[ecrea] CfP for special issue of Journalism Practice

Reminder: Call for papers - special issue of Journalism Practice on 
'Cultural Journalism and Cultural Criticism in the Media'
Full call available online: 
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/rjop-cfp-cultural-journalism-and-cultural-criticism-in-the-media

Submission details:
Prospective authors should email an abstract of approximately 500 words 
to the guest editors, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen ((netenk /at/ hum.ku.dk)) and 
Unni From ((imvuf /at/ dac.au.dk)). The editors will review all abstract 
submissions and successful authors will be invited to contribute with a 
full 8,000 word paper that will be subjected to double blind peer-review.
Deadline for abstracts: June 15 2014.
Deadline for submission of full papers: November 1 2014.

Journalism research has for long prioritized studying political 
journalism and the media as a political public sphere. This political 
leaning is closely linked to the idea of a professional, autonomous, and 
versatile press, addressing issues of societal importance, as the 
precondition for democracy. However, a research agenda on arts and 
cultural journalism, cultural criticism in the media, and the cultural 
public sphere is currently emerging, pointing to cultural journalism as 
a growing subfield, which is of considerable public significance, and 
which may reinforce media institutional brands.
In this special issue of Journalism Practice on cultural journalism and 
cultural criticism across media platforms, we invite researchers to 
contribute to and elaborate on this emerging research agenda by 
investigating some of the following issues:
- Demarcating cultural journalism: How can we conceptualize cultural 
journalism and cultural criticism in contemporary media culture?
- Cultural journalism in a globalized media society: How are 
global/local cultural diversities negotiated in the form and content of 
arts and cultural journalism – for example in national and/or 
cross-national perspectives?
- The interplay of the cultural industries and cultural journalists: 
Which patterns characterize the interplay of cultural 
producers/distributors and cultural journalists – for example within 
specific and/or across cultural fields in the increasingly 
cross-mediated communication environment?
- Professionalization/de-professionalization of cultural journalists: 
How does the increasing heterogeneity of cultural arbiters of taste in 
contemporary media culture influence and transform the production of 
cultural journalism and cultural criticism?

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
Associate Professor, PhD

Faculty of the Humanities
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Section for Film, Media and Communication
University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixensvej 4, Office 14.3.21
2300 Copenhagen S
TLF 35 32 81 00
DIR 35 32 93 61
FAX 35 32 88 50
(netenk /at/ hum.ku.dk)
www.mef.ku.dk


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