[eccr] call for papers - Journalism

>Call for Papers
>
>A special issue of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism
>on "Gendered News"
>Guest Editor: Cynthia Carter, Cardiff University
>
>
>How do gender relations in the newsroom affect journalistic news
>practices? Is journalistic objectivity a gendered ideology? Have
>efforts to 'feminise' the news failed to significantly expand the
>female audience? Have a sufficient number of women risen to opinion
>leading editorial positions (and with what consequences)? Why are
>many women and girls portrayed in the news as victims of violence?
>Why are most news organisations owned and controlled by (white,
>middle class) men? Why do journalists tend to rely most heavily on
>male sources and how does it affect news content? Are male and female
>journalists equally participating in the development and reporting of
>news online?
>
>This special issue will provide a platform to discuss how gender
>centrally shapes journalistic news values, professional ideologies
>(objectivity), the selection of 'experts' as news sources,
>socialisation within the newsroom, news typifications (hard/soft
>news, etc.), ownership structures, as well as assumptions about news
>audiences. Papers will draw upon the rich resources of feminist and
>gender-sensitive critique to produce a lively set of ongoing debates
>in the field of gendered news research.
>
>Topics may include men/masculinity and news; the gendered politics of
>objectivity; the feminisation/sexualisation of news; the gendered
>news audience; masculine ownership and control of the news media;
>news typifications; and gendered assumptions about news narratives,
>sources and actors. However, other engaging and challenging analyses
>of gendered news are also welcome.
>
>Interested authors should, in the first instance, submit an abstract
>of 150-200 words to Cynthia Carter ((cartercl /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)) by 17 May
>2004. Four copies of completed articles should be sent to Howard
>Tumber, School of Social Sciences, City University, Northampton
>Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK [email: (h.tumber /at/ city.ac.uk)]
>
>Deadline for submission of articles: 1 August 2004
>
>Dr Cynthia Carter
>Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
>Cardiff University
>Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue
>Cardiff, Wales, UK  CF10 3NB
>
>Tel: 44+ (0)29 2087 6172 FAX:44+ (0)29 2023 8832
>E-mail: (cartercl /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
>
>Chair, Feminist Scholarship Division
>International Communication Association
>see: http://icahdq.org/index.html

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