We're unbelievably proud of this. ♥️

🚨4th May: We are inviting veterans who served in Northern Ireland, and their family members, to visit the ‘Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles’ exhibition at IWM North and a workshop in which we’ll discuss your responses. 🌟Free lunch + £25 for expenses.
See details below

Wow! Career high news 🙂

Honoured to have been awarded an
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant!

My 5-YEAR project is:

WARSHARE:
THE NEW WAR FRONT: DIGITAL PARTICIPATION IN WAR

#ERCAdG

Here’s a thread about the project and how I arrived here.

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✍️Our colleague Kateryna Zarembo 🇺🇦, Associated Senior Fellow, coauthored with Michele Knodt and Jannis Kachel the paper on the use of smartphones for civic resistance during the full-scale war of Russia in Ukraine, which is published in MWC Journal
🔗tinyurl.com/3n733nyk

Also in MWC news, we're delighted that Richard Stupart / @richardstupart.com (bsky) is joining our editorial team.

Welcome to Johana Kotisova / @johana.bsky.social, who is joining us as our reviews editor!

Are you publishing on topics around media, war and conflict - books, films or media (broadly interpreted)? We'd love to know about it.

If you're over on the other place, come find us there at mwcjournal.bsky.social

To mark #Kwibuka30 my film about photography and memory in Rwanda - The Faces We Lost (2017) - is available online for free. You can watch it here:

vimeo.com/478690108

more info here: piotrcieplak.com/the-faces-we-l…

Pls RT

#Rwanda

Super excited to share the paper on the use of smartphones for civic resistance in Ukraine which Michele Knodt, Jannis Kachel and I have just published in MWC Journal. Take a look and spread the word! shorturl.at/fksxG

LOEWE emergenCITY TU Darmstadt New Europe Center

My article “Deserted myths and nuclear realities” is free and open access now! Thank you MWC Journal for a fab first time publication experience!! 🤩

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

New issue out: articles on Israel-Palestine coverage, fragile masculinity, peace journalism in Pakistan, targeting and the gaze, plus truce films, war in the boardgame Labyrinth and Marvel comics. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/mwca/16/4

A week til our deadline for abstracts. CfP What Matters? The Politics of Narrating War. University of Massachusetts Lowell, 17 May 2024. Its about #ontology .
newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/2023…

We publish a new study of narrative letters sent by Poles to # #Ukrainian war refugees - shows spontaneous solidarity. People *can* be #kind to refugees. By Artur Fabiś et al:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

CfP - What Matters? The Politics of Narrating War. Workshop run by @AdamBLerner Alister Miskimmon & my MWC Journal. At UMass Lowell next May. Abstracts to us by 15 Nov. Read the CfP here:
newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/2023…

We have a profile over on the other place at last. Come find us at @mwcjournal.bsky.social

Congrats to the winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) War & Media Studies 2022–2023 Graduate Student Writing Prize!

We're delighted to be part of the judging panel and to publish Hugo Ljungbäck's exciting work!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…