[Commlist] JERAA Conference Call for Papers + Keynote News

*Call For Papers*
*2024 JERAA Conference*
*University of Melbourne *
*Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 November 2024*
*Early Career Researchers Day Tuesday 26 November 2024*
*Forward: facing the next wave of journalism disruption*
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‘Forward’ is about imagining and preparing for the future and then 
proceeding to face the challenges and possibilities ahead. For 
contemporary journalism, it implies critically anticipating and dealing 
with the consequences of seemingly endless waves of technological 
disruption. This year, the news industry - practitioners, educators, 
researchers and consumers - are experiencing the impacts of Artificial 
Intelligence, the defunding of news on digital platforms, copyright 
battles, further downsizing of media businesses and the belligerence of 
big tech, and all in the context of looming elections and global 
conflict. The 2024 JERAA conference will offer space to consider these 
pressing social and technological issues, as well as our role as 
educators and researchers in working to future-proof the industry, craft 
and discipline of journalism.
We invite abstracts (250-300 words) with short bios (100 words max.), 
and panel proposals that include (but are not exclusive to) industry and 
education discussions and theoretical and empirical research on the 
following themes:
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*Digital platforms: The line in the sand or the “post social media” 
moment? *
Sovereign states versus Big Tech
The News Media Bargaining Code and its international adaptations
Trends and challenges for sovereign states in regulating digital platforms
The news media industry after the decline of news on social media **
*Identity and news *
Australian journalism after The Voice referendum
First Nations media in Australia and across the globe
Race, feminism, LGBTQ+ inclusion in newsrooms and journalism
Safety and online abuse
*Activism, advocacy and journalism *
Freedom and journalism in war zones
New forms of journalism in conflict zones
Freedom fighters, civil rights and journalists in prison
Reportage in Gaza and Ukraine
Covering protests
*Misinformation, fact-checking and ethical behaviour *
Hyper-partisan and far-right media and the polarisation of news
Covering elections and political campaigns
Science journalism after COVID-19: climate change, health crises
Journalism ethics on trial, both legally and in the court of public opinion.
*Trauma, stigma and framing (for good or evil)
*Lessons from Bondi
Who is a terrorist?
Covering gendered violence
Guidelines for reporting suicide in Indigenous communities*
Educating and training journalists *
Learning and teaching journalism for international students in Australia
What to do about AI and journalism?
Podcasting and excellence in audio storytelling
New trends in authentic and experiential learning in journalism
Collaboration to tell big stories
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*Abstracts and panel proposals due Friday 12 July 2024, emailed to 
(_jeraa-2024 /at/ unimelb.edu.au) <mailto:(jeraa-2024 /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>_ *
The Centre for Advancing Journalism warmly invites you to the JERAA 
conference on the campus of the University of Melbourne on the lands of 
Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung People during the last week of November 2024. 
The JERAA Early Career Researchers Day will be held on Tuesday 26 
November, followed by the main conference between Wednesday and Friday 
27-29 November.
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On Wednesday 27 November we will hold a joint session with the annual 
AANZCA (Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association) 
conference. This rare occasion will be an opportunity to network with 
colleagues and discuss issues that are critical to both associations. We 
will also host AANZCA for a joint celebration to mark the end of their 
conference and the beginning of ours.**
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*We encourage AANZCA members to stay on and participate at JERAA. For 
those intending to do so, we offer a 15% discount on the conference price. *
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*_The conference will be hosting three guest speakers: _*
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Investigative journalist*_Gerard Ryle_* will discuss *Collaborative 
Journalism as a way to fight disruption* in a Q&A-style conference 
discussion.
*Gerard* is the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-award winning director of the 
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in 
Washington, DC. He led the worldwide teams of journalists who worked on 
the Offshore Leaks, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, 
FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers investigations - the six biggest 
collaborations in journalism history. The Pandora Papers project 
involved more than 600 journalists at more than 150 news outlets in 117 
countries working together. Gerard has won and shared in more than 90 
major journalism awards from eight countries, including five Walkley 
Awards. In 2021, ICIJ was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Award-winning**ABC journalist*_Bridget Brennan_ *will deliver a* keynote 
address *on critical topics including* reporting on Indigenous affairs 
*and* violence against women. *
**
*Bridget* has been a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting 
Corporation for more than a decade. A Dja Dja Wurrung, 
Yorta Yorta woman, she is a newsreader and presenter at News Breakfast, 
and recently the Indigenous Affairs Editor at ABC. In 2017, Bridget was 
appointed the ABC’s first National Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, 
reporting on the murders of Aboriginal women in Central Australian 
communities, and investigated racism in Australia’s health system and 
the escalating number of Aboriginal children being removed from their 
families. Last year, Bridget was a fellow with the Reuters Institute for 
the Study of Journalism at Oxford Universities where she researched the 
global pressures facing First Nations reporters in mainstream newsrooms. 
Bridget, together with Brooke Fryer, Suzanne Dredge and Stephanie 
Zillman won the 2023 Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill for their Four 
Corners investigation “How Many More?” which shone a light on the crisis 
of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
US researcher *_Casey Mock_*, Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer at 
the Center for Humane Technology, will examine AI and deception at the 
2024 JERAA Conference.
Casey’s address will consider how AI disturbs coverage of this year's US 
Presidential Election. He will discuss latest CHT research that explores 
how misinformation/disinformation harms people's right to freedom of 
speech, and freedom to think, and what journalists can do to 
constructively respond.
*Information about keynote speakers, panel sessions and the Early Career 
Researchers Day will be provided in coming weeks. *
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*Learn more about JERAA by visiting its website: https://jeraa.org.au/#*
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*Further information: *
Main conference email:  (jeraa-2024 /at/ unimelb.edu.au)
Andrew Dodd (adodd /at/ unimelb.edu.au)
Caroline James-Garrod (_caroline.jamesgarrod /at/ unimelb.edu.au) 
<mailto:(caroline.jamesgarrod /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>_
Silvia Montana Nino (silvia.montanan /at/ unimelb.edu.au)
Sami Shah (_sami.shah /at/ unimelb.edu.au) <mailto:(sami.shah /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>_
Louisa Lim (_louisa.lim /at/ unimelb.edu.au) <mailto:(louisa.lim /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>_
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*JERAA 2024 is supported by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for 
Advancing Journalism, Mindframe, Our Watch, Dart Asia Pacific, and Media 
Super.*
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