[Commlist] CfP Special issue on Transnational Journalism History

  CfP Transnational journalism history

Special issue TMG - Journal for Media History <https://www.tmgonline.nl/>

Transnational journalism history acknowledges that cultural forms are 
produced and exchanged across borders. It focuses on the interactions 
between agents, ideas, innovations, norms and social and cultural 
practices beyond national boundaries, as well as the way these 
interactions affect the incorporation and adaption of new ideas, 
concepts, and practices into national frameworks. By moving back and 
forth between the national and transnational level, the connective and 
dialectic nature of these movements is emphasized. It thus treats the 
nation as only one level or context among a range of others, instead of 
being the primary frame for analysis.

This special issue aims to critically interrogate and go beyond the 
national frameworks within which historical developments of journalism 
are generally studied. Due to its institutional organization and topical 
focus, journalism historiography has traditionally been confined to 
national boundaries. This holds true for studies restricted to the 
development of journalism in one country, like most press histories, as 
well as studies that take nations as units for comparative research. 
Differences and, to a lesser extent, similarities in professional 
practices and news coverage are usually discussed as autonomous 
developments and ascribed to national peculiarities. The special issue 
intends to bring together papers that open new venues for research that 
move beyond this national boundary. We therefore invite articles related 
to transnational journalism that (particularly, but not exclusively) 
focus on:

  * Theoretical and methodological reflections on transnational journalism
  * Transnational journalistic networks
  * Journalists or publishers who were influential “transfer agents”
  * Transnational impact on journalistic genres
  * Adaptation of foreign examples in a national context
  * Case studies of transnational reporting
  * Case studies that rely on Digital Humanities methods, for example,
    text mining or network analysis

*Practical guidelines*

**We ask interested researchers to submit an abstract of max. 350 words 
which clearly outlines a research question, relevance of the topic, a 
theoretical/historical framework, justification of research material and 
approach, and main argument.

Please send your proposals to the editors: Frank Harbers 
((f.harbers /at/ rug.nl) <mailto:(f.harbers /at/ rug.nl)>) and Marcel Broersma 
((m.j.broersma /at/ rug.nl) <mailto:(m.j.broersma /at/ rug.nl)>). Deadline: please 
hand in your abstract no later than 15 January 2020. Authors will be 
notified of acceptance by the end of January 2020.

*Tentative timeline*

**The authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to contribute a 
full article (max. 8000 words, excluding references and bibliography). 
The deadline for the full papers is approximately 29 May 2020. It is 
also possible to contribute a non-peer reviewed piece (between 4000 - 
6000 words)

TMG - Journal for Media History is an open access peer reviewed academic 
journal, published in the Netherlands. Its aim is to promote and publish 
research in media history. It offers a platform for original research 
and for contributions that reflect theory formation and methods within 
media history. For more information and author guidelines, see: 
https://www.tmgonline.nl/

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