a round table drawing together and updating the perspectives studied, with suggestions for further research. Publication of proceedings is envisioned in an opensource framework.

We invite proposals for:

• 20 minute papers, from local, International and conceptual perspectives (abstracts 250 words);

• three person panels (abstracts 500 words).

Proposals should be emailed to Prof. Brendan Dooley b.dooley@ucc.ie by 5pm on Friday 30 October 2020.

Further information

Irish Humanities Alliance – Promoting the Value of the Humanities

19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

T. +353 1 609 0666 E. info@irishhumanities.com

April 8-9, 2021

Virtual conference

Deadline: October 15, 2020

Biennial Early Career Conference

CARGC Fellows (Virtual) Conference on Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics

UPDATE: Given the circumstances, the conference will take place virtually. The first day, April 8, will be focused on participants and the second day, April 9, will be open to the general public.

On suddenly sparse streets, artists confront the grim reality of the moment. With a nod to the anti-globalization movement or the music notes seemingly playing off the guest that has overstayed its welcome, both messages diagnose the ailment and gesture toward a hope for and belief in change. In a moment shaped by closures – of borders, stores, schools, offices, jobs, and, for many, a dream of “going back to normal” – what openings are made possible?

The second biennial early career conference by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania asks: What are post-pandemic politics? We understand post-pandemic, not as a myopic focus on COVID-19, but rather as an optic illuminating both persistent and emergent conditions of inequity and precarity. We also use post-pandemic as an opportunity to imagine new forms of politics, community, solidarity, and action.

We invite early career scholars, activists, artists, and journalists to reflect on the crucial role of communication in this moment of rupture and offer the following questions as a provocation for participants:

What can the critical study of global communication – in all its expansiveness and imaginative force – offer us in a moment when uncertainty, insecurity, and risk have saturated hegemonic imaginations of the global?

How might these times, which have both exacerbated and highlighted marginalization and oppression across global Norths and Souths and along lines of race, class, gender, and other axes of identity, move us towards justice and anti-oppression?

What other ways of coming together, collective action, and organizing have been brought to the forefront of dominant imaginations, and what ways of being and living remain possible outside their ambit?

We invite a range of interventions, be they artistic, activist, academic, or some combination thereof, on post-pandemic politics in the context of global communication. Possible topics may include:

• Affect (paranoia, exhaustion, anxiety, grief, joy, shame, pressure, hope, etc.)
• Communication and Rights (privacy, freedom of speech, harassment, etc.)
• Connectivity (broadband, virtualization of life, audience practices, etc.)
• Data science (Big Data, small data, profiling, tracing-and-tracking, etc.)
• Discipline and Surveillance: (state, corporate, and community surveillance, violence through surveillance, internet of things, artificial intelligence, etc.).
• Globalization and Communication (the global and the local, North-to-South, South-to-South, South-to-North processes, transnationalism, nation, borders and citizenship, etc.)
• Humor (memes, online humor, entertainment, political satire, etc.)
• Inequalities (digital inequalities, communication inequalities, structural inequalities, like those related to gender, race or ethnicity, class, sexuality, and others.)
• Infrastructures and Materialities (communication and media infrastructure, power concentration, etc.)
• Journalism (news productions, news reception, misinformation, polarization, etc.)
• Labor (precarious labor, gig economy, unionization, etc.).
• Media representations ((in)visibilities, audience reception, etc.).
• Social Movements and Activism (digital activism, feminist activism, anti-racist movements, etc.)
• Visual and sound communication (videos, photographs, visual and sound interventions, etc.)

Date and Place:

The conference will be held virtually on April 8 and 9, 2021.

Submissions:

Contributions can take the form of academic papers or other creative and multimodal works (audio submissions, short film or documentaries, or creative writing). Please, follow the specific guidelines for each type of submission. Submit your work using this form.

Review Process:

Submissions will be reviewed based on clarity, significance, relevance, creativity, and how well they respond to the conference theme. Only submissions that meet the submission guidelines will be considered. For any questions about the submission or review process, please reach out to cargcfellows@gmail.com.

Deadline:

The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2020.

This conference is the second biennial early career conference at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Its inaugural conference was held on March 27 and 28, 2019 and featured a keynote conversation at Slought, a not-for-profit organization based at the University of Pennsylvania, entitled “Practicing Decolonization,” as well as presentations by 13 early career scholars.

University of Copenhagen

The Media Studies Section, Department of Communication (COMM), Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a postdoc position in digital media analysis to be filled by December 1, 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is for 2 years.

Job content

The postdoc will be part of the project ProDem - Protests and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements, and Active Citizens are Reshaping Europe funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and will work alongside co-principal investigator Assoc.Prof. Christina Neumayer. The project aims to comparatively assess the medium and long-term effects of the triple interaction between citizens, social movements, and movement parties. We seek to explain how social movements and movement parties, together with a realignment of citizens’ values and attitudes, have affected democratic quality in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, and the UK between the peak of the global wave of protests in 2011 and 2019.

The postdoc works with digital media analysis and should have experience with collecting and analyzing data from various social media platforms. In collaboration with the co-PI at UCPH, the postdoc investigates patterns of the triple interaction between citizens, social movements, and movement parties over time. An interest in civic or political participation, social movements, political parties, digital media and political communication, is an advantage. The postdoc will be part of the Media Studies section at COMM at UCPH and will work in close cooperation with the international ProDem consortium. There will be ample opportunity for exchange and collaboration with postdocs and senior researchers in the consortium.

Qualifications requirements

The successful candidate will have, or is about to be awarded, a PhD in computational social science, media or communication studies, sociology, political science, or a related discipline, have good command of digital media analysis and/or computational social science methods as well as an interest in civic or political participation, social movements, political parties, digital or broadcasting media.

Furthermore, emphasis will be placed on the following:

• Experience with computational social science methods / digital data analysis methods, and data collection from various social media platforms;
• A developing publication record in good quality publications;
• Ability to conduct literature reviews and relevant background research (to identify, summarize and code relevant studies for further analysis);
• Good written and verbal communication skills and an ability to communicate research findings effectively to both specialist and lay audiences including project stakeholders such as policy-makers, party or social movement representatives, in order to generate impact;
• Interest in civic or political participation, social movements, political parties, digital media and political communication;
• Experience with data visualizations;
• Knowledge of a range of research methods;
• Ability to publish, e.g. blogs, with content management systems;
• Ability to work effectively in a team, together with the principal investigator at UCPH and the other members of the consortium, as well as independently; to recognize when to seek advice and to meet collective deadlines.

For further information, please contact Assoc.Prof. Christina Neumayer, christina.neumayer@hum.ku.dk

Full job post and details for the appointment procedure: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=152580

December 3, 2020

Online

Deadline: October 15, 2020

A one-day online academic-industry conference of the SCMO network in cooperation with HMTM Hanover (Institute for Musicology) and TU Berlin (Audio Communication Group)

The global Covid-19 pandemic, the resulting lockdown imposed in many countries, as well as related safety measures taken by governments and authorities pose big challenges to classical music culture. Concert producers, artists and audiences are still suffering intensely from the situation, whilst digital streaming of recorded or live music events has quickly turned out to be the only way to supply classical music enthusiasts and to provide a perspective for artists, musicians as well as opera and concert houses.

Shortly before lockdown, the successful kick-of meeting of the European “Streaming Classical Music and Opera” (SCMO) academic-industry collaboration network took place, with 14 participants from four different countries. Sixth months later, we are eager to continue and extend the fruitful discussion between classical music researchers and opera and concert producers regarding psychological, sociological, cultural and economic aspects that pertain the use of streaming technology in the field of classical music. Given the remaining travel restrictions and the unforeseeable further development of the pandemic with the upcoming winter months, we have decided for an online conference format.

In the initial part of a series of three consecutive online conferences planned for the upcoming months we will focus on the institutional perspective: Our call for contributions arrives at a point in time, when several European countries have already seen leases in pandemic-related concert prohibitions in terms of open-air concerts and indoor music events with reduced audience. Hence, streaming digital content is no longer the only way to reach the audience, however, a ‘normal’ public service is also still not possible for most institutions.

Hence, we expect increasingly heterogeneric conditions for classical music performances across Europe together with an unclear future perspective for the whole field and, specifically, the role of streaming. At this time, we deem it fruitful to invite managers, producers and event organizers to share and discuss their experiences and current strategies amongst each other, as well as with researchers devoted to the institutional perspective in the field of classical music.

For December 3rd 2020, we therefore ask network members as well as externals for short 20min presentations on questions such as:

• How do lockdowns and safety measures affect the work organization of opera and concert houses?
• How do they alter marketing and advertising strategies for performances and streaming content?
• How is the work of dramaturgs, the artist booking, and the repertoire influenced and changed?
• How does the pandemic affect the offered aesthetic formats online and on stage?
• Which new role does, specifically, streaming technology play in this time of transition?

While the SCMO network is centrally devoted to the topic of streaming, we strongly encourage to also submit contributions on related issues regarding to the overall conference theme of “strategic realignment due to the pandemic”. Presentation formats are not limited to scientific research reports, but can also be informal talks on in-house experiences, mission statements, video examples from performances, media reviews etc..

Proposals for individual contributions (20 minutes presentation time) should be submitted before October 15th 2020 to ruth.mueller-lindenberg@hmtm-hannover.de. They should include presenter’s full name, country and institution, e-mail address, and presentation title. For academic research presentations we would like you to also include a short abstract of maximum 350 words. Apart from individual presentations and their discussion, the conference will also provide time slots for general discussions on central topics. Selected contributions of the conference series will be later published online in an academic outlet.

For more information and membership in the SCMO network, please contact hauke.egermann@york.ac.uk

October 29, November 5, 12 and 19, 2020

Online

Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of ‘authentic’ experiences, global brands fight to be seen as ‘authentic’ and social media platforms are awash with arguments about the authenticity of this post or that vlogger. But what we do mean by authenticity? And why have these debates grown so dramatically in the last two decades?

Leading experts from around the globe will be discussing the answers to these and other related questions in a series of webinars hosted by the Centre for Research in Communications and Culture at Loughborough University. Commencing in autumn 2020, the series will feature high-profile scholars from across the social sciences, including Professor Sharon Zukin of City University, New York and Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser of London School of Economics, UK.

The concept of authenticity has a long history, having first emerged as a response to the processes of homogenisation, rationalisation and standardisation at the heart of modernity. In recent years, authenticity has again come to the fore where social, political, cultural and technological upheavals give rise to feelings of distrust, detachment and alienation against which supposedly authentic people, places and things are sought out for their reassuring certainty and value. Yet, there are huge contradictions and inequalities in who can make claim to authenticity and its construction and communication invariably involves competing narratives and oppositional assertions about what is authentic and how and why the authentic gains its value.

The purpose of the webinars – and of an edited book planned to follow the series – is to provide a space for scholars interested in the culture, politics and ethics of authenticity to share their research and insights and together examine the continued salience of this concept to understanding of contemporary social, cultural and political life.

Each webinar features a keynote speaker followed by a panel of 3-4 research presentation and time for questions and discussion. Registration is free via the individual links included in the session summaries below.

Series Schedule

Webinar One: Cities & Urban Culture

Thursday 29th October, 1400-1630

Keynote: Sharon Zukin (City University of New York)

We start the series by examining the relevance of authenticity to understanding cities and urban culture. While urban spaces are often valorised as sites of creativity and cultural expression, the multiple ways in which cities develop and change through fractious processes of growth, urban renewal and gentrification gives rise to competing claims to authenticity. Cities often manifest processes of globalisation, homogenisation and, increasingly, digitisation, yet enclaves of authentic sociability survive and continue to appeal to many.

Register for Webinar One here

Webinar Two: Place & Heritage

Thursday, 5th November, 1400-1630

Keynote: Jillian Rickly (University of Nottingham)

The second webinar in the series addresses debates about the preservation of history and the communication of culture and belonging. Thus, many parts of the tourism and heritage industries involve complex decisions about the (re)creation of the past and who can access cultural communities and traditions. Specific locations often give rise to tensions about claims to authorship and ownership of ‘real’ culture making authenticity claims a significant feature of many struggles over heritage, culture and place.

Register for Webinar Two here

Webinar Three: Social Media & Digital Communication

Thursday 12th November, 1000-1230*

Keynote: Crystal Abidin (Curtin University, Australia)

*Please note earlier start time of Webinar Three accommodating the time difference between UK and keynote speaker

The advent and meteoric rise of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram means authenticity has recently taken on new meaning in explaining the appeal of internet celebrities, their followers and the wider pressure to self-present an authentic version of the self in digital spaces. The third webinar in the series will address these concerns by examining a range of recent trends and examples which question how the authentic can be created, communicated and profited from in creative yet often highly problematic ways.

Register for Webinar Three here

Webinar Four: Gender & Identity

Thursday 19th November, 1400-1630

Keynote: Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics)

Webinar Four brings the initial series to a close through discussion of the relationship between gender, identity and authenticity. The webinar will feature papers addressing how claims to “real” femininity and masculinity are contested and how gender politics frequently involves the negotiation of competing claims to authentic voices, bodies and gendered ways of being.

Register for Webinar Four here

Event Organisation Team

Dr Michael Skey, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture

Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Loughborough University, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture

Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross

The book is published today in the UK following earlier publication in the US.

It’s available with a 30% discount at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/parenting-for-a-digital-future-9780190874704?cc=gb&lang=en& (order with promo code ASFLYQ6). The first chapter of the book is free to read until 24 October at Expectations.

“Parenting for a Digital Future” asks how parents manage digital devices, what they should expect of them, and why these questions are so contested within families, among policymakers and in the media. Based on rigorous and in-depth fieldwork with diverse families around London, we argue that ‘digital parenting’ is not only about technology, salient as this may seem. Indeed, family practices and values around technology have become a crucial means by which people explore pressing dilemmas over how to live, what constitutes wellbeing and what ‘good life’ to hope for.

By inviting parents to look back to their own childhood and then forward to their children’s futures, we first position parenting in relation to the risk society before showing how digital technologies intensify families’ opportunities and risks in distinctive ways. We introduce three distinct genres for ‘digital parenting’ – embrace, balance and resist – and we explore how these play out in terms of screen time, social inequalities, geeky families, parents of children with disabilities, and more.

The book reveals the pincer movement of parenting in the digital age, in which parents are, on the one hand, more burdened with responsibilities given the erosion of state support and an increasingly uncertain financial future and yet, on the other, charged with respecting and encouraging the agency of their child as they negotiate ‘the democratic family.’

Links

Read more at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2020/08/19/book/

Review copies available from academic.reviews@oup.com

UK book launch event on 24th September, please register at https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2020/09/202009241600/parenting

University of Siegen, Germany

The cooperative research center “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen, Germany has six 3 year PhD positions in the field of digital media, inventive methods, digital praxeology, AI/HCI, platform studies etc starting from January 2021. The application deadline is Oct 01 2020.

“Media of Cooperation” is an interdisciplinary research group that explores the cooperative accomplishment of media at the intersection of STS, HCI and media studies, focusing on infrastructural and public media. In its second funding period the center focuses among other things on data practices, data publics and sensor media. More information can be found here: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/

Interested candidates can realise their own resaearch project whilst being part of our internal graduate school which offers in depth methodological training in the field of digital methods, digital ethnography and inventive methods.

Please forward the job offers to anyone interested. If you wish to discuss the position, please do not hesitate to contact me carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de or our scientific coordinator Timo Kaerlein timo.kaerlein@uni-siegen.de

The job offers can be found here: https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/…01/

And here: https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/…01/

Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

For the winter semester of 2021/22, KHM is seeking to appoint a Professor of Transversal Aesthetics (academic salary band “W3”) on a permanent basis to join its Art and Media Studies department. Reflecting the transdisciplinary ethos of KHM, the successful candidate will be engaging with aesthetic and cultural processes based on an understanding of perception as translation. In this context, translation connotes a transversal approach that perceives the entanglement of time and space within the context of cultural, social, political and economic determinants, as well as reflecting the relationship between ecologies and organisms. Advancing epistemological methodologies towards dimensions of affect, as well as sustainable degrowth and post-colonial/ decolonial epistemologies, this professorship will investigate new forms of knowledge production. The successful candidate will engage with ethical and societal questions, particularly the conviviality of human and non-human forms of life. 

https://www.khm.de/termine/news.4981.professor-of-transversal-aesthetics/

www.khm.de

Aarhus University

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of associate professor of digital media history based at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies. The associate professorship is full-time and tenured. The appointment begins on 1 February 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The School of Communication and Culture is committed to diversity and encourages all qualified applicants to apply regardless of their personal background.

The position

The field of media and journalism studies is undergoing significant changes not least due to the increasing digitalisation of culture and society that has radically transformed the basic conditions under which mediated content is produced, distributed, used and experienced. These new conditions call for critical and innovative ways of training qualified students in media and journalism studies for a rapidly changing job market and of producing high quality research that helps society make sense of contemporary media landscapes. The Department of Media and Journalism Studies is taking an international lead in developing research and study programmes based on the premise that the ability to fully understand the implications of digital technologies within various media necessitates the adaptation and integration of digital modes of enquiry into both research and teaching.

Against this background, we are looking for an applicant with an ability to combine theoretical issues and methodological development within digital media history and digital humanities. Applicants should be able to demonstrate research and teaching interests and experience in two or more of the following areas:

* Digitally supported research methods of relevance to media studies, digital media collections and media history

* Digital humanities in relation to media studies

* Media history with a focus on digital media history and history of digital media

* Data management, data protection and privacy of specific relevance to media studies

In sum, we are looking for an innovative and dedicated applicant who will enhance the research and teaching profiles of the department nationally and internationally as well as contribute to Aarhus University’s core activities in the areas of research, teaching and supervision, talent development and knowledge exchange.

Research

The Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University has a pronounced and significant international profile and a strong research network. Research and teaching at the department are directed towards Danish and international media with an emphasis on the interplay of the core fields of study: media institutions, media production, media texts and media use/reception, and the role of media in culture and society.

The research at the department applies a wide array of theoretical and methodological perspectives to these fields of study, incorporating institutional, organisational, sociological and political perspectives as well as textual and aesthetic forms of expression, production circumstances, media use, media history and media theory.

The successful applicant will demonstrate specialisation in studies of digital media history. Preference will be given to applicants whose work foregrounds theoretical and methodological reflections on and the practical use of digital media collections and digitally supported research methods of relevance to media studies and media history, including knowledge about digital research infrastructures and research data management. The applicant’s research must meet high international standards.

The successful applicant is expected to

• participate actively in the dissemination of digital methods at the department
• make scholarly contributions to developments within the field and initiate new collaborative research projects with internal and external partners as well as in connection with external research funding
• publish original peer-reviewed research internationally.

Teaching and supervision

The successful applicant will be expected to take part in the department’s teaching and supervision activities and to teach and supervise on the department’s Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degree programmes, particularly on the degree programmes in media studies and journalism. In this connection, experience of degree programme and curriculum development at universities or similar institutions will be an advantage. Furthermore, the successful applicant is expected to initiate the upskilling of the department’s staff’s digital methods competences.

The applicant must demonstrate the ability to teach at least two different courses within the areas of media studies and journalism from among the degree programmes listed below; please indicate in your application which courses you could teach:

* BA in Media Studies

* MA in Media Studies

* MA in Journalism

* MA Erasmus Mundus in Journalism, Media and Globalisation

* BA Supplementary in Film and Media

* BA Supplementary in Journalistic Communication

The successful applicant will be expected to apply innovative teaching methods and to contribute to the ongoing development of curricula and the degree programme(s) within the field of media studies an  journalism. Given the international focus of the degree programmes, the successful applicant will be expected to teach in English as well as in Danish.

Talent development

We are looking for applicants who have experience supervising students at both BA and MA levels. The successful applicant will be expected to supervise students at both Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. The successful applicant for the position of associate professor will also be expected to supervise and help develop the careers of early-career researchers as well as recruit and supervise PhD students and participate in the development and implementation of PhD courses within the field.

Knowledge exchange

It is expected that the successful applicant will engage in knowledge exchange, such as research collaboration with private companies, government consultancy, collaboration with civil society, and the public dissemination of knowledge. The successful applicant will have excellent opportunities to engage in relevant collaborative initiatives with partners inside and outside Aarhus University.

Qualifications

Applicants must have a PhD degree or must document equivalent qualifications in media studies, preferably highlighting media history. They must also have teaching and research experience equivalent to that attained through an assistant professorship. Applicants must be able to document, relevant to the position:

* an internationally oriented research profile as documented by a strong international peer-reviewed research publication record in digital media history

* experience of participation in international research projects and/or national and international research networks

* teaching and supervision competences and experience at BA and MA level, including curriculum development

* experience of knowledge exchange

* completion of a teacher-training programme for assistant professors especially designed for university teaching, or an equivalent qualification.

Furthermore, it will be considered an advantage if applicants can document

* experience of managing digital research infrastructures and the practical use of digital media collection

* time spent abroad working at one or more internationally recognised research institution

* experience of applying for external research funding.

Finally, applicants are asked to provide a research plan for the next three years and state how they see themselves and the department contributing to future research developments within the field. The length of the application, including plans for research and visions for the future of the field, should be between four and six pages.

Please note that applications that do not include uploaded publications (maximum eight) will not be considered.

Work environment

Active participation in the daily life of the department is a high priority, and we emphasise the importance of good working relationships, both among colleagues and with our students. In order to maintain and develop the department’s excellent teaching and research environment, the successful applicant is expected to be present at the department on a daily basis.

We respect the balance between work and private life and strive to create a work environment in which that balance can be maintained. See Family and work-life balance for further information.

International applicants

International applicants are encouraged to see Attractive working conditions for further information about the benefits of working at Aarhus University and in Denmark, including healthcare, paid holidays and, if relevant, maternity/paternity leave, childcare and schooling. Aarhus University offers a wide variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including a relocation service and career counselling for expat partners. For information about taxation, see Taxation aspects of international researchers’ employment by AU.

If the successful applicant does not speak Danish, he or she will be required to acquire sufficient Danish to participate fully in the activities of the School of Communication and Culture within approximately three years of commencing the appointment.

About Media and Journalism Studies

Grounded in its historical blending of research traditions within the humanities and social sciences, the department carries out research and teaching which examines media and journalistic institutions, productions, texts, use/reception and the roles of media and journalism in culture and society in current and historical perspectives. The

Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University is one of nine departments that make up the School of Communication and Culture in the Faculty of Arts. The research environment is characterised by extensive participation in cross-institutional national and international research projects, well-established national and international research networks as well as international conferences. In the QS World University Ranking system, communication and media studies at Aarhus University has consistently ranked in the top 50 since 2012 and is currently ranked 42 in the world. The researchers at the department are engaged in the following AU-based research programmes and research centres:

0. Centre for University Studies in Journalism

1. DATALAB - Centre for Digital Social Research

2. Centre for Internet Studies

3. Centre for Media Industries and Production Studies

4. Centre for Transnational Media Research

5. Centre for Sound Studies

6. Center for Kulturevaluering (CKE)

7. Centre for Humanistic Computing 

8. DIGHUMLAB 

9. Cultural Transformations

10. Media, Communication and Society

Prospective applicants are invited to view the department’s website.

School of Communication and Culture

The school is a part of the Faculty of Arts. You will find information about the school and its research programmes, departments, and diverse activities on its website .

Contact

For further information about the position, please contact Anne Marit Waade, Head of Department of Media and Journalism Studies, by tel.: +45 8716 2009 or by e-mail: amwaade@cc.au.dk .

If you need help uploading your application, or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please e-mail HR supporter Mads Brask Andersen: mban@au.dk .