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/...

Using critique of post-digitality, Claes discusses the role of digital artefacts in acceleration, alienation & 'deterritorialization' (Deleuze) - calls for more dichotomous digital & communication artefacts that create public & individual resonance and resist hegemonic logic of technological tools

Next on @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day is the fab Claes Thoren discussing his fascinating work on "Resonance in an accelerating world: Understanding the emergence and characteristics of post-digital artifacts"

Peter looks at 'knowledge orders' established by transformation surrounding arrival of new/online and esp. social media, points to e.g. political challenges of undermining/questioning knowledge as strategy creating further affordances for, inter alia, conspiracy theories, climate change denial etc.

After fab Lucia break a.k.a. 'Fika' we are resuming the fabulous presentations at annual @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day - with our great Peter Jakobsson now speaking abt "News media as epistemic intermediaries: How has the epistemic practices of journalism changed in age of social media?"

V. interesting discursive shifts presented in Matilda Tudor's fascinating analysis - shifting discourse from ambiguity too apparent (dis)ambiguity constructed despite controversies around MAA persisting and its politicisation increasing

Matilda's paper does CDS of media contestation of MAA (medical age assessment procedures) used in asylum applications of unaccompanied minors in SE in immediate post-Refugee-Crisis period of 2015-17; looks at biometrics as ideological technology from a lived experience & public discourse perspective

Next on at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Away Day is Matilda Tudor with her brilliant and much needed work on "The truth and nothing but the truth: Discourses of datafication in medical age assessment debates"

BTW: Alexandra's paper has now been published in the TMG Journal of Media History and is available here: tmgonline.nl/articles/10....

Alexandra points to fascinating dynamics of Bulgarian media landscape post-1989 - when during post-communist transition mis-representations of technology emerged & were recontextualised to eventually hegemonically contest convergence/divergence of Bulgarian media vis-a-vis 'Western' models

First on at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Away Day is the great Alexandra Brankova speaking about "Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West"

So today is the research highlight of the year here @uumediacomms.bsky.social - as in cold Uppsala lit by Lucia-day we are having our Research Away Day! We will be posting live updates & info throughout the day here on our new Bluesky account! Do stay tuned!

📢 CfP: Join us for the #ICA 2025 Pre-conference: Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in Times of Social Change on June 11, 2025, at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA! Please check our full CfP and spread the word: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o... #ICA2025 #VisualCommunication 1/2

Honoured to have our article on the intersections of the biopolitical and geopolitical in the UK's post-Brexit #migration regime in the 60th anniversary special issue of International Migration Review @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and I are in great company 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/toc/mrxa/58/4

Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Looking forward to this presentation next week for the @ecpr.bsky.social SG on the #EuropeanUnion, December 10th Hope to see you many of you there, with thanks to both the #ECPR and @nathaliebrack.bsky.social #EUsky #gendersky ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

💻 | NEW BLOG POST Jorge Ramos-González discusses why he wrote his JLP article on populism and contingency, and explains the key takeaways: bit.ly/4fS7dwO

So we are happily on Bluesky now - and will be posting here all the exciting news about our UU Media & Communications programme and in particular our research! Please follow us for regular updates & info!