Month: May 2020

Maria Faust Profile

ProfilesDr. Maria Faust holds the position of a Research Associate at Chemnitz University of Technology, in Germany. She graduated from Leipzig University, Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Germany, with her thesis on “The Theoretical and Empirical Paradox of Temporal Change due to Digital Media in Germany and China” with highest distinction (summa cum laude). She was a Visiting Scholar at Renmin University, PRC, and the University of Bergen, Norway.

Maria FaustDr. Faust has worked for University of Leipzig, University of Technology Chemnitz, Stockholm University, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, the Micro Census in Saxony, and the European Institute for Journalism and Communication Research.

In 2011 she presented her work at Oxford Internet Institute, in 2016 she won a Best Paper Award at IADIS Conference and presented at University of Sao Paulo, RANEPA, Sorbonne and Lomonosov University, amongst others. She served as CGCP Editor of Stanford Law School’s China Guiding Cases Project and held the position of an Associate Editor with the Postgraduate Journal Networking Knowledge of the British Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association.

She has frequently published with China Media Research and guest-edited a special section on Visual Online Communication in BRICS countries with the same journal. In 2020 she edited a volume with Assoc. Prof. Thomas Herdin and Prof. Guo-Ming Chen on De-Westernization of Visual Communication and Cultures, embracing perspectives from the Global South with NOMOS publisher. Moreover, Dr. Faust’s articles have appeared in Kronoscope, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses.

Since 2023, Dr. Faust has been investigating “The Epistemologies of Landscape in the Age of Deep Mediatization” from a transdisciplinary perspective in her postdoctoral project. First insights were presented at the Annual Conference of the Digital Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society, UK.

Work for CID:

Maria Faust translated KC28: Postcolonialism, Poster 1: Intercultural Communication / Competence / Dialogue, CID Poster 3: Intercultural Dialogue, CID Poster 4: Types of Intercultural Communication, and CID Poster 5: Kommunikation als Kulturdefinition into German, and has served as a reviewer of German translations.

Oslo Met U: PHD Fellowship: Journalism & Media Studies (Norway)

FellowshipsPhD-fellowship (3 years), Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway. Deadline: May 29, 2020.

The Department of Journalism and Media Studies (IJM) offers a 3-year PhD fellowship position. The successful applicant will enroll and participate in the doctoral program in library and information science at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She/he will also be a member of one of two research groups at IJM: INDEX or Digital Journalism. The position will be closely connected to one of two international research projects financed by The Norwegian Research Council:

  • Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces (U-YouPa)
  • Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation (SCAM)

The PhD project is to be designed and conducted in a way that contributes significantly to the project that the successful candidate will be a part of. Applications can either be directed to the U-YouPa or the Scam project (see descriptions below). The applications will be ranked by an external evaluation committee. The position will fall to the applicant with the top-ranked application, given that – after an interview round with the person and the other leading candidates – the candidate is found to be best suited to fill the position.

CFP: Relationships in the Time of COVID-19

“PublicationCall for Papers: Relationships in the time of COVID 19: Examining the effects of the global pandemic on personal relationships, for a Special issue of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Deadline: September 1, 2020.

Dr. Jennifer Bevan (Chapman University) and Dr. Pamela Lannutti (La Salle University) are editing a special issue of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships entitled “Relationships in the time of COVID 19: Examining the effects of the global pandemic on personal relationships.” This special issue of JSPR focused on the effects of the pandemic on personal relationships will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners as we work to understand the pandemic’s personal and social implications and to develop recommendations for scholars and practitioners in assisting relational partners to thrive in such difficult times.

Editors expect the special issue will serve as a catalyst to develop and challenge multiple theoretical and methodological aspects of relationship science. They will only consider papers where the pandemic is a central focus of the research project. Papers in the issue will be consistent with existing JSPR guidelines and requirements for papers.

Continue reading “CFP: Relationships in the Time of COVID-19”

We Rise Video: Response to COVID-19 (Italy)

Applied ICDWE RISE video, prepared by Class 5B, Liceo Artistico Aldo Passoni [High School of Arts Aldo Passion], Torino, Italy.

NOTE: A prior class of Paola’s won 2nd prize in the CID Video Competition in 2018, and then prepared a reflection on making that video to aid potential 2019 competitors. This video shows how a group might create a video for the 2020 competition, despite quarantine orders.

The idea came in the middle of the eye of the hurricane of COVID-19 in Italy. It was mid-March 2020 and, in the north of Italy where I live, the number of infected people was tripling every day, the hospital system was nearly collapsing, and the death toll was appalling.

I had been meeting my students online regularly. Before starting our lessons on English Literature and Visual Arts, we always had short conversations about how they were, how their family members were, and how they were coping with the situation. Looking at their faces through the screen, I saw their sense of bewilderment, but I also saw their resilience. Their young bodies and their youthful energies were confined, but their minds were not.

Therefore, I thought that maybe we could try together to get out of our physical confinement, and send a message of resilience, solidarity, and hope which could reach other people outside our homes. Yet, such a message was also directed inward to ourselves as an act of resistance and as the possibility to open our inner window on the future.

I proposed that my students make a video in which each of them would read some lines of a poem or a song. Participation was voluntary, yet the majority of them accepted immediately. I looked for some poems on a website which is very well done and which I often use for my lessons too: www.poetryfoundation.org. I chose some lines from four poems which I found particularly inspiring for the purpose we had in mind. I then proposed the poems to the participants: we read the poems together, I translated some parts for them, and then they decided which poem they preferred. Then, each participant read the whole poem that s/he had chosen, recording it on her/his mobile phone or computer. Meanwhile, I had asked a friend of mine, Luca Gasparini, a professional film editor, whether he could edit the different recordings. He accepted immediately and willingly. So, I collected all the different videos and uploaded them for him on a platform. He promptly edited them, and finished in only a few days.

I am so proud of my students! To spread such a message, they accepted to foreground the fragility and the vulnerability of speaking in English, which is not their native language. Even the students who have more difficulties in speaking English agreed to participate, showing that exposing one’s frailty can be a great act of courage. I think they all demonstrated great generosity, hope, and trust.

A final note on the title. The title was inspired by one of the poems, but it was important to convey plurality and solidarity by using use the inclusive pronoun ‘we’ – referring to ‘we’ in the video, but also to ‘we’ in not only our immediate communities, but also in the global community. Then, the verb ‘to rise’ which means ‘to stand up’ and indicates resilience and hope; but at the same time ‘to rise’ also references the rising sun. Therefore, our message also points out that after darkness comes a new dawn.

I hope you like the video!
Paola Giorgis

CFP From ‘Intercultural-Washing’ to Meaningful Intercultural Education

“PublicationCall for Papers: From ‘intercultural-washing’ to meaningful intercultural education: Revisiting teaching practices in tertiary education. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2020.

Guest editors: Mélodine Sommier (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Anssi Roiha (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Malgorzata Lahti (University of Jyväskylä, Finland).

This special issue in the Journal of Praxis in Higher Education intends to provide a forum in which to address the difficulties and opportunities that arise in tertiary education when revisiting intercultural teaching practices. It therefore calls for papers that provide theoretical as well as practical insights into the implementation of critical approaches to intercultural communication.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
· Incorporating critical approaches to intercultural communication in teaching materials and/or ICT;
· Learners’ experiences of intercultural education and/or expectations of intercultural communication;
· Difficulties faced by teachers in developing new understandings of intercultural communication;
·  Critical approaches to intercultural communication in specific subjects;
·  Tertiary education policies and ‘intercultural-washing’ approaches; and
·  Intercultural education in supervision and mentoring.

Please note that the editors also welcome book reviews on the topic of critical intercultural education at tertiary level.

Containing COVID-19: Mobile Documentaries Competition (China)

Applied ICDCall for entries: Containing COVID-19: Mobile Documentaries, International Mobile Storytelling Competition Series 2020. Institute for Mobile Studies, School of International Communications, University of Nottingham, Ningbo,  China. Deadline: 1 June 2020.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in early January 2020, global efforts in containing the virus have been widely documented by mobile users around the world. To document and enhance global joint efforts in containing the virus, we organize an online international mobile documentary competition.

Themes: The competition has, but not limited to, the following three suggested themes: (a) connections (with a special focus on connecting people, expertise and resources although physically distanced during the virus outbreak), (b) collaborations (with a special focus on collaboration processes on different fronts in containing the virus), and (c) contributions (with a special focus on achievements and progress in containing the virus locally, nationally or globally). Other suggested themes could include nurses stories, doctor stories, patients stories, patients’ family stories, or city stories in containing COVID-19.

Categories: The competition has two categories: (a) original documentaries or (b) edited documentaries using video clips collected with permission from original sources.

CID Video Competition 2020 Judges

Job adsThe CID Video Competition opened for submissions a few days ago, and the first entries have come in. In a month the judges will begin their part. My thanks to all of them for taking the time to watch and critique all the student videos. It’s clear the greatest reward for all those who entered the competition is getting their videos seen by these accomplished professionals!

Jim D'Adderio

Jim D’Addario has been an award winning producer for the Walt Disney Company since 1995.  He started his career with Disney Interactive as a Production Supervisor on multiple edutainment projects, including the best sellers Lion King Activity Center and Toy Story Activity Center.  Jim was then recruited by Walt Disney Imagineering to produce sound tracks and interactive projects for Walt Disney World, Tokyo DisneySea and Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris.  Jim was instrumental in the design of The Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland park and The Winnie the Pooh Ride at Walt Disney World. His most memorable moment came when he worked with the iconic Sherman Brothers (of Mary Poppins fame) to produce the new soundtrack for the ride.  Jim has recorded with some of the most recognizable talent in the industry including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Rafiki, and Tigger! Jim then jumped ship to work in the online space with Disney Cruise Line, Disneyworld.com, and Disneyland.com creating the first immersive sites for those properties.  Jim’s current position is with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Global Broadcast, as a Senior Producer of television and radio commercials, trailers, First-Look programming, in-room videos, online videos, and airport interactive displays.

Ovinuchi Prince Ejiohuo is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, and activist currently working as a Media and Communications Officer/Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador at Yiaga Africa in Nigeria. A 2018 Global Ambassador Fellow of the Better Tomorrow Movement, he is a member of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS). He has photographed and filmed world leaders, including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege, Kenyan Activist Boniface Mwangi, former Nigerian Electoral Chairman Prof. Atahiru Jega, Nigerian Speaker House of Representative Femi Gbajabiamila, EU and ECOWAS ambassador to Nigeria Ketil Karlsen, US ambassador Stuart Symington, and British High Commissioner Catriona Laing. His written work and photo and video images have featured in many reputable publications and research both nationally and internationally. He has worked on media projects for organizations such as the Centre for Democracy and Development, ActionAid Nigeria, International Republican Institute, Accountability Lab, European Centre for Electoral Support and the Independent National Electoral Commission. In 2018, he co-directed the silent short film Anything for us for an anti-corruption project sponsored by McArthur Foundation. In 2019 his documentary film displaced showcased in Nepal where he produced the film Rising for IYMS. His Democracy Summer Camp short film Below the Legal Line was nominated for the 2019 Pan African Film Festival. His work focuses on addressing issues around peace, gender equality, marginalisation, education, youth participation, environment, governance and development.

Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga

Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga is a documentary filmmaker and video storyteller living in Budapest, Hungary. Her Screw Your Courage documentary won awards at several US film festivals and was broadcast on public TV. She worked for the New York Times Television as a video-journalist and later directed documentaries, including Once They Were Neighbours, Synagogue for Sale, Mr. Mom, and Angel Business, which were screened internationally and broadcast on public TV. She works as cinematographer, story editor and media consultant, and taught documentary ethics at the international Masters program, DocNomads. She has master degrees from ELTE University Budapest, Graduate School of Journalism UC Berkeley (as a Fulbright scholar), and a DLA from the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest.

Elizabeth ParksElizabeth S. Parks is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. She has degrees in Communication, Deaf Studies, and Sign Language Interpreting. She uses her international fieldwork experience with diverse cultural communities to ground her scholarship in listening and dialogue, communication ethics, cultural studies, and disability studies. Her current research focuses on the ways in which cultural diversity and embodied difference impacts perceptions and practices of “good listening” that ultimately promote ethical dialogue across difference. Courtesy of her publisher, Lexington Books, copies of her new book, The Ethics of Listening: Creating Space for Sustainable Dialogue, will be given to the top three prize winners in this competition.

Mary Schaffer

Mary C. Schaffer is a digital media consultant.  She was an Associate Professor of New Media at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) for 14 years.  Prior to CSUN, she spent 12 years as a New Media Executive (Disney, Viacom, Geocities) and 18 years as a journalist (NPR, CBS and NBC).  She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Documentary Association and Broadcast Education Association.

Mattias Skoog is a film and video creative from the Swedish west coast. He started his career as a public service radio broadcaster and has since then always worked with storytelling, media and communication. After eight years as a digital strategist in local government, Mattias recently decided to go all in as a full-time self-employed filmmaker, and is now combining life as a start-up entrepreneur with being a family man. He is also a member of the advisory board of the International Youth Media Summit.

Carolijn van NoortCarolijn van Noort is a lecturer in politics and public policy at the University of the West of Scotland in London, UK. In 2018, she was awarded her PhD in Political Science and Media, Film and Communication from the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her research explores the strategic communication of rising powers on the issue of infrastructure vision and action plans. Her articles have appeared in Global Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Politics and Governance, and Women Talking Politics.

CID Video Competition 2020 Now Open for Submissions!

CID Video CompetitionThe CID Video Competition for 2020 is now open for submissions, and will remain open until June 1, 2020, at midnight Washington DC time.

 

CID VIdeo Competition 2020

Hints for those entering the competition: Please read the original description of the requirements. And please follow the rules so we don’t have to disqualify your submission. (Bare minimum: it has to be about listening, in the context of intercultural dialogue. It has to be 30 seconds to 2 minutes in length. It has to be a video. It has to be original, and your own work. It doesn’t have to be in English, but if it is in another language, add English subtitles so the judges will all understand what you’re talking about. When ready, upload your video here (not to your own YouTube or Vimeo channel!).

If you have questions, see previously published competition rules, FAQ, and resources. Look at the 2018 or 2019 award winning videos. Read the reflection by one winning team about creating their video. If you still have questions that aren’t answered, then send an email. When you’re ready to submit an entry, click here.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue