[ecrea] 2 cfp: sources and flows of news & recent types of news images

Dear colleagues,
*Our new international scientific* journal, entitled /About journalism/, 
will be launched in 2012. /About journalism/ is a peer-reviewed 
open-access journal, published in electronic and print editions. The 
first issue will focus on qualitative research interviews with 
journalists. Visit our website : www.surlejournalisme.com
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There are two calls for papers (in French, English and Portuguese) :
-*'SOURCES AND FLOWS OF NEWS**':*
The circulation of news, the identification of sources and the change in 
the very nature of news conduits and actors require re-assessment both 
in theory and practice. Research hitherto has not always addressed these 
issues in depth. We need to review the distinction between what were 
previously different sets of practices (news production by professional 
journalists vs. news consumption by the audience) and the respective 
approaches of sociology of journalism, of media discourse analysis and 
of the sociology of media reception and interpersonal relationships. 
?Sources and flows of news? call for papers reflects this broad 
perspective. Submissions will focus
on the following themes and/or their inter-relationships: Analysis of 
the present ?media-scape?; The material used by news actors (case 
studies); The news circulation theory.
> See the complete call (in French, English and Portuguese): 
www.surlejournalisme.com
Editors: (michael.palmer /at/ univ-paris3.fr), (franck.rebillard /at/ univ-paris3.fr), 
(eric.lagneau /at/ afp.com), (jeremie.nicey /at/ univ-paris3.fr) ;
Deadline for paper submission (30.000 to 50.000 signs): May 15th 2012 ;
Contributors should express an interest before 15th January 2012.
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-*'RECENT TYPES OF NEWS IMAGES' - Photographs, computer graphics, maps:*
Digital technology has led to redefining how image is used in 
information. Image has always been linked with text (or a sound 
commentary) to illustrate and inform. However, today, beyond the issue 
of evolving forms, the multiple roles assigned to images and its uses 
that are henceforth integrated in the Internet and Web 2.0, the purpose 
of the publication we propose is to interrogate the modes of perceiving 
the world offered/dictated by the visual representations of information 
and news. This leads to several questions: the principles of news images 
(illustration or information, showing, designation, explanation, 
demonstration, denunciation?); the roles of the journalistic images; the 
impact of time and the circulation of images on their social existence. 
These three questions obviously lead to three possible types of 
interpretation: the meaning desired by the author/publisher; the meaning 
of the work itself and all its possibilities; the meaning produced by 
the reader/spectator.
> See the complete call (in French, English and Portuguese): 
www.surlejournalisme.com
Editors: (annelise.touboul /at/ univ-lyon2.fr), (Jean-Francois.Tetu /at/ univ-lyon2.fr) ;
Deadline for paper submission (30.000 to 50.000 signs): May 15th 2012 ;
Contributors should express an interest before 15th January 2012.
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MORE INFO ON THE WEBSITE: www.surlejournalisme.com
Editors of /About journalism/: François Demers (Université Laval, 
Canada), Florence Le Cam (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Fabio 
Pereira (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil), Denis Ruellan (Université de 
Rennes 1, France).
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