Political Communication

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.

 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.

ASCoR at the University of Amsterdam has an open position for a doctoral researcher. The PhD project is on the topic “Framing Emotions: Developing a Comprehensive Model of Affective News Framing Effects” – more information on the position is available via the link below:
 
http://www.english.uva.nl/vacancies/vacancies.cfm/78EF6B02-5F52-4752-A1C3CE7F932842A2

This summer the Department of Social & Political Studies of the University of Milan will organize the 3rd edition of the International Summer School of “Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour” (16-20 July 2012).  Confirmed lecturers will be Shanto Iyengar, Barbara Pfetsch, Stephen Coleman, Patricia Moy, Kees Brants, Jacques Tomassen, Russell Dalton, Marco Maraffi, Oddbjoern Knutsen.  The opening lecture will be given by Denis McQuail.
 

YECREA section representative - introduction and contact information: Dear all, my name is Melanie Magin and I am a research assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Mainz. My research interests are political communication, media systems, comparative research, and media entertainment. In December 2011, I finished my PhD on campaign coverage in Germany and Austria from 1949 to 2006.
 

The annual conference of the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica (Italian Political Communication Association) will take place in Perugia the 28th and 29th of October 2011 at the University of Perugia, Dipartimento Istituzioni e Società.
More info: http://www.compol.it/

For questions about this position, please contact me best by phone on +4618 471 1019 or make a Skype appointment.Christian Fuchs* * *http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser/2206postDoc.htmlUppsala University hereby declares the following position to be open forapplication:

RC10 - International Political Science Association workshop on "Electronic Direct Democracy"
Congress of the Slovenian Association of Political Science
Portoroz (Slovenia), 2-4 June 2011