SAIS Media & Politics

The Media and Politics Initiative at JHU SAIS. An interdisciplinary platform at the intersection of politics and news, social, visual, and entertainment media

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Deadline is Sept 2 to apply for a conference on visuality and violence hosted by AUB Media Studies.

[Łukasz Szulc @LukaszSzulc]

OUT NOW! The first empirical article in our upcoming Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media'. It's about RuPaul Drag Race, Westernness & whiteness, by @ZaneAWillard & Rachel E Dubrofsky. https://t.co/eRA5maIprH

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

This looks to be a super interesting and important project on small social media platforms. Great to see research in this vein looking beyond big tech.

@ERC_Research is taking applications for four postdoc positions, check it out!

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Join us @SAISHopkins Thurs May 2nd at 5:30pm to discuss intersections of media diversity and democracy.

Featuring @wyoumans (GWU), @leannagarfield (GLAAD), @TamaraGilkes (The Economist) and Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian). @LiselHintz moderating.

Register: https://t.co/c9G1vXF5SJ

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

Join us today at 5:30pm! We're hosting Prof. @joekhalil to unpack the digital turn in the Middle East.

Co-hosted by our SAIS Media and Politics Initiative and the SAIS MENA Club @SAISmpi @saismenastudies

Register: https://t.co/a9J2BbZCMo

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Join us Thursday March 28 at 5:30pm to discuss The Digital Double Bind with Prof. @joekhalil.

Rich, important insights on the interplay of information technology, people, and power that shaped the Middle East's digital turn.

Register: https://t.co/kCo8ffmcC7

[Joe F. Khalil @joekhalil]

Let's explore "The Digital Double Bind" together at @SAISHopkins in Washington, DC. Looking forward to an enriching conversation with SAIS MPI co-directors @LiselHintz and Dr. Narges Bajoghli on technology, society, and the Middle East. @SAISMiddleEast https://t.co/rQ7zHAeB7b

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Deadline extended for our Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3!

Please submit abstracts by Friday March 15. Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available.

Details here: https://t.co/Qjhd1SOdDR.

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Abstracts due Friday for our Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3.

Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available.

Details here: https://t.co/Qjhd1SOLtp.

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

DC area folks, join us at our next event!

On Monday Feb 19, we host Samantha Majic to discuss her fascinating and important new book on celebrities' anti-trafficking activism. Lisel Hintz and Sarah Parkinson will moderate the event.

Link to register: https://t.co/RjZjHpDnUP

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Call for papers! We are hosting a research workshop on media diversity and democracy on Friday, May 3rd. Abstracts due March 1st. Limited funding available to support grad student travel. Please circulate.

Details here: https://t.co/TXSCrr1q7E.

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Join us tomorrow Feb 7 for our event on social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan with @colleenwood_ and @LiselHintz!

Link to register: https://t.co/LtE0JGfCxR

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

DC area folks: Join us next week for our first SAIS Media and Politics Initiative event of the year. @LiselHintz hosts @colleenwood_ on Wed Feb 7 from 4:45-6:00pm to discuss social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan. Reception follows.

Register: https://t.co/LtE0JGfCxR

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

DC area folks: Join us next week for our first SAIS Media and Politics Initiative event of the year. @LiselHintz hosts @colleenwood_ on Wed Feb 7 from 4:45-6:00pm to discuss social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan. Reception follows.

Register: https://t.co/LtE0JGfCxR

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

New book alert!

[Eve Ng @evecng]

Finally a hard copy of Mainstreaming Gays! Discusses how LGBTQ content was mainstreamed due to rise of digital media, fan cultures, & commercial interest, + what this has meant for media production & culture https://t.co/iCFarG3zUR

[New Perspectives on Turkey @newpers_turkey]

Hülya Adak and Murat Akser's thought provoking article on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Wild Pear Tree was Cambridge University Press's most downloaded article for July in Middle East Studies. Congratulations to our authors! And it is open access & available here. https://t.co/MTDvW1RbC2

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Post-doc opportunity!

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

New book alert!

[Hatim El-Hibri sayshatim.bsky.social @says_hatim]

I'm thrilled to have received my copy of Gaza on Screen, edited by Nadia Yaqub, and featuring great work by both scholars and filmmakers. My chapter is "The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2014 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza". Check it out https://t.co/DgBCJ1Ki5G @DukePress

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

New book alert!

[Maher Hamoud - SouthPush.com @MaherHamoud1]

Excited to share the happy news that my latest book, which took several years of hard work, is finally out. I hope it is up to your expectations.
https://t.co/m4QydrXFQR Foreword by Charles Tripp... Many thanks to my publisher @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyAcad @IBTauris

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

Documentarian Can Candan @yunusunbabasi has been unjustly dismissed for the third time(!!) from his position at Boğaziçi University. We hosted Prof. Candan for a screening of Benim Çocuğum (My Child), and stand in solidarity.
#KabulEtmiyorVazGeçmiyoruz
#WeDoNotAcceptWeDoNotGiveUp

[Can Candan (@cncndn.bsky.social) @yunusunbabasi]

Since the appointment of a trustee rector to
@unibogazici_en in 2021, I’ve been dismissed from my position twice and have been reinstated twice following court decisions annulling those dismissals. On July 16, 2023, I’ve been unjustly and unlawfully dismissed for the 3rd time!

[SAIS Media & Politics @SAISmpi]

New book alert! With over 40 contributions on media and culture in MENA

[MediaCultureME @MediaCultureME]

“The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East” is here, edited by @joekhalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, and @BilgeYesil. Explore the diverse perspectives and groundbreaking research we’ve curated. #MediaCultureME #NewRelease #MediaStudies
https://t.co/zspZGs8Bqt

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

(Yet another!) Important and timely article from @ergincloud and medical anthropologist Başak Can on the different spaces and ways in which misogyny affects pro-feminist journalists in Turkey. Kalemlerinize sağlık!