OA in Journal of Communication: High prevalence of mental health issues among media and communication researchers. ECRs and non-permanent employees are particularly vulnerable. Publication pressure is no 1 concern.
Antonia Markiewitz Henrik Bodker
#AcademicTwitter

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Internet Histories - Call for papers
(Second posting)

For special issue: Reassembling the Computer Networks of Eastern and Central Europe

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

Abstracts due date: 2 April

#webarchiving

Join our team! We are looking for a researcher dedicated to health/science communication for a 4-year-postdoc-position at #ifkw_lmu .

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/917…

Fantastic postdoctoral opportunity on 'Journalism education beyond Chat GPT' at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway: oslomet.no/en/work/job-op… Sheffield Journalism JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni

My article with Sandra Simonsen on Danish online weather is out. Reviewer 1 wrote: “A fascinating and unusual study that offers an original and compelling insight into the ways in which weather reporting feeds into news narratives about climate change”. doi.org/10.1177/016344…

Lynge Asbjørn Møller defending his PhD titled ‘when Algorithms select the news’ with Jannie Møller Hartley, Seth C. Lewis and Henrik Bodker in the assessment committee #proudsupervisor (with Aske Kammer @ Bluesky and Mastodon)

Join us for the Inaugural NordJour Seminar focusing on Journalism amid Climate Change on October 12th, from 4.00 to 5.30 pm CET, its hybrid and Prof Andreas Ytterstad and prof Annika Egen Sjölander, will present, Henrik Bodker will respond #NordJourSeminars (link in comment)

Scott A E II Closing off the conference with a really interesting presentation on counter-journalistic discourses!

Presenting now, Scott A E II on how the media across the political spectrum construct their public in a fragmented society, pointing to four categories or discourses: affirm, affect, aggrieve, (ant)agonistic.

A very good presentation by Ingebjørg S. Larsen, who has investigated how Norwegian critics have negotiated emotion in their evaluation of music. #FoJ2023

18 years and still going! The three of us (zvi reich Henrik Bodker) have attended every single Future of Journalism conference #foj2023 Photo credit Dr. Jennifer Henrichsen, PhD

At #FOJ2023 Johanna Klapproth gives an interesting talk on climate crisis depictions within general journalism and various counterpublics.

At #FoJ2023 the coming days; nice to start the paper sessions with a reflection on seasons, and seasonal journalism, and the ways journalism talks about climate change within seasonal journalism by ⁦Henrik Bodker⁩

Faster, Higher, Stronger: Mental Health Among Communication and Media Scholars

#IAMCR2023 special panel on #academic #mentalhealth discussing findings/implications from a survey of 1028 researchers. With Antonia Markiewitz Gerard Goggin Steph Hill Fiona R Martin

IAMCR #IAMCR23

Report is out! Results of our mental health survey of 1028 media and communication researchers.

Overall picture: not so good news; action required.
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#mentalhealth #academia #academictwitter Academic Chatter™

2/2 'More than 1 in 5 postdocs show signs of moderate to severe clinical depression, which is almost three times higher than the general German population of the same age.' (Max Planck PostdocNet Survey Report 2022, June 6, 2023)
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For those of you interested in #mentalhealth in #academia , here are two recent must-reads:

1/2 'A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame' (Nature 617, 666-668, May 25, 2023)
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Indeed a vey good panel discussing how environmental subjects are constructed by journalism. The panel also featured: Juliet Pinto, Andreas Ytterstad, Shane Gunster.

The #ica23 panel 'What Constitutes an 'Authentic' Journalism History?' had prominent people and good points. Not discussed, however, was the implicit but pervasive pressure of comparativity coercing everybody else to tell their histories through the 'authentic' US experience.

Once more for the slow people at the back: ain’t no such thing as echo chambers. Or filter bubbles. How are we still talking about these bullshit concepts ? #ICA23