[ecrea] Call for Papers: Third annual International Journal of Press/Politics conference

Call for Papers: Third annual International Journal of Press/Politics 
conference

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

Wednesday September 28-Friday September 30 2017

September 27-29 2017, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 
at the University of Oxford will host the third annual International 
Journal of Press/Politics conference, focused on academic research on 
the relation between media and political processes around the world.

A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be 
published in the journal after peer review. The deadline for submission 
of abstracts is March 31 2017. Attendees will be notified of acceptance 
by April 28 2017.

Professor Natalie Stroud from the University of Texas at Austin will 
deliver a keynote lecture on “Engaging Newsrooms in the Digital Age.”

The conference brings together scholars doing internationally-oriented 
or comparative research on the intersection between news media and 
politics around the world. It aims to provide a forum for academics from 
a wide range of different disciplines and countries to discuss the 
theoretical, methodological, and substantial challenges and 
opportunities for research in this area. It is open to work from 
political science, political communication, journalism studies, media 
and communications research and many other fields.

Examples of relevant topics include the political implications of 
current changes in the media, the relative importance of new forms of 
digital media for engaging with news and politics, studies of the role 
of entertainment and popular culture in how people follow current 
affairs, studies of relations between political actors and journalists, 
research on political communication beyond the electoral context 
(including of government, interest groups, and social movements), all 
with a particular interest in studies that focus on parts of the world 
that are under-researched in the international English language academic 
literature, develop comparative approaches, or represent substantial 
theoretical or methodological advances.

Titles and abstracts for papers (250 words max) are invited by Friday 
March 31 2017. The abstract should clearly describe the key question, 
the theoretical and methodological approach, the evidence the argument 
is based on, as well as its wider implication of international relevance.

Please send submissions to the email address (ijpp /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(ijpp /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)> with the subject line “IJPP conference 
submission” including in the email the full title of your paper, the 
abstract, and your name and professional affiliation. (Please do not 
send attachments.) Full papers will be due August 25 2017.

Please contact the conference organizer, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (RISJ 
Director of Research and IJPP Editor-in-Chief) with questions at 
(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk) <mailto:(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)>.

More about the journal, the Reuters Institute, and the keynote speaker:

The International Journal of Press/Politics 
(http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hij)

IJPP is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of 
the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The journal 
publishes theoretical and empirical research which analyzes the linkages 
between the news media and political processes and actors around the 
world, emphasizes international and comparative work, and links research 
in the fields of political communication and journalism studies, and the 
disciplines of political science and media and communication.

Keynote Speaker – Natalie Stroud 
(http://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/rhetoric-and-language/natalie-jomini-stroud)

Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., Annenberg School for 
Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor of 
Communication Studies and Assistant Director of Research at the Annette 
Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin. 
Since 2012, Stroud has directed the grant-funded Engaging News Project, 
which examines commercially-viable and democratically-beneficial ways of 
improving online news coverage. In 2014-15, she is a fellow at the 
Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. 
Stroud is interested in how the media affect our political behaviors and 
attitudes and how our political behaviors and attitudes affect our media 
use. Her book, Niche News: The Politics of News Choice (Oxford 
University Press) explores the causes, consequences, and prevalence of 
partisan selective exposure, the preference for like-minded political 
information. Niche News received the International Communication 
Association's Outstanding Book Award. Her research has appeared in 
Political Communication, Journal of Communication, Political Behavior, 
Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 
and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 
(http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/)

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism marks the University 
of Oxford's commitment to the comparative study of journalism around the 
world. Anchored in the recognition of the key role of independent media 
in open societies and the power of information in the modern world, the 
institute aims to serve as the leading forum for a productive engagement 
between scholars from a wide range of disciplines and practitioners of 
journalism. It brings the depth and rigor of academic scholarship of the 
highest standards to major issues of relevance to the world of news 
media. It is global in its perspective and in the content of its activities.

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