[eccr] CFP: News and the Net - Special issue of Scan

>Call for Contributions
>News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences
>A special issue of 'Scan', edited by Chris Atton & Graham Meikle
>
>The study of news has always been central to the study of the media. But
>while the rise of the Net has attracted enormous scholarly interest and
>has reinvigorated the field, there has not as yet been as much research
>on news and the Net as there might be. Some recent research has
>emphasised online journalism as a set of professional practices
>developed from existing journalistic philosophies and routines, though
>often privileging the dialogical nature of the medium to generate news
>agendas with media audiences (Deuze and Dimoudi, 2002). Other work
>emphasises journalism as a set of deprofessionalised practices that
>privilege grassroots 'native reporting' as a distinctive feature of an
>'alternative journalism' (Atton, 2003). Such research highlights the
>potential of Net use to enable new configurations of news production,
>distribution and reception; new modes of authorship and audiencehood;
>new kinds of producer and consumer. This special issue of 'Scan' invites
>contributions that are able to push forward our thinking about the
>modalities of Internet news production and reception. We are
>particularly interested in papers that combine theory and practice to
>critically explore the claims made for the various manifestations of
>these practices.
>
>Who uses online news?  What do they use it for?  How is credibility
>judged? To what extent are relationships changing between reporters and
>readers, between news outlets and consumers, in a media environment that
>can be customised? How significant are participatory news and discussion
>projects such as Indymedia 
>(<http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml>http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml), 
>
>Wikinews (<http://en.wikinews.org>http://en.wikinews.org), OhmyNews
>(<http://english.ohmynews.com/>http://english.ohmynews.com/) or Slashdot 
>(<http://slashdot.org/>http://slashdot.org/)? What
>of news values and news content? What contributions are made to the
>discussion of news by online art and satire projects such as Tenbyten
>(<http://www.tenbyten.org>http://www.tenbyten.org), News Reader
>(<http://turbulence.org/works/twotxt/nr-index.htm>http://turbulence.org/works/twotxt/nr-index.htm) 
>or The Onion
>(<http://www.theonion.com>http://www.theonion.com)? And what of 
>blogging?  The blog may be just
>as much the province of the professional journalist as the amateur and,
>indeed, the much-vaunted 'independence' of blogs is often curtailed by a
>reliance on dominant news agendas and framing mechanisms (Haas, 2005).
>Which types or uses of blogging can be usefully approached under the
>rubric of 'news'?
>
>Answers on a postcard to...
>
>Chris Atton
>Napier University, Edinburgh
><(c.atton /at/ napier.ac.uk)>
>
>Graham Meikle
>Macquarie University, Sydney
><(graham.meikle /at/ mq.edu.au)>
>
>Submission dates and guidelines
>Completed papers should be sent to the issue editors by 30 September
>2005. Refereeing and revisions to be completed by 31 October 2005, for a
>November launch.
>Submission details and style guidelines are at
><<http://www.scan.net.au/scan/about/journal_submissions.php>http://www.scan.net.au/scan/about/journal_submissions.php>. 
>
>Maximum length is 6,000 words.
>
>'Scan' (<http://www.scan.net.au>http://www.scan.net.au) is a refereed 
>quarterly online journal
>of media arts and culture, hosted by the Media Department at Macquarie
>University, Sydney.
>
>References
>Atton, Chris (2003) 'What is "Alternative" Journalism?', Journalism:
>Theory, Practice and Criticism 4(3): 267-272.
>
>Deuze, Mark and Dimoudi, Christina (2002) 'Online journalists in the
>Netherlands: Towards a profile of a new profession', Journalism: Theory,
>Practice and Criticism 3(1): 85-100.
>
>Haas, Tanni (2005) 'From "Public Journalism" to the "Public's
>Journalism"? Rhetoric and reality in the discourse on weblogs',
>Journalism Studies 6(3): 387-396.
>
>Dr. Chris Atton
>Reader in Journalism
>School of Communication Arts
>Craighouse Campus
>Napier University
>Edinburgh
>Scotland
>EH10 5LG
>
>0131- 455 6127
>(c.atton /at/ napier.ac.uk)
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