by Ørecomm on 2013 January 27 14:44
The next conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) will take place 28-31 August 2013 in Torino, Italy. The Research Network 18 on Sociology of Communications and Media Research is planning a number of sessions on these overarching questions:
- Which crises (including the financial and economic crisis of capitalism, global wars and conflicts, ecological crisis, the crisis of democracy, legitimation crisis, etc) are we experiencing today and how do they influence media and communication in contemporary society?
- What are the major changes of society, the media, and communication that we are experiencing today?
- What forms of political critique (political movements) and academic critique (critical studies, critical media sociology, critical theory, etc) are emerging today and are needed for interpreting and changing media, communication and society?
See the full ESA RN18 call. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2013.
by Ørecomm on 2012 December 14 05:52
The next conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) will take place 28-31 August 2013 in Torino, Italy. The Research Network 18 on Sociology of Communications and Media Research is planning a number of sessions on these overarching questions:
- Which crises (including the financial and economic crisis of capitalism, global wars and conflicts, ecological crisis, the crisis of democracy, legitimation crisis, etc) are we experiencing today and how do they influence media and communication in contemporary society?
- What are the major changes of society, the media, and communication that we are experiencing today?
- What forms of political critique (political movements) and academic critique (critical studies, critical media sociology, critical theory, etc) are emerging today and are needed for interpreting and changing media, communication and society?
See the full ESA RN18 call. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2013.
by Ørecomm on 2012 December 13 20:26
Nicholas Benequista writes:
“Let’s be frank. Researchers don’t really like us research communicators.
They have good reason not to like us, but this doesn’t necessarily need to be so. To explain why, however, I have to go back thirty years or so.
When it was finally acknowledged that policy-makers mostly ignore research, Nathan Caplan postulated the “two communities theory” to explain this shocking phenomenon. He said that there was a “culture gap” between researchers and policy-makers demarcated by their different values, language, professional practices and institutional contexts.
In a sense, those of us who work in research communication are supposed to be the bridges between these two communities, but if you look critically at the literature on research communication, you’ll see that we’ve recreated that culture gap.” /…/
Thus starts a blog post on the IDS Impact and Learning website. Read the full post here.
by Ørecomm on 2012 November 26 17:53
“Spaces and Times of Globalization. The Challenges of Global Communications” – is a winter school organized by the Department of Politics, Law and Interantional Studies of the University of Padova to contribute to the development of a critical approach to the Eurocentric representation of global space and time. In particular the winter school 2013 focuses on the different dimensions of communication – tools, processes and policies – in connection to changing spaces and times of globalization. (more…)
by Ørecomm on 2012 August 9 15:19
African Communication Research has issued a call for contributions to a special issue on ‘Edutainment’.
Deadline for 200-300 word abstracts is October 2012 – if selected with full manuscripts by 1 February 2013. The special issue will be published in September 2013.
Some suggested topics:
- Entertainment education practices in development communication
- Evaluations of projects using soap opera, pop music and other genres
- Edutainment produced by participating audiences
- Edutainment and community-based organizations
- Edutainment practices and its influences on theory
- Edutainment and its use of ICT, social media and the internet
- New advances in theorising Entertainment Education
- Critical perspectives to Edutainment in Africa
Abstracts and manuscripts should be sent to the guest editor: Eliza Govender, Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, at: govendere1@ukzn.ac.za
by Ørecomm on 2012 July 26 00:18
“Media, Communication and Development: Three Approaches critically investigates the three approaches that have characterised most debates in the field of Media, Communications and Development since its emergence in the 1950s, namely, media development, media for development and stakeholder and community engagement.
The book thus addresses the extant gap in scholarship in the field and includes a chapter on impact evaluation, which current scholarship has either ignored or footnoted. In addition, the book uses case studies from both the global south and the global north to attend to complex and multidisciplinary concerns with participation, power and empowerment.
The author brings in postcolonial perspectives to demonstrate that the use of MCD approaches emerged in response to the growing problems of underdevelopment, and not necessarily to western development theories.”
Thus speaks the publisher’s blurb. For more information on this new book by Linje Manyozo, and to buy it, go here.
by Ørecomm on 2012 June 11 18:24
From the job description: “Applications for a fixed term one year post from 1 September 2012 will be considered from outstanding candidates in media and communications. /…/ Candidates should have experience in teaching in the field of media and communications, preferably at the Master’s level in team teaching settings. Candidates will have one or more specialisms within the field. Applications are particularly welcome from those who specialising in critical approaches to media, communication and development in the Global South, and who can contribute to the core teaching of our MSc in Media, Communication and Development.”
Deadline for applications is 11 July 2012. See advert here. For more information and to apply go here.
Ørecomm — Centre for Communication and Glocal Change invites researchers, students and practitioners to its 2nd Festival, 14–17 September 2012. The Festival will start in Roskilde (1 day), move on to Malmö (2 days) and close in Copenhagen (1 day):
Reclaiming the Public Sphere:
Communication, Power and Social Change
Social media activism, clicktivism, media revolutions … Since the advent of the Arab Spring began to unfold late 2010, there has been a dramatic rise in attention to the role of information and communication technologies in social change. Now, looking back, a deeper momentum of critical reflection has arisen. This year’s Ørecomm Festival therefore wishes to provide a space for this critical reflection, focusing upon how the notion of public sphere is being reinterpreted in these years, and how new spaces and new agents in the public sphere are influencing the relation between communicative practices, power and social relations amongst all stakeholders.
Download the 2012 Festival Call with Concept note. See also:
[Documents updated: 9 September 2012]
by Ørecomm on 2012 May 8 12:50
Ørecomm — Centre for Communication and Glocal Change invites researchers, students and practitioners to its 2nd Festival, 14–17 September 2012. The Festival will start in Roskilde (1 day), move on to Malmö (2 days) and close in Copenhagen (1 day):
Reclaiming the Public Sphere:
Communication, Power and Social Change
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by Ørecomm on 2012 April 18 14:42
The anthology Social Media in Development Communication (pdf, 3 MB), edited by Ricky Storm Braskov, is an outcome of the Ørecomm Festival 2011. It brings together voices from key institutions and experts central in the established world of development cooperation, invited to share their experiences in using social media.
The much discussed role of social media in recent social mobilisations has sparked a historical attention to communication for social change in the spheres of media and communication scholars. Which current conferences or new calls for publications are not about voice and participation, mobilisation and rights, citizenship and change? Communication for social change as a terrain of practice and as a cross-disciplinary field of research is at the verge of drowning in success! (more…)
New PhD opportunities at the University of Leicester
Call for Abstracts: New Directions in Media, Communication and Sociology (NDiMS) Conference
Ørecomm Team to Gather at the University of Coimbra
“Communication and Social Change – A Citizen Perspective” Published
C4D Network to Sum Up Global Communication for Development Practice
Entering Media and Communication into Development Conferences?
IAMCR Conference 2016: Communication for Development Highlights
Glocal Classroom Revisited – Storytelling & Social Change Leicester-Malmö
I EvalComDev International Conference: Call for Papers
Looking for Media and Communication in Development Conferences: Devres 2016