ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

September 8-9, 2022

Halifax Hall, Sheffield, UK

Deadline (extended): May 9, 2022

Drones are an increasingly important social phenomenon. Their use has the potential to change the way people see the world in the same way other technologies have, like smartphones and the internet. Generating questions that go beyond safety and security issues, their widespread use opens new debates on the relationship between media and mobility (Hildebrand, 2021), material practice (Howley, 2017), and vertical power (Kaplan, 2018). Drones are the latest technological advancement to have a significant impact in the world we live in, offering opportunities for new forms of visual communication, culture and practices.

We invite the submission of proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on these topics, ‘Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics’, which will be held on 8th and 9th September at Halifax Hall in Sheffield, UK. This 2-day conference will be hosted by the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. The updated deadline for submission is May 9 2022.

The conference is concerned with the role of drones in society and the way in which they are contributing to new visual aesthetics.

The conference invites interdisciplinary research, reflection and critique on topics including (but not limited to) the following:

• People’s perspectives on drones (and their data): surveillance, ethics and privacy issues in domestic and commercial uses.
• New visual perspectives: the creation of new visual content (drone art and amateur uses).
• Drone regulations: potential gaps in regulating domestic and commercial drones, future perspectives.
• Current uses and future applications: the implementation of drones in society.
• Drones and vertical power: the uses of drones in war zones, activism and humanitarian activities.

Proposed formats:

• Individually submitted papers (organised into panels by the DiS committee)
• Panels (3-4 individual papers)
• Roundtable discussions (led by one of the presenters)
• Visual posters

Abstracts between 300-500 words in Word format must be submitted to e.serafinelli@sheffield.ac.uk by May 9 2022.

You will be notified of the decision by June 13 2022.

Conference proceedings and selected papers will be published in a section of the forthcoming book Vision and Verticality (Palgrave), edited by Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Julia M. Hildebrand, Assistant Professor of Communication at Eckerd College

Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to visit a drone visuals exhibition held on the evening of 8th September and participate in a workshop with two drone artists on 9th September.

Conference organised by Elisa Serafinelli and Lauren Alex O’Hagan, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

For more information, contact e.serafinelli@sheffield.ac.uk or visit www.visualsociety.net

References

Hildebrand J. (2021): Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture. Singapore: Palgrave Mcmillan

Howley K. (2017): Drones: Media Discourse and the Public Imagination. New York: Peter Lang.

Kaplan C. (2018): Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above. Durham: Duke University Press.

Alongside great destruction and human suffering, the war in Ukraine has brought governments, regulators and platform services to combat disinformation and incitement or to control the message, depending on one’s perspective. The role of public interest media has been foregrounded, not just of the big public service broadcasters, but also of small independent media and journalists’ collectives. In response to ECREA’s invitation to sections to hold virtual pre-conference events around the 9th European Communications Conference, the Communications Law and Policy section is planning three two-hour long sessions on themes that are now more urgent than ever.

The format is designed to enable a dynamic exchange of ideas and recent research findings among scholars and stakeholders that address some of the most pressing issues in the field. After opening comments by invited speakers from both media and communication policymaking and policy research, 5 section members will present insights from their research or their cutting-edge ideas in 4-minute elevator pitches to kick off discussion. We welcome exploratory research findings, yet to be tested hypothesis, innovative policy ideas, calls to action in new research directions.

• Tuesday, 11 October 14:00 – 16:00 CET Regulation of content: risks of harms from online content; freedom of expression and media diversity online

o Chair: Sally Broughton Micova

o Ofcom or European Commission (TBC)

o Facebook (TBC)

o Mark Cole, University of Luxembourg

• Wednesday, 12 October 14:00 -16:00 CET The future of the public interest: prioritization and prominence; cultural and political aims, and public service media

o Chair: Manuel Puppis, University of Fribourg

o Florence Hartman EBU

o Netflix (TBC)

o Eleonora Mazzoli, LSE

• Thursday, 13 October 14:00 -16:00 CET Standards vs Abusers: new developments in governance; the interaction between standardization and illiberalism; threats to media freedom

o Chair: Hilde van den Bulck, Drexel University

o Flutura Kusari, ECPMF

o Urska Umek (CoE)

o Marko Milosavljević, University of Ljubljana

Interested in delivering one of these short pitches? Please send your 300 words abstract to the section chair (s.broughton-micova@uea.ac.uk) by 29 April, 2022, indicating for which of the three online events your input is intended in the subject line. Two slots per session will be ringfenced for early career researchers, pending sufficient applications.

Participation will be free and open to all CLP members. So, mark your calendars now! More information will be shared closer to the events.

We are delighted to announce that the European Journal of Cultural Studies have kindly agreed to establish a best paper award for early career scholars presenting their research at the ECC in Aarhus in October 2022. The award has a financial value of 1500 euros and includes publication of the winning paper in the journal. It will be presented at the Aarhus conference.

The award is open to early career researchers who are either doctoral researchers or who have received their doctorate recently. Please submit papers that share the journal’s broad conception of cultural studies as rooted in lived experience and present well-theorized empirical research (https://journals.sagepub.com/description/ECS). The award will be given to the best paper which demonstrates critically-engaged and empirically-driven cultural studies in keeping with the aims of the European journal of Cultural Studies. Entrants must be presenting their paper at the ECC and must be a member of ECREA. Applicants should either be single or first authors and the papers should not have been already published in a scholarly journal.

The submission date for entries is Friday September 9th 4pm CEST.

All entries must follow the guidelines for submission to the European Journal of Cultural Studies (https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ECS). Entrants should also submit a short biography (no more than 10 lines).

We are looking forward to reading your submissions! Please send your papers to info@ecrea.eu.

If you have further questions, please contact us at info@ecrea.eu.

The award will be judged by a committee comprising of:

• Joke Hermes (ECS founding co-editor)
• Goran Bolin
• Despina Chronaki
• John Downey

Edited by: Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Mateusz Sobiech

This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life. Chapters explore key aspects of the mediatisation of emotional life, feelings and interpersonal relations: love, intimacy, loneliness, friendship, family relations, erotic, sexual and romantic experiences.

The authors explain the key aspects of strong user–media relationships and human relationships based on media use and investigate problems such as the formation of identity based on social media, the role of communication applications and the effects of mobile and locative media on our relationships, as well as artificial intelligence, on our perception of our emotions. With a focus on new media, the book also draws on the scope of traditional media that express and shape emotions, taking into account the classic approaches to emotionality of messages from the perspective of film creators and recipients.

This cutting-edge collection will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication studies, especially digital media and new technologies, psychology, pedagogy, sociology of everyday life and cultural studies.

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003254287-8/love-jono-van-belle?context=ubx&refId=0deb9108-cd9e-4d98-b0b8-4f4ce1cce4c0

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003254287-13/family-relations-tiina-r%C3%A4is%C3%A4?context=ubx&refId=2dec0bcd-cbba-493c-bbec-8cb5c6bd0086

Check the book here: https://www.routledge.com/Mediatisation-of-Emotional-Life/Kopecka-Piech-Sobiech/p/book/9781032181066

Victoria University of Wellington - Political Science and International Relations (PSIR)

Location: Wellington - New Zealand

Salary: Not Specified

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 21st April 2022

Closes: 14th June 2022

Job Ref: 3773

About the role

The Political Science and International Relations programme in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington seeks to appoint a permanent Lecturer in Political Communication (equivalent to tenured assistant professor). The starting date is 11 January 2023 (negotiable).

About you

The Lecturer in Political Communication will have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Political Party Communication and Elections; Digital Media and Political Communication; and/or Interest Groups, Social Movements and Civil Society. In addition to teaching courses in one or more of these areas, an ability to teach a course on research methods will be useful but all strong candidates are encouraged to apply. A PhD must be in hand prior to taking up the appointment as Lecturer.

This role will require preparation and delivery of graduate and undergraduate courses in Political Communication; an active research profile; and other teaching or administrative duties as agreed with the Head of School.

Why you should join our team

The Political Science and International Relations (PSIR) Programme in the School is New Zealand's largest and oldest department of politics. It is in the top 100 in the world in the QS rankings. The programme has 24 academic staff and is responsible for teaching two majors within the Bachelor of Arts and one major within the Bachelor of Communications. The programme also offers four taught Master's degrees, and attracts a significant number of research Master's students and PhD students. Many of our staff are involved in international research collaborations and are on externally funded research projects. The diversity of our Programme's research, teaching, engagement and leadership activities make it a dynamic and stimulating place to work and study.

Role Description

From 31 January 2022, a COVID-19 vaccine mandate will apply to all University staff, students, contractors and visitors. For more information see: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/covid-19/vaccine-mandate

Contact details for vacancy

For further information about the role, please contact Dr Manjeet Pardesi, Head of Programme, Political Science and International Relations: manjeet.pardesi@vuw.ac.nz or Prof Aeron Davis for information on the Political Communication major: aeron.davis@vuw.ac.nz

But applicants should follow all steps listed below.

Important - Application steps and information

For applicants who are not NZ Citizens or Permanent Residents, we recommend you check the NZ Immigration website for updates related to Covid19 restrictions on entry to New Zealand: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19

Download and complete the University Application Form

Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you're a great fit for this position then email the completed application form, cover letter and any other supporting documentation to erecruit@vuw.ac.nz stating the reference number and position title from the advert in the subject line.

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany

Are you studying the social, political, economic, media-related or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want to concentrate exclusively on a project and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange?

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, supports innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. Experts from academia and practice can apply for Fellowships and Working Groups.

The funding program is open to experts of all career stages, to all disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation.

The funding program is continuous. Apply by 31 May 2022 for Fellowships starting from April 2023 and for Working Groups starting from 15 May 2023.

For more information go to: www.cais.nrw/en/callforapplications/.

If you have any questions, please contact esther.laufer@cais.nrw.

May 9, 2022 (4-6pm BST) on Microsoft Teams

Online Roundtable

This two-hour event brings together researchers approaching the phenomenon of influencers and the question of influence from a media aesthetics point of view.

Each contribution, in the first hour, taps into a particular dimension of influencer aesthetics. Grant Bollmer (NCSU) and Katherine Guinness (QU) look into issues of excess that characterise social media performances. Rachel O’Neill (LSE) draws on her research into wellness as a cultural practice and industry. Mari Lehto (Turku) puts the question of ordinariness into discussion in reference to Finnish lifestyle influencers. Finally, Yiğit Soncul (Winchester) examines the sensations associated with ASMR and discusses how its aesthetics extend from the visual to auditory and haptic. The second hour is designed as a moderated discussion open to all the contributors and attendants.

Please click here and fill the registration form to receive a link to the event.

If you have any questions about the roundtable, please send an email to yigit.soncul@winchester.ac.uk

The event is hosted by the Culture-Media-Text Research Centre at the University of Winchester.

Special issue of Mobile Media & Communication, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2024)

Deadline: May 30, 2022

Editors: Maren Hartmann, Justine Humphry, David Lowis & Will Marler

Advances in mobile communication research have often come from studying middle-class populations, white-collar professionals, and groups with relatively stable social and living status (Ling, 2004; Fortunati, 2002; Goggin & Hjorth, 2014). Alternative perspectives such as from the Global South are increasingly common and help enrich our understanding of mobile communication (Donner, 2015; Ling & Horst 2011). Yet we’ve only begun to examine the different ways that social exclusion may shape mobile media practices.

What happens when we approach the study of mobile media and communication from the perspectives of those who are homeless? In this Special Issue of Mobile Media and Communication, we draw attention to homelessness as a set of diverse experiences with significant consequences for wellbeing and unique connections to mobile media. We want to challenge the taken-for-granted focus on the stably-housed, by studying those without the same privilege or lifestyle.

We invite submissions that address the implications of homelessness—in its myriad forms— for our understanding of mobile communication. Homelessness and housing exclusion, of course, are not monolithic categories, and they may entail different meanings and experiences across different geographical, cultural, and historical contexts, from the “van life” of modern nomads in the United States (Smith & Davis, 2020), to rough-sleepers in South East England (Stevenson & Neale, 2012), to Syrian refugees in rural ghettos in Southern Turkey (Pelek, 2022).

What is the role of mobile communication in contemporary experiences of homelessness? What does it mean when one’s physical and media (im)mobility stem from the dispossession of shelter or status? In this special issue, we are interested in contributions from intersecting fields of research such as studies of media, mobilities, migration, inequalities, health, disability, and development. We particularly welcome papers that either open up definitions of ‘homelessness’, center the voices of people who are homeless and/or challenge established representations (Speer, 2021).

While much early research on homelessness and mobile communication originated in the United States with a focus on health issues (e.g., Rice & Barman-Adhikari, 2014; Calvo, Carbonell & Johnsen, 2019), in recent years, research on homelessness and mobile communication has begun to spread, both in terms of the focus as well as its geographical reach (Marler, 2021; Humphry, 2014; Hartmann, 2018). This special issue aims to build on these beginnings and expand the field further conceptually and methodologically through making new disciplinary connections.

Submitted projects could approach the question of homelessness and mobile communication from a range of perspectives and frameworks. Mobile and digital media are at once tools of survival for many who are unstably housed as well as avenues for entertainment, community-building, and selfexpression (Marler, 2021). Digital and mobile media can function as multipliers of inequality. Indeed, insufficient digital access, skills, and motivation, put people at an increased risk of falling behind in the social and economic sphere. Technologies of the state—from algorithmic decision-making in welfare and policing to urban surveillance regimes—may be levied against those who are unstably housed or simply ‘on the move’. In some countries, where a digital COVID-pass is now becoming the norm, access to a smartphone, and consequently ways to keep it charged and functioning (as well as to keep it per se), have become vital. Lack of a smartphone is giving rise to potentially new types of exclusion. More research is needed to understand how the conditions of homelessness interact with the promise and liabilities of mobile communication in these and other contexts.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- The role of involuntary mobility (e.g., forced migration, housing insecurity) in shaping mobile communication meanings and practices.

- Digital divides in mobile access, uses, skills, and benefits for people experiencing homelessness.

- Potentials and challenges of digital inclusion programs and mobile-based interventions for health, safety, and social service delivery for people experiencing homelessness.

- Surveillance and privacy concerns around mobile use while unstably housed.

- The role of mobile/digital media among those pursuing "homelessness” as a lifestyle/choice (e.g., #vanlife or digital nomads).

- The relationship between mobile devices and the safety of people when homeless in public spaces.

- The interaction and construction of public and private categories and spaces by people experiencing homelessness through mobile media.

- The role of mobile communication in identity construction and curation for how people negotiate the experience and label/category of homelessness.

- The role of mobiles in digital storytelling and narration of experiences of homelessness.

- Experiences and practices of mobile connectivity vs. going “off the grid”.

Important dates:

- Abstract submission date – up to 500 words for abstracts 30 May, 2022

- Acceptances / rejections (and comments) returned to authors by 15 July, 2022

- Authors submit full papers by 30 November, 2022

- Peer Reviews completed/resubmissions in April, 2023

- Final acceptance by 30 September, 2023

- Special issue published in January 2024

Guidelines:

Please submit an extended abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument, contribution, and takeaway. The abstract should clearly explain how the full submission will contribute to the aims of this special issue. Please email abstracts to homelessmedia2024@gmail.com by 30/05/2022. Abstracts should be accompanied by a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words). Also, include the names, titles, and contact information for 2-3 suggested reviewers.

Positively reviewed abstracts will be invited to submit full articles through http://mmc.sagepub.com. Invited submissions will undergo a blind peer-review process following the usual procedures of Mobile Media & Communication. The special section will be published in Volume 12, no. 1 of Mobile Media & Communication in 2024. Please note that manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for Mobile Media & Communication. In case of further questions, please contact the guest editors.

References:

Calvo, F., X. Carbonell and S. Johnsen (2019). Information and communication technologies, e-Health and homelessness: A bibliometric review, Cogent Psychology, 6:1, 1631583, DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2019.1631583

Donner, Jonathan. 2015. After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet. MIT Press. Fortunati, Leopoldina. 2002. “The Mobile Phone: Towards New Categories and Social Relations.” Information, Communication & Society 5 (4): 513–28.

Goggin, Gerard, and Larissa Hjorth, eds. 2014. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. Routledge.

Hartmann, M. (2018): Mobilism in translation: Putting a new research paradigm to the test. In: Fast, Karin; Jansson, Andre; Lindell, Johan (eds.): Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. London: Routledge, pp. 173-194.

Humphry, J. (2014). The Importance of Circumstance: Digital Access and Affordability for People Experiencing Homelessness. Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 2(3), 55-1-55-15. http://doi.org/10.7790/ajtde.v2n3.55.

Ling, Rich. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society. Elsevier. Ling, Rich, and Heather A Horst. 2011. “Mobile Communication in the Global South.” New Media & Society 13 (3): 363–74.

Marler, W. (2021). ‘You Can’t Talk at the Library’: The Leisure Divide and Public Internet Access for People Experiencing Homelessness. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2006742.

Rice, E. & Barman-Adhikari, A. (2014). Internet and Social Media Use as a Resource Among Homeless Youth. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19, 232–247.

Pelek, D. (2022). Ethnic residential segregation among seasonal migrant workers: From temporary tents to new rural ghettos in southern Turkey. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(1), 54–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1767077

Smith, E. G., & Davis, J. M. (2020). Van Life: A Creative Exploration of Contemporary Nomadism [Thesis]. https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11121

Speer, J. (2021). Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(4), 627–644. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211028241

Stevenson, C., & Neale, J. (2012). ‘We did more rough sleeping just to be together’ – Homeless drug users’ romantic relationships in hostel accommodation. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 19(3), 234–243.

Unlikely - Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9

Deadline: 1 May 2022

Guest Editors:

• Melody Ellis (RMIT University)
• Kim Munro (University of South Australia)

ABOUT

Foucault writes, “Where there is power, there is resistance” (1990, 95). To resist—from its most modest quotidian expression to large-scale community action—implies action. To resist might be to stand one’s ground and refuse to act as one is being told one must. Or to be unruly, to break the rules, to experiment and to push the boundaries.

We might characterise resistance as that revolutionary impulse that Audre Lorde writes about, “not as a one-time event” but rather as “always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses” (1984, 140-1).

To resist is often to challenge the status quo. It is to challenge entrenched power dynamics and to fight injustice. It might also include an insistence on interspecies inclusivity that rejects the traditional categories of human and nonhuman. As Donna Haraway has argued, “Revolt needs other forms of action and other stories of solace, inspiration and effectiveness” (2016, 49).

To consider the term resistance, then, is to engage with broader questions of power, disobedience, rebellion, refusal, and objection. It is to be reminded of long (sometimes forgotten, sometimes ignored) histories of activism for civil, social, and environmental rights. In Australia, and other countries with histories of colonisation or occupation, resistance takes on additional meaning as we are faced with the ever-present and complex legacies of exploitation, control and oppression.

As creative practitioners, there are various ways we might seek to resist and indeed come up against resistance in our work, many of which counter easy definitions. For example, Stephen Muecke has named deflection, interruption, creation, destruction and disappearance as just some ways of enacting resistance (2020).

How might we understand the various and intersecting critical concerns of resistance? What is resistance as a creative act? Or, as Rosi Braidotti asks, “how can we work towards socially sustainable horizons of hope, through creative resistance?” (2019, 156). This issue of Unlikely responds to the relationship between creative practices and/as resistance.

THEMES

Themes might include, but are not limited to:

● Co-creative and collaborative practices as resistance

● Futurism (Afro, Indigenous etc.) as resistance to the dominance of doom narratives

● Practices of care in creative contexts

● Reframing dominant epistemologies through creative interventions

● Play and humour as resistance

● Creative acts of refusal

● Movement and dance

● Queer methodologies

● Other-than-human perspectives

● Quotidian forms of resistance

FORMAT

The peer-reviewed edition will coincide with a series of public programs and events held in July 2023 across multiple sites in Adelaide. We also invite events which are organised interstate and internationally that form part of the broader network of activities around themes of resistance.

Contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following forms:

● An event or action organised in your local area (with documentation and research statement 1000 words)

● Scholarly article (4000-6000 words)

● Creative written piece which may include video, audio, images, text (3000-4000 words)

● Audio, video and multimedia pieces (with research statement 1000 words)

● Interview or conversation (2000-3000 words)

● Performance (plus documentation and research statement 1000 words)

Creative researchers in art, performance, film, writing, audio and interdisciplinary practices are encourage to apply

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & TIMELINE

● Submit proposal: 1 May 2022

Abstract which specifies the theme and format (300 words) plus short bio (100 words). Use this form to submit

● Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2022

● Submission of draft: 1 November 2022

● Peer-review complete: 1 February 2023

● Final Submission: 15 March, 2023

● Expected Publication: 1 July 2023 (launch 5-6 July)

CONTACT

Melody Ellis: melody.ellis@rmit.edu.au

Kim Munro: kim.munro@unisa.edu.au

References

Braidotti, Rosi. 2019. Posthuman Knowledge, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1978. The history of sexuality. Volume I, An introduction. New York: Vintage Books

Haraway, Donna. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.

Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider. New York: Crossing Press.

Muecke, Stephen. 2020. “Resistance”, Overland, 24 Summer, https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/ issue-241/ feature-resistance/

October 11-12, 2022 (12:00 CET)

Virtual workshop

Deadline: May 15, 2022

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

2 day-ECREA Early Career Scholars Workshop in Political Communication

Sponsored by: ECREA Political Communication Section

Organizers: Cristina Monzer, Emilija Gagrčin (YECREA representatives in the Political Communication Section), Melanie Magin, Agnieszka Stępińska, and Jakob Ohme (Political Communication Section Management Team)

Interesting and influential scholarship challenges our preconceptions in some way. Particularly early-career scholars (PhD students, postdoc-level) are often endeavoured to contribute to conceptual or methodological development as a means of positioning themselves in a research field. However, we rarely get insights into how scholars generate and develop ideas that end up challenging and advancing the field.

In this spirit, the pre-conference aims to offer insights into how innovation and problematization in the field of political communication can be done. More so, the pre-conference seeks to contribute to the professional development of young scholars by giving them an opportunity to present and discuss their innovative research in a constructive and international atmosphere.

The workshop is relevant for early-career scholars in the field of political communication, who seek to discuss their work from the perspective of conceptual and methodological innovation within the field.

Format & program

The pre-conference will take place digitally, with keynote talks and presentation sessions in a synchronous format that enable direct feedback rounds between participants and senior scholars.

The program for the two days will include two types of sessions:

a. In their keynote speeches, Prof. Ulrike Klinger (European University Viadrina FrankfurtOder) and Assoc. Prof. Christian Baden (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will provide input on conceptual development and methodological innovation in the field of political communication.

b. Participants will present their work in small groups (3-5 participants) and receive in-depth feedback from invited senior scholars and peers. This means that you will both give and receive feedback. By reviewing other early career scholars’ work, participants will learn more about the peer review process as well as improve skills on how to revise papers and draft reviewer responses for top journals.

Submission guidelines

We invite early career scholars to submit their work in the field of political communication exploring the changing nature of the relationship between citizens, political actors, and the media. Membership in ECREA’s Political Communication Section is not a prerequisite of application. Applicants should submit an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) that outlines the topic, rationale, theoretical approach, and, if applicable, empirical application of the respective project. The abstract should clearly indicate how you believe that your approach is contributing to the field of political communication. Conceptual, empirical, and methodological manuscripts are welcome.

If the work is part of your PhD dissertation, please indicate whether the submitted piece is part of a compilation dissertation (article-based dissertation) or of a monograph (chapter, overview). Include your name, affiliation and name of your supervisor in the abstract.

Deadlines for submission

Abstracts should be submitted no later than 23:59 CET on Sunday, 15 May 2022. Submissions should be sent via email to emilija.gagrcin@fu-berlin.de.

Acceptance letters will be sent in mid-June.

If accepted, participants will need to submit a manuscript of up to 8000 words by 16 September 2022, 23:59 CET. The manuscripts will serve as a basis for feedback and discussion in small groups.

If you have any questions or remarks, please contact us at cristina.monzer@ntnu.no.