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[ecrea] The Future of Journalism 2013

Wed Oct 24 22:01:49 GMT 2012


The Future of Journalism:
In an age of digital media and economic uncertainty


Thursday 12th and Friday 13th September 2013
CARDIFF, UNIVERSITY, UK

Call for Papers





Following the success of the conferences in 2007, 2009 and 2011, we are delighted to announce that the fourth in this series of biennial research-based conferences - to be hosted by the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) and sponsored by Routledge Taylor and Francis - will focus again on the topic: The Future of Journalism.



The plenary speaker will be:



Professor Robert G. Picard



Robert Picard is a distinguished and world- leading specialist on media economics and Director of Research at The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author and editor of more than 20 books including Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities (2011); and Value Creation and the Future of News Organisations: Why and How Journalism must Change to Remain Relevant in the Twenty–First Century (2010). He is the editor of The Journal of Media Business Studies and the founding editor of The Journal of Media Economics. The subject of his plenary lecture will be:

Funding the Future of Journalism



Professor Picard’s plenary lecture will be published in special issues of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies, along with a selection of the research-based papers presented at the conference.



This call for papers invites contributions from the international community of scholars of journalism studies, journalism practitioners, citizen journalists, educators and trainers, media executives, trade unionists and media regulators. Papers focused on any aspect of the broad theme, The Future of Journalism are welcome, although they should address at least one of the five key conference themes



Journalism practice and digital media technologies - how are developments in media technologies shaping a new journalism practice, especially novel routines for the production and reporting of news using social media and mobile devices, and by an expansive community of bloggers and citizen journalists?



Global journalism developments - how are these changes in all aspects of the gathering, reporting and consumption of news, unravelling in different national settings with their distinctive journalism cultures, audiences, media structures and histories?



Business models and funding a viable journalism - what are the implications of these changes for the revenues traditionally available to fund journalism and what business models are emerging (for example, levies, crowdsourcing the use of pay walls) to resource newly emerging forms of journalism in an increasingly digital economy?



Journalism professionalism - what are the implications of these developments in journalism for the education, training and employment of journalists, as well as journalists’ changing perceptions of their professional roles and identity?



Journalism, democracy and ethics - in what ways do these changes impact on journalism’s wider connections with the political and democratic life of communities locally, regionally, nationally and internationally?



Titles and abstracts for papers (250 words max) are invited by Friday 4th January 2013 and should be submitted online at:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/conference/futureofjournalism/submission/.











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