The mobilities.lab at Lancaster University, UK is seeking a Senior Research Associate to work with an interdisciplinary team to shape socio-technical innovation in crisis response. You would be based in the Sociology Department. Skills needed to carry out qualitative social science research in the context of user-centred interdisciplinary IT design.
Full details can be found [...]
Communications Research in Action. Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere.
Edited by Philip M. Napoli and Minna Aslama
http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?session=9a517884db24da0ba12c2e17a3ea525e&id
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From a post to another mailing list (IAMCR):
“In preparation for the EASA Media Anthropology Network workshop “Critical Perspectives on Media and Social Change”, to be held this 27 May at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, we have invited a number of authors to share their thoughts on media and social [...]
Paul McIlvenny has recently published an article on climate change discourses and mediated action:
McIlvenny, Paul (2009). “Your Light Switch Is Your Vote”: Mediating Discourse and Participation in the ‘Vote Earth’ Campaign to Foster Awareness of Anthropogenic Climate Change. Journal of Applied Linguistics 6(3): 303-332.
Unusually, this publication was backdated to 2009 to appear in [...]
Examining the Relevance of Marx and Marxism to Contemporary Global Society
Newcastle University, 29th and 30th of January 2011
Rationale, Outline and Aims
The 21st century has so far seen US-led military interventions, global financial crises, identity conflicts, terrorism on a grand scale, environmental disasters and fraught industrial/labour relations. These dramatic events have challenged [...]
Paul McIlvenny is Professor (mso) in the field of discourse and society in the English-speaking world.
My personal website.
More official university info.
In our opening seminar we have invited leading scholars to present their perspectives on discourse, communication and transition in contemporary societies.
Date: Wednesday September 28th 2011 Place: Kroghstræde 3, Aalborg University
Guests: Professor Norman Fairclough, Professor Mohan Dutta, Professor Adam Jaworski and others.
The seminar is free and open to all. [...]
Laura Bang Lindegaard is a doctoral student in our Discourse and Contemporary Culture doctoral programme…
New book by Mohan Dutta
By Paul McIlvenny On April 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Readings, Recently Published, Recommended
Professor Mohan Dutta, who will be one of the guests at C-DiT’s opening seminar, has just published a new book:
Dutta, Mohan (2011). Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency. Abingdon: Routledge.
Here is the blurb from the publisher:
Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to [...]
Recent Posts
- Two new journals start this year!
- New book: “Tracking Discourses: Politics, Identity and Social Change”
- Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD), Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012
- Crisis 2: Communicating Crisis in an Age of Complexity, Aarhus, 6-8th October 2011
- A conversation with Transition Network founder Rob Hopkins (hosted by Richard Heinberg)
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