Communication and Democracy

What is Meant by What is Meant? Negotiating the Conventions of the Moving Image.

The research group Media, Movements and Politics (M²P) within the department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp is looking for a number of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to participate in research projects dealing with information-processing by political elites, with participation and representation, or with agenda-setting.

 
wIDER? wORLD? wEB? PAN-EUROPEAN FORUM ON MEDIA PLURALISM & NEW MEDIA
 
Wednesday 27 June 2012; European Parliament - Plenary Chamber, Brussels
 

 Applications are invited from outstanding candidates with a research focus in any subfield of Political Communication, although preference may be given to applicants with a focus on new media. You will have a strong track record of publications appropriate to career stage as well as a completed, or nearly completed, PhD in a relevant subject. You will maintain an active programme of research and will contribute to the general work of the School, including teaching for the MSc in Political Communication.

My name is Tina Askanius and I am a doctoral candidate at the department of Communication and Media at Lund University, Sweden where I teach undergraduate courses on audience and reception studies as well as master courses on globalisation, media and identity. My research interest concerns social movement media, collective action, and contemporary forms of video practice in political activism.
 

This summer, Harvard offers some very interesting paid internship opportunities surely of interest to many young scholars. See here - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer. 
 

YECREA organises a Young Scholars Workshop as part of the ECREA Symposium “The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage” (organised by the Communication and Democracy – Gender and Communication – YECREA sections) http://www.ecrea.eu/events/about/id/60.