JWS
Joint Writing Seminar



The concept:

The Joint Writing Seminar (JWS) is a seminar at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (ICSJ), Charles University (Prague), coordinated by Nico Carpentier, for selected ICSJ PhD students. Each participant of the JWS collaborates with one senior ICSJ staff member, to write and publish an academic article, on a topic that is aligned with the fields of interest and expertise of both authors. The PhD researcher becomes first author of the article.
The seminar follows a two stage-writing process, where in the first stage, the PhD researcher produces the draft-article, under the guidance of the senior staff member. In the second stage, the senior staff member actively collaborates with the PhD researcher in re-writing the draft-article. After the writing process, the senior staff member guides the PhD researcher through the journal-selection stage, the submission stage, and the review and resubmission stage(s), until the process is completed.
PhD researchers who are selected for the JWS will have a parttime position at the Center for Doctoral Studies of the ICSJ, for one year.

An example of the lessons learned:

The outcomes:

HÁJEK, ROMAN, CARPENTIER, NICO (2015) Alternative Mainstream Media in the Czech Republic. Beyond the Dichotomy of Alternative and Mainstream Media, Continuum, 29(3): 365-382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2014.986061. KUBÍĆKOVÁ, VLAD'KA, CARPENTIER, NICO (2016) Re-Evaluating the Political Press. A Case Study on Political, Economic and Journalistic Functioning of the Inter-War Czechoslovak Party-press Newspaper Národní listy, and its Publishing Company the Prague Stock Printery (PAT), Observatorio (OBS*), 10(2): 1-29, http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/870/.
BATISTOVÁ, ANNA, CARPENTIER, NICO (2018) Constructing the Czech nation. A discursive-theoretical analysis of the articulation of the nation in the cultural magazines produced by Czech WWII London exiles, Journal of Language and Politics, 17(6): 713-743, https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.17063.bat. HROCH, MILOŠ, CARPENTIER, NICO (2021) Beyond the Meaning of Zines: A Case Study of the Role of Materiality in four Prague-based Zine Assemblages, Communication, Culture & Critique, 14(2): 252-273, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab001.
FILIMONOV, KIRILL, CARPENTIER, NICO (2021) Beyond the state as the 'cold monster': The importance of Russian alternative media in reconfiguring the hegemonic state discourse, Critical Discourse Studies, 20(2): 166-182, https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999283.
HROCH, MILOŠ, CARPENTIER, NICO (2021) Scissors, glue and other machines: The materiality of the Prague zine scene in the post-digital era, Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, 8, https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/issue-8-2021-2/.
VUKOVIĆ, SILVIJA, CARPENTIER, NICO (2023) The vertical and horizontal dimensions in the social construction of leadership: A case study on the social media followers of the Croatian politicians Zoran Milanović and Miro Bulj, Leadership, 19(6): 530-548, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17427150231202557.

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