[ecrea] CFP: Multilingualism and Journalism in the Era of Convergence

CFP: Multilingualism and Journalism in the Era of Convergence

Edited by Lucile Davier (University of Geneva) and Kyle Conway 
(University of Ottawa)

Technological convergence, or the blurring of lines between formerly 
distinct media, has had a tremendous impact on the work journalists do. 
For one thing, it has contributed to the processes of globalization that 
have brought people into greater contact with cultural others. For 
another, it has made it possible for an ever smaller group of 
corporations to control an ever larger share of the media. As a result, 
journalists must become proficient with more aspects of production 
(combining video, text, and images) while reporting on a wider range of 
people and cultures and responding to the economic pressures that come 
with the concentration of media ownership.

This book will look at the ways journalists are making sense of and 
adapting to this changing environment. It will focus on those moments 
when they gather information in languages that their audiences do not 
speak. It will ask, what technologies do they use as they collect 
information, transform it into a story, and disseminate it to their 
readers, viewers, and listeners? It will examine questions of 
translation in the broadest possible sense—from the re-expression of 
bits of speech or text in a different language, to the rewriting of 
partial or complete news stories, to the explanation of how members of a 
foreign cultural community interpret an object or event.

The editors would like to invite submissions from a range of disciplines 
such as communication, translation studies, and sociology. Potential 
questions authors might address include (but are not limited to):

Platforms:

• In what contexts do journalists indicate that a source spoke or wrote 
in a different language?
• What modes of translation (e.g., subtitling, voice-over, etc.) do 
journalists use?
• Do journalists favour different modes of re-expression on different 
platforms?
• What strategies do they adopt for cross-platform or multimodal 
distribution?
• How do they adapt the same news story for multiple formats?
• Do ideas of newsworthiness vary depending on the platform?

Social implications:

• How visible are multilingual contexts for audiences?
• Do convergence phenomena contribute to the globalization or the 
localization of news?
• What are the implications of journalists’ practices for how audiences 
perceive cultural others?

To propose a chapter, please send an abstract to 
(multilingualism.convergence /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(multilingualism.convergence /at/ gmail.com)>. Abstracts should be 500 
words long and submitted as .odt, .doc, .docx, or .rtf files. Proposal 
deadline: January 15, 2017. Initial acceptances sent: February 15, 2017. 
Deadline for full articles (6,000–8,000 words): May 31, 2017.


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