[ecrea] call for articles / special issue - #ISOJ Journal 2018 ‘Habits of Thought’

*CALL FOR PAPERS for #ISOJ Journal 2018
‘Habits of Thought’*

Guest Editor:
Jane B. Singer, Director of Research and Professor of Journalism Innovation
City, University of London

*Deadline: September 15, 2017*

*Details available at: 
*http://isoj.org/special-call-for-articles-for-2018-isoj-journal/ 
<http://isoj.org/special-call-for-articles-for-2018-isoj-journal/>

The practice of journalism has been in constant flux for 20 years and 
more. Change has been dramatic and, for many journalists, traumatic. New 
technologies, tools and platforms have necessitated sweeping changes in 
the ways journalists report, write, edit and publish information.

New software has put detailed audience data quite literally in 
journalists’ faces, and new data-savvy newsroom colleagues communicate 
in entirely different languages.

These and related novelties affect the newsroom in ways that are readily 
visible and relatively easily described – by journalists and journalism 
scholars alike. Taken cumulatively, they suggest wholesale changes in 
“habits of practice.” How journalism is done today is undeniably 
different from how it was done 20 or 10 or even five years ago.

But what about “habits of thought”? Have journalists changed the ways in 
which they think about what they do or why they do it? What, if any, 
shifts can be identified in their deeply ingrained beliefs about their 
role in democratic society; their relationship to audiences, sources and 
peers; or the normative principles that guide their decisions? How do 
contemporary journalists think about contemporary journalism – about 
what it is, what it is not, what it might become and what it should 
never be?

#ISOJ Journal, the official research publication of the International 
Symposium on Online Journalism (http://isoj.org/research/), is seeking 
manuscripts for a special issue on this topic, to be published in 
conjunction with the next ISOJ symposium in April 2018.

All submitted manuscripts will undergo a blind review process, and the 
authors of those articles selected for publication also will be invited 
to present their work at the symposium. Empirical work, either 
quantitative or qualitative (or both), is especially desired, though 
non-empirical work that contributes substantively to our knowledge of 
how journalists think about themselves and their occupation also will be 
considered. Scholarship that goes beyond description to consider 
sociological, epistemological, ontological or other conceptually rich 
understandings of journalists’ perceptions of change will have the 
greatest likelihood to be selected for publication.

The issue will be guest edited by Jane B. Singer, director of research 
and professor of journalism innovation at City, University of London. 
Inquiries about this call may be directed to (jane.singer.1 /at/ city.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jane.singer.1 /at/ city.ac.uk)> and should contain the words ‘ISOJ 
Query’ in the subject line.  Full manuscripts should be emailed to ISOJ 
research chair Amy Schmitz Weiss at (aschmitz /at/ mail.sdsu.edu) 
<mailto:(aschmitz /at/ mail.sdsu.edu)>.
*
Manuscript Submission Process and Details available at: 
http://isoj.org/special-call-for-articles-for-2018-isoj-journal/ 
<http://isoj.org/special-call-for-articles-for-2018-isoj-journal/>*



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