[ecrea] pre-conference Journalism

This is a new announcement of the pre-conference Journalism on February 
6 with important additional information about the speakers, referents 
and registration.

It also is a reminder to register!

Please send an email to (kester /at/ eshcc.eur.nl) before January 25!



In association with the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication 
and Culture (ERMeCC), the Centre for Journalism Studies Ghent and the 
Netherlands Flemish Communication Association (NeFCA), the Journalism 
division of NeFCA presents the pre-conference Etmaal van de 
Communicatiewetenschap 2013:


Insiders and Outsiders in the Journalistic Field

When:            Wednesday February 6, 2013

Time:              13.00-17.00

Where:           Erasmus University Rotterdam, M-building Room M1-18 (Lund)





Aim & Theme

During the past decade, the journalistic field has been under increasing 
pressures. As a consequence, new lines were drawn. Lines between 
insiders and outsiders, between free lancers and institutional 
journalists, between off- and online, between professional and civic 
journalists and between successful and unsuccessful new business models.

After the appearance of a special issue on the state of affairs in 
journalism studies, of the Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap 
(2010), it is now time to consider  where the research agenda as 
presented in this issue, has taken us. Emanating from the key note 
lecture and the PhD-presentations we would like to explore the current 
state of journalism with an eye to the relationship between those who 
are on the inside and those who are on the outside.

Keynote lecture                               Ansgard Heinrich

Challenging the Mainstream
Reflections on the Role of Professional Journalism in the Digital Era

One of the foremost challenges professional journalistic organizations 
face today is the question where to position themselves within a myriad 
of voices. In an era of digital, networked communication, journalists 
have inevitably lost the power to define what makes and shapes the news. 
With the rise of new distribution tools such as Twitter, information is 
increasingly produced and disseminated outside of the confined borders 
of traditional newsrooms. These developments suggest a significant 
change in our information structure. Heinrich will reflect on these 
changes and outline the main markers of a developing sphere of ‘network 
journalism’ - a global, fragmented information exchange sphere that is 
shared by professional journalists and activists, bloggers or citizen 
journalists alike. But where lie the tensions between ‘insiders’ of the 
journalistic profession and these ‘newbies’ in the business of 
information exchange? Are there new source opportunities to be 
identified or can we even attest collaboration efforts between these 
supposedly ‘opposing’ information providers? These questions ultimately 
boil down to the main subject matter: what is the role of professional 
journalism and journalistic outlets in the digital era?

Ansgard Heinrich is Assistant Professor at the Groningen Centre for 
Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen (RUG), the 
Netherlands. Her research areas include media and globalization, digital 
media technologies and alternative journalism. Her PhD is titled: 
Network Journalism. Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres 
(Routledge, 2011).



Special referent to the key note

Mark Deuze (Leiden University, Indiana University/US), well known 
academic expert on internet journalism and digital culture. Latest book 
publications: Media Work (Polity Press, 2010), Managing Media Work (ed. 
Sage, 2011) and Media Life (Polity Press, 2012).



PhD Presentations and discussion with referents

-          Sarah Van Leuven (Ghent University)

o   Title: Heinrich’s theory of Network Journalism put to practice: A 
quantitative content analysis of Arab Spring news coverage



-          Hille van der Kaa (University of Tilburg)

o   Title: Guerrilla media as a reliable news source for now and the future



-          Sanne Hille (JournalismLab, University of Applied Sciences 
Utrecht)

o   Title: Sixteen million reporters? Determinants of success and 
failure of audience participation in journalism



-          Astrid Vandendaele (Ghent University)

o   Title: The forgotten stepchildren of the newsroom. A linguistic 
ethnography of the role of the newspaper subeditor



Referents

Ø  Prof. dr. Kees Brants (Honorary Professor University of Amsterdam)

Ø  Prof. dr. Mark Deuze (Leiden University and Indiana University)

Ø  Dr. Ansgard Heinrich (Groningen University)

Ø  Prof dr. Karin Raeymaeckers (Ghent University)



Programme

Chair: Bernadette Kester

    *      12.45 - 13.15       Coffee
    *      13.15 - 13.25       Opening
    *      13.25 - 14.30       Keynote + discussion
    *      14.30 - 15.00       Coffee
    *      15.00 - 17.00       PhD presentations + discussion

Costs

Ø  Free for NEFCA members and students (space is limited though)

Ø  Non-members 25,- (cash payment at the entrance of the room before the 
start of the conference, please bring exact money)

To guarantee that NeFCA will be able to organize meetings and workshops 
in the future, it is highly recommended that you become a NeFCA member 
(student membership €75 a year, regular membership €125).



Organisation

On behalf of the NEFCA Journalism Division:



Ø  Dr. Bernadette Kester (ERMeCC/EUR) (kester /at/ eshcc.eur.nl)

(use this address for your registration!)



Ø  Prof. dr. Karin Raeymaeckers (UGent) (karin.raeymaeckers /at/ ugent.be)



Ø  Dr. Pytrik Schafraad (UvA) (P.H.J.Schafraad /at/ uva.nl)



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