Dear Colleagues, We would appreciate it if you could disseminate this call to any interested PhD students. It promises to be a lovely and engaging retreat in a beautiful location with fantastic scholars! PhD School on ‘Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics’, call for applications Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences will be organising a PhD Spring School on ‘Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics’, held in beautiful Cortona, Tuscany, from May 29-June 1. We are accepting applications from students worldwide enrolled in PhD programs in the fields of social and political sciences and related disciplines . There will be no fees. Accommodation will be provided at reasonable cost in Cortona Confirmed speakers: Alice Mattoni, University of Bologna Suay Melisa Özkula, University of Salzburg Ofra Klein, University of Rotterdam Manuela Caiani, SNS Hans-Joerg Trenz, SNS More information about the school and on how to apply: https://www.sns.it/it/evento/summer-school-visual-analysis-contentious-polit... -- [I support fair work & do not expect colleagues to read or respond to emails after-hours, during weekends, outside of their part-time allocation, or during strike periods] Dr. Suay Melisa Özkula Post-doctoral Researcher Abtlg. Center for ICT&S Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 | 5020 Salzburg | Österreich/Austria https://www.kowi-salzburg.at/team/oezkula-suay/ Recent work: MSCA project "DIGI-EMP"<https://www.sis.unitn.it/2753/international-experiences-of-digital-empowerment-in-a-climate-justice-frame> https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/the-visual-methods-collective/ Özkula, S. M. , Prieto-Blanco, P., Tan, X., & Mdege, N. (2024) Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: a call for feminist approaches in visual methods, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/<https://doi.org/1:10.1080/14680777.2024.2311355>1<https://doi.org/1:10.1080/14680777.2024.2311355>:10.1080/14680777.2024.2311355<https://doi.org/1:10.1080/14680777.2024.2311355> <https://doi.org/1:10.1080/14680777.2024.2311355> Özkula, S. M. 2023. “The Vulnerability Triad: New Considerations for Ethics and Risk Identification in Ambiguous and Antagonistic Digital Spaces.” Comunicazioni Sociali, 2, 152-166, https://doi.org/<https://doi.org/10.26350/001200_000182>10.26350/001200_000182 <https://doi.org/10.26350/001200_000182> Kirby, D., & Özkula, S. M. (2023). The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779231172788 Özkula, S. M., Lompe, M., Vespa, M., Sørensen, E., & Zhao, T. (2022). When URLs on social networks become invisible: Bias and social media logics in a cross-platform hyperlink study. First Monday, 27(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i6.12568 Özkula, S. M., Reilly, P. J., & Hayes, J. (2022). Easy data, same old platforms? A systematic review of digital activism methodologies. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/<https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918>10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918<https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918> ________________________________ From: Özkula Suay <suay.oezkula@plus.ac.at> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 5:29 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Call for applications: PhD School on Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics" Dear Colleagues, We would appreciate it if you could disseminate this call to any interested PhD students. It promises to be a lovely and engaging retreat in a beautiful location with fantastic scholars! PhD School on ‘Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics’, call for applications Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences will be organising a PhD Spring School on ‘Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics’, held in beautiful Cortona, Tuscany, from May 29-June 1. We are accepting applications from students worldwide enrolled in PhD programs in the fields of social and political sciences and related disciplines . There will be no fees. Accommodation will be provided at reasonable cost in Cortona Confirmed speakers: Alice Mattoni, University of Bologna Suay Melisa Özkula, University of Salzburg Ofra Klein, University of Rotterdam Manuela Caiani, SNS Hans-Joerg Trenz, SNS More information about the school and on how to apply: https://www.sns.it/it/evento/summer-school-visual-analysis-contentious-polit... -- [I support fair work & do not expect colleagues to read or respond to emails after-hours, during weekends, outside of their part-time allocation, or during strike periods] Dr. Suay Melisa Özkula Post-doctoral Researcher Abtlg. Center for ICT&S Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 | 5020 Salzburg | Österreich https://www.kowi-salzburg.at/team/oezkula-suay/ Recent work: MSCA project lead "DIGI-EMP"<https://www.sis.unitn.it/2753/international-experiences-of-digital-empowerment-in-a-climate-justice-frame> https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/the-visual-methods-collective/ Özkula, Suay M. 2023. “The Vulnerability Triad: New Considerations for Ethics and Risk Identification in Ambiguous and Antagonistic Digital Spaces.” Comunicazioni Sociali, 2, 152-166, https://doi.org/<https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779231172788>10.26350/001200_000182<https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779231172788> Kirby, D., & Özkula, S. M. (2023). The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779231172788 Özkula, S. M., Lompe, M., Vespa, M., Sørensen, E., & Zhao, T. (2022). When URLs on social networks become invisible: Bias and social media logics in a cross-platform hyperlink study. First Monday, 27(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i6.12568 Özkula, S. M., Reilly, P. J., & Hayes, J. (2022). Easy data, same old platforms? A systematic review of digital activism methodologies. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/<https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918>10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918<https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918>