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• 15 nov 2015

  Ottawa

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Director of the School of Information Studies

  Tenure-track position (Associate or Full professor)

  The School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Associate or Full professor in Information Studies. The School is seeking an outstanding scholar in Information Studies to assume responsibilities for the directorship of the School. 

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• 26 fév 2015

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Participatory Media and Moral Panic

  Panel on "Participatory Media and Moral Panic" at the Social Media and Society conference

  The transformation of the media landscape invites us to rethink the dialectic between "media" and "moral panic", by focusing on the ways in which participatory media enables the public’s participation in moral panic. The coproduction of moral panic, via media participation, can be analyzed to document how individuals, through their relational links, trigger, maintain and propagate moral panic or how these forms of moral regulation affect sociability, notably those stigmatized by the controversial subject. This may also allow the study of how mediatization of social relations, stemming from participatory media, leads to renegotiating a number of democratic balances. These include the relationship between private and public spheres as well as the role of publics in constituting collective dynamics, such as the formation of public problems.

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