Cal State U Long Beach job ad: Race and Ethnicity

Assistant Professor Communication Studies
California State University, Long Beach

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 17, 2015 (Fall Semester)

SALARY RANGE: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Ph.D. in Communication by date of application or official notification of completion of the doctoral degree by August 1, 2015; demonstrated effectiveness for teaching; demonstrated excellence in research, scholarly and creative activities, etc.; demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population.

DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Research agenda dedicated to the study of communication practices of racial and/or ethnic groups, particularly Latino/Latina or Asian/Asian American communities; demonstrated excellence in teaching at the college level; ability to teach at least two of the following courses: Communication Theory, Survey of Rhetorical Theory, Communication Criticism, Measurement in Communication Research, Intercultural Communication.

DUTIES:
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including the following courses:  Communication Theory, Survey of Rhetorical Theory, Communication Criticism, Measurement in Communication Research, Intercultural Communication; engage in a systematic program of scholarship resulting in conference presentations and publication; advise and direct students in academic projects and scholarly activities; provide service to department, college, university, and community.

CSULB seeks to recruit faculty who enthusiastically support the University’s strong commitment to the academic success of all of our students, including students of color, students with disabilities, students who are first generation to college, veterans, students with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and students of diverse sexual orientations and gender expressions.  CSULB seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the People of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students a rich variety of expertise, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION:
– A Student Success Statement about your teaching or other experiences, successes, and challenges in working with a diverse student population (approximately one page)
– Letter of application addressing the minimum and desired/preferred qualifications
– CV (including current email address)
– At least three current references or letters of recommendation
– Copy of transcript from institution awarding highest degree
– Finalists will also be required to submit a signed SC-1 form, at least three current letters of recommendation (if not already submitted), and an official transcript.

Application and required documentation must be submitted through the Academic Jobs Online website.

Request for information should be addressed to:
Ann Johnson, Department Chair
California State University, Long Beach
Department of Communication Studies
1250 Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90840-2009

 

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

Review of applications to begin December 1, 2014.

Position opened until filled (or recruitment canceled)

CSULB is committed to creating a community in which a diverse population can learn, live, and work in an atmosphere of tolerance, civility and respect for the rights and sensibilities of each individual, without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religious creed, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, medical condition, age, political affiliation, Vietnam era veteran status, or any other veteran’s status.   CSULB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CSULB offers benefits to registered domestic partners.

CFP Global TV after 9/11 (Edited Anthology)

Call for Proposals
Global TV After 9/11: Shifts in international television programs and practices

The anthology explores industrial, ideological, cultural, narrative, and aesthetics shifts in the production of global television after September 11.

In the U.S., animated series – and especially those targeting an adult audience – and satirical programs have become the flagship of counterhegemonic narratives of and for American television, while simultaneously being very much part of the consumer capitalist system they question and mock (through DVD sales, merchandising, and outsourcing). Similarly, although officially created before the events of 9/11, dramas like Alias, 24, The Agency and The West Wing have strongly been affected – especially in their subsequent plot development – by the attacks on the World Trace Center and the Pentagon. The response, in these cases, has generally been the construction of patriotic narratives aimed at reassuring the American public against the fear of U.S. vulnerability, while re-establishing traditional American values such as individualism and capitalism.

Considering the shifting meaning of American television after 9/11 as a starting point, the editor aims to open up a wide range of questions, selecting a variety of essays that critically explore the following issues in relation to international media industries:

How have international responses to the catastrophic events of 9/11 affected national television productions? Have genres, formats, and fiction in general, changed (examples: the Indian adaptation of 24, the production of Hatufim in Israel, the original inspiration for Homeland)?

How has TV news changed? Have official news channels lost their credibility and satirical news programs proliferated as it has happened in the U.S. with The Daily Show (like Al-Bernameg in Egypt)?

How has the production of TV documentary (specifically about surveillance) increased/changed as a result of 9/11 (examples include HBO’s Vice Series and BBC’s Meet the Stans)?

What processes of adaptation (audiovisual translation, censorship, etc.) do post-9/11 U.S. TV programs go through when exported abroad? How does a foreign country – where the consequences of 9/11 might not be as strongly and ideologically present as they are in the U.S – import a post-9/11 TV show? How can a program remain a post-9/11 text in a country lacking a post-9/11 culture?

How do post-9/11 irony and satire travel abroad?
Have consumer culture and the very practices of media consumption changed globally after 9/11? How do international audiences perceive and “consume” 9/11 narratives?

How has media production changed in the Middle East (where the consequences of 9/11 where directly felt, and yet where radically different than the U.S.)?

Have strong global media markets (such as India) included post-9/11 themes in their productions? If so, to what extent and with what objectives?

Please consider submitting a 500-word abstract by November 31, 2014, and direct all questions to Chiara Ferrari.

Timeline
Abstracts due by November 31, 2014;
Selection of abstracts by end of December, 2014;
Full essays (7500 words, including bibliography and notes) due by May 31, 2015;
Final (revised) drafts due by August 31, 2015.

About the volume and editor
The specific idea for the Global TV After 9/11 anthology was developed as I completed an essay, titled: “The Taming of the Stew(ie): Family Guy, Italian Dubbing, and Post-9/11 Television”. The article discusses the cultural and ideological changes applied to the animated series Family Guy – considered a flagship of post 9/11 American television – when it is exported and translated in countries (Italy, specifically) that lack an “official” post-9/11 culture. I have previously published two books, including an edited anthology (Beyond Monopoly, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) and I have established preliminary contact with a respected University Press.

NYU job ad: Media, Culture, Communication

Assistant Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication
New York University

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University seeks a beginning assistant professor (tenure track) who specializes in contemporary media, identity formation, and social activism in African-American and/or other African Diaspora communities. Candidates should submit dissertations, book manuscripts, publications, and other samples of scholarly writing. They should also be able to demonstrate capacity for excellence in teaching through student evaluations, teaching observations, or similar materials.

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is home to 30 full-time faculty and serves approximately 750 undergraduate majors, 90 MA students, and 40 PhD students. NYU’s dynamic Global Network University includes NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, and international programs and academic centers around the world.

NYU is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment and strongly encourages applications from historically underrepresented groups.

Qualifications:  Qualified candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand by September 1, 2015, and an active agenda of research, publication, and teaching.

Responsibilities:  Teach and advise undergraduate and graduate students, conduct research, and engage in program, department, school-level, and university service.

Applications:  Please apply via e-mail with a cover letter, CV, names and contact information for three references, and a significant sample of work to:   mccnyusearch@gmail.com

Applications may be addressed to:
Professor Ben Kafka
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New York University
239 Greene St, 8th floor
New York NY 10003

Further information about the position can be obtained from Lisa Gitelman, Department Chair:  gitelman[at]nyu{dot}edu.

Review of applications will begin on October 31st, 2014 and continue until the position is filled.

CFP Discourses of Culture DiscourseNet (Belgrade)

Call for Papers

DN15. The 15th DiscourseNet Conference: Discourses of Culture – Cultures of Discourse
March 19-21, 2015
University Library “Svetozar Markovic” Belgrade

A topic of controversial debate today, “discourse & culture” points to fundamental questions in contemporary society such as the role of mass media in the construction and transformation of reality, the interrelationships between high and mass culture, or the interpellations of subjects in their communities. Discourse is seen as a set of enacted processes that establish, protect, or change conventions and thus reassemble the wide area of both the material and immaterial environment. Therefore, the question of how discourse affects culture through a long chain of mediated actions and
reactions stands at the focal point of many discourse researchers. The main aim of the DN15 conference is to open an interdisciplinary dialogue concerning discourse and culture. Contributors are invited to make (sub-)culture(s) a central concern within discourse studies or to explore discursive phenomena in terms of culture. DN15 welcomes critical reflection upon the discursive and cultural aspects of meaning, identity, and communication.

This conference welcomes new methodological and theoretical approaches dealing with the nexus of discourse and culture. Contributors are invited to focus on inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in media studies and digital humanities, sociology, political studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The meeting also presents the opportunity to join the DiscourseNet network and to develop new projects and cooperations. The working language is English, all contributions will be recorded (with the consent of the presenters), and a publication is planned.

Conference participants are also invited to take part in the planning meeting of DiscourseNet which will take place on the Saturday, at the end of the conference. All those who wish to become members, propose new ideas, or talk about collaborative perspectives for the discourse re-search network
are most welcome. Please send an email to the organizers if you want to join this meeting.

The event is free, but a small contribution for coffee etc. may be charged. Travel assistance may be available for a limited number of participants who are in need of financial support (please justify). The deadline for conference paper proposals (with name, title, a half-page abstract and a short cv) is 1st  January 2015. Please contact the organizers via discoursenet15@ubsm.rs or dn15@ubsm.rs, and visit the conference webpage. DN15 is organized by Jan Krasni (Belgrade) and receives support from the ERC DISCONEX project led by Johannes Angermuller (Warwick).

Cal State U Monterey Bay job ad: Comm Ethics & Practical Reasoning

Assistant Professor of Communication Ethics and Practical Reasoning
California State University Monterey Bay

RESPONSIBILITIES
Teach innovative lower and upper division courses in communication ethics, dialogue and deliberation, philosophical analysis, applied ethics, cooperative argumentation, and related coursework. Sustain innovative scholarly research, publication, and professional service. Apply new scholarship and pedagogies to teaching. Serve on Department, Division, College, and University-wide committees. Provide support for one or more departmental programs, and contribute to reciprocal community partnerships.

QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM)
Earned doctorate in philosophy, communication studies, rhetoric, religious studies, or allied discipline. Ability to provide leadership in practical and professional ethics. Ability to teach effectively in a wide range of courses including, but not limited to communication ethics, applied ethics, and deliberation. Ability to assist with innovative interdisciplinary program development. Ability to teach and mentor students from nontraditional, working class, and diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. Experience working effectively in an ethnically and culturally diverse campus community.

QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRABLE)
Ability or potential in one or more of the following areas:
– Interdisciplinary teaching in leadership studies, religious studies, theology, or spirituality studies
– Application of new media technologies in teaching.
– Innovative teaching and assessment models
– Furthering relationships with the diverse communities of the Monterey Bay and tri-county region
– Proficiency in a second language
– Service learning pedagogy

SCREENING BEGINS: 11/1/2014

APPOINTMENT DATE: Fall 2015

APPLY: All prospective applicants must apply on-line.

CFP Urban Foodways and Communication

Urban Foodways

Call for Chapter Proposals for a New Book
Urban Foodways and Communication: Ethnographic Studies in Intangible Cultural Food Heritages Around the World

Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014

Editors:
Casey Man Kong Lum, William Paterson University, USA, and
Marc de Ferriere le Vayer, the UNESCO Chair Project on Safeguarding and Promoting Cultural Food Heritage, the University of Tours, France

Book Overview:
Embedded in the quest for ways to preserve and promote heritage of any kind is an appreciation or a sense of an impending loss of a particular way of life – knowledge, skills set, traditions — deemed vital to the survival of a culture. Foodways places the production, procurement, preparation and sharing or consumption of food at an intersection among culture, tradition, and history. Thus, foodways is an important material and symbolic marker of identity, race and ethnicity, gender, class, ideology and social relations.

Intangible cultural heritage, according to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, refers to “the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.”

Urban Foodways and Communication seeks to enrich our understanding of unique foodways in urban settings around the world as forms of intangible cultural heritage. Each ethnographic case study is expected to focus its analysis on how the featured foodways manifests itself symbolically through and in communication. The proposed volume aims to help advance our knowledge of urban food heritages in order to contribute to their appreciation, preservation, and promotion. We invite chapter proposals from scholars from all geographic and cultural regions of the world, and are particularly interested in attracting scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to write ethnographic case studies of distinctly identifiable foodways that they consider worthy of examination as intangible cultural heritage.

Submission Guidelines:
While the definition of intangible cultural heritage by the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage provides a good general conceptual framework, interested colleagues are encouraged to contribute their most current research and interpretation to substantiate, augment, or otherwise advance our understanding in this area of academic inquiry.

What to submit:
All submissions must include two documents, a Chapter Proposal and a separate CV of no more than three pages. The Chapter Proposal must contain (a) a working title of the proposed chapter, (b) an 800 to 1,000-word exposition consisting of a clear description of the proposed ethnographic case study and a concise statement on how and why the foodways being examined can be regarded as a form of intangible cultural heritage, and (c) a one to two-page annotated outline of the proposed chapter. Please do not identify yourself in any way in the Chapter Proposal. Include in your submission a separate CV of no more than three pages. All submissions will go through a referee process by a review committee established in conjunction with the UNESCO Chair Project on Safeguarding and Promoting Cultural Food Heritage at the University of Tours, France.

Submission format:
All submissions must be written in English and prepared in accordance with the style of the sixth edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual. Please submit your documents in the MS Word file format.

Submission deadline (and contact person for inquiry):
Please send your Chapter Proposal and CV in the same email on or before November 15, 2014 (Eastern Time) to: Casey Lum
Notification of acceptance status of chapter proposals: December 15, 2014
Submission deadline of complete chapters: on or before April 15, 2015

Length of each complete chapter manuscript:
Each complete chapter manuscript must be between 5,000 and (no more than) 5,500 words, inclusive of the main text and References. The use of the 12-point Times New Roman font in MS Word is preferred.

Int’l Day of Non-Violence

The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.

According to United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion to “disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness”. The resolution reaffirms “the universal relevance of the principle of non-violence” and the desire “to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence”.

Introducing the resolution in the General Assembly on behalf of 140 co-sponsors, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Anand Sharma, said that the wide and diverse sponsorship of the resolution was a reflection of the universal respect for Mahatma Gandhi and of the enduring relevance of his philosophy. Quoting the late leader’s own words, he said: “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man”.

U Virginia job ad: Social Media/Mobile Technologies

Assistant Professor of Social Media and Mobile Technologies at University of Virginia

The Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor, appointment beginning August 25, 2015. The successful candidate must have a PhD (or be ABD with expected completion of June 2015), evidence of innovative and effective teaching, and excellent research promise in the field of media studies. We are searching for a scholar who specializes in social media and mobile technologies. We particularly welcome candidates with a focus on one or more of the following: infrastructures, mobilities, and non-North American perspectives. Candidates should be well versed in theories of technology, globalization, and new media so as to complement current departmental strengths in global media, technology, and policy.

To apply, candidates must submit a Candidate Profile through Jobs@UVA, and electronically attach the following: a cover letter of interest that describes research agenda and teaching experience, curriculum vitae that includes the names and contact information of three (3) references that can speak to research excellence. Also, under separate cover by e-mail please arrange for one (1) of the references listed in the CV to send a confidential letter of recommendation to: Professor Bruce Williams, Chair of Search Committee.

For priority consideration, please submit all application materials and letters of reference by November 1, 2014. The position will remain open until filled.

Questions regarding the application process should be directed to Professor Bruce Williams, Chair of Search Committee.

CFP History in the Making: Arab Media

History in the Making: Arab Media and Processes of Remembering
Conference organised by the Arab Media Centre
Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI),
Date: Friday 24 April, 2015
Venue: University of Westminster, Regent Street Campus,
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

Keynote Speaker:  Kay Dickinson, Concordia University, Montreal. Author of Off Key: When Film and Music Won’t Work Together (2008) and co-editor of The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East (2013).

‘If history is a term that means both what happened in the past and the varied practices of representing that past, then media are historical at several levels’. These words of Lisa Gitelman in her 2008 book, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, highlight the multiple ways in which media are implicated in our retelling of history. It is not just a question of journalism being seen as the first ‘rough draft’ of history (an observation credited to a former publisher of The Washington Post), or the fact that what are now sometimes called ‘legacy media’ were themselves new media several decades ago. It is also the role of films and other entertainment media in our awareness and understanding of the past, as well as the deliberate or unwitting silencing of histories through the highly selective processes of media representation. Such silencing is compounded when archives, or parts of archives, are neglected or destroyed.

Yet digital media and political upheaval in Arab countries raise new theoretical and practical questions about historical records. On one hand, online archiving of user-generated content seems to contradict the old maxim that history is written by the victors. On the other, who now has the right to be forgotten? Online digital infrastructures make it possible to trace dissident voices and sources in ways that threaten to sustain the entrenched control mechanisms of dictatorships.

Perhaps because Arab media outlets have expanded so rapidly in recent years, historical dimensions of media development or media use in the region have received limited attention. Eric Davis noted in the 1990s how much writing about the Arab world suffers from a ‘presentist’ fallacy, whereby inadequate or cursory coverage of historical forces contributes to essentialist constructions, which in turn represent the Middle East as incomprehensible political spectacle. More recently Walter Armbrust has pointed out the dangers of what he describes as a ‘relentless presentism’ and predominant ahistoricism in Arab media studies, born in his view from a form of technological determinism.

This one-day conference will seek to address issues raised by the place of media in history, the function of media artefacts as historical sources, and the processes involved in documenting and storing media images and accounts that will make the past accessible to future generations. A focus on history seems appropriate for what will be the tenth in the Arab Media Centre’s series of annual international conferences.

We welcome papers from scholars and media practitioners that engage critically with the issues outlined above. Themes may include, but are not limited to, the following:
·       Arab media history and historiography
·       The place of history in Arab media studies
·       Methodological questions in researching Arab history: the place of media
·       Oral histories of Arab media
·       Formation of film and broadcasting through colonial and postcolonial times
·       Suppressed histories from the media sector
·       Historicising the rise of subversive media across different political contexts
·       Archiving and digitizing: who decides what and how?
·       The performance of museums and libraries in preserving media artefacts
·       Translation of historic media texts
·       Gender, media and social history
·       Media and memory studies
·       Historic patterns in media coverage of Arab affairs
·       Audience feedback in 20th century Arab media

PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION
This one-day conference, taking place on Friday, 24th April 2015, will include a keynote address, plenary sessions and parallel workshops. The fee for registration for all participants, including presenters, will be £110, with a concessionary rate of £59 for students, to cover all conference documentation, refreshments and administration costs. Registration will open in February 2015.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS
The deadline for abstracts is Monday, November 3rd, 2014. Successful applicants will be notified early in mid-December 2014. Abstracts should be 300 words. They must be accompanied by the presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal addresses, together with the title of the paper and a 150-word biographical note on the presenter. Please send all these items together in a single Word file, not as pdf, and give the file and message the title ‘AMC 2015’ followed by your surname. The file should be sent by email to the Events Administrator, Helen Cohen, at journalism@westminster.ac.uk

TRAVEL EXPENSES
Participants fund their own travel and accommodation expenses.

PUBLICATION
There will be various openings for publication of selected conference papers, which will be discussed further after the conference.