The following will be emphasized in the assessment of the applicants:

• The applicant must hold a PhD degree and have done his/her PhD work within the field of journalism, communication, media studies or related fields.
• Knowledge of how digitalization affects news organizations in general and news reporting in particular.
• Experience with a multitude of different approaches to the study of digital journalism.

The main assignments of an assistant professor at the centre are research and research-based teaching, and to a minor extent administrative tasks will be connected to the position.

The successful candidate is required to teach within the existing study programmes of the department. The main teaching task will be courses related to digital journalism. Applicants are expected to possess experience with teaching, and as an assistant professor improve these teaching qualifications by completing the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme.

As an assistant professor, you will have to develop an international research profile. The preferred applicants will have the potential to build national and international research connections as well as publish genuine academic contributions through peer-reviewed publication channels within the relevant field of research.

The successful candidate will become part of a dynamic research and teaching environment. The department expects the successful candidate to contribute positively to the academic and social environment at the department. In return, you will have good conditions for obtaining a significant academic area of responsibility and personal development opportunities.

For further information, please contact Peter Bro, Professor, PhD and Director, at + 45 40 22 76 37 or ppe@journalism.sdu.dk. You can read more about the centre, its staff and research profile and projects at www.journalism.sdu.dk.

Application, salary, etc.

Appointment to the position will be in accordance with the salary agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations and in accordance with the job description for instructors and academic personnel at institutions of higher education.

An application must include:

• Detailed CV
• Information on teaching experience and qualifications
• Certificates/Diplomas (Master and PhD degree)
• Complete list of publications, indicating which publications are most relevant for the position
• Up to 5 of the most relevant publications. Please upload a pdf for each publication, if the publication has been co-authored, co-author statements must be a part of this pdf
• Research and publication plan in a three-year perspective (no more than three pages)

Applications will be assessed by an expert committee. When the assessment committee has submitted its report, the applicants will receive the part of the assessment relevant to their own application.

The committee may request the inclusion of further material, in which case it lies with the applicant to submit the necessary material. The committee reserves the right to arrive at a decision solely based on the material submitted.

Applications that are incomplete with regard to the above requirements will not be assessed by the committee.

With a view to promoting equal opportunities in academic positions, the University encourages all interested persons to apply, regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link below. Uploaded files must be in Adobe PDF (unlocked) or Word format.

Each field can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb.

Application deadline: Friday May 31, 2013.

Apply online

ODUL

Conference « Online journalism and its publics » (5-6 December 2013)

Congreso « El ciberperiodismo y sus públicos » (5-6 de diciembre de 2013, Bruselas)

Colóquio « O Jornalismo online e seus públicos » (5 a 6 de dezembro 2013, Bruxelas)

Conference website: http://publics2013.ulb.ac.be

Official languages of the conference: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese

This international and interdisciplinary conference aims at fostering the debate on audience consumption, production and participation in the journalistic sphere. Discussion forums, comment spaces, fact checking, crowdsourcing, blogs and social networks have expanded the opportunities for the participation of Internet users in the news production process. The relationship between journalism and its publics has become more complex, with multiple levels of interaction that are not always easy to fit into professional practices.

In the last decade we have heard utopian discourses announcing a revolution in journalism and the end of one-way mass communication. But we have also lived through the normalisation of audience participation on online news media, with gatekeeping criteria and isolation from news production as key strategies. The moment calls for an in-depth analysis of the circumstances, motivations and habits of the production and consumption of news in a digital context. We know well the professional practices in the newsrooms, but we lack empirical evidence on their publics, how do they select the information they consume and why do they decide to contribute information through any of the available means.

The audience was until recently an imaginary figure in the minds of journalists, editors in chief, marketing or advertising managers, and consulting agencies. It has now materialised online under the shape of contributions, nicknames, arguments and conversations through the diverse socio-technical artefacts of online news media. While in the past the participation of the reader was circumscribed to the letters to the editor in the newspapers (later adopted through the audience ombudsperson in broadcasting media), citizen discourses are now legitimated by news producers. As the category of the “public-user” becomes more visible, we can formulate hypotheses about their consumption and production practices, their representations of journalism and its role in society. We can gather empirical evidence of the evolution of news flows and overcome the sterile cries about the end of journalism and resituate it within the context of the emerging practices in digital environments.

These changes in the journalistic landscape call for analyses from multiple backgrounds: sociology of journalism and news, reception studies, history of communication, discourse analysis, cultural studies, anthropology. Contributions to the conference can focus on the following issues:

The public as:

· An actor present in the newsroom: the public lives in the mental and discursive representations of the journalists, but also in a more concrete way in the contributions of the users and the data generated by the monitoring of audience activity on news websites. It also involves the creation of new professional practices (such as the role of the community manager to deal with active audience participation). How do media companies adapt to this configuration (automated treatment of comments, new moderation tasks, outsourcing of moderation).

· An economic actor: news media try to monetise online audiences through support diversification of their products, recording increasingly complete consumer data, or developing production strategies that allow news consumption anywhere and anytime.

· An information producer, an expert: the public becomes an information source through comments in news and on the blogs embedded on the news websites. It is as well used by the media to legitimise some journalistic formats.

· A discourse producer: what are the features of the discourses of the publics? How do they engage in debates? What are their representations of the news products? To what extent do they challenge their reader’s contract?

· A referee of social discourses: the new configuration enables the citizens to challenge the established distribution of knowledge in the public sphere and allows them to collectively monitor the journalistic discourse and propose rectifications.

Call for papers

Contributions to the conference can be sent in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese (max. of 500 words) to publics2013@gmail.com before May 5, 2013.

Calendar:

Diffusion: February 5, 2013.

Deadline for abstracts: May 5, 2013.

Acceptance communication: June 1, 2013.

Deadline for full papers: October 5, 2013.

Organised by:

ReSIC: Centre de Recherche en Information et Communication (Université Libre de Bruxelles) & PReCoM : Pôle de Recherches sur la Communication et les Médias (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles).

Presented in partnership with:

Action COST IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies

DigiLab, Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna (Universitat Ramon Lull, Barcelona)

Organising committee: Laura Calabrese (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Juliette De Maeyer (Université Libre de Bruxelles), David Domingo (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Marie-Soleil Frère (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Tomke Lask (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Florence Le Cam (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Geoffroy Patriarche (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles).

Scientific committee:

Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Laura Calabrese (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

João Canavilhas (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)

David Domingo (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Marie-Soleil Frère (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

François Heinderyckx (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Alfred Hermida (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Ari Heinonen (University of Tampere, Finland)

María Elena Hernández (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)

Josianne Jouët (Université Paris II, France)

Florence Le Cam (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Salvador de León (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico)

Pere Masip (Universitat Ramon Lull, Catalonia)

Cécile Méadel (École des mines de Paris – ParisTech, France)

Geoffroy Patriarche (Université Saint-Louis, Belgium)

Steve Paulussen (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)

Fabio Henrique Pereira (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)

Ike Pikone (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University, UK)

The appointee to the Professorship in Media will have an outstanding personal research record, together with proven leadership skills.

For appointments at the level of Professor an attractive reward package, including a competitive starting salary, access to a pension scheme and financial assistance with relocation expenses is available.

All posts are available from an early date mutually convenient to the University and the successful candidate

Application deadline May 13th 2013

See http://jobs.ulster.ac.uk/

Máire Messenger Davies PhD, FRSA, MBPsS

Professor of Media Studies

School of Media, Film and Journalism

University of Ulster

Cromore Rd

Coleraine, BT52 1SA

N. Ireland, UK

On the basis of these initial theoretical guidelines, the conference organizers offer to facilitate a discussion about the role of media in the construction of political identities, in four major areas:
- The study of media discourse, especially in its contribution to the inclusion or exclusion of members of the community, ethnic group or nation (especially the continuities or resonances between media discourse and other discourses from the world of politics and civil society which are circulating in the public sphere and can be identified);
- The analysis of the links between media and political strategies, between media actors (journalists, editors, bosses) and political actors (parties, attorneys), especially in cases where community membership is brought into play;
- The analysis of the internal functioning of the media organization that contributes to configuring media discourse around these identity issues (collection methods and selection of information, internal hierarchies, use of expert discourse, use of social networks, …)
- The analysis of the economic dynamics of the media which influences how the different actors are involved in the construction of identities (shareholders, advertisers, …).

Médias et identités :
Acteurs ou instruments de la construction des appartenances communautaires, ethniques et nationales ? (Appel à communication)

Conférence organisée en collaboration avec le Département des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, le Département de Science politique de la Faculté des Sciences sociales et politiques de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, le ReSIC, le CEVIPOL et la Faculté de sciences politiques, économiques et de la communication de l’Université catholique de Louvain.
La conférence se tiendra à l’Université libre de Bruxelles les lundi 16 et mardi 17 décembre 2013.

Les organisateurs de la conférence proposent une réflexion sur le rôle des médias dans la construction des identités politiques, qu’elles soient de nature communautaire, ethnique ou nationale, en suivant quatre axes majeurs de réflexion :
- l’étude du discours des médias, notamment dans sa contribution à l’inclusion ou à l’exclusion des membres de la communauté, de l’ethnie ou de la nation (en particulier les continuités ou résonnances entre le discours médiatique et d’autres discours émanant du monde politique ou de la société civile et circulant dans l’espace public pourront être identifiées);
- l’analyse des liens entre médias et stratégies politiques, entre acteurs médiatiques (journalistes, éditeurs, patrons) et acteurs politiques (partis, mandataires), en particulier dans les cas de recours aux identités communautaires ;
- la mise en perspective des modes de fonctionnement internes de l’organisation médiatique qui contribuent à configurer le discours médiatique autour de ces questions identitaires (modes de collecte et de sélection de l’information, hiérarchies internes, recours aux discours d’expert, exploitation des réseaux sociaux, …)
- l’approche des dynamiques économiques des médias qui influencent la manière dont les différents acteurs participent à la construction des identités (actionnariat, annonceurs, …).

 

Un appel international à communication est lancé, dans le cadre des problématiques et modalités exposées ci-dessous.

Le secteur de la presse écrite se recompose chaque jour en raison notamment de l’apparition du numérique. Au-delà des mutations que le numérique entraîne, c’est la question de la signification du journalisme de presse écrite qui est régulièrement posée.

Le média radiophonique, quant à lui, ne semble pas menacé de disparition à court ou moyen terme. La radio demeure un élément essentiel des pratiques et du système d’information, au quotidien mais aussi lors de circonstances plus exceptionnelles ou en temps de crise. La crédibilité de l’information radiophonique reste très élevée, et supérieure à celle des autres médias. Pour autant, de nombreuses mutations marquent son évolution. Dans ce colloque, se poseront plusieurs questions : comment la production de l’information radiophonique intègre-t-elle ces mutations liées au numérique ? Les acteurs qui contribuent à cette production ont-ils changé, ou vont-ils changer ? L’identité professionnelle des journalistes de radio a-t-elle été modifiée ? Les contenus médiatiques seront-ils différents ? Comment écoute-t-on l’information à la radio aujourd’hui, et comment va-t-on l’écouter demain ?

Avec le développement du Web, tout notre paysage médiatique est en voie de transformation. Ce colloque interrogera la capacité de la radio à informer les citoyens dans nos sociétés contemporaines. À partir de ses héritages, de ses pratiques actuelles, et de ses évolutions, nous poserons la question : la radio peut-elle demeurer un média d’information majeur à l’heure du numérique ?

Calendrier :

30 septembre 2013 – Date limite d’envoi des propositions

30 octobre 2013 – Annonce des propositions retenues

15 février 2014 – Envoi des documents

Contact :

Mail : grer.mail@club-internet.fr

christophe.deleu@unistra.fr

Téléphone (pour le colloque uniquement) : Tél. + 06 30 94 84 03

Sites Internet du GRER : http://www.grer.fr

http://radiography.hypotheses.org/

Le dossier de ce numéro 2 est consacré aux Sources et flux de nouvelles (Vol.2, n1, avril 2013). Il a été préparé par Eric Lagneau, Jérémie Nicey, Michael Palmer et Franck Rebillard.

D’autres numéros sont en préparation :

- les images d’actualité

- le « gouvernement » des journalistes

- les invisibles de la production journalistique

- les supports mobiles.

La revue est disponible en ligne (http://surlejournalisme.com/rev) et en version imprimée (pour le premier numéro). Vous pouvez proposer des textes, et vous inscrire sur le site de la revue en tant qu’évaluateur de textes à venir.

La revue publie des textes scientifiques sur le journalisme en trois langues principalement (français, anglais, portugais), ainsi qu’en espagnol.

The Centre for Research in Applied Communications, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT) promotes, from 3 to 12 June, its Summer School 2013, an advanced training program in Research Methods, Society and Media. For the 5th consecutive year, this training program targets researchers and higher education teachers, as well as masters and doctorates’ students. This year’s Summer School will open with a conference by Andreas Hepp, Professor of Communication Studies and Media at ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), of Bremen University, Germany and proceed with a series of workshops and classes.

CICANT’s Summer School schedule for 2013 includes a set of sessions concerning the methodologies and techniques of quantitative and qualitative research, namely use of SPSS/AMOS and NVivo softwares, and also new technologies like Eye Tracking, Smart Media, and Zeega, a software that allows the creation of online dynamic presentations.

For more information, please contact verissimo.iolanda@gmail.com or isabel.canhoto@ulusofona.pt

Or go to: http://cicant.ulusofona.pt/escoladeverao/index_ie.html (in Portuguese).

de Clara Bamberger

Ed. L’Harmattan (Coll. Inter-National, 12 euros, 96 p., décembre 2012) 

Les femmes sont beaucoup moins visibles que les hommes dans les médias d’information. Les femmes, lorsqu’elles sont interviewées, le sont principalement en qualité de mères, de simplestémoins ou de victimes. Sur la scène médiatique, les rôles de l’expert, de l’intellectuel ou duprofessionnel reste largement préemptés par les hommes. D’où vient cette représentation biaisée des sexes ?