Alenka Jelen's blog

University of Bedfordshire - Bursary Research Student
 

“A PhD is an empty signifier” - Coming from a joke that gladdened the workshop on Laclau’s Discourse Theory, this sentence followed my thoughts throughout the ECREA summer school in Tartu, while it sometimes reappears in the conversations I’m having when keeping in touch and sharing my doctoral experiences with other scho

 
Lecture on Research Ethics in Media and Communications by Sonia Livingstone, Shani Orgad and Bingchun Meng, Department of Media and Communications, LSE. The lecture considers the obligations of the researcher, institutional procedures, ethical issues, the right to privacy, informed consent and epistemological underpinnings.
 

YECREA memebers have put together a list of new books in the area of communicaiton studies. The list contains the books that have been published in 2009 and are believed to be of relevance for young communicaiton scholars.
 
The Nation on Screen: Discourses of the National on Global Television
Edited by Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest and Hugh O’Donnell

Nordicom Review has just published a jubilee issue -edited by Ulla Carlsson- containing a collection of the various plenary addresses on the theme of Media and Global Divides presented at the IAMCR World Congress in Stockholm 2008.
 

The contributions to the symposium "Media on the Move: Migrants and Minorities and the Media" (Bonn, Germany, 25-27 September, 2008) are now available online at:
http://www.cameco.org/index.php?article_id=111&clang=1

This peer reviewed journal publishes theoretical, conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative work by both established scholars and graduate students. The CFP, together with guidelines for authors, can be viewed at http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/.

 PLATFORM is a new international peer-review graduate journal, available online through open-access. Volume 1 (July 2009) of PLATFORM Journal of Media and Communication is now published at:http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/

Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture is a new peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect. It provides a space for debate on the important nexus of migration and culture from diverse global and local perspectives, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies.