[ecrea] Journalism and its tools, international symposium

Journalism and its tools

 Technical aspects of producing information



International symposium

organised by

GIS Journalisme, groupement des laboratoires

CARISM (IFP – Université Paris 2)

CRAPE (CNRS – Universités de Rennes – IEP – EHESP)

ELICO (Universités de Lyon)

GRIPIC (CELSA - Université Paris Sorbonne)





Paris, 8-9 October 2015



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Call for papers :

Submission deadline : 15 March 2015





There are countless media industries, journalism schools, and 
professional organisations, all sectors in which journalistic tools and 
techniques are exchanged, traded and supplied. Against a background of 
technocentric fantasy and technological nightmare, lasting since at 
least the 19th century, journalism has constantly called on equipment to 
capture image and sound, layout text, and accelerate the transmission of 
information. From the first portable camera, called the “Reporter” by 
Kodak, its manufacturer, to the recent RSS flows that aggregate 
information automatically, the links between journalism and its tools 
constantly call into question the profession’s identity, status, 
socioeconomic functioning and perceptions.

How should the relationship between the control of technical systems and 
the production of information be perceived? Shouldn’t information itself 
be considered as one of the “intellectual technologies” mentioned by the 
ethnologist Jack Goody?

Viewed over the long term, journalism appears to have been structured 
around the assertion of intellectual expertise, which has synergetic 
though sometimes conflictual links with the “tooled” dimension of 
information production. Hence the interest of questioning afresh a whole 
tradition of thought that has claimed a dominant role of observation and 
analysis, featuring the journalist as an intellectual who always sees to 
the core, whatever the era, words or pen.

The aim of the symposium organised by GIS Journalisme is to spur 
multidisciplinary responses to these questions. These responses could be 
structured in three main directions.



1. The place of technology in discourse on journalism: defence and 
illustration of equipped journalism

In this first direction, we question the role assigned to tools in all 
the texts, discourses, and testimonies conveying a representation of 
journalism. Whether in the form of fiction or legislative texts, 
professional charters or training programs, how are the technical 
competences associated with producing information defined, qualified and 
evaluated? Here, the approach could be contemporary or long-term, 
comparative or monographic. For example, attention could be given to 
examining recurrent prophecies predicting the dissolution of journalism 
in the automation of information, or to analysing the shockwaves stirred 
in professional mindsets by technological breakthroughs.



 2. The tools of journalism, the economic and organisational stakes at 
the heart of adjustments in the media industry

Whereas the grouping of the media has occurred in parallel with the ad 
hoc development of technologies and the creation of large editorial 
teams whose members are paid regular salaries, the arrival of the 21st 
century appears to have triggered the reorganisation of production 
processes, atomising professional practices. Using case studies and 
organisational and managerial perspectives, the works expected in the 
second direction will shed light on the parallel evolution of editorial 
structures and the tools used to produce information. For example, the 
technical impacts of the concentration occurring in the regional press, 
or highlighting the share of technological autonomization in the growing 
number of editorial structures without employees.



3. Journalistic competences put to the test of media systems

The development of computerised media has taken much inspiration from 
journalistic practices: blogs, mobile image capture applications and 
other resources for digital publications herald new technological 
potential – that of making all the tasks of writing and publishing, 
hitherto reserved for professional journalists, accessible for all. What 
are the impacts of such an evolution? Does it contribute to generalising 
journalistic action or, conversely, characterising still further the 
non-technical part of producing information? Here, we expect analyses of 
media systems, journalistic experiences involving non-professional 
practices, as well as works calling into question the attendant 
discourses deployed by the industrial actors of the media sector.





Submission procedures

Please send the following to: (gis.journalisme /at/ gmail.com)

- a summary of 1,000 words (or 6,000 characters, including spaces and 
punctuation), indicating the keywords and the direction intended for 
this communication (please do not give any indication making it possible 
to identify the authors or authors);

- the 1st page comprising the identity, the institution, and the email 
address of the author (or authors); this information will be sent to the 
members of the scientific committee responsible for giving an opinion on 
the proposals.



The summaries and communications can be presented in English, French, 
Portuguese and Spanish.



Timetable

- the proposal (summary) must be submitted before 15 March 2015.

- response of the Scientific Committee 1 May 2015.



Publication

At the end of the symposium, a proposal will be made to organise a 
scientific review to compile a dossier of the best contributions.



Scientific Committee

- Rodney BENSON, New-York University (USA)

- Pablo J. BOCZKOWSKI, Northwestern University (USA)

- Etienne CANDEL, Université Paris-Sorbonne (France)

- Jean CHALABY, City University of London (United Kingdom)

- Jean CHARRON, Université Laval (Québec, Canada)

- Rogério CHRISTOFOLETTI, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)

- Béatrice DAMIAN-GAILLARD, Université de Rennes 1 (France)

- Francisco DE ASSIS, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (Brazil)

- Salvador DE LEON, Universidad autonoma de Aguascalientes (Mexico)

- Hervé DEMAILLY, Université Paris-Sorbonne (France)

- David DOMINGO, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

- Isabelle HARE, Université de Poitiers (France)

- María Elena HERNÁNDEZ, Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)

- Valérie JEANNE-PERRIER, Université Paris-Sorbonne (France)

- Christine LETEINTURIER, Université Paris 2 (France)

- Jean-Baptiste LEGAVRE, Université Paris 2 (France)

- Samuel LIMA, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil)

- Jacques MICK, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)

- Valérie PATRIN-LECLERE, Université Paris-Sorbonne (France)

- Fabio PEREIRA, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil)

- David PRITCHARD, University of Wisconsin (USA)

- Jean-Michel RAMPON, Institut d’études politiques de Lyon (France)

- Rémy RIEFFEL, Université Paris 2 (France)

- Denis RUELLAN, Université de Rennes 1 (France)

- Adeline WRONA, Université Paris-Sorbonne (France)





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