[Commlist] cfp: Challenges for Local Journalism in Disinformation Times

ECREA 2020 Panel Proposal: Challenges for Local Journalism in 
Disinformation Times

The Re/media.Lab – Laboratory and Incubator of Regional Media is calling 
for proposals for a panel submission to the 8^th European Communication 
Conference: ”Communication and Trust: Building Safe, Sustainable and 
Promising Futures” to be held in Braga, Portugal, October 2-5, 2020. The 
panel aims to reflect on the Challenges for Local Journalism in 
Disinformation Times.

Fake news has recently gained prominence as the way media content is 
presented and consumed on social networks. The pressure of fake news 
tends to favor audience’s quick and superficial perception, with little 
incentive for more careful reflection, in which emotion and polarization 
play an additional role.  In local contexts, the existence of offline 
social networks supported by close social ties may strengthen the 
occurrence of endogamic contexts that difficult changes and diversity.


Our group is interested in receiving abstracts proposing a theoretical 
and experimental approach to fake news in local journalism highlighting 
the following issues:

a) Disinformation and fake news in local and communitarian contexts.

b) The risk that close ties inside local communities induce an endogamic 
perception of public life, including effects such as like-minded 
thoughts.  polarized bubbles or the closure of the agenda process.

c) The role and perception of local journalists on the issues related to 
disinformation and fake news at the local e communitarian levels.

d) The role played by perception of the public on the issues related to 
disinformation and fake news at local and communitarian levels.

e) Presentation, description or suggestion of original local 
media-literacy strategies as an element of prevention and combat against 
disinformation in these contexts.

f) Presentation, description or suggestion of ombudsman strategies as an 
element of preventing disinformation in these contexts.

g) Presentation of new or reformulated  theoretical, experimental and 
methodological approaches to the studies of disinformation processes in 
local contexts.        



To comply with the ECREA guidelines, individual abstracts of  500 words 
can be submitted. Abstract titles are limited to 30 words. All abstracts 
must be written in English and up to10 authors can be included. The 
presenting author must be listed first and only one author can be 
nominated as the presenting author.



Please send your abstract to João Carlos Correia at the University of 
Beira Interior ((jcorreia /at/ ubi.pt) <mailto:(jcorreia /at/ ubi.pt)>) and Pedro 
Jerónimo ((pj /at/ ubi.pt) <mailto:(pj /at/ ubi.pt)>) until January 5. This will 
enable Re/media.Lab committee to peer review contributions ahead of the 
ECREA deadline on January 15.

The 2020 conference is organized by the European Communication Research 
and Education Association (ECREA) and the University of Minho. For more 
information: www.ecrea2020braga.eu <http://www.ecrea2020braga.eu>

Information on the Re/media.Lab: www.labcom-ifp.ubi.pt/remedialab/
<http://www.labcom-ifp.ubi.pt/remedialab/>


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