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[ecrea] Call for Conference Submissions, JSS 2015

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Call for Conference Submissions: "Re-Inventing Journalism"
5th- 6th of February, 2015, Winterthur, Switzerland

DEADLINE: 1st of October 2014

Convened by the Journalism Studies Sections of ECREA and DGPUK
Co-Sponsored by the Journalism Studies Sections of ICA, IAMCR and SGKM

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times for the practice and study of journalism. It is the worst of times for journalists who lose their jobs. Many legacy providers of journalistic face difficulties in adapting to changes to their traditional business model. Yet this is also a time of creativity and innovation, reflected in the emergence of new types of journalistic outlets, story-telling formats and job profiles. With the challenge for journalism to re-invent itself in the digital media environment comes the challenge for journalism scholars to review their concepts and methods, and question the durability of findings.

The re-invention of journalism raises questions on different levels: On the systemic level, traditional assumptions about the role of journalism for society need to be reconsidered. On the organizational level, we might ask how newsrooms cope with media convergence and whether the newsroom remains the most important place where journalism happens. On the micro level, the changing practices of journalists and changing interactions with audiences and sources are important topics for journalism studies.

We invite researchers from Europe and beyond to present their latest research and to discuss conceptual and methodological issues related to the current changes of journalism at a conference hosted by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Zurich (UZH). The conference also serves as the joint annual conference of the Journalism Sections of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) and the German Association for Communication Research (DGPUK). It is co-sponsored by the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SGKM), as well as the Journalism Studies divisions of ICA (International Communication Association) and the IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research).

The conference will feature traditional conference panels, but also two formats that allow for more interaction between the presenters and those people who were formerly called the audience:

(1) INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP SESSIONS: These discussion sessions will focus on specific questions that you are interested to discuss in a mini workshop with other conference participants. These mini workshops will be kicked off by thought-provoking input statements from the panel members, followed by an open discussion in which all attendees participate. As workshop organizer, please submit: - a question relevant to the conference theme (such as: Do we need a (new) definition of journalism? What is the best way to conduct content analysis of online journalism?) and an abstract (300 - 800 words) contextualizing the question, linking it to the existing literature and outlining several questions and the aim of the session - the names of three people who will attend the conference and contribute to the panel with short statements (five to fifteen minutes total). One of the contributors should be identified as the moderator of the discussion. We encourage submitters to form panel teams with people from different backgrounds: countries, universities, professional backgrounds: e.g. submitters may want to include a journalist in some workshop teams or researchers with a different area of expertise.

(2) HIGH DENSITY PRESENTATION/POSTER SESSIONS: Submitters will outline a research question, methodology and most interesting findings in a five minute talk. Instead of power point slides, participants will prepare a poster. After the round of intro talks, attendees will disperse towards the poster displays and discuss at greater length the research presented. As poster presenter, please submit: - an extended abstract (1.500 words) presenting research results relevant to the conference theme. Please outline the state of research, the research question(s) or hypotheses, findings and conclusion(s).

(3) TRADITIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATION. Please submit:
- an extended abstract (1.500 words, see above) that, if accepted, results in a 20 minute presentation. As the slots for those traditional conference presentations are fairly limited, please indicate whether or not you are also willing to do a high density/poster presentation instead. All submissions (posters and presentations) have to be original work, which is neither published, nor accepted for publication at the time of submission. They should not have been presented at another conference yet. We particularly encourage submissions for interactive workshop sessions, and we are happy to provide further information on this format should you still have questions. We will also send out additional information on the three different formats to those people who have successfully passed the review process.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: English (for all submissions and presentations)

CONFERENCE DATE: 5th- 6th of February, 2015; preceded by a workshop for PhD students organized by the Journalism Section of the German DGPUK, a separate call for this will be issued.

VENUE: Zurich University of Applied Sciences, situated in Winterthur, a 20 minute train ride from Zurich city and 15 minutes from Zurich airport.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Vinzenz Wyss, ZHAW and Michael Brüggemann, UZH

ORGANIZING TEAM: Filip Dingerkus, Mirco Saner, Deborah Harzenmoser

CONTACT: Please send your submissions or questions to: (journalism.iam /at/ zhaw.ch)

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE THE URL: www.re-inventing-journalism.ch


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