Several Fully-funded PhD Scholarships in Business Communication / Corporate Communication at the Department of Management, University of Aarhus, Denmark

The PhD programme in Business Communication is part of Aarhus BSS Graduate School http://bss.au.dk/en/research/phd/. The graduate school holds the distinguished AACSB and EQUIS accreditations <http://bss.au.dk/en/about-aarhus-bss/profile-and-strategy/accreditations-and-rankings/> and encompasses a wide range of academic disciplines, outstanding research environments, and strong degree programmes.

The PhD programme in BusinessCommunication encompasses, but is not necessarily limited to, such fields of study as: corporate communication, management communication, strategic communication, organizational communication, marketing communication, HR communication, branding, PR communication, financial communication, crisis communication, change communication, stakeholder communication, CSR communication, organizational knowledge communication and related areas.

*Candidates*

The PhD programme in Business Communication is looking for candidates who have demonstrated academic excellence in a programme-relevant Master’s degree, who have a programme-relevant project idea, and who have a passion for conducting cutting edge research. **

*Application*

The PhD programme in BusinessCommunication accepts applications for full-time, fully-funded PhD positions twice a year: i.e. *March 15 – April15*and*September 15 – October 15. *All applications must go through this website: http://bss.au.dk/en/research/phd/application/?no_cache=1

*Funding*

Candidates admitted into the programme will receive a scholarship from Aarhus University. These scholarships cover both pay and other approved expenses incurred in connection with a student’s PhD studies (e.g. supervision, courses, travelling, assessment etc.). PhD students will receive salary  pursuant to the applicable rules of Aarhus University as well as the relevant agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC): http://bss.au.dk/en/research/phd/financing/

*Additional Information*

I you are interested in pursuing a PhD career in the Business Communication programme at Aarhus University, please visit the programme website http://bss.au.dk/en/research/phd/programmes/business-communication/or contact Research Coordinator Vibeke Vrang vv@mgmt.au.dk <mailto:vv@mgmt.au.dk>for further information.

If you already have a project idea and are looking for academic sparring prior to applying, please contact Head of Programme Peter Kastberg pk@mgmt.au.dk <mailto:pk@mgmt.au.dk>.

Ever after the idea of “the Western civilization” was conceived, some intellectuals, politicians, and religious leaders have spelled doom for it. The “Western world” has been frequently embroiled in societal, ethical and economic crises, some of the most recent being war on terrorism, recession, and the influx of refugees. The rise of populist parties and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States have further fueled narratives of a crisis-ridden West. The themes and narratives of the Western crisis have been recycled habitually and have often been accompanied by, or at least addressed, the idea of the West as a globally triumphant entity with universally applicable values.  Currently, it seems, what is at stake is the “Western” liberal world-order. Recent political changes have created new challenges for liberal internationalism, and subsequently, crisis rhetoric has become a commonplace, but also controversial, part of narratives about the “liberal West” and its survival.

We are calling for articles for an edited volume focusing specifically on contemporary economic, ethnic, military, political, socio-cultural, and other crises that have emerged during the last decade, either in narrated or empirically lived reality. We especially encourage perspectives from political and social sciences, contemporary history, cultural studies, international relations, and geopolitics.

The articles should pay attention to the shifting meanings of the West. When people talk about crisis of “the liberal West”, how do they define the West? How is the West perceived to exist? What does a crisis of liberal world-order “tell” about the West? How does an anti-liberal (or neo/post-liberal) challenge change established conceptualizations of the West? How is the concept and idea of “liberal West” used as a (rhetoric/narrative) tool in politics and identity construction inside/outside of the so called Western countries, and what kind of narratives spawn from a crisis?

The main primary sources of the articles should entail explicit references to the concept of “the West”. In other words, the existence of the West or “Western society”, “Western culture, “Western countries” etc. should not be the premise of the article nor the construction of the writer, but literally observed/mentioned in the sources.

The “liberal West” may be examined in relation to, e.g., the following crises (imaginary or actual):

– Brexit, Trump presidency
– Deepening transatlantic rift; divisions and estrangement within Europe
– Rise of populism, xenophobia, racism
– Refugees, immigration
– Liberty versus security
– Political use of narratives about vanishing traditions; loss of values; religious fundamentalism/irreligiousness/atheism/secularism
– Neoliberalism, liberal democracy
– Global financial & economic crisis, overconsumption, environmental degradation, difficulty of forming a united front for finding solutions and compromises to global challenges
– Shifts in the economic and political world order: rising China, Putin’s Russia, extreme Islamism, narratives of a new Cold War, clash of civilizations
– West’s crises observed in the “non-West”
… and other perceived recent threats, perils, and menaces to “the liberal West”, from within and without.

Send your abstract, max 350 words to: jukka.jouhki[at]jyu.fi.

Deadline for abstracts: May 23, 2017.
The edited volume is planned to be published with a high-quality international academic publisher.
For more information, contact jukka.jouhki[at]jyu.fi.

Editors:

Jukka Jouhki, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä.
Marko Lehti, The Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere.
Henna-Riikka Pennanen, The John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku

The editors are members of the coordinating team of The West Network, an international interdisciplinary network of scholars. Visit us at https://thewestnetwork.org.

The 9th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
June 26-29, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal

http://eics.acm.org/2017/

NEWS
– Authors of accepted DC submissions will have their registration fee waived.

KEYNOTES
– Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine
– Gilbert Cockton, Northumbria University, Newcastle

EICS 2017 is the ninth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. Work presented at EICS covers the full range of aspects that come into play when “engineering” interactive systems, such as innovations in the design, development, deployment, verification and validation of interactive systems. Topics of interest include a.o. the design and development of systems incorporating new interaction techniques and multimodal interaction, multi-device interaction, mobile and pervasive systems, large-scale and big data applications, deployment of interactive systems, as well as novel development methods and processes. EICS 2017 focuses on methods, techniques and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. The Conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, CSCW, Ubiquitous/Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research goals as well as intermediate results and to discuss them with leading experts in the field as well as with peers. Students will receive feedback on the quality of their presentation and on the proposed research itself. Students can be in intermediate or advanced stages of their research, but should not have completed their work yet, and should thus still be able to take feedback from the Consortium into account.

Submission
* a short paper (max 4 pages in ACM Extended Abstract Format)
* a free-form CV of the PhD candidate

Accepted submissions will be distributed to all participants and to the members of the panel to allow them to prepare for a fruitful discussion during the DC session. Authors will be invited to present a poster and give a short talk about their PhD research during the main EICS conference. Additional information about how to prepare for the DC will be provided following acceptance.

Costs for Doctoral Consortium Participation

Applicants who are selected to take part in the doctoral consortium have free access to conference as well. Please note, however, that participants will be expected to pay for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence.

KEY DATES

Submission of doctoral work-in-progress: April 17, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2017
Doctoral Consortium: June 26, 2017
Main conference sessions: June 27–29, 2017

ORGANISATION

General Co-Chairs
José Creissac Campos (HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal)
Nuno Nunes (IST, M-ITI, Portugal)

Doctorial Consortium Co-Chairs
Nuno Correia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Anke Dittmar (Rostok University, Germany)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Further details can be found on the conference website: http://eics.acm.org/2017/
If you have further queries, please contact

Nuno Correia and Anke Dittmar
dc2017@eics.acm.org

Organizador: Labcom.IFP, Universidade da Beira Interior
Data das Jornadas . 26 -27 de Outubro
Local: Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã

O Labcom.IFP, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal, convida todos ​os investigadores interessados a ​ submeterem propostas de textos a serem apresentados às Jornadas Internacionais Patologias e Disfunções da Democracia em Contexto Mediático, que se realizam nos dias 26 e 27 de Outubro na Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.

O objetivo destas Jornadas é reunir os investigadores de Ciências da Comunicação e de áreas afins (Ciência Política, Teoria Política, Filosofia Pol​ítica, Sociologia Política e outras​), com particular relevo para os interessados em comunicação política em torno de um eixo unificador comum: as patologias e disfunções da democracia, em contexto mediáticos, em diferentes vertentes do seu envolvimento com os media tais como: a representação dessas patologias e disfunções; o contributo ou, ao invés, o prejuízo dos media para o funcionamento das instituições democráticas; a interferência dos agentes politicos na informação jornalística; a relação entre media e instituições polí​ticas nos processos de construção da opinião pública, etc.

As jornadas internacionais centram-se em três temas que serão abordados em três pain​é​is plenários e e em três conjuntos de sessões paralelas:

– Comunicação e silêncios: ocultações, fatos alternativos e “fake news” – avaliar fenómenos de visibilidade /invisibilidade, silenciamento e ocultação nos processos de deliberação e de decisão política.

– Os desafios da participação polí​tica na era da “pós verdade” – Como decorre a participação e deliberação política em face da proliferação de informação estrategicamente manipulada.

– Patologias e disfunções da democracia: escândalo, corrupção – Analisar o impacto de fenómenos geralmente apontados como patológicos, disfuncionais e desviantes no processo democrático, bem como a sua representação mediática.
Privilegiam-se trabalhos emp​í​ricos e teóricos que envolvam debates politicos relativamente recentes como sejam, a título de exemplo,​ a criação da “maioria de esquerda” (ou “geringonça”) em Portugal; o Brexit; o impeachement brasileiro; as eleições americanas, a formação da administração Trump; os processos judiciários e os escândalos económicos e politicos vários.
Serão bem-vindas abordagem empíricas e de estudos e de caso bem como o abordagens teóricas complementadas com exemplos. Em termos dos paradigmas aplicáveis exemplificam-se abordagens deliberativas, críticas, participativas, funcionalistas​, as abordagens influenciadas pelas teorias do​ agendamento, do enquadramento, do espiral do silêncio, entre outros passí​veis de aplicação. As análises e as reflexões podem incidir em processos comunicacionais on line ou off line.

A chamada de ​​t​rabalhos destina-se à seleção de 45 papers que serão apresentadas em três conjuntos de sessões paralelas. Os textos serão publicados em 2 Livros de actasOrganizadores dos Livros: Anabela Gradim, António Bento, João Carlos Correia, Helder Prior.

Prazos e Datas.
As datas prioritárias para os envios de submissões são as seguintes:
Envio de Resumos (Abstracts)- Até dia 30 de Abril.
Comunicação de resultados – 30 de Junho
Inscrição até 15 de Agosto.
Entrega do texto final para publicação – 26 e 27 de Outubro, data de realização das Jornadas,
Resumo alargado (Expanded Abstract) – 600 palavras com identificação do tema, da metodologia e da pertinência para a mesa em que se inscreve
Os textos finais deverão ter 14 páginas, devendo o texto ser escrito em Times New Roman, corpo 12 TMN cerca de 6000 palavras.APA
Serão aceites trabalhos em Português (em qualquer das ortografias praticadas nos países falantes da língua), Inglês e Espanhol.
As dúvidas poderão ser enviados para os seguintes mails:

jcorreia@ubi.pt;
jcfcorreia@gmail.com;
agradim@ubi.pt
agradim@gmail.com
helder.prior@gmail.com

Brevemente, será lançada uma plataforma para a inserçao das submissões e dos trabalhos.

Taxa de Inscrição:
Professores e Investigadores Doutorados – 80 euros
Alunos de Licenciatura, Mestrado e Doutoramento – 40 Euros
Investiga​dores, Professores e Alunos da Universidade da Beira Interior não pagarão inscrição.
A inscrição assegura certificado de participação nas Conferências, materiais de apoio, publicação no Livro de Actas e almoços durante os dias das Jornadas.
Data das Jornadas. 26 -27 de Outubro

Programa Provisório:
Dia 26 de Outubro
9.30 Sessão de Abertura
10 horas – Sessão de Abertura com uma conferência sobre o tema Media e Populismo

11. 00 – 12.45. – Mesa Plenária 1) Comunicação e silêncios: fatos alternativos, fake news – Avaliar fenómenos de visibilidade /invisibilidade, silenciamento e ocultação nos processos de deliberação e de decisão política.

13.00 – Almoço
14.30 – 15.45 Sessão Plenária 2 – Os desafios da participação politica na era da “pós verdade” – Como decorre a participação e deliberação política em face da proliferação de informação estrategicamente manipulada.
16,00 – Pausa para Café

16. 15- 18.15 Sessões paralelas (3*5)

Sessão paralela 1
Temas: Comunicação e Silêncios: ocultações, fatos alternativos, fake new.

Sessão Paralela 2
Os desafios da participação na era da pós-verdade

Sessão paralela 3
Patologias e disfunções da democracia: escândalo, corrupção e campanha negativa
Dia 27 de Outubro

9.30 – Mesa Plenária 3

Patologias e disfunções da democracia: escândalo e corrupção – Analisar o impacto de fenómenos geralmente apontados como patológicos, disfuncionais e desviantes no processo democrático, bem como a sua representação mediática.

11.30 – Coffe Breack

11, 45 -13 – Paralelas (três mesas de 5 pessoas )
​S​essão paralela 1
Comunicação e Silêncios:​ocultações, fatos alternativos e ​”​fake news”​

Sessão Paralela 2
Os desafios da participação na era da “pós-verdade”

Sessão paralela 3
Patologias e disfunções da democracia: escândalo, corrupção e campanha negativa

13, 15 – almoço

14, 15 – 16,00

Sessão paralela 1
Comunicação e Silêncios:
Ocultações, fatos alternativos, “​fake news​”​;

Sessão Paralela 2
Os desafios da participação na era da pós-verdade

Sessão paralela 3
Patologias e disfunções da democracia: escândalo, corrupção e campanha negativa
16, 15 – Sessão de Encerramento- Paulo Serra (Coordenador do Labcom. IFP e Presidente da SOPCOM).

Duração 2 dias

Os palestrantes das sessões plenárias e as Comissões Científica, Organizadora e Executiva serão divulgadas oportunamente.

Os Organizadores

João Carlos Correia ( jcorreia@ubi.pt)
Anabela Gradim (agradim@ubi.pt)
Helder Prior (helder.prior@gmail.com)

New job opportunities at Bournemouth University:

The Faculty of Media and Communication at BU has an enviable reputation for media production and has developed a popular and successful suite of programmes in television and film production at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. As a result of our expanding numbers we are currently advertising three new roles:

Professor/Associate Professor of Media Production<https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/professorassociate-professor-media-production>

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Academic) in Directing Film & Television<https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/senior-lecturerlecturer-academic-directing-film-television>

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Academic) in Screenwriting <https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/senior-lecturerlecturer-academic-screenwriting>

Closing date: (Midnight) Wednesday 5 April 2017​

For details please visit: https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/jobs/all-vacancies/academic-roles

For an informal discussion of these roles, please contact Dr Christa van Raalte, Head of Department – Media Production at cvanraalte@bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:cvanraalte@bournemouth.ac.uk>.

NPHFI Tenth Annual Conference, Newcastle University, UK, 10-11 November 2017

Fake news is a term that has become familiar in late 2016 and early 2017, not least because of international political developments. But is it necessarily a new phenomenon? The control, presentation and manipulation of news has played a key role in the, sometimes tumultuous, history of Anglo-Irish relations. And a similarly important role in the assertion and subversion of power in colonial, totalitarian and radical societies throughout history worldwide.

To what extent does fake news, and its close relative propaganda, represent active falsification of information and the dissemination of misinformation, as opposed to the reporting of mistakes or errors due to confusion? What are the implications of the accusation of fake news for a report or news outlet? How does historical perspective change the evaluation of whether something is fake news? The Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI) seeks to investigate this phenomenon and its historical application in the print media at its tenth annual conference. Papers are invited that interrogate and/or challenge these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
The focus of papers should be on print media.

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not, limited to:

·       Propaganda, political lobbying and activism.
·       Irish views of Britain and British views of Ireland.
·       News manipulation across the political spectrum.
·       Representations of ‘the Other’.
·       War reporting and embedded reporting.
·       Representing and reporting civil unrest and conflict worldwide.
·       Fake news and celebrity.

Papers may address any historical period, up to and including the present day, and any geographical region.

To submit a proposal please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to the NPHFI secretary, Dr James O’Donnell, at nphficonference@gmail.com.

Abstracts must contain a clear title and present clearly the main thesis / argument proposed. Each abstract must also include name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email address(es) of the author(s).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 May 2017

The Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland seeks to achieve
gender balance on its conference panels and welcomes proposals from researchers of all career stages working in academia, media, and in
professional organisations.

A Revista Vozes e Diálogo divulga as chamadas de trabalhos para a segunda edição de 2017 e a primeira de 2018. Serão aceitos trabalhos de mestres e doutores. Mestrandos podem submeter contribuições em conjunto com doutores. Os trabalhos deverão ser inéditos e originais, mas podem ter sido publicados em anais de evento da área, desde que o autor notifique os editores. Confira:

Dossiê: Comunicação e Política
O cenário político mundial, especialmente após a eleição para presidente nos Estados Unidos, está no centro das discussões, tanto por parte dos veículos tradicionais de mídia quanto no âmbito das redes sociais digitais. Qual o teor desse debate, o que reverbera e o que mais mobiliza as discussões; qual a tônica das coberturas jornalísticas locais, nacionais e internacionais ao tratarem dos contextos políticos de sua abrangência? Estes são apenas alguns dos questionamentos que podem mobilizar a produção dos artigos para o dossiê da segunda edição da revista Vozes e Diálogo de 2017. O dossiê vai tratar, justamente, da relação entre Política e meios de comunicação e irá contemplar artigos teóricos e relatos de pesquisas que se proponham a problematizar essas e outras questões relacionadas ao tema.

Prazo para submissão: 16/04/2017
Previsão de Publicação: Julho de 2017

Dossiê: Local, regional, popular – a mídia além do mainstream
Em tempos de convergência midiática, costuma-se falar em espaços alternativos para a publicação de produções comunicacionais. Os estudos sobre a comunicação local, regional e popular indicam que esse fenômeno é mais antigo e independe de tecnologias avançadas. Do livreto de cordel, passando por fanzines e rádios comunitárias, como as comunidades vêm cumprindo a difícil tarefa de estabelecer veículos de comunicação que integrem e fortaleçam os seus laços? A primeira edição de 2018 da Vozes e Diálogo vai trazer, em seu Dossiê temático, artigos e relatos de pesquisa que versem sobre essa temática: Comunicação local, regional e popular.

Prazo para submissão: 15/10/2017
Previsão de publicação: Fevereiro de 2018

Temas Livres e Resenhas Além dos dossiês, a revista Vozes e Diálogo também aceita artigos de outros assuntos na seção Relatos de Pesquisa e Resenhas, estes em fluxo contínuo.

Diretrizes para autores: http://www6.univali.br/seer/index.php/vd/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Submissões: http://www6.univali.br/seer/index.php/vd/index

Populism after Trump.

The election of Donald Trump as a figure of anti-establishment ideology has posed what Arlie Hochschild, identifies in her study of Tea Party adherents, Strangers in their own Land, the great paradox – how do people who have the least to gain from neoliberal de-regulation of big business and the cutting back of welfare and environmental protection articulate and rationalize their support for the Trump Presidency? As a communicative strategy, Trumpism represents a new form (or at least, a hitherto submerged form) of populism, which challenges, for example, Ernesto Laclau’s theorization of the fundamental link between populism and the empty signifier. Trumpism, by contrast works through an emotionally replete, if conceptually incoherent, representation of a will to power from below.

The focus of this pre-conference symposium will be to map the various features of Trumpism as an ideological strategy that constructs a popular discourse based on feelings rather than rational argument and against the constraints of truth, the exercise of a will to emotional truth.

Contributions are invited for a series of panels that discuss the relationship of Trumpism to the theorization of populism, both within and outside the USA, and the role of the mainstream and social media in sustaining what Baudrillard termed the ecstasy of communication.

Abstracts (300 words) that focus on the following areas, are especially invited, but other contributions will be considered:

Trumpism as a rhetorical strategy
Post-democracy and Post-populism
Celebrity, Reality Television and the Trump persona
Trumpism as an economic boon to media and social media
Trump from the perspective of the “Other” – International responses
Trump and Satire e.g. Little Trump meme, SNL.
Trumpism as Proto-Fascism.
Trump, racism and sexism

Abstracts of 300 words to be received by April 15^th 2017.

Contact: Barry King Popular Culture Working Group.
Barry.king@aut.ac.nz