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Vol 2, issue 1 of the graduate journal Platform: Journal of media and communication has been published.

Volume 1 (July 2009) of the international peer-review graduate journal 'PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication' is now published. You can find it here: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/
 
 
This inaugural volume 'Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities' includes the following contents:
1. Editorial.
 
By Esther Chin, Amira Firdaus, Gin Chee Tong and Blaise Murphet. University of Melbourne, Australia
 
2. Articles

Roskilde University is organizing a PhD Course: Applying dialogue-based approaches in communication research: methods for tackling complex analysis and practice, 22-25 March 2010, at Roskilde University, course location Kalundborg Youth Hostel (1 hour train ride west of Copenhagen)PhD students are invited to participate in a PhD course on applying dialogue-based approaches in communication research, organised by The Nordic Network for the Study of the Dialogic Communication of Research and The Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism.

Call for book reviewers - Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television
 
The "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television" examines the history of audio-visual media and its impact on the political, social and cultural developments. The HJFRT also reviews books on related topics. We take pride in reviewing books published in English and a variety of other languages.
 

MATRIZes - Academic Journal of the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences of the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil - accepts papers about theoretical works, research experiences and conceptual formulations on communication processes, media, mediations, languages and their interfaces in contemporary society. Also, it aims to preserve and to expand inter and transdisciplinary horizons on theoretical and methodological approaches of communicational thought.
 

The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, invites applications from highly qualified postgraduate students for six three-year PhD bursaries of £ 3,370 p.a. (towards fees and/or maintenance) to enable them to research and write doctoral dissertations on any aspect of one of the following broadly defined themes:
* Living Cosmopolitanism: Cities, Transnationalities and Migration
* Injustice, Inequality and Violence: Rethinking Materialities
* Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Film, Technology and Fantasy
* Imagining Otherness, Embodying Difference: Gender and Postcolonialism
* Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism: History, Literature and Memory
* Belonging and Exclusion: Exile, Diaspora and Cultures of Citizenship

The Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) program within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University offers the following
PhD position (4 years, 75 % research, 25 % teaching): Technological Urbanism and Knowledge Production