[Commlist] Call for Papers: Emerging Directions in News Use Research -Leverhulme Project Launch Event & Open Conference

Call for Papers

Emerging Directions in News Use Research -Leverhulme Project Launch 
Event & Open Conference

We are delighted to announce this Call for Papers, for the fully virtual 
and free 1 day conference on Emerging Directions in News Use Research on 
20th March 2024. The event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust 
funded parents’ news use project - which runs from the fall of 2023 to 
the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use project aims to examine how 
parents engage with and respond to news at critical moments of crisis. 
The project team includes Professor Ranjana Das, Dr Thomas Roberts, Dr 
Emily Setty and Dr Maria-Nerina Boursinou from the Department of 
Sociology (University of Surrey).

Emerging Directions in News Use Research - a day-long, international, 
virtual conference - aims to bring together a global group of scholars 
involved with researching news use, news audiences and consumption, and 
news engagement and disengagement. We are keen to hear from a range of 
empirical contexts, from projects using tried and tested as well as more 
creative and innovative methodologies, and to showcase the work of 
scholars across career stages in the fields of Sociology, Journalism, 
Media and Communication, and more.

Keynote speakers at the event include Professor Brita Ytre-Arne, 
University of Bergen, Norway; Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst; Professor Kim Schroeder, Roskilde University, 
Denmark; Professor Sahana Udupa, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 
Germany and Professor Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, Colorado.
 
Call for Papers

We welcome submissions for a 10-12 minute paper presentation in the 
following areas, which are included below, but not limited to-

Submission Topics:

●            News use, environmental change and the climate crisis
●            News use in relation to young people and sex and relationships
●            Datafication, algorithms and the news
●            Theoretical perspectives on news use
●            Methodological aspects of news consumption research
●            News use, risk and anxiety
●            Families, parenting, children and the news
●            News audiences and users
●            News literacy
●            News use research and global disparities and inequalities
●            Disinformation
●            News use and disconnection research

Abstract Submission Details:

Final submission deadline: 5pm BST on Monday 2nd December 2023

Notification of outcome: Friday 15th December 2023

Deadline for Registrations (registration is free): Monday 18th March 2024

Event date: Wednesday 20 March 2024, 0900 to 1700* GMT

Submission portal: https://t.co/DFu9eaVHBG <https://t.co/DFu9eaVHBG>.

Please email any question you may have about submissions to Dr Nerina 
Boursinou (m.boursinou [at] surrey [dot] ac [dot] uk).
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