[ecrea] Call for Papers ­ The Future of Journalism: Journalism in a Post-Truth Age?

Final Call for Papers – “The Future of Journalism: Journalism in a 
Post-Truth Age?”
Thursday 14th and Friday 15th September 2017
Cardiff University, UK

Deadline for abstracts – January 31, 2017

Dear colleagues

We are delighted to announce the sixth biennial conference - The Future 
of Journalism – to be hosted by the School of Journalism, Media and 
Cultural Studies (JOMEC) at Cardiff University, UK, and sponsored by 
Routledge / Taylor & Francis. This call for papers invites contributions 
from those interested in the study, practice, regulation or reform of 
journalism.

Submissions on all aspects of journalism are welcomed. We particularly 
encourage contributions addressing the theme of “Journalism in a 
post-truth age?” This includes, but is not limited to, papers addressing 
issues such as:

•
Challenges to the authority of legacy news institutions and the ideals 
of objectivity
•
The increasing role of social media in shaping news consumption, and the 
associated emergence of “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”
•
The emergence of “fake news”
•
The role of political satire as a form of news critique
•
The increased automation of journalism through algorithms, bots and robots
•
The changing patterns of sourcing and roles of expertise in journalism
•
Watching the watchdog: Ensuring scrutiny, transparency and 
accountability of journalism in a “post-factual” era
•
The implications for improving journalism education associated with 
these developments

A selection of the research-based papers presented at the conference 
will be published in special issues of the international peer-reviewed 
journals Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies.

Titles and abstracts for papers (250 words max) are invited by January 
31st, 2017 and should be submitted online via the email address:

(FofJ2017 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)

Please submit no more than one abstract as first author, with no more 
than two abstracts in total (kindly include an email address for each 
co-author), please.

The conference fee will be £250, which includes tea and coffee breaks, 
lunch on both days, and the conference dinner on September 14th.

We are delighted to confirm our Keynote speakers: John Hartley (Curtin 
University, Australia), Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University, 
US) and Claire Wardle (First Draft).

Bios for three Keynote Speakers

John Hartley is John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin 
University, Australia, and Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at 
Cardiff University. His books on journalism include Understanding News 
(1982), Popular Reality (1996) and The Indigenous Public Sphere (2000). 
He claims to have published the first account of “journalism in a 
post-truth society” (Popular Reality, 1992). Recent work focuses on 
creative industries and cultural citizenship, including The Creative 
Citizen Unbound (co-edited with Ian Hargreaves, 2016). Hartley is also 
working on evolutionary-complexity approaches to culture, e.g. Cultural 
Science (with Jason Potts, 2014) and Creative Economy and Culture (with 
Wen Wen and Henry Li, 2015). He is founding editor of the International 
Journal of Cultural Studies, now in its 20th year. He is a Fellow of the 
Australian Academy of Humanities, International Communication 
Association, and Royal Society of Arts, and was awarded the Order of 
Australia in 2009.

Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs 
at George Washington University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of 
Communication and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of 
Press/Politics. His recent books include News of Baltimore: Race, Rage 
and the City (edited with Linda Steiner, Routledge, 2017), Routledge 
Companion to Media and Human Rights (edited with Howard Tumber, 
Routledge, 2017), and Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy 
Reform in Latin America (with Soledad Segura, Zed, 2016). He has 
lectured and worked in more than 30 countries, published 13 books, and 
written more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, and newspaper 
columns. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Latin American program 
of Open Society Foundations. He holds a Licenciatura in sociology from 
the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Ph.D. in sociology from the 
University of California, San Diego.

Claire Wardle is the Executive Director of First Draft, a non-profit 
dedicated to finding solutions to the challenges associated with trust 
and truth in the digital age. She was previously the Research Director 
at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, 
head of social media for the UN Refugee Agency and Director of News 
Services for Storyful. She is one of the world’s experts on 
user-generated content, and has led two substantial research projects 
investigating how it is handled by news organizations.  She also sits on 
the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of 
Information and Entertainment.


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