We are hiring @uumediacomms.bsky.social - a PhD Position in Media & Communications. Application Deadline 29 May 2026. More info & details: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We were truly delighted & honoured @uumediacomms.bsky.social to be able to host Prof. Bart Cammaerts from @lsemedia.bsky.social who delivered the brilliant 2026 IM Distinguished Lecture „Seeing is Believing? Four Country Comparative Study of Visual Misinformation in Election Campaigns”

Huge congrats to Pedro Camelo who today successfully defended his PhD @uumediacomms.bsky.social with a PhD Thesis on „The Discursive Construction of Brazilian Far Right: Media Discourses, (Accounts of) Journalistic Practice & Normalisation”! Congrats on superb work & a great PhD defence performance!

Published as part of a special issue of Social Semiotics co-edited by @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @jensrydgren.bsky.social and Natalia Krzyżanowska - on the far right's "conceptual flipsiding" of liberal democratic signifiers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social and Natalia Krzyznanowska. Papers by Ruth Wodak, @pawelkarolewski.bsky.social, @thomasdiez.bsky.social, @sean-phelan.bsky.social, @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, @elgenius.bsky.social, Hannah Bradby, and Michal, Natalia, and myself.

Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @emiliapalonen.bsky.social @burscott.bsky.social @benrosamond1.bsky.social @bforchtner.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social @uumediacomms.bsky.social @goranbolin.bsky.social @kranertmichael.bsky.social @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @emiliapalonen.bsky.social @burscott.bsky.social @benrosamond1.bsky.social @bforchtner.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social @uumediacomms.bsky.social @goranbolin.bsky.social @kranertmichael.bsky.social @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @dgalasinski.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social @onachtwey.bsky.social @joshshepperd.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social @samtbennett.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @dgalasinski.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social @onachtwey.bsky.social @joshshepperd.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social @samtbennett.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @aurelmondon.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @alessandronai.bsky.social @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @annagbusse.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social @frankstengel.com @jfarkas.bsky.social @drspguerra.bsky.social @gavant.bsky.social @illsp.bsky.social

Hopefully of interest! @aurelmondon.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @alessandronai.bsky.social @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @annagbusse.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social @frankstengel.com @jfarkas.bsky.social @drspguerra.bsky.social @gavant.bsky.social @illsp.bsky.social

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Live stream link www.youtube.com/live/DVVq7I9...

Juz dziś startuje kolejna edycja dorocznego spotkania Concilium Civitas (conciliumcivitas.pl), która w 2025r. odbywa się pod hasłem ‚Nasz dziwny, nowy świat’!

Thank you so much for your very kind words and again for having me over at DNC6 Congress - truly appreciated! @discoursenet.bsky.social @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @engage-uclouvain.bsky.social

Delighted to be plenary speaker at the @discoursenet.bsky.social DNC6 earlier today with my talk on ‘Retrotopias & Past-to-Future Dis/Continuities: Temporal Scales in Normalisation of Illiberal & Neoliberal Discourse’. Million thanks for great discussion & for having me @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

Delighted to be part of this @critdiscstuds.bsky.social SI dedicated to work of Phil Graham! We contributed with a paper (written jointly w. D.Johnson & H.Ekström) on ‘proxy discourses’ in contemporary illiberal, exclusionary reframing of the imaginary of society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We would like to remind you to our DNC6 (7-10.7.2025) conference taking place in Brussels next year! Please apply and join us for science & networking in these challenging times! Also, if you miss tomorrow, but really want to make it, you always can write organisers an email (after 6 months).

This is happening today, @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social is about to start his talk

What does Freedom of Movement really mean? FOM@PLAY IT National Event, 21/05, 0900, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Naples. Keynotes: M. Krzyżanowski, Uppsala University @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social & F. Zappettini, La Sapienza University, Rome, @francozappettini.bsky.social Info: www.unior.it/it/eventi/fo...

V.much looking forward to this fab TaalX event of the NL Graduate School in Linguistics at RUG! Please join us online and/or in person! Thank you so much for organising @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & looking forward to our discussions @veronikakoller.bsky.social cc @uumediacomms.bsky.social

Delighted representing @uumediacomms.bsky.social during two fab days of great presentations & discussions at the annual TRAIN Meeting of Swedish Media & Comms PhD Programmes - with many thx to fantastic colleagues from Jönköping University for fab organization!

Great turnout at the @uumediacomms.bsky.social PhD defence today by our own @emmaronngren.bsky.social defending her Thesis ”Making Sense of Russian Strategic Narratives: Affect & Reception Among Young Russian Speakers in Latvia” w. @goranbolin.bsky.social as opponent, info www.uu.se/en/events/de...

"This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment." qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... @qmucu.bsky.social

In #Germany, a watershed moment: Just hours after commemorating the Holocaust, the centre-right has accepted the support of the #farright #AfD to pass a (largely symbolic) motion against immigration, tearing a massive hole into the so-called 'firewall', Germany's variety of the cordon sanitaire.

Join us for the Reading Concordances Symposium and Training Day in Erlangen, 19-21 March, 2025! We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session. See here for more: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-conc...

Two Assoc. Senior Lecturer positions in Information Systems are advertised at School of Informatics & Media, Uppsala University, SE - one post based at UU Main Campus Uppsala & one at UU Campus Gotland in Visby. Uppsala: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Visby: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Please re-post!

Konkurs Młode Concilium to szansa dla maturzystów na zdobycie stypendium w jednej z prestiżowych polskich uczelni niepublicznych. Jeśli znacie maturzystę z dobrym piórem, koniecznie powiedzcie jej/mu proszę o konkursie!

This #HMD we are launching a new online platform allowing readers around the world digital access to many of our most important collections. Wiener Digital Collections’ state-of-the-art viewer will create an important tool for Holocaust research and education, and for combatting antisemitism...

Job: Digital Mediation of Historical Knowledge Sharing the new position at @universitedeliege.bsky.social Université de Liège (Belgium) www.uliege.be/upload/docs/... #PublicHistory #Digital #Mediation

We are now accepting proposal submissions for the 2025 ASEEES Annual Convention! https://buff.ly/3DTTRC7 The 2025 theme is Memory. The 2025 Annual Convention will also offer a Spotlight on Central Asian Studies. We encourage proposals on both topics in all disciplines. DEADLINE: March 1 #ASEEES25

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

Happy to have this out! New article in @identitiesjournal.bsky.social which examines how work on far right ‘mainstreaming’ can sometimes paradoxically exceptionalise the far right even as it attempts to explain how it has become un-exceptional. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It is a wrap for another fab @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day! Million thx to all colleagues for attending, commenting & sharing all grand work! @emmaronngren.bsky.social @jakobssonp.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @kajsaklein.bsky.social @mediamartin.bsky.social @pedrobic.bsky.social

Jacek's fascinating work covers history & present of devices producing/re-producing voices & their social relevance; highlights challenges created by contemporary voice-catching & 'listening-in' technologies often led by hegemonic control logic; looks into artistic practice as voices of resistance

Last - but certainly not least - at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Day is the presentation by the one and only Jacek Smolicki speaking about his fab work on "Voices as relations: Artistic explorations into voice capturing technologies"

Analysing HE as public institutions, Daniel explores civic epistemologies of a 'Nordic' strategic comms model/logic inquiring into pre/disposition & tendency to perceive/define/conceptualise & use strategic communication in specific way/s, treats de/commodification of strategic comms as central

Next on @uumediacomms.bsky.social grand annual Research Day is the one and only Daniel Lövgren speaking about his fab work on "Epistemologies of Communication in Nordic Universities: A Study of (Strategic) Communication Professionals"

Much needed work indeed by @emmaronngren.bsky.social & Göran Svensson - v relevant to @goranbolin.bsky.social & other great colleagues working on return of propaganda paradigm; calls for further analysis of not only taken-4-granted meanings but also 'conceptual flipsiding' of propaganda as concept

In their paper, @emmaronngren.bsky.social & Göran discuss concept of 'propaganda' while looking into its historical and still persistent relevance and viability - but while also questioning possibilities for its potential abandonment due to complexity of contemporary media & communication realities

Next @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day we are moving to the fabulous @emmaronngren.bsky.social & Göran Svensson speaking about their fascinating work on "Propaganda and International Communication: Conceptual challenges and transformations in times of information disorder and war"

The results of this analysis have just been published in a paper by Johan Jansson & Claes Thorén in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...