[Commlist] CFP: Audiences & Users of News: Leverhulme Launch Event: Emerging Directions in News Use Research

Call for Papers

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

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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 
<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/research-projects/news-use-leverhulme>project 
aims to examine how parents engage with and respond to news at critical 
moments of crisis. The project team includes Professor Ranjana Das 
<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/ranjana-das>, Dr Thomas Roberts 
<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/thomas-roberts>, Dr Emily Setty 
<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/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 
<https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Brita.Ytre-Arne>, University of Bergen, 
Norway; Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong 
<https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1525>, University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst; Professor Kim Schroeder 
<https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/kimsc>, Roskilde University, 
Denmark; Professor Sahana Udupa 
<https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/udupa/index.html>, 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany and Professor Lynn 
Schofield Clark 
<https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/lynn-schofield-clark>, 
University of Denver, Colorado.

*Submission Portal:*We welcome submissions for a 10-12 minute paper 
presentation on this submission portal 
<https://forms.office.com/e/BiwVNNABnY>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 (fully online):*Wednesday 20 March 2024 , 0900 to 1700* GMT

*Submission portal:*[please submit your abstract here 
<https://forms.office.com/e/BiwVNNABnY>]

Please email any question you may have about submissions to Dr Nerina 
Boursinou ((m.boursinou /at/ surrey.ac.uk)) <mailto:(m.boursinou /at/ surrey.ac.uk)>.


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