[ecrea] ICA preconference Online and Newsworthy

-- CALL FOR PAPERS --Preconference at the 2017 ICA, San Diego, May 25 2017

co-sponsored by the Political Communication Division and the Center for 
Politics and Communication (CPC)

*_Online and Newsworthy: Have Digital Sources Changed Journalism?_*

Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna, Austria)

Sanne Kruikemeier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Sarah Van Leuven (University of Gent, Belgium)

Liesbeth Hermans (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

This preconference will serve scholars who are interested in how 
digitalization has changed journalistic news sourcing  techniques. The 
use of reliable sources is one of the most important aspects of 
journalistic news production. However, when making news, journalists now 
increasingly use social media, websites, wikis, and online encyclopedias 
as sources. In today’s 24/7 news cycles, online sources offer a quick, 
convenient, cheap, and effective way for journalists to gather 
information on developing stories, and they increasingly also trigger 
news stories. But, what are the consequences of online sourcing for the 
quality of news and the journalistic profession? Can all online sources 
be reliably verified? Do online sources change the power relationship

between political actors and journalists?

For this preconference, we are interested in showcasing research that 
focuses or is related to one of four aspects of online sourcing:

•  First, we ask which online sources are most prominent within news 
reporting, and/or whether they have replaced more traditional sourcing 
techniques?

•  Second, we want to show research that asks why and how journalists 
use online sources during their daily work and in the newsroom.

•  Third,  we  focus  on  the consequences  of  online  sourcing for 
audience perceptions of  journalism,  for example in terms of the 
credibility of news and journalism.

•  Fourth, we aim to investigate potential changes in the relationship 
between journalists and (elite) actors as sources, who now have multiple 
options to communicate with audiences directly.

We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers for the proposed 
preconference, and want to encourage PhD students and young researchers 
to submit. We also aim to bring together both qualitative and 
quantitative researchers, ranging from methods such as ethnographic 
research, interviewing, to content analysis, big data, survey and 
experimental designs. We encourage the use of different theoretical 
approaches to understand online journalistic  sourcing  techniques 
(e.g., framing, journalistic role perceptions, storytelling, conceptions 
of the newsroom).

How  to  participate:  Please  submit  your  abstract with  a  maximum 
of  500  words  to  Sophie  Lecheler ((sophie.lecheler /at/ univie.ac.at) 
<mailto:(sophie.lecheler /at/ univie.ac.at)>). Deadline for submissions is 
January 20^th 2017. Successful applicants will be notified not later 
than February 20th.

The preconference will be a half-day conference (8.30 am to 1 pm), held 
at the ICA conference hotel in San Diego on Thursday, May 25 2017. Full 
papers will need to be submitted no later than April 30th, 2017 and will 
be made available to all those participating in the preconference. If 
you have questions, please contact Sophie Lecheler 
((sophie.lecheler /at/ univie.ac.at) <mailto:(sophie.lecheler /at/ univie.ac.at)>), 
Sanne Kruikemeier ((s.kruikemeier /at/ uva.nl) <mailto:(s.kruikemeier /at/ uva.nl)>), 
or Sarah Van Leuven ((Sarah.VanLeuven /at/ ugent.be) 
<mailto:(Sarah.VanLeuven /at/ ugent.be)>).

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