[Commlist] cfp: Journalism Practice special issue on disinformation

“Disinformation studies as an emerging research field”

Abstract deadline: September 1, 2021

Full paper deadline: March 2, 2022

INTRO

This special issue of Journalism Practice looks at the complexities of 
disinformation and its implications on society. The number of studies 
that were already growing increased exponentially with Covid-19. The 
main goal of this special issue is to develop a set of studies and 
policies that allow us to identify and contribute to combat and 
effectively minimize the phenomena of disinformation, misinformation and 
manipulation in the journalistic field.

In addition to fake news, the study of disinformation in the 
journalistic field includes theoretical paradigms and empirical 
approaches that go beyond those: bias, concealment of facts, agenda 
building, strategic use of sources, mobilization of emotion, empathic 
media and omission of data are studied in other contexts of journalism 
studies helping to clarify this new phenomenon.

There is a vast experience in the media effects theory, whose 
researchers studied, in due course, a set of phenomena of information 
and manipulation that today, with the necessary adaptations, constitute 
a corpus of examples and inspiration for new researches in different 
contexts.

Finally, new research trends began to emerge which constitute a valuable 
theoretical and experimental corpus for the contemporary and present 
times: empathic media, recognition of patterns of reading, 
identification of behavior and consumption patterns with far-reaching 
consequences around on social, cultural and political life and 
considerable impact on democratic, electoral and civic participation 
practices.

This special issue is spurred by an October 2020 COVID-19 
#DisInforStudies Seminar (http://labcom.ubi.pt/disinforstudies/ 
<http://labcom.ubi.pt/disinforstudies/>), held by LabCom at University 
of Beira Interior, Portugal, and with the participation of some 
important scholars like Edson Tandoc Jr., Karin Wahl-Jorgensen or J. 
Scott Brennen. Also, by a September 2021 ECREA post-conference 
“Disinformation studies: perspectives to an emerging research field” 
(www.ecrea2021.eu <http://www.ecrea2021.eu>).

The contributions to this special issue, from different national and 
international contexts, can focus (among others) on the following topics:

- Identifying through case studies, examples of media whether revealing 
weaknesses or, instead, using strategies particularly directed to fight 
the phenomenon;

- Discussing new manipulation and disinformation strategies, considering 
in those the study of the audience from the perspective of their 
manipulation through the mobilization of emotions;

- Discussing a theoretical and systematic framework for the analysis of 
disinformation and manipulation phenomena;

- Identifying the use of devices and tools that help to combat the 
phenomenon of disinformation;

- Identifying professional practices and professional routines that help 
to combat the disinformation phenomena;

- Identifying new and/or different journalistic practices that rise with 
disinformation growth (independent fact checkers and fact checking 
sections in newsrooms, etc);

- Identifying what strategies are local media adopting, considering the 
growth of digital audiences and smaller newsrooms;

- Identifying and proposing public policies to decision-makers that 
helps to minimize and fighting disinformation phenomena;

- Discussing the relevance of a subfield called disinformation studies.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

If you are interested in participating in this special issue, please 
submit an extended abstract (500-750 words), accompanied by a 
100-150-word bio introducing your relevant expertise. Abstracts should 
be sent no later than September 1st 2021, to 
(disinfo.specialissue /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(disinfo.specialissue /at/ gmail.com)>.

Upon selection, scholars will be invited to submit full papers. Article 
submissions should be about 8,000 words in length, including references, 
and are subject to full blind peer-review, following the peer-review 
procedure of Journalism Practice. Manuscripts will be submitted through 
the journal’s ScholarOne website (select “Disinformation studies as an 
emerging research field”).

No payment from the authors will be required.

TIMELINE

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: September 1, 2021

Decision on abstracts: October 15, 2021

Deadline for full-papers submission: March 1, 2022

Publication: Online first after acceptance, and later in a forthcoming 
issue of Journalism Practice

GUEST-EDITORS

João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

(jcorreia /at/ ubi.pt) <mailto:(jcorreia /at/ ubi.pt)>

Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

(pj /at/ ubi.pt) <mailto:(pj /at/ ubi.pt)>

Inês Amaral, University of Coimbra, Portugal

(ines.amaral /at/ uc.pt) <mailto:(ines.amaral /at/ uc.pt)>

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