[ecrea] cfp - Electronic Journal of Communication - social media in news discourse

>Second call for papers
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>Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication
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>Special issue: Social media in news discourse
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>As professional media producers pay more attention to social media, 
>from personal blog entries and tweets to Facebook updates and 
>YouTube videos, journalists are faced with numerous decisions. Among 
>these are how to integrate personal and often-relationship-focused 
>media with the public and fact-centred discourse of the news.
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>This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication 
>invites contributions exploring the conventions that are emerging 
>around the use of social media by news organisations, and the 
>implications of those conventions for public communication. 
>Contributions will have as their central concern whether or not the 
>encounter with social media is changing aspects of news journalism.
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>Possible questions arising from this concern include:
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>    * how do the forms of personal expression to be found in social 
> media translate into news discourse?
>    * what authority or status as 'knowers' is given in the news to 
> voices from various social media?
>    * how are specific kinds of social media typically made use of 
> within news discourse?
>    * how are journalism's ethical frameworks applied to these media?
>    * to what extent is social media content decontextualised from 
> its online social context when used by journalism?
>    * are social media texts produced within news organisations also 
> used in news texts?
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>Papers should be 5000-7500 words in length and submitted 
>electronically to the guest editor, Donald Matheson, at 
><(donald.matheson /at/ canterbury.ac.htm)>(donald.matheson /at/ canterbury.ac.nz). 
>Deadline for completed manuscripts is 20 November 2010. The issue is 
>scheduled for publication in the second half of 2011.
>
>Authors are welcome to contact the guest editor to discuss proposed 
>papers or related matters.
>
>Regards,
>
>Donald
>
>
>--
>Dr Donald Matheson
>Media and Communication
>University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha
>Private Bag 4800
>Christchurch 8140
>Aotearoa New Zealand
>tel: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7888
>fax: +64 3 364 2007
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