Tips & Tricks

EU studies in Brussels

Located in the centre of Brussels, cloth to the European institutions, IHECS (Institut des Hautes Études des Communications Sociales), offers two specialised EU Masters of one year long:  the Executive Master in Communication and European affairs (50% in French, 50% in English), crossing the trades of European communication and European policy and the

Launch of "No Such" research website

Companion website: "There's No Such Thing as Society"? Broadcasting, the NHS and 'the
public'

The "No Such" research website (http://www.nosuch-research.co.uk/) is part of a study of
broadcasting and the public services under the three Thatcher governments, 1979-1992.
This two year research project (January 2008-January 2010) funded by the Arts and

cited and citing environments for all journals

On http://vks2.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/ahci/browse.html, one can browse
the cited and citing environments for all journals included in the Arts and
Humanities Citation Index. The journal maps are based on the normalized
citation patterns, without thresholds, and using the algorithm of Kamada &
Kawai (1989) in Pajek for the visualization.

R@dio in Congress online

Follow the R@dio in Congress online
Listen to the debates in our site
http://www.radioemcongresso.com/

Check the updates in Facebook

ECPR Internet & Politics: Mailing List Announcement

This is a short note to let you know that the Internet and Politics Standing Group of the ECPR - European Consortium of Political Science Research - has started its Mailing List.

Please feel free to subscribe the ML here: http://groups.google.com/group/ipoliticsecpr

European eID Observatory: The Pan-European meeting place for eID

We (European Dynamics, S.A.) take this opportunity to welcome you to join the European eID Observatory (EUReID).

Radio Project CfProposals: Radio, Convergence and Development in Africa

Radio, Convergence and Development in Africa

Call for concept notes - Deadline January 8, 2010
Carleton University's Centre for Media and Transitional Societies (CMTS), in
collaboration with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is pleased
to launch a call for concept notes, in French or English, outlining proposed research
examining the impact of convergence between traditional radio and new information and
communications technologies (ICTs) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Professionalization Website

Since 1999, I have been maintaining a collection of web pages that provides links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find the materials useful as well.  In recent years, I have added material on other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so.  You can find it at:

Sharing and finding presentations online

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I haven't really got time to post a lot on the section Tips and Tricks lately but today I found a nice plug-in that should be of some interest. I still got to create a special page about Slideshare in the YECREA Knowledge base but I will anticipate here and explain shortly what it is about. It is accurately described in Crunchbase :

First in series on Tips & Tricks for scholars: RSS feeds"

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Following the first effort of Emerging scholar stuff (archive availlable at here) I propose to contribute to YECREA's website by feeding a new category of content: Tips & Tricks. I argue that young scholars are provided nowadays with a huge number of tools and services that might greatly improve their daily tasks but because of the lack of time, most of them don't take the time to discover them. Well, I'll do for you guys ;-). As first input to this new category I propose here a re-publication of one the important posts of ESS blog: "Emerging Scholars need a RSS reader
As scholars use the internet as major (unique?) access tool to information and a means of communication for a significant amount of time, lots of stuff have occurred and help them in their daily activities. The evolution of recent years has increased the number of channels and sources of information and the struggle to manage them has grown more and more. This statement is neither new nor path-breaking but it was the greatest basis of the creation of this blog. Among all stuff suggested here, this one is the most important: emerging scholar need...a feed reader.

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