[ecrea] CFP: Book Chapters on Conservative News

*CFP for Book Chapters**/: News on the Right: Studying Conservative News 
Cultures/***

The recent surge of populist, nationalist, and authoritarian politics 
has brought to light an immense resistance against modern, professional 
journalism’s claims to truth and fairness. The trending notion of a 
“post-truth” age may not be a satisfying diagnosis of journalism’s 
predicament, but it signifies that a long battle has intensified over 
how news institutions discern truths and prioritize key facts and 
voices. While not alone, conservative news organizations have been at 
the front lines of that battle for decades, which begs the questions: 
How have conservatives approached the question of news and its veracity? 
Indeed, what is the ‘news’ on the right?

The aim of this collection is to bring focus to conservative news and 
information as a crucial area for academic inquiry, especially for 
critical media studies and journalism studies. Despite several important 
works historicizing the growth of conservative news, there remains a 
relative dearth of scholarship on conservative news cultures and, even 
more importantly, a lack of continuity and exchange of ideas among the 
outposts where such scholarship is underway. To start bridging this 
disconnect, this book will bring together an interdisciplinary array of 
scholars to build upon key questions, enrich debates, and share 
knowledge about the currents of conservative media. Conservative news 
has become a tremendously powerful platform in the United States, 
wielding a vast influence on the terms of political discourse. Some of 
the major questions we pose for thinking about conservative news 
include: What principles and habits have these news cultures adapted for 
discerning truth and falsehood? For judging news selection and 
prioritization? How have the aesthetics of conservative news developed? 
How do conservative news producers and consumers see their purpose 
within a larger, more heterogeneous public sphere? What actors, historic 
circumstances, and affective dynamics have shaped conservative news 
norms? How have those norms differed across factions and moments?

This collection will focus mostly on conservative news cultures centered 
in the United States, but we are also seeking contributors who can offer 
transnational and comparative perspectives. We are looking for 
contributors who will draw on cultural history, political economy, and 
cultural studies approaches to studying conservative news, the growth of 
its media infrastructure, its diverse publics, its normative 
propositions, and related topics. While we are seeking case studies 
among other approaches, we hope all contributors will connect their 
research to broad questions or lines of research relating to 
conservative news – i.e. we are looking for studies that clearly 
articulate significant claims beyond the analysis of a single text. We 
would like contributors to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words. 
We also ask that contributors be willing to share their drafts with each 
other, so that we may recommend contributors address each others’ ideas 
during revisions.

For a preliminary draft of our proposal, see: 
https://ajdotorg.wordpress.com/news-on-the-right-full-proposal/

Schedule:

Abstracts due: April 30,^th 2017

Decisions on proposals: May 30^th

Proposal to presses: June 1^st

Chapter drafts: November 1^st

Revisions: February 1st, 2018

Please send abstracts or questions to: (rightnewscfp /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(rightnewscfp /at/ gmail.com)>

We seek contributions centering on the following themes:

  * The mythology of the liberal media
  * The affective registers and/or aesthetics of conservative media
  * Journalistic sensibilities of conservative news producers
  * Journalistic sensibilities of conservative news audiences
  * Conservative news and movement infrastructure
  * Methodological questions and dilemmas for scholarship on right wing
    news cultures
  * Right wing news and media technologies
*Editors *

Anthony M. Nadler is an Assistant Professor of Media and Communication 
Studies at Ursinus College. He is the author of /Making the News 
Popular: Mobilizing U.S. News Audiences /(2016, University of Illinois 
Press). His latest research project focuses on the growth of online 
conservative news and opinion outlets.


A.J. Bauer is a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow and Doctoral 
Candidate in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York 
University. His work has appeared in /The Guardian/, /The New Inquiry/ 
and /Social Test: Periscope/, and is forthcoming in /American 
Journalism/. His dissertation, “Before Fair and Balanced: Conservative 
Media Activism and the Rise of the New Right” will be defended this spring.


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