CFP ECREA’s European Communication conference

ECREA’s 5th European Communication Conference

The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), in partnership with Lusofona University, will organise the 5th European Communication Conference (ECC). The Conference, due to take place in Lisbon from 12 to 15 November 2014, has chosen as its overarching theme, ‘Communication for Empowerment: Citizens, Markets, Innovations’. The organisers call for proposals in all fields of communication and media studies, but particularly invite conceptual, empirical, and methodological proposals on inter- and transcultural communication phenomena and/or on comparative research. that link the general conference theme, as developed below, to the fields pertinent to each ECREA section.

CFP: ‘Communication for Empowerment: Citizens, Markets, Innovations’

The ubiquitous presence of the media in contemporary society has led to the macro-institutions of society increasingly adapting themselves to (new) media logics , whereby there ceases to be a clear-cut separation between media and other social/cultural institutions. This situation begs for an analysis of how the fast-paced social and technological innovations of our media ecology alter various aspects of daily life, transforming national boundaries into transnational spaces, with resonance on markets and consumption. At the same time that the liberalization of content creation brought about by new media paves the way for innovations and the democratization of the creative economy through the production and distribution of user-generated content, we increasingly witness the prevalence of large economic groups in the design, control and filtering of information. Moreover, the interactive dimension of new technologies not only allows for the voluntary visibility of individuals and groups, but also acts as a means of disciplinary surveillance. As such, increasing cultural, economic and technological convergence implies the mastering of new literacies that allow for the use and critical understanding of both media form and media content. Reflection on the regulatory politics of the communication sector is thus paramount to facilitating both greater mobilization as well as political and cultural participation on the part of the common citizen in public space. Further, we should rethink the necessary balance between the public interest and the interests of the market, so as to ensure the promotion of citizenship, social capital and social inclusion.

Proposals for panels, individual papers and posters can be submitted to one of the 17 ECREA sections through the conference website from 1 December 2013 to 28 February 2014.

Abstracts should be written in English and contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, and, where applicable, methodology and results. The preferred length of the individual abstracts is between 400 and 500 words (the maximum is 500 words).

Panel proposals, which should consist of five individual contributions, combine a panel abstract with five individual abstracts, each of which are between 400 and 500 words. Participants may submit more than one proposal, but only one paper or poster by the same first author will be accepted.

First authors can still be second (or third, etc.) author of other papers or posters, and can still act as chair or respondent of a panel.

All proposals should be submitted through the conference website from 1 December 2013 to 28 February 2014. Early submission is strongly encouraged. Please note that this submission deadline will not be extended.

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USC Annenberg Summer Inst on Diversity in Media

The USC Annenberg Summer Institute on Diversity in Media and Culture
June 16-20, 2013
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California

We welcome applicants for the inaugural USC Annenberg Summer Institute on Diversity in Media and Culture, June 16-20, 2014. The Institute will bring together exemplary doctoral students and faculty members from across the disciplines of Communication and Media Studies and around the nation to discuss issues of race, gender and difference in media, within the shifting conditions of technology, production, circulation and consumption as well as the shifting discourse of difference in the areas of politics, culture and globalization. Approximately 20 doctoral students will be chosen to participate based on submitted papers and recommendations from their advisors.

The Institute will be divided into workshop sessions that feature current work from Institute faculty (listed below) and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the workshop sessions will examine race, gender, and difference in the media from a variety of interdisciplinary and methodological perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in Communication and Media Studies.

Applications, including a statement of background and interests and a paper that fits within the Institute’s broad topical range, should be sent to: USC Annenberg Summer Institute, School of Communication, USC Annenberg School, 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089. Applicants should have their faculty advisor send a supporting recommendation to the same address.

The Institute will cover participants’ travel to Los Angeles and housing in USC dormitory space.

Deadline for Applications: February 1, 2014
Notification of Participants: April 1, 2014

Institute Faculty:
Sarah Banet-Weiser, USC
Taj Frazier, USC
Nitin Govil, USC
Herman Gray, UC Santa Cruz
Larry Gross, USC
Sarah Gualtierri, USC
Josh Kun, USC
Stacy Smith, USC
Beretta Smith-Shumade, Tulane University S. Craig Watkins, UT Austin

Harron Chair talk: Intercultural Dialogue

Harron Lecture flyerOn November 11, 2013, I presented the Harron Family Endowed Chair Lecture entitled “Intercultural Dialogue: Who Needs It? Who Promotes It? Who Studies It?” This is the one public lecture expected of the Harron Chair at Villanova University, and this semester I serve in that position. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Jean Ann Linney provided a brief history of the Harron Family Endowed Chair for the audience, and Dr. Maurice Hall, Communication Department Chair, introduced me. There was a large crowd (more than expected, about 75 – sorry about the lack of chairs for the last dozen to come!) and good questions from not only faculty members but also students. Thanks to Chad Fahs for videotaping, and Minh Cao who set up a new YouTube channel for the Center (more about that in a separate post), you can see an excerpt of the talk (above).

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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Conflict Conference U Texas Austin

The Conflict Conference (TCC) will hold its first annual conference at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) on April 10-11, 2014. TCC is a multidisciplinary annual conference promoting the study of conflict and conflict resolution. We invite papers on any relevant topic, such as apologies, advocacy, dispute resolution, peace, negotiation, reconciliation,  mediation,  restorative  justice, conflict management, and ethics.

The DEADLINE for submissions is 10 DECEMBER 2013. Notices of acceptance will be sent no later than 31 January 2014. Paper proposals must include the author’s name and institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, and an abstract of no more than 150 words for the program. In addition, proposals must include a 600 word extended abstract without personal information. (Be as specific as you can, even if your project is still gestating.) Documents must be attached to an email as a pdf or Word document. TCC welcomes submissions from students. Please indicate student status in all paper proposals. Please send all proposals to TCC.

Conference panels will be held on Thursday, April 10th, and Friday, April 11th  on the  UT-Austin campus.  Keynote speakers  will address the conference both Thursday and Friday. TCC will host a cocktail mixer the evening of Thursday, April 10th at a nearby off- campus location and host a closing party off campus Friday, April 11th. A detailed schedule will be sent to participants at a later date. A conference registration fee of USD $25.00 is required. Watch for updates on our webpage.

This conference is sponsored by the UT Project for Conflict Resolution.

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Micro Grants for Intercultural Dialogue Available!

UPDATE May 12, 2014: This round of micro grants has been completed – see the results. As further micro grants become available, they will be described on the website.

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue will distribute micro grants for intercultural dialogue from a pool of $5000 made available by the Association for Business Communication. These micro grants are intended to support either or both of the two types of activities described in the mission of the Center: study of intercultural dialogues by Communication scholars, and/or participation in intercultural dialogue through academic interactions between Communication scholars based in different countries, or different linguistic and cultural regions. These grants are sufficient to provide seed funding only: no more than $1000 maximum can be awarded to any one individual. The goal is to encourage international, intercultural, interlingual collaborative research by giving enough funding to offset the cost of airfare only, while providing opportunity (and cause) for matching grants from universities.

ABC logoIf you already have multiple international connections, this grant is not for you – obviously you don’t need it. But if you are at a small college, or if you are a new scholar, or have not yet established significant international connections related to research, you are the intended audience for this competition. If you have been reading publications by an international scholar on a topic of potential relevance to your own research, consider a short trip to discuss ways to collaborate on a future project. If you do not know who has been doing relevant work, check the sources you’ve been reading lately, ask your colleagues, and/or think about who you know from graduate school or who you have met (or heard present an intriguing paper) at a conference. Find someone with similar interests but who takes a different theoretical or methodological stance by virtue of being based in a different cultural context.

The intention is to support the development of new intercultural, professional connections. Thus continuing collaborations are ineligible. Those based in the US are expected to propose travel outside the country. International scholars currently living outside their country of origin are asked to establish a new affiliation in a different region rather than proposing a return to their homeland. We recognize that much interesting work can be done within a country between cultural groups, however this grant program focuses on connecting researchers who are not yet connected, across cultural regions that are typically disconnected. This rationale of cross-cultural connection must be explicit in the project description.

The ABC Micro Grants Application requires applicants to describe their project, provide a brief resume, a short note from their department chair documenting their current status, and one from the host scholar expressing interest in holding conversations related to research. The initial deadline for review of proposals is February 1, 2014. If funds remain after the initial set of grants have been awarded, April 15, 2014 will be the second deadline.

The National Communication Association set aside similar funding for micro grants in 2012-13. Those projects have already been completed, and have been described in sufficient detail that they may serve as models for this year’s applications.

Contact the Center’s Director, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, with questions.

Igor Klyukanov Profile

ProfilesIgor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University.

 

Igor Klyukanov

He defended his doctoral dissertation, Dynamics of Intercultural Communication: Towards a New Conceptual Framework, at Saratov State University (Russia). He has served as Chair of the NCA Taskforce on Enhancing the Internationalization of Communication, Chair of the NCA Philosophy of Communication division, and as a member of the Russian Communication Association Steering Committee. He served as an Associate Editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the Founding Editor of the Russian Journal of Communication (Taylor & Francis). He organized the First International Communicology Institute Colloquium at Eastern Washington University in May 2014.

He is interested in intercultural and global communication issues as well as communication theory, philosophy of communication, semiotics, general linguistics, and translation studies. His works have been published in U.S., Russia, England, Spain, Costa Rica, Serbia, Bulgaria, India, and Morocco.

Klyukanov, I. (2017). Semiotics of cultural communication. The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication. Wiley Blackwell.

Klyukanov, I. (2017). Intercultural communication study in Russia. The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication. Wiley Blackwell.

Klyukanov, I., & Leontovich, O. (2017). Russian perspectives on communication. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), The handbook of communication in cross-cultural perspective (pp. 29-41). New York : Routledge.

Klyukanov, I., & Sinekopova, G. V. (2016). Beyond the binary: Toward the paraconsistencies of Russian communication codes. International Journal of Communication 10, 2258–2274.

Klyukanov, I. (2010). A communication universe: Manifestations of meaning, stagings of significance. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.

Klyukanov, I. (2005). Principles of intercultural communication. Boston: Pearson Education.

Administrator for UNU GCM job ad

Administrator for UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM)
Barcelona, Spain
CLOSING DATE: 2013•12•12

UN University GCM

United Nations University objectives
The UNU is an international community of scholars engaged in research, postgraduate training and the dissemination of knowledge in furtherance of the purposes and principles of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States. The University functions as a think tank for the United Nations system, contributes to capacity building, particularly in developing countries, and serves as a platform for new and innovative ideas and dialogue.

UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM)
The mission of the UNU-GCM is to contribute to good governance, cultural diversity, democracy and human rights through a better understanding of cultural mobility and diversity in the context of globalization. It focuses on the major cultural and social phenomena of migration and media as hallmarks of the era of globalization. The institute fosters cutting-edge research in these areas at global and local levels through the lens of key cultural concepts, such as borders, gender and transnational connections and a series of structured research programmes.

Responsibilities
Under the authority of the Director of UNU-GCM and supervision of the Manager, Office of the Director, the successful candidate shall carry out the following tasks:

Human Resources Management
*Be responsible for initiating, processing, monitoring and following up on actions related to the administration of the institute’s human resource activities, e.g., recruitment, placement, relocation, promotion, performance appraisal, job classification reviews, separation, training etc., ensuring consistency in the application of regulations and procedures;
*Enter and maintain administrative data and records for time and attendance, performance appraisal, etc. in electronic information systems;
*Perform other reasonable tasks, of a similar nature, as deemed necessary by the Director;

Budget and Finance
*Track expenses and organize the budget in consultation with the Director
*Consolidate data received and provide support to higher-level staff with respect to budget reviews;
*Review status of relevant expenditures and compare with approved budget;
*Review requisitions for goods and services to ensure (a) correct objects of expenditure have been charged and (b) availability of funds;
*Assist in the preparation of budget performance submissions;
*Prepare statistical tables and standard financial reports;
*Perform other reasonable tasks, of a similar nature, as deemed necessary by the Director;

Procurement and General Administration
*Support the full procurement activities of the institute to assist the Manager;
*Prepare, process and follow-up on administrative arrangements and forms related to the official travel of staff;
*Draft routine correspondence;
*Maintain files of rules, regulations, administrative instructions and other related documentation;
*Assist with the organization of conferences/workshops and all events;
*Perform other related administrative duties, as required;

Contract Administration
*Be responsible for the day-to-day administration of contracts between the UN and external contractors for outsourced services; and
*Audit the contractors’ invoices against the goods and services provided by the contractor and approved by the UN.

Required qualifications and experience
*Completion of high school diploma is required. Candidate with a university degree is highly desirable;
*At least five (5) years of relevant professional work experience in administration, finance and human resources. For candidates with a university degree, a minimum two (2) years of professional work experience in the related area is required;
*Knowledge and experience of UN system would be a definite asset;
*Proficiency in the use of MS Office applications (MS Word, Excel, Power Point etc.);
*Excellent communication skills with fluency in both oral and written English, Spanish and Catalan;
*Ability to work under minimal supervision and with a high level of resilience;
*Strong ability to establish priorities, multi-task and work within tight timelines;
*A good team player with strong interpersonal skills demonstrated by the ability to work in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

Remuneration will be at EUR 48,000 per annum

Duration of contract
This is a full time employment position on a Personnel Service Agreement (PSA) contract with UNU-GCM that will run until 31 December 2014. The combined duration of appointments shall not exceed six (6) years.

The successful candidate will be employed under a local contract and will not hold international civil servant status nor be a “staff member” as defined in the United Nations Staff Rules and Regulations. The successful candidate will be responsible for paying all required local taxes.

Applications from suitably qualified women candidates are particularly encouraged.

Starting date: As soon as possible

CFP JIIC special issue: Race

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE ON RACE
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
GUEST EDITORS: DREAMA G. MOON AND MICHELLE A. HOLLING,
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN MARCOS

In 2001 in preparation for the first World Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, planners noted that although the international community had made important advances in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance including formation of national and international laws and adoption of a treaty to ban racial discrimination, the dream of a world free of racial hatred and bias remains fully unrealized. They further declared that:

“racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, where they amount to racism and racial discrimination, constitute serious violations of and obstacles to the full enjoyment of all human rights and deny the self-evident truth that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, are an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations among peoples and nations, and are among the root causes of many internal and international conflicts” (Durban Declaration).

Certainly systemic racism continues to haunt many societies around the world and as communication scholars, we believe that we are uniquely positioned to offer useful insights into the study of race, racial discrimination, nativism and xenophobia. For as Orbe and Allen (2008) note, communication plays a constitutive role in both perpetuating racism as well as opposing it.

For many in the United States, racism is a thing of the past. With the election of the U.S. first Black president, public discourse asserts that we are now in a post-racial moment where people are judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. However, cursory review of events of this year offers a different picture. In the United States, observed is that after Miss New York, Syracuse native Nina Davuluri won the Miss America crown, Twitter lit up with comments claiming that she is an Arab, a foreigner, and a terrorist with ties to Al Queda; voting restrictions passed in North Carolina; police shootings of Black men by the hundreds most of whom were unarmed; the acquittal of George Zimmerman; defamation of peoples of color by public figures such as Paula Deen; the increasing militarization of the US-Mexico border, and the continuing denial that racism is a problem. Around the globe we noted anti-Korean rallies in Japan, violent attacks on Chinese students in France, confrontations between youths of Moroccan and Moluccan descent in The Netherlands, segregation of beaches from Asian and African use in Lebanon, and banana- and racist epithet-throwing at Cécile Kyenge, Italy’s first Black minister. Despite these events, and others too numerous to recite, claims that we have entered a post-racial era abound.

Given the urgency of these matters, we seek submissions that investigate or examine issues of race, racism, nativism and xenophobia that aim to intervene in the post-racism rhetoric and show the variety of ways that race continues to matter both in the United States and abroad. Throughout this issue, we treat race  as “one of the most powerful ideological and institutional factors for deciding how identities are categorized and power, material [and psychological] privileges, and resources distributed” (Giroux, 2003, p. 200). Thus, exploring the ways that race is deployed in social, political, legal or inter/national arenas, along with the communicative practices that maintain or contribute to manifestations of racism and xenophobia, has the potential to illuminate how race functions in a post-racism era. Broadly, we seek essays that advance extant studies about the ways race is communicated; attend to the micro- and/or macro-level aggressions that perpetuate racism; identify im/possibilities of racial(ized) subjects in a supposed post-racial society; reveal the machinations of xenophobia, domestically or internationally; examine the racialization of ethnic groups or communities; and/or critique instances of domination and resistance in an effort to encourage reconsideration of notions of human dignity or social justice. The contributions to be garnered from this special issue on race are to challenge the myth of post-racial societies, domestically or internationally, and to reaffirm the saliency of race within intercultural and international relations. Of interest are empirical manuscripts, including rhetorical analyses that work at the nexus of race and intercultural communication from a critical (broadly understood) perspective. Manuscripts from a range of interdisciplinary, theoretical or methodological perspectives are invited.

Submission information

Manuscripts are due by February 1, 2014. Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout, prepared in accordance with APA 6th ed. and should not exceed 9000 words, inclusive of notes and reference matter. To facilitate the blind, peer review process, all identifying references to the author(s) should be removed. Manuscripts need to adhere to the instructions for authors for the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and uploaded to ScholarOne Manuscripts. We ask that submitting author(s) indicate on the title page “for consideration in the special issue on race.” Direct inquiries regarding the special issue to both Dreama Moon and Michelle Holling.

Gonen Dori-Hacohen Profile

ProfilesGonen Dori-Hacohen is a discourse analyst and a communication scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying both interactions in the media and in mundane situations, focusing on the intersection of culture, politics, and the media.

Gonen Dori-Hacohen

Currently he studies civic participation in Israeli radio phone-ins, American Political Radio Talk, and other arenas of public participation, such as online comments.  In one current project, he compares American talk radio and Israeli Radio talk, and will be happy to widen this comparison to include other countries and cultures. Additionally, he works on online comments in Israel, and will be happy to compare this phenomenon to similar phenomenon in other countries.

Selected publications:

Van Over, B., Dori-Hacohen, G. & Winchatz, M. R. (2019). Policing the boundaries of the sayable: The public negotiation of profane, prohibited and proscribed speech. In M. Scollo & T. Milburn (Eds.), Engaging and transforming global communication through cultural discourse analysis: A tribute to Donal Carbaugh (pp. 195-217). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Livnat, Z., Dori-Hacohen, G., (2018). Indexing membership via responses to irony: Communication competence in Israeli radio call-in shows, Language & Communication, 58, 62-79.

Assouline, Dalit, & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2017). Yiddish across borders: Interviews in the Yiddish ultra-Orthodox Jewish audio mass medium.Language and Communication, 56, 68-81.

Weizman, E. & Dori-Hacohen, D. (2017). Commenting on opinion editorials in on-line journals: A cross-cultural examination of face work in The Washington Post (USA) and Nrg (Israel). Discourse, Context, Media, 19, 39-48.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2016). HaTokbek Kemilat Mafteakh: hapotentzial ledemotratya karnavalit hademokrati  vehamtziut hademokratithamugbelet. [The tokbek as an Israeli term for talk: The potential for democratic carnival and the defective democratic reality]. Israel Studies in Language and Society, 9(1-2), 164-183. [Hebrew]

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2016). Tokbek, Israeli speech economy, and other non-deliberative terms for political talk.  In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Communication in cross-cultural perspective (pp. 299-311). New York: Routledge.

Maschler, Y., & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2016). Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle. In P. Auer & Y. Maschler (Eds.), NU and NÅ:  Family of discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (pp. 162-212).  Berlin:  Walter de Gruyter.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2014). Establishing social groups in Hebrew: ‘We’ in political radio phone-in programs. In T.-S. Pavlidou (Ed.), Constructing collectivity: ‘We’ across languages and contexts (pp. 187-206). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2014). Spontaneous or controlled: Overall structural organization of phone-ins in two countries and their relations to societal norms. Journal of Pragmatics, 70, 1-15.

Dori-Hacohen, G., & White, T. T. (2013). “Booyah Jim”: The construction of hegemonic masculinity in CNBC Mad Money phone-in interactions. Discourse, Context and Media, 2,175-183.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). The commercial and the public “public spheres”: Two types of political talk-radio and their constructed publics. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 19(2), 134-51.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). Types of interaction on Israeli radio phone-in programs and the public sphere. Javnost-The public, 19(3), 21-40.

Thompson, G., & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). Framing selves in interactional practice. Electronic Journal of Communication, 22(3-4).

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2011). Integrating and divisive discourses: The discourse in interactions with non-Jewish callers on Israeli radio phone-in programs. Israel Studies in Language and Society, 3(2), 146-165 [Hebrew]

Work for CID:
Gonen Dori-Hacohen has reviewed translations into Hebrew.