Interested in media, communication & socio-political change in Eastern Post-Soviet Region? Here @uumediacomms.bsky.social (Dept. of Informatics & Media / Institute for Russian & Eurasian Studies) we look for an early career Assoc. Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July

Prof Michaela Mahlberg@michamahlberg.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

Its time for another Annual Meeting of “Concilium Civitas” w. Polish social scientists working abroad debating challenges to the future of democracy in times of illiberalism, instability & conflicts. Info & 2026 programme: conciliumcivitas.pl Live stream: www.facebook.com/share/v/1TNJ...

BTW: The panel was also a great occasion for @stavrosling.bsky.social @carmen-lee.bsky.social & Theresa Catalano to present their forthcoming ‘Bloomsbury Handbook of Harmful Discourse’ with many fab contributions including by yrs truly @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social ;) #CADAAD2026 @cadaad.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · last mo.

Some impressions from fabulous #CADAAD2026 panel ‘Understanding harm to inspire change: Dissecting harmful discourses & assessing counter-responses’ by the great @stavrosling.bsky.social @carmen-lee.bsky.social & Theresa Catalano. Honoured & delighted to act as discussant of this truly great panel!

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · last mo.

Some impressions from fabulous #CADAAD2026 panel ‘Understanding harm to inspire change: Dissecting harmful discourses & assessing counter-responses’ by the great @stavrosling.bsky.social @carmen-lee.bsky.social & Theresa Catalano. Honoured & delighted to act as discussant of this truly great panel!

Some impressions from fabulous #CADAAD2026 panel ‘Understanding harm to inspire change: Dissecting harmful discourses & assessing counter-responses’ by the great @stavrosling.bsky.social @carmen-lee.bsky.social & Theresa Catalano. Honoured & delighted to act as discussant of this truly great panel!

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · last mo.

Great turnout & full room at #cadaad2026 hybrid session presenting our Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies Book Series coedited by yrs truly @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social & the great John Richardson & David Machin. More info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bl... @cadaad.bsky.social

Much needed systematic & narrative-centred critical discourse analysis of historical recontextualizations & mythological implicatures in nationalistic discourse of contemporary Spanish far-right by the one and only Antonio Reyes at #cadaad2026 @cadaad.bsky.social

Great turnout & full room at #cadaad2026 hybrid session presenting our Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies Book Series coedited by yrs truly @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social & the great John Richardson & David Machin. More info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bl... @cadaad.bsky.social

Vital points on textual & visual constructions of resilience in public discourse - including as a token of responding to vulnerability - in a a v interesting paper by Michael Kranert & colleagues at #cadaad2026 @cadaad.bsky.social

Very important points on technocratic and strategically depoliticised recontextualisation of ‘resilience’ in Italian mediated & public discourse by @francozappettini.bsky.social & Monica Colombo at #cadaad2026 @cadaad.bsky.social

Fabulous presentation by the great Katherine Russo from Uni Orientale, Naples, highlighting how renewed focus on vulnerability and exclusion can help decolonise discourses of/about resilience in crisis #cadaad2026

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · last mo.

We are particularly grateful to all our fabulous speakers: David Machin, Lydia Catedral, Natalia Krzyzanowska, Katherine Russo, Peter Breazu & the lowly organisers Michal Krzyzanowski & Lyndon Way. We hope to follow up with a publication based on the panel soon, so please kindly watch this space!

We are particularly grateful to all our fabulous speakers: David Machin, Lydia Catedral, Natalia Krzyzanowska, Katherine Russo, Peter Breazu & the lowly organisers Michal Krzyzanowski & Lyndon Way. We hope to follow up with a publication based on the panel soon, so please kindly watch this space!

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · last mo.

We have had some truly great day of fabulous intellectual discussions & exchanges at the “New Directions in Analysing Contemporary Public Discourse: Challenges in/for Critical Discourse Studies” Panel which we organised within @CADAAD2026 Conference in Valladolid, Spain.

Great presentation on the many overlapping & contradictory meanings and dynamic of ‘crisis communication’ by the one and only @stenhansson.bsky.social at #cadaad2026 - great points about fluidity of crisis meanings underpinning ned for critical & context sensitive work!

We have had some truly great day of fabulous intellectual discussions & exchanges at the “New Directions in Analysing Contemporary Public Discourse: Challenges in/for Critical Discourse Studies” Panel which we organised within @CADAAD2026 Conference in Valladolid, Spain.

How illiberalism becomes normalised @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social #cadaad2026

We are hiring @uumediacomms.bsky.social - a PhD Position in Media & Communications. Application Deadline 29 May 2026. More info & details: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We were truly delighted & honoured @uumediacomms.bsky.social to be able to host Prof. Bart Cammaerts from @lsemedia.bsky.social who delivered the brilliant 2026 IM Distinguished Lecture „Seeing is Believing? Four Country Comparative Study of Visual Misinformation in Election Campaigns”

Huge congrats to Pedro Camelo who today successfully defended his PhD @uumediacomms.bsky.social with a PhD Thesis on „The Discursive Construction of Brazilian Far Right: Media Discourses, (Accounts of) Journalistic Practice & Normalisation”! Congrats on superb work & a great PhD defence performance!

Published as part of a special issue of Social Semiotics co-edited by @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @jensrydgren.bsky.social and Natalia Krzyżanowska - on the far right's "conceptual flipsiding" of liberal democratic signifiers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination

The process of strategically redefining key liberal-democratic and other widely accepted social and political concepts by the far-right and other illiberal actors has recently become a widespread, ...

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With @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social and Natalia Krzyznanowska. Papers by Ruth Wodak, @pawelkarolewski.bsky.social, @thomasdiez.bsky.social, @sean-phelan.bsky.social, @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, @elgenius.bsky.social, Hannah Bradby, and Michal, Natalia, and myself.

Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Social Semiotics

Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics

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Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @emiliapalonen.bsky.social @burscott.bsky.social @benrosamond1.bsky.social @bforchtner.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social @uumediacomms.bsky.social @goranbolin.bsky.social @kranertmichael.bsky.social @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @emiliapalonen.bsky.social @burscott.bsky.social @benrosamond1.bsky.social @bforchtner.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social @uumediacomms.bsky.social @goranbolin.bsky.social @kranertmichael.bsky.social @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...