[ecrea] CFP InMedia - Media & Diversity

Call for papers



InMedia

The French Journal of Media and Media Representation in the 
English-Speaking World

(http//inmedia.revues.org)



MEDIA AND DIVERSITY

Deadline: September 15, 2013







InMedia, a blind peer-reviewed on-line journal dedicated to the study of 
the media and media representations in the English-speaking world, 
welcomes proposals for its fourth issue whose themed section will be 
dedicated to Media and Diversity. As InMedia provides a 
multidisciplinary approach and comparative perspectives, contributions 
are welcome from many research areas, including history, economics, 
political sciences, sociology, aesthetics, anthropology or science and 
communication studies.

The Media and Minorities research field really developed in the American 
scientific community and in the public space in the wake of the 1960s 
urban riots, before crossing borders to reach Canada and Great Britain. 
Since the 1990s, this issue has become an international one, fuelled by 
debates at UNESCO that led to the Treaty on the Protection and Promotion 
of the diversity of cultural expressions (2007). It is now investigated 
in many countries like Germany, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, 
Israel, Australia and France (Rigoni and Saitta, 2012; Horsti, 2010; 
Frachon and Sassoon, 2009; Fleras and Kuntz, 2001). Because de facto 
segregation and stereotypes prevail, many researchers have argued that 
the way the mass media cover or undercover minorities strongly impact 
readers and listeners. By failing to reflect the diversified composition 
of societies and by fueling misrepresentations of minorities, mass media 
feed the social distance that separates different groups (Kerner Report, 
1968; Daniel and Allen, 1998; Entman and Rojecki, 2000).

Against this background, proposals are invited on - but are not limited 
to - the following set of themes and questions:

- Debate, Research and Policy: Should the media voluntarily participate 
in improving interracial and intercultural relationships? Do they have a 
responsibility in the search for social cohesion? Has the Media and 
Diversity debate been triggered or, on the contrary, hindered by 
particular social or historical events (in the nation-states context)? 
What investigations have been made? What policies have been implemented?

- Information production: What is the impact of interracial and 
intercultural relationships on the production of information?

- Reception and effect: Does the non-inclusiveness of diversity in the 
content of news or entertainment impact interracial and intercultural 
relationships? Can this impact be assessed and measured?

- Diversification effect: Does the diversification of media personnel, 
be it in newsrooms (for news media) or among creators and producers (for 
entertainment media), have a noticeable impact on media content? Is it 
sufficient? Does minority staffing increase community audiences and/or 
improve minority readers’ trust?

- Identity and Migration: Do minorities still use mass media to 
facilitate their integration in a new country? How are digitized media 
used by minorities to preserve their cultural and linguistic identity 
both in nation-states and in the context of globalization?



Since the aim of InMedia is to study the media and media representations 
in the English-speaking world, submitted articles should focus primarily 
on the English media or on the adaptation of the Anglo-american model of 
diversity in the media field in other countries.



Submission guidelines

Paper proposals are due on September 15, 2013. Submissions (500 words 
including title and bibliography) should be sent in English to the two 
guest editors of the themed section, Christine Larrazet 
((christine.larrazet /at/ u-bordeaux2.fr)) and Isabelle Rigoni 
((isabelle.rigoni /at/ club-internet.fr)). Notifications of acceptance will be 
sent out by September 25.

On acceptance of the proposed article, complete articles will have to be 
submitted for blind peer-review by November 15 for publication in Spring 
2014. Articles should be previously unpublished, not under submission 
elsewhere, and written in English (5,000-7,500 words). They should be 
sent to the guest editors along with a separate document with their 
author’s names and contact details. All submissions must include two 
short abstracts in French and in English, as well as a list of 5 keywords.



Themed section editors

Christine Larrazet, Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux Segalen, 
Emile Durkheim Research Center (UMR CNRS 5116), 
(christine.larrazet /at/ u-bordeaux2.fr)

Isabelle Rigoni, Assistant Professor, INS HEA, GRHAPES and Emile 
Durkheim Research Center (UMR CNRS 5116), (isabelle.rigoni /at/ club-internet.fr)






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