Apply for International Winter School (IWS) on “Media in Wartime” – Sixth Round

 Deadline Date: June 30, 2024

 Donor Name: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS)

 Grant Size: Not Available

https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/winter-school-6th-round-2025/Pages/index.aspx

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) is now accepting applications to participate in the sixth round of its International Winter School (IWS) on “Media in Wartime”, to be held from 11 -16 January 2025, in Doha, Qatar.

The sixth round of the IWS will address the interaction between media and war, exploring how conflicts and the media mutually influence each other, and examining how war coverage is shaped by ideological and cultural biases. The school invites submissions from advanced PhD students and early career scholars specializing in various social science and humanities disciplines worldwide.

The IWS is an annual programme that seeks to provide an in-depth and critical understanding of selected topics. It provides an opportunity for participants (advanced PhD students and early career scholars) to network with international scholars, gain substantive knowledge and insight, and receive feedback from respected scholars and experts in their field. The program will feature public lectures, workshops, and roundtables.

Topics

• Research on the interaction between media and war, exploring how conflicts and the media mutually influence each other, and examining how war coverage is shaped by ideological and cultural biases, is the central theme of the Sixth ACRPS International Winter School. The school invites submissions from advanced PhD students and early career scholars specializing in various social science disciplines worldwide. Potential topics for discussion could include:
  • Media framing of war 
  • War coverage and agenda setting 
  • Artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing in the visualization of war 
  • Ideology, culture, and ethnocentrism in war coverage  
  • Theoretical frameworks for understanding media coverage in wartime 
  • Propaganda and war 
  • Disinformation in war and conflicts 
  • Embedded journalism and media-military relations. 
  • Visuality in wars and conflicts 
  • Media-elites, social media corporations and their impact on conflicts 
  • Competing alternative sources of information 
  • Military communications and media strategies 
  • Media in conflict resolution
  • The media and peace building 
  • Media and cyberwars 
  • Social media, crowdsourcing, and war 
  • Grassroots challenges to official narratives of war 
  • Journalists as casualties of war 
  • The ethics of explicit war imagery 
  • Rethinking propaganda and psychological warfare 
  • Security and safety for journalists in new wars 
  • Trust in journalism and the news industry in wartime. 
  • Censorship and surveillance in wartime. 
  • Journalistic ethnography of war 
  • De-professionalization of journalism at wartime.
  • Media under fire

Eligibility Criteria

• PhD candidates in social sciences and humanities. 
• Recent PhD graduates and early career academics.

For more information, visit ACRPS.