Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the inter-disciplinary field of media and communications, with expertise in international/global media and communications or political communication. You should demonstrate research excellence and a commitment to critically assessing claims about the mediated relationships between media and communications technologies and the social world.

Applications are particularly welcome from those making a significant contribution to the political economy and governance of media and communications in developing countries and/or in relation to global media industries; as well as specialists in political communication and the changing relations among politics, media and the state, including political campaigns and parties’ communication strategies.

To apply for this post go to the LSE ONLINE RECRUITMENT SYSTEM. If you have any queries about using the online system, please call 020 7955 7859 or email hr.recruit@lse.ac.uk quoting reference LEC/09/28.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 5:30pm GMT on 9 April 2010.

The fourth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development will be held on 13-14 December 2010, in London, UK. Paper submission deadline: 2 April 2010.

The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide an international forum for scholarly researchers exploring ICTs applied to development. The conference is academically rigorous and multidisciplinary. Submitted papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review. The conference will bring together researchers in both the social and technical sciences, with anticipated representation from anthropology, computer science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, information science, political science, sociology, and so on. ICTD2010 is the fourth of an ongoing series of conferences occurring every one-and-a-half years; previous conferences have taken place in Berkeley, CA (USA); Bangalore (India); and Doha (Qatar).

Further information on the conference website.

Business meetings of Glocal NOMAD and Ørecomm will take place on 28 April 2010, at K3, Malmö University. Timetable as follows:

13.15-15.00 Glocal NOMAD working group meeting
15.00-16.00 Lecture by [not yet confirmed]
16.15-18.00 Ørecomm business meeting

Note that K3 has moved, to buildings no. 7-8 on this map.
Our meetings will be in no. 8, “Ubåtshallen”.

Enrique Dussel is among the most challenging and inspiring contemporary philosophers. His work addresses concerns across the disciplines of theology, history, anthropology, geography, sociology, political theory and philosophy. The main characteristics of his work include a geopolitical, ethical and existential stance, and a strong political commitment to the excluded. He is intellectually committed to providing knowledge that contributes to radical transformations of society; globally, regionally, nationally and locally. Dussel is one of the founders and developers of Liberation Philosophy and has influenced critical political thought and action in Latin America since the 1960s.

Dussel will be the main speaker at a seminar at Roskilde University (Auditorium in building 17/18), 8 March 2010, with the following programme:

• 10.15-11.00 Keynote:
  Enrique Dussel: Interculturality and Transmodernity
• 11.00-11.30 Questions and debate
• 11.30-13.00 Break
• 13.00-15.00 Panel discussion:
  Eurocentrism and its relationships to epistemologies and academic practice, with:
  • Enrique Dussel
  • Jan Gustafsson
    Center for the Study of the Americas, Copenhagen Business School
  • Thomas Tufte
    Communication Studies, Roskilde University and Ørecomm

This encounter with Enrique Dusell is organised by the Research School on Intercultural Studies at Roskilde University. It is open to all.

At the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies (CBIT) at Roskilde University a number of assistant or associate professorships in communication are open for applications, with deadline 19 March 2010, with the following preferred subject areas:

• Corporate communication
• Dialogical communication in public and private organisations
• Political communication and public affairs
• Communication in new media
• Intercultural communication

For more information see the full announcement in English or in Danish.

The sixth Performing the World conference will be held in New York City from Thursday 30 September through Sunday 3 October, 2010. The theme this year is: “Can Performance Change the World?”

With this theme, we ask performance activists and scholars to reflect on and address the political aspects of their performance work; at the same time, we invite social change activists to reflect on and address the performance aspects of their political activities. We are looking for proposals —for panels, workshops, performances, demonstrations, installations, etc. — that address this overarching question.

Read more on the conference homepage.

The MEDIeA research programme calls for applications to a PhD scholarship on “Media, Empowerment and Democracy in Tanzania – media ethnographic perspectives”. The full call may be downloaded here (pdf).

Applications are invited from primarily Tanzanian citizens with an MA in Social Sciences or Humanities and with experience in qualitative empirical research, preferably in the field of qualitative reception studies, media ethnography and/or participatory communication studies.

Deadline for applications is 14 March 2010.

Rikke Frank Jørgensen, affiliated with Ørecomm, has published a 56-page paper on “ICT as a tool for empowerment in Uganda”. Abstract:

The paper presents a case study, which investigates the role of ICT for women empowerment in Uganda. The study concludes that ICT has played a role for improved livelihood and participation in public life; however the facilitation of new spaces for conversation and collaboration has been just as important, as the technology itself.

The paper can be downloaded here, from the Centre for Internet Research at Aarhus University.

The GLOBAL FUSION 2010 Media & Communication Conference will be held at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, October 22-24, 2010. From the announcement:

This year’s conference theme is “Sustenance and Globalization.” We consider the concept of culture in relation to the nature of global communication processes. Those interested in the role of the print, electronic, and digital media might look at their role in sustaining and modifying cultures. For those interested in non-mediated communication, a focus could be brought to bear on the ways in which folklore, traditional cultural practices, and ecology can act to sustain and empower cultures. Researchers exploring the development perspective on international communication might consider addressing community building, sustainability, development, and the roles of communication in changing and sustaining cultures, polities, and societies. Among many other possibilities, this theme also allows for an exploration of the ways in which communication technologies, both as software and hardware, can sustain and/or undermine cultures and environments.

Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2010. For more information, see the conference website.

As the world draws towards the end of the first decade of this millennium, the development community continues to grapple with many of the same long-standing questions on how to tackle complex issues in the development field. The role of communication in advancing efforts toward finding solutions to the challenges of our day has become increasingly central to international development efforts and remains a major issue of concern for scholars and practitioners.

As previously announced on orecomm.net a conference on “New Approaches to Research and Practice in Communication for Development and Social Change” will be held at Ohio University, Athens (USA) on 2-4 April, 2010. Deadline for submissions is 5 February 2010. For further details see the conference website.