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[ecrea] Call for Articles: Participatory Journalism (Medijska istraživanja/Media Research)

Fri Jan 18 20:12:08 GMT 2013





Medijska istraživanja/Media Research

CALL FOR PAPERS



Special Issue (2013, Vol. 19, No. 2) on:

Participatory Journalism: Possibilities and Constraints for Audience Participation



Editor-in-Chief: Nada Zgrabljic' Rotar (University of Zadar, Croatia)

Guest Editor of the Special Issue: Igor Vobic( (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

COST Action IS0906: ‘Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies’: Working Group 2 ‘Audience Interactivity and Participation’.



Aim of the Special Issue:

In late modern societies journalism is shaped by the concepts such as heterogeneity, fragmentation and individualization. Social networking sites, blogs, and micro-blogs have recently joined billions of websites enabling different individual and collective actors scattered across locales to participate in public communication in a variety of unprecedented ways. These online forms of communicative engagement have facilitated the ideas of collaborative and collective in contemporary journalism of traditional media organizations.

Despite the fact that the idea of participatory journalism engages people inside and outside newsrooms to communicate not only to, but also with each other, there have been indications of inclusivist and also exclusivist principles and practices of news making. On the one hand, different modes of audience participation in journalism have in some cases done away with some traditional ideals in journalism, such as truthiness, principle of objectivity, and disinterest in shaping of political life, and have replaced them with alternatives, such as deliberation, multiperspectivity, and participation in political life. In this sense, ordinary people have with professional-assistance captured and published in words, photos or videos stories of worldwide significance and shared personal perspectives or particular views from their small communities on issues of larger significance reshaping the dynamics between the global and the (micro-)local in public communication. On the other hand, traditional media organizations have developed models of audience engagement that do not involve non-professionals on equal footing as they enable professional journalists to retain control in news making. In what appears as struggle among professionals and non-professionals for legitimacy in public communication, a clear business motive is often at work – the pursuit for additional sources of income, the potential to sell targeted advertising across offline and online media, and getting back now fragmented mass audience.

Considering the possibilities and constrains for audience participation, can we speak about the dominant models of participatory journalism or common modes of audience-engaged news making across locales? How has the relationship between journalists and the audience changed with the rise of participatory forms of public communication? How has audience conceiving among journalists shifted? How has conceiving of journalists among people changed? How have these dynamics reshaped the prevailing roles of journalists in society? How has the notion of the audience from the mass media world transformed? How has social-organization of traditional media organizations responded and newsroom cultures shifted in regards to ideas of collective and collaboration embedded in participatory journalism? How has audience interactivity and participation re-shaped news discourse of traditional media institutions? How has news as a cultural product transformed in the accounts of participatory journalism?

Authors included in this special issue of Medijska istraživanja/Media Research should consider these questions as the basis of their theoretical and empirical examinations. It is recommended that the authors proceed from the particular participatory dynamics in audience-journalism relationship in their countries, do original theoretically-informed research study, and then elaborate it in a larger context of transformations in audience participation. Theoretical reflections about the issues above, comparative analyses and methodological reconsiderations are also very welcome.



Important Dates:
Abstracts of 400 words and author’s affiliation with contact details submission: 1 March 2013
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 March 2013
Full manuscript of 7000 words submission: 15 June 2013
Results of double blind peer reviews: 1 September 2013
Revised papers submission: 15 September 2013
Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2013
Final papers submission: 1 November 2013
All Submissions should be sent electronically to Igor Vobic( ((igor.vobic /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si))



About Medijska istraživanja/Media Research:

The journal Media Research is abstracted in Sociological Abstracts (SA), in Linguistic and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) and in Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA), and indexed in Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Additional information about the journal, including guidelines for authors, can be found at: http://hrcak.srce.hr/mediaresearch?lang=en

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