[ecrea] CfP: Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?

*Journal: *Media and Communication (Open Access Journal)

**Title*: *Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of 
Power?************************

*Editors: *Marcel Broersma and Scott Eldridge II (University of 
Groningen, The Netherlands)*
*

*Deadline for Abstracts: *1 March 2018*
Deadline for Submissions: *30 September 2018
*Publication of the Issue: *February/March 2019**

*Information: *In the last decade, social media have been fully 
integrated into journalism practice. This has had an impact on how news 
is produced, what online news texts look like, and how audiences consume 
news, and even what we consider “news” and “journalism” to be. This has 
led some scholars to argue that social media have been “normalized” 
within existing frameworks, and further that their rise has not had an 
impact on journalism’s core. Others contend that norms, practices, and 
forms are fundamentally changing. This would, by extension, suggest a 
major change in journalism’s relationships with other agents in the 
networked ecology of news, including its relationship with sources, 
social media platforms, technology companies, and the citizens their 
content reaches.

In the wake of a particularly tumultuous year for news and journalism, 
where social media and its pervasive nature within and around news media 
and politics have been front and center and where journalism’s public 
role has been under review, this thematic issue offers an opportunity to 
conceptualize the relationship between journalism, social media, and the 
mechanisms of power anew. We invite scholars to contribute papers which 
advance our understanding of these dynamics, which are increasingly part 
of our public discussions of news, media, and power within society, 
through critical and reflective academic study.

This thematic issue focuses on questions of if and how the rise of 
social media has redistributed power in the news media ecosystem. We 
invite scholars to explore questions around the functions and roles 
journalism traditionally fulfilled, and weigh whether and how these have 
been altered—or taken over—by other players. Exploring how sources can 
now bypass reporters to get their message across to new audiences, and 
how citizens can navigate social platforms for news independent of 
traditional journalism heavyweights, we invite scholars to contribute to 
debates around this reorientation of media power.

We are interested articles that shed new light across these themes, 
including papers which explore:

  * The power balance between journalists and sources, including
    politicians and industry leaders, and where these have changed with
    the rise of social media;
  * Transformations in journalism practice, epistemology, and (online)
    news texts that reflect shifting power distributions in the news
    ecology;
  * Distributors of “fake” news, or commercial message such as native
    advertising, who get their messages legitimized in news media
    discourses and the implications of these distributors on news dynamics;
  * Participatory practices, polarized audiences and social media for
    what they signal about divisions within broader society;
  * Novel methodological approaches to exploring the shifting power
    relationships between journalism, social media platforms, and other
    realms of societal power;
  * Other papers which expand our understanding of these dynamics within
    fields of journalism, media, and communications studies.

*Instructions for Authors*: Authors interested in submitting a paper for 
this issue are asked to consult the journal’s instructions for authors: 
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/forauthors

If interested,please send an abstract of max. 400 words to: 
(s.a.eldridge.ii /at/ rug.nl) <mailto:(s.a.eldridge.ii /at/ rug.nl)> before 1 March 
2018. Authors will be notified about acceptance before 21 March 2018. 
Deadline for the submission of full papers will be 30 September 2018. 
Final papers can be 8,000 words max.

*Open Access:* The journal has an article processing charge to cover its 
costs, so authors are advised to check with their institutions if funds 
are available to cover open access publication fees*. *Further 
information about the journal’s open access charges and institutional 
memberships can be found here: 
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicies#publicationFees

*Website for this call: 
*https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#journalismsocialmedia


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