[ecrea] CfP conference on news production cultures

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of
Oxford is seeking abstracts of papers for possible presentation at its
conference, ‘Negotiating Culture: integrating legacy and digital
cultures in news media,’ October 28-30, 2015 in Oxford.

The best papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of
"Digital Journalism".

The increasing importance of the Internet, social media, and mobile
media for the distribution of news and information has altered news
production practices and is creating conflicts among journalistic values
and norms, digital media values and norms, and various commercial and
organizational imperatives. News media increasingly find that the
organisational cultures that represent some of their greatest strengths
are also weaknesses, even after over two decades of dealing with digital
media. This conference explores the nature of those encounters and how
newsrooms and news organizations are negotiating cultural differences
and creating new hybrid cultures involving legacy and digital elements.

We are particularly interested in analysis of the central bases of these
conflicts as well as their creative potential, i.e., how the conflicts
are manifest, when these conflicts are mostly destructive and when more
creative, and how organisations and their personnel respond to them. The
emphasis of the conference will be on empirically-based papers that
advance our understanding of how news media negotiate the cultural
challenges that accompany the rise of digital media. We are interested
in single organization and comparative analyses, both within-country
comparisons and between media in different national contexts, and
welcome work from journalism studies, media management, sociology, and
other relevant fields.

Abstracts of papers are sought on topics such as:

·         value conflicts and creative tensions within digital newsrooms
·         newsroom interactions with commercial and technology departments
·         determining platform priorities for products and services
·         managing differing cultures in the organisation

300-500 word abstracts outlining the topic, methodological and
theoretical approach and empirical basis should be submitted by May 15
to Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, RISJ Director of Research, at
(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)
<mailto:(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)>. Notification of selected
abstracts will be made by June 26.

Keynote Speakers
Lucy Küng, Reuters Institute, Oxford, and Jönköping International
Business School
Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute, Oxford

Conference Organizers
Lucy Küng, Reuters Institute, Oxford, and Jönköping International
Business School
Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute, Oxford
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute, Oxford

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