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FEJS needs our help to reach Journalism students in EJTA member schools

We are reaching out to you with good news: Forum for European Journalism Students, FEJS, is activating it’s operations and network again! FEJS’s is organizing an Annual Conference in Ljubljana in April 2023! Since there have been couple of silent years because of Pandemic FEJS needs our help in EJTA schools to reach journalism students all over Europe to be invited to the to the AC. There is now only four students coming to the event outside Slovenia.

What we would like you to do is:

Most important and urgent: Please send the invitation: ac23.fejs.info. The call for applications has been extended until 20th March and this will be updated to the page soon. But we would like you to hurry up with this news.
FEJS also asks us to courage students to offer themselves working in the future board, which they hope to be elected during the AC. The contact person is FEJS International Secretary General Vlad Khodakovsky: fejssec@gmail.com

For this year‘s general theme of the congress, FEJS have chosen a very relevant and, unfortunately, also extremely current topic in the world of journalism. The event has a title „The Fearless Press“ with an additional slogan: „Journalists unfettered, reporting safe and better“. Journalists face a range of risks and dangers while carrying out their work, especially in conflict zones, authoritarian regimes, and areas where there is social unrest. They are exposed to physical violence, threats, harassment, detention, and even assassination.

Digital Platforms and Democracy: Journalism and Political Communication in a World of Polycrisis

Athens, Greece - November 3-5 2023

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for presentations at the forthcoming international conference entitled "Digital Platforms and Democracy: Journalism and Political Communication in a World of Polycrisis", which will be held in November 3-5, 2023, in Athens, Greece.

https://amiretreat2023.advancedmediainstitute.com/about/

February 23: “Conflict Reporting and the Russia-Ukraine War”

The Media Diversity Institute invites you and your students to MDI’s webinar “Conflict Reporting and the Russia-Ukraine War” which is taking place on 23 February at 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET. The event is moderated by MDI’s Dasha Ilic and speakers are: Artyom Liss, Elena Kostychenko, Aidan White.

For more information and to register please follow this link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dc399c9e-d9aa-4fbf-bd09-c7be352f741a@a8c4fe97-c8a9-48a0-96e7-1475c142767c

February 23: International Symposium “Reclaiming the Digital Information Space”

The Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) organize the second annual international symposium, "Reclaiming the Digital Information Space," within the USAID Media Literacy project "YouThink.” The event will be held on February 23 (Thursday), 2023 starting at 09:30 am (CEST).

The event will feature speakers such as Irene Andriopoulou, Co-Secretary General of the International Steering Committee for UNESCO Media & Information Literacy Alliance, Paolo Celot, Founding member and Secretary General of EAVI, Jeff Share, Lecturer and Educator at UCLA, and Damaso Reyes, News Literacy Project’s International Consultant – who will discuss different approaches to studying key media literacy issues, how media literacy impacts society, as well as the role of media literacy in promoting civic engagement and digital citizenship.
Registration

Register at the following link no later than February 20 (Monday) via the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NGecmVcoTAmEh6bpbf6zqA

The symposium is held as part of the USAID’s project on media literacy YouThink, implemented by IREX together with the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM), the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS), and the Youth Educational Forum (YEF). YouThink activities are made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Feel free to contact bojang@iks.edu.mk and maksentievska@iks.edu.mk for more information.

CALL PROJECT GHENT

Research project about audience metrics by Artevelde University of Applied Sciences Ghent

A year ago, some of you attended a workshop on a research project about audience metrics, conducted by Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (UAS), during the EJTA Conference in Aarhus. As those present at the time remember, Artevelde UAS is working on an educational tool to broaden journalists’ knowledge on audience metrics, such as pageviews, time on page, and scroll length. That tool also aims to stimulate the debate about journalists’ use of this type of data.

The research project has recently entered its final phase. Now, the research team is developing a workshop on audience metrics while simultaneously working on a ‘debate game’ about audience metrics through the use of an iterative process (in which the team tests their idea with end users in order to gain feedback, after which the feedback is used to ameliorate the end product).

For those who are interested, the researchers are more than willing to provide an update in which you will be given more details on the workshop, the game, the process, etc.

Feel free to get in touch with the project manager, Tomas Ooms (tomas.ooms@arteveldehs.be).

EJTA PARTICIPES IN NEW EUROPEAN PROJECT

Under the coordination of The Institute of Journalism in Dortmund, EJTA is cooperating in the creation of an online course on EU cohesion policy. The project is funded by the European Commission with one million euros and is entitled "Covering Cohesion Policy in Europe - Training MOOC for European Journalism Students" (COPE). All universities that train journalists at Bachelor level will have access to the teaching material in the future. The special feature: in addition to English, the course content will also be offered in the respective national language. The project was launched in January at the kick-off event in the Erich Brost House in Dortmund.

COPE aims to provide teaching content on covering EU cohesion policy - policies designed to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is what a course of this size is called. The project partners are jointly creating such an online course with 14 modules in English, which will then be translated into the national languages of the European Union. In early 2024, the online course will be tested by journalism students at all 27 universities involved in the project. Most of these journalism institutes are a member of EJTA. Read more here.

January 26-27: Research seminar of the Hungarian Digital Media Observatory

The research seminar of the Hungarian Digital Media Observatory, a European Commission funded project hosted by Agence France Presse and with the collaboration of the news organisation 444/Magyar Jeti Zrt and the Media Universalis Foundation, aims at addressing the content and contours of the disinformation ecosystem, based on empirical research in the field. The event concludes the EU-funded Lakmusz.hu project’s first segment with the involvement of a small but strong cohort of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers from across Europe. More information can be found here.

Call for abstracts for KAIROS: Journal in Media and Communications

EJTA member Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) from Skopje, Macedonia, has recently published a call for abstracts under the second edition of KAIROS – Media and Communications Review.

KAIROS is an international and open-access journal focused on the academic reflection of media and information literacy issues, media education, critical thinking, digital media, and new trends in media and communication studies. It promotes the exchange of knowledge and ideas between teachers, academics, researchers, students, and other professionals in the field of media and communications.

The journal will be devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to the interdisciplinary academic discussion, the results of empirical research, and the mutual interaction of expertise in media and information studies, media education, as well as their sociological, psychological, political, linguistic, and technological aspects.

Apart from these areas, the publisher will consider other interesting articles and contributions offering new perspectives and solutions relevant to media, communications, education, strategic management, and business.

All articles in KAIROS are double-blind reviewed. Internationally renowned experts from the academic and research community are involved in the process of anonymous double-blind reviews.

You can find more information about the call for abstracts and how you can submit your proposals on their website.

Results Erasmus+ project ERUM (Enhancing Research Understanding through Media)

The ERUM learning modules that are now accessible as Open Educational Resource via https://erum.uni-foundation.eu/:These focus on issues related to mis- and disinformation and allow for an integration into diverse fields of study – journalism included. The learning modules address controversially discussed topics that are prone to false information (such as migration, 5G or global warming), provide general knowledge in relation to “fake news”, conspiracy myths and science communication as well as methodological know-how when it comes to visual analysis, reporting on scientific issues or audiences of scientific information. Further information is available here.

The lessons learnt, the insights gathered, and the resources produced within the ERUM project have been transformed into a set of actionable policy recommendations to tackle mis/disinformation and foster information literacy as well as scientific literacy. The recommendations target policy makers, higher education institutions and media organisations and present multiple levels of actions that can be addressed by these groups. Further information is available here.

New International Scientific Journal in Media and Communications

EJTA member, the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) from Skopje, Macedonia, has recently published the first volume of KAIROS – Media and Communications Review.

The journal will be devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to the interdisciplinary academic discussion, the results of empirical research, and the mutual interaction of expertise in media and information studies, media education as well as their sociological, psychological, political, linguistic, and technological aspects.

All articles in KAIROS are double-blind reviewed. Internationally renowned experts from the academic and research community are involved in the process of anonymous double-blind reviews.

KAIROS will be published at least two times per year, so be on the lookout for the next call for abstracts in September 2022.

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