The Department of Media, Journalism and Film at the University of Huddersfield is advertising up to 11 posts, as below. The deadline for applications is 7 May. * Professor/Reader in Media and Communication (up to 3 posts) https://goo.gl/z5WDc5 * L/SL in Media and Communication (up to 4 posts) https://goo.gl/JbC1nf * University Practitioner/Senior University Practitioner in […]
Theme: “Communication at a Crossroads” Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 April 2018 A crossroads is a site where roads intersect. It is a point of crisis, a turning point, and a point of alternative configurations, convergence plus divergence, meeting and departure, unity and disunity. Metaphorically, it is a point of flux and change, a critical […]
This specialized track focuses on the ongoing challenges for using data from social media platforms and from third party aggregators as sources for research metrics and scientometric indicators. These challenges include but are not limited to: –> platform-based restrictions in accessing social media data and potential biases resulting from limited access (also: biases introduced by […]
Big Data Ethics in China’s Social media Sector Webpage:https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=94883 Project Description Requirements: The candidate should have a first class or upper second class honours degree, or a master’s degree (or equivalent qualification), in Law/Sociology/Media and Communication/Digital Data Studies/Applied Ethics, Evidence of good spoken and written Chinese and English is essential. The candidate should […]
Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds HICSS 52 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Track: Digital and Social Media January 8-11, 2019, Maui, Hawaii, USA This minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. We think that assemblages of people and machines are making new forms of organization possible, and we are interested in research that explores […]
Call for Papers Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Flagship Conference Venue: Deakin Downtown, Melbourne City Campus November 15-16 2018 Young people across the Asia-Pacific live in increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain worlds. New mobilities as well as new kinds of connectivity, […]
The International Assocition for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is opening a call for proposals for the hosting and organisation of IAMCR conferences from 2021 on. Expressions of interest should be submitted by June 15, 2018. An expression of interest should include the following: 1. A description of the general vision of the event (including […]
Texifter is hiring new part-time coders (annotators) to join the CoderVerse. http://bit.ly/2Ihi6ci We have a new, very large scale annotation project underway. It involves detecting the online signals of impending aggressive or violent behavior, such as a school shooting, domestic violence, sexual assault, or other problematic behaviors sometimes previewed in social media posts. If you […]
Registration for the Preconference “Methods for Communication Policy Research” is now open. When: Thursday, May 24, 2018 Where: Hilton Prague This preconference wants to enhance the craft of communication policy research by focusing on its methods and toolbox. To be credible in academia and communication policy-making, sound methods and attention to research design are […]
Building Resistance Against Racist Digital Futures A call for interventions In the recent years, we have seen adramatic increase in everyday application of digital technologies in theworkplace, public services and everyday activities. They are presented to usthrough the lens of freedom and positive futurity – a freedom to live a‘comfortable life’, a freedom to […]