[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: Journalism Studies: (Re)Imagining Journalism

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

Research Symposium on “Journalism Studies: (Re)Imagining Journalism”

May 12, 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal

The practice of journalism, the roles of journalists, and the 
information-consumption habits of audiences continue to change 
dramatically and rapidly. Journalists have already adapted to new media 
environments and communication tools, and face further change brought on 
by artificial intelligence and other technologies. This is also 
reflected in the theoretical field of journalism studies, and evolving 
theories of epistemology, transparency, objectivity, and audiences. The 
present and future of journalism is evolving and demands a rethinking or 
perhaps a reimagining.

Researchers in journalism studies at the Research Centre for 
Communication and Culture (CECC) at the Universidade Católica 
Portuguesa, Lisbon therefore invite submissions of extended abstracts 
for a symposium on “Journalism Studies: (Re)Imagining Journalism” to be 
held on May 12, 2025 at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade 
Católica Portuguesa, with a keynote address by Mark Deuze of the 
University of Amsterdam.

This symposium aims to bring together researchers, academics, 
professional journalists, and media organizations who are thinking about 
what the work of journalists looks like and should look like in 2025 and 
beyond. The symposium is open to researchers who wish to present on 
topics relating to the present and future of journalism, such as 
journalism and artificial intelligence, relational journalism, and 
journalism and contemporary audiences.

Please submit an anonymized abstract of no more than 750 words (not 
including references) to (journsymposium /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(journsymposium /at/ gmail.com)> by January 11, 2025. Notifications of 
acceptance will be sent by mid-February 2025. Note that the symposium 
will be held in person. Submissions from early-career researchers, and 
Ph.D. and M.A. students are especially welcome.

Abstracts may address a number of topics within journalism studies, 
including, but not limited to:

- Journalism and resistance

- Civic and participatory media

- Journalism and artificial intelligence

- Misinformation, disinformation, junk news

- Contemporary news audiences

- Journalism, peace and conflict

- News sources and journalism

- Journalism and media systems

- Funding models for journalism

- Crises of the institutional press

- What journalism studies can do for journalism

- Journalists and journalism scholars as agents of change

- Journalism and propaganda

- Journalism and emotion



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