[ecrea] Call for papers: Digital Disruption to Journalism and Mass Communication Theory

Digital Disruption to Journalism and Mass Communication Theory


A research conference to be held 3-4 Oct. 2014 in Brussels, Belgium


This conference will explore how theories of journalism and mass 
communication are being challenged in the face of news and advertising 
digitization, device proliferation, human and organizational 
mobilization, and media market restructuring.


. How are research traditions, such as framing, gatekeeping, spiral of 
silence and agenda setting, being challenged -- and perhaps even 
reformulated or reinvented -- in light of the technological and economic 
changes brought about by digital media?

. How is theorizing in fields such as media economics and political 
communication being challenged in the face of these digital media changes?

. How might key concepts in journalism and mass communication, such as 
audience, public sphere, or even mass communication itself, be 
re-articulated in the era of digital media?

. How is normative theorizing about the press, including notions of 
press freedom, challenged by the emerging dominance of digital media?

. What might be learned about digital disruption through comparative 
research?


The conference will welcome English-language submissions of theoretical 
essays and empirical studies. A 400 to 500 word abstract should be 
submitted to (brussels2014 /at/ missouri.edu) by April 4, 2014. Notice of 
acceptance will be provided by May 15, 2014. Full papers of no more than 
25 double-spaced pages, not including notes or appendices, will be due 
by September 15.


For more information, contact Tim P. Vos, Coordinator for Global 
Research Initiatives at the University of Missouri: 
(brussels2014 /at/ missouri.edu).