[Commlist] CfP: SI “Journalism and Media” on “The Changing Boundaries of Sports Journalism in the Digital Era“

CfP: SI “Journalism and Media” on “The Changing Boundaries of Sports 
Journalism in the Digital Era“

The boundaries of sports journalism continue to expand as 
non-traditional actors emerge and proliferate in the digital 
environment. This outstanding and vital specialist area of work within 
the news industry faces increasing pressure from adjacent fields. 
Amateur sports enthusiasts (bloggers, streamers or influencers) and team 
media for sports organisations adopt many of the roles and tasks 
historically attributed to sports journalism and engage in activities 
that may be perceived and regarded as journalistic by audiences.

As Simon McEnnis points out in his book Disrupting Sports Journalism 
(2021), “sports journalists are seeing how the very bases of their 
professional practice are being appropriated by others” and, yet at the 
same time, they are trying to defend their distinctiveness by elevating 
their standing and professional status.

The arrival of new actors around the journalistic field, the heavy use 
of social media and its impact on sports consumption patterns, as well 
as the search for new business models for news organisations and the 
disrupting technology that is being explored and applied as innovation 
in the sports coverage all require new conceptual approaches to better 
understand the sports newswork in the digital age.

All of these considerations lead this Special Issue to reopen and 
broaden the discussion among scholars about the current trends in the 
sports media landscape and the bigger challenges that sports journalists 
need to face in the coming years.

These are the topics to be addressed in this Special Issue of Journalism 
and Media:

  * Theoretical considerations of professionalism in sports journalism;
  * Sports journalism and its boundaries: from bloggers to team media
    for sports organizations;
  * Disrupting technologies, new job profiles and practices in digital
    sports newsrooms;
  * The heavy use of social media and the reshaping of the sports news
    agenda;
  * Audiences' consumption habits and perceptions in the era of
    attention economy;
  * Sports events, TV networks and streaming platforms;
  * Esports and other emergent niches in the field;w
  * Innovation in the sports media coverage: from visual and graphic
    departments to media labs;
  * Editorial strategies to better connect with audiences and the
    changing business models in sports media;
  * The impact of COVID-19 on sports journalism;
  * Gender studies in sports journalism.

For detailed information about the submission process, please follow the 
link to the Special Issue website: 
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/special_issues/sport_journalism <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/special_issues/sport_journalism>

The submission deadline is 31 December 2022. You may send your 
manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be 
under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Article Processing 
Charge (APC) for open access publication in this Special Issue will be 
fully waived, which means that you have the privilege to publish your 
paper free of charge in an open access scholarly journal.

Papers should be in the range of 6,000 to 9,000 words. For further 
details on the submission process, please refer to the instructions for 
authors at the journal website or let us know if you have any questions 
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/instructions 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/instructions>).

Guest Editors:

José Luis Rojas Torrijos, PhD, Associate Professor of Journalism, 
Universidad de Sevilla, (jlrojas /at/ us.es) <mailto:(jlrojas /at/ us.es)>

JProf. Dr. Daniel Nölleke, Assistant Professor, German Sport University 
Cologne, (d.noelleke /at/ dshs-koeln.de) <mailto:(d.noelleke /at/ dshs-koeln.de)>

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