[ecrea] Special Issue Call for Papers - Digital Journalism

Digital Journalism
Special Issue Call for Papers
Deadline: 15 September 2017

Title: Journalism History through Digital Archives

While analytical methods have been steadily developing in relation to 
research on journalism in its various live digital forms (e.g. news 
websites, twitter, and Facebook) there has been less focus on developing 
research on and related methodologies for journalistic productions 
accumulating in digital archives. While such inventories hold great 
potential for researchers of journalism history they also pose a set of 
challenges.

The amount of material raises questions of selection, data clean-up, 
meta-data availability and the ensuing possibilities of search and 
analysis. Linked to this, the possible malleability of access, retrieval 
and analytical procedures is challenging, as this requires new digital 
skills, products and collaborations. Yet, the amount of material and 
avenues of access and analysis simultaneously open a range of 
possibilities for investigating vast amounts of data across former 
barriers (e.g. media platforms or archives) and this allows for 
re-visiting of old questions as well as developing new ones.

Against the background of such wider issues this special issue elicits 
papers that do journalism history through digital archives in various 
geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. While such ventures 
necessarily raise theoretical and methodological questions the call is 
for contextual reflections rather than generic discussions of the 
potential and problems of digital archives. Following this, submissions 
can — but do not have to — engage with journalism history projects

• across media platforms and/or (former) technologies
• across long time periods, geographies, cultures and/or archives
• that draw on layout and textual forms (in a wide sense of that term)
• that correlates with other types of (public) digital data (e.g. 
migration, BNP etc.)

In relation to the journalism history projects papers may in various 
degrees reflect on

• methodological and theoretical issues
• the politics of archiving
• computational analysis in relation to contextual and qualitative studies.
• issues arising from collaborative research across disciplinary and 
institutional boundaries
• research infrastructures for the utilisation of digital archives
• the constitution of archived digital objects and its relations to the 
historical artefacts and what this means for the writing of journalism 
history

Submissions

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to guest editor Henrik 
Bødker ((hb /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(hb /at/ cc.au.dk)>) no later than September 15, 
2017. Selected authors will be invited to contribute by January 15 
(2018). A maximum 8,000-word paper (including references, tables, etc.) 
will be considered for publication, subject to double blind peer-review.

Timeline:

• Abstracts to guest editor: September 15, 2017
• Authors notified: October 1, 2017
• Full papers for peer review: January 15, 2018
• Reviews to authors: March 15, 2018
• Revised full papers: April 15, 2018

Editorial information

• Guest Editor : Henrik Bødker, Aarhus University ((hb /at/ cc.au.dk))

Link to the call: 
http://explore.tandfonline.com/pages/cfp/rdij-special-issue-journalism-history


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