Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

The Joan Shorenstein Center offers a one-semester fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Fellows are domestic or international journalists, scholars and/or policymakers who are interested in the influence of the press on public policy and politics.

The fellowships offer a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise in a collegial and intellectually stimulating environment. Fellows participate in weekly seminars with scholars, a luncheon speakers series with invited journalists or policymakers and in other organized programs of the Shorenstein Center and Harvard University. The Fellowship Program is not a degree or journalism training program.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2012

Please review the following website for more information: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/fellowships/fellowship_application.html

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics and Media - University of Glasgow


The School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) is looking to recruit a full-time Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Politics and Media. The person will undertake high-quality research in Politics and Media, ideally, although not necessarily, with an emphasis on international and/or comparative politics; teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the School of Social and Political Sciences, and undertake administration as required by the Head of School.

The post is full time and open ended. The closing date for applications is January 15th.

For more information and online application, please go to: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADN966/lecturer

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Position Announcement: Fordham University

Fordham University
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Chair/Full Professor, or Advanced Associate Professor

Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York, invites applications for Full Professor (or advanced Associate Professor) and Chair of its Department of Communication and Media Studies. The position requires a Ph.D. in communication, media studies, or related area, and national recognition in scholarship.

The ideal candidate will
• have at least 3 years experience as department chair or equivalent
• be a dynamic leader who can effectively represent the multifaceted, interdisciplinary department within the university, with alumni, community, and media industries
• be capable of leading a unit maintaining undergraduate programs on two campuses, as well as a graduate program in Public Communications
• support colleagues’ intellectual and professional development
• maintain an open, encouraging, and inclusive environment for students, staff, and faculty
• exhibit excellence and passion for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels
• demonstrate a commitment to arts and sciences education
• show evidence of an ongoing program of scholarship that has earned national recognition within the field
• be able to contribute with distinction to one or more of the following curricular areas: Ethics, Law, and Policy; Media, Culture, and Society; Journalism; Broadcasting; Film; New/Participatory Media; or Public Communications
• have a track record of fund raising and grant writing.

Faculty in the Department of Communication and Media Studies represent a wide range of academic backgrounds, scholarly and professional interests. Serving a large number of undergraduate majors, the department offers programs in Fordham College at Rose Hill (Bronx), Fordham College at Lincoln Center (Manhattan), and the College of Continuing and Professional Studies. The department’s MA program in Public Communications is offered through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The chair appoints three associate chairs from among the faculty, two focusing on undergraduate studies, and one serving as graduate director. The department chair sits “ex officio” on the McGannon Communication Research Center Board. The department also maintains the Walsh Digital Media Lab on the Rose Hill campus.

Located in New York, Fordham is ideally situated for the study of media, benefiting from the city’s vast resources. Media professionals are available for lectures, workshops, and as adjunct professors. Students may access a wide range of professional internships.

With over 14,500 students, Fordham's Carnegie classification is Research University (High Research Activity). In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked Fordham's undergraduate program 53rd, placing it among the Tier 1 national universities, and the editors of Kaplan/Newsweek's 2008 edition of How to Get Into College Guide included Fordham University as one of the "25 Hottest Schools in America.” Fordham offers its students a highly dedicated faculty, a heady intellectual atmosphere, emphasis on ethics and social justice, and respect for all individuals, religions, cultures, and creeds.

Submit application electronically to cms@fordham.edu. Include (1) cover letter with qualifications, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) brief vision statement with leadership style, (4) sample scholarship, and (5) names and contact information for at least three references. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2011 and continue until filled. Position available August 1, 2012. With inquiries, contact Tom McCourt, Ph.D., Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458. Fordham is an independent, Catholic University in the Jesuit tradition that welcomes applications from men and women of all backgrounds. Fordham is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Call for Papers: International Conference

"Discourse / Conversation / Communication", International conference, Loughborough University, UK, 21-23 March 2012


Confirmed plenary speakers: Michael Billig, David Buckingham, David Deacon, Paul Drew, Derek Edwards, Peter Golding, Jim McGuigan, Angela McRobbie, Graham Murdock, Michael Pickering, Jonathan Potter, Teun A. Van Dijk, Liesbet Van Zoonen.

CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions for individual papers that engage with empirical and theoretical topics in communication studies, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, media studies, social interaction, or cultural studies. Preference will be given to papers that address in original ways the promises and challenges or research in these areas.

Possible topics include:
* cultural economies and media industries
* popular culture and cultural history
* identity, difference and communication
* political communication
* communication and social exclusion
* media and religion
* memory and media
* comparative media research
* political and nationalist discourse
* discursive psychology
* membership categorization analysis
* conversation analysis

Abstracts should be up to 350 words in length and written in English. Only one abstract as single / first author will be accepted from any one individual.

Please submit your Abstract via Loughborough University's Conference Administration page: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/DCconf2012/DC2012home.html .

Deadline for Abstracts: 1st December, 2011.

V Latin American WAPOR Congress

"Public Opinion, Polarization and Citizenship"
Bogotá, Colombia
September 19-21, 2012

Facultad de Comunicación Social – Periodismo
Universidad Externado de Colombia

The organizers of the V Latin American WAPOR congress are happy to announce that the call for papers for the next congress is available on the WAPOR website:
http://wapor.unl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/WAPOR_Bogota_CFP_english.pdf

The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012. All inquiries should be directed to Hernando Rojas (hrojas@wisc.edu).

Entman Wins Prestigious Humboldt Prize

Entman is World’s First Political Communications Scholar to Receive Award

Robert Entman, J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs and professor of international affairs at the George Washington University, has won the prestigious international Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for his field-changing contributions to political communication. Dr. Entman is the world’s first political communication scholar and the first from George Washington University to receive this award, and he will work at the Free University of Berlin for the majority of 2012. While in Germany, he will conduct comparative research in order to better understand how inequality has grown faster in the United States than in Western Europe.

"I am delighted to be the first Humboldt Award recipient recognized for contributions to political communication scholarship," said Dr. Entman. "I appreciate this acknowledgment of the media’s fundamental role in shaping politics and democracy."

Dr. Entman’s award-winning research focuses on media framing and bias and the media’s influence on foreign policy, race relations and other important areas of American politics. His 1993 conceptualization of framing has been cited in thousands of scholarly works. Dr. Entman will release a new book in March 2012 entitled Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct. Using a series of recent case studies, he argues against the commonly-held view that media eagerly work themselves into "feeding frenzies" over sex scandals and other wrong-doings by top politicians.

Read more: http://smpa.gwu.edu/news/articles/238

Friday, November 4, 2011

Carey McWilliams Award Nominations

The Carey McWilliams Award Committee solicits nominations for the 2012 Carey McWilliams Award. The McWilliams Award was established by APSA to recognize a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics and to emphasize the ties between journalism and political science. Previous winners have included Jim Lehrer, Robert McNeil, Michael Barone, Nina Totenberg, Thomas Byrne Edsall, E.J. Dionne, Alan Ehrenhalt, Victor Navasky, William Kristol, Bill Moyers, Mark Danner, and Ronald Brownstein. The 2011 McWilliams Award recipient was Robert Fisk, The Independent.

Nominations may be submitted to any members of the committee:
Sarah Binder (chair) binder@gwu.edu
Marion Just must@wellesley.edu
Regina Lawrence regina.lawrence@austin.utexas.edu