[ecrea] IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism

Call for papers:



IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism

Stanford University, Stanford CA

June 7-9, 2010



IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation 
Journalism is a venue for researchers from many 
disciplines and institutions to present work and 
ideas relating to the interplay of journalism and 
other forms of communication in innovation 
ecosystems. IJ-7 is also a meeting place for 
researchers and journalism professionals to 
discuss the best ways of covering innovation in 
the news, the business of doing that work, and 
how innovation journalism interacts with society. 
The conference welcomes a varied set of 
participants: Working journalists, policy-makers 
in journalism and innovation, academic 
researchers, faculty and research students in 
related areas of commerce, communication and 
journalism, and other professionals connected to the media industry.



The Conference is hosted at Stanford University 
under the auspices of the 
<http://injo.stanford.edu>Vinnova Stanford 
Research Center on Innovation Journalism.  The 
Innovation Journalism Center welcomes faculty and 
graduate student submissions on all topics 
related to communication and innovation.  The 
Program Committee specifically welcomes strong 
theoretical and empirical contributions without 
regard to particular methodological approach, 
professional context (including journalism, 
advertising, public relations, strategy and 
innovation, and the standard social science 
disciplines) and overall orientation of the 
research (theoretical, descriptive, 
philosophical, pedagogical, methodological or practical).



?The Prinjos? ?The Prizes for Best Innovation Journalism Paper

The best papers in each of the following three 
categories will receive a recognition for ?Best 
Paper at the Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford 2010?:

1. The Grand Prinjo: best conference paper among all submissions.

2. The Junior Prinjo: best paper submitted by graduate students.

3. The Journalist Prinjo: best paper submitted by practitioners.



Manuscript Submission

Authors may submit paper proposals or full papers.

-        Paper Proposal ? 500-700 words. Open until April 1, 2010

-        Full Paper ? max 25 pages excluding 
bibliography and appendices. Open until June 1, 2010.



Please make the submission documents anonymous ? 
author(s) identity must not be displayed. Please 
provide a separate page with paper title and an 
abstract of no more than 75 words; write name, 
affiliation and all contact information of the 
author(s) on that page with the abstract.  Format 
should be Word, citations in Harvard Style. Paper 
and abstract must be sent as attachments in one 
email to <mailto:(IJ7-mogensen /at/ stanford.edu)>(IJ7-mogensen /at/ stanford.edu)



SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS

If you want to test if your idea for a paper is 
welcomed by the Program Committee before 
undertaking the work of producing a paper, submit 
a paper proposal by April 1 and indicate that you 
would like to submit a complete paper. If our 
reviewers favor your proposal, you will receive 
an invitation to submit a paper before June 1. 
Your full paper will then be reviewed and given 
the status of either ?reviewed paper? or ?paper 
in progress? at the Conference.



SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS

You may submit a paper directly, without first 
submitting a proposal. Your paper may be accepted 
as a ?reviewed paper?, ?paper in progress?, or ? 
if it does not meet the criteria of the 
conference ? ?rejected?.  Please submit full 
papers to (IJ7-mogensen /at/ STANFORD.edu)  any time before June 1, 2010.



The Review Process

All papers will undergo blind peer review. The 
review process is humane, including reasonable 
turnaround time on submissions and firm but 
polite critique. Papers are reviewed in the order 
they are received and authors will receive 
answers as soon as the paper has been evaluated. 
Authors of accepted papers are expected to 
present their papers at the Innovation Journalism 
Conference at Stanford University. Authors of 
rejected full papers are invited to participate 
in the conference without presenting their work. 
No conference fee is collected.

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Main themes of IJ-7 Academic Track:

·   How journalism and innovation interact.

·   How journalism can cover innovation processes and innovation ecosystems.

·   Towards a systems view: Public attention and 
attention work in innovation communication 
ecosystems, the stakeholders and audiences, and 
the interaction between these elements.



Examples of research topics of interest:

·   Professional norms, values, codes of ethics 
and principles of innovation journalism.

·   How newsrooms and other professional 
organizations affect the coverage of innovation.

·   Democracy and governance: The role of 
journalism in the innovation economy.

·   Concept of attention work, the professional 
generation and brokering of attention.

·   Concept of innovation communication systems; 
the flow of attention in innovation systems.

·   How innovation processes and innovation 
ecosystems interact with public attention, with news media as an actor.

·   Interdependencies between journalism and 
other actors in the innovation system.

·   The roles of reputation and trust in the innovation ecosystem.

·   Business Models for innovation journalism.

·   Models of innovation and media, including 
firm, industry and economy-wide innovation systems.

·   Governance, accountability and innovation in 
and by journalists and media actors.

·   State of the art as well as theory and 
practice in the teaching of innovation journalism.

·   Innovation journalism and feminism.



Information about the conference and accepted papers will be posted on:

<http://www.innovationjournalism.org>http://www.innovationjournalism.org 
, the general InJo site, and the conference sites

<http://ij7.innovationjournalism.org>http://ij7.innovationjournalism.org 
alias <http://ij7.stanford.edu>http://ij7.stanford.edu





Program Committee

IJ-7 Chair: David Nordfors, Executive Director, 
VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism.

IJ-7 Academic Track Chair: Kirsten Mogensen, 
Visiting InJo Researcher, Stanford University and 
Associate Professor, Roskilde University.

Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and 
Senior Research Scholar. VINNOVA Stanford Center.

Marc Ventresca, University Lecturer in Strategy, 
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; 
Senior Research Scholar, VINNOVA Stanford Center; 
and Research Faculty, Global Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School

Doctoral Student Bettina Maisch, Institute for 
Media and Communication Management at University 
of St.Gallen andVisiting Researcher, Center for Design Research at Stanford



Program Committee Contact:

Professor Kirsten Mogensen: (kirstenm /at/ stanford.edu)

Visiting Innovation Journalism Researcher

Vinnova-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism, Stanford University.


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