WTMC Writeshop 8 April 2025

On Tuesday April 8, 2025, WTMC will organize the next Writeshop at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. WTMC Writeshops are meant for WTMC PhDs who have completed at least four training events. A training event is a summer school or an (online) workshop.

WTMC Writeshops are a splendid occasion to receive comprehensive comments on your own work, but also to read work of your fellow PhD candidates. By carefully reading the work of others in order to give feedback you can learn a lot about writing. At the Writeshop we also discuss more general issues around finishing journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations, and what to do with them once they are done.

We are very happy to announce that Sabrina Sauer will act as our senior discussant this time.

Sabrina Sauer is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies of the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on understanding how digital tools and platforms facilitate creative, often serendipitous, processes in audio-visual media production, as well as in education. She has extensive experience in public-private-civic interdisciplinary research, often working on the boundaries of media studies, science and technology studies, digital humanities, computer science and information retrieval. She participated in the WTMC training during her PhD research at the University of Twente and is now a member of the WTMC Board.

The idea of the Writeshop is as follows. Each participant sends in a draft chapter or article that will be part of the PhD manuscript. Authors are also invited to provide a short (i.e., max. 300 word) contextualization of the draft. During the meeting, two discussants provide comments – a fellow participant and our senior discussant. The author then has an opportunity to respond to these comments before the discussion is opened to everyone. Each paper is discussed for a total of 55 minutes.

Depending on the number of participants, the Writeshop will start at 12:30 at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. It will end with an informal diner, no later than 19:30.

This Writeshop will be chaired by Alexandra Supper.

The word limit for contributions is 10,000 words. The manuscript must be academic work-in-progress (i.e., not already published). Do not worry if your text is not perfect yet: this is precisely why you would want to discuss it in this forum. The draft should be well enough developed so your readers can understand the argument and the material, in order to get more specific and helpful feedback. Make sure your paper includes a short introduction which explains how the piece fits into your PhD, which journal you plan to send it to, or any other relevant details to help the reader understand the text.

Registration for the Writeshop will be possible between February 28th and March 17th 2025. Registered participants are expected to submit a draft chapter or article by March 24^th, 2025, so that they can be circulated to all participants prior to the meeting and that everyone has time to prepare their commentary.