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[ecrea] CfP - Special Issue on the Changing Business of Journalism

Thu May 31 22:09:30 GMT 2012



International Journal of Press/Politics

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy

The last decade has seen tremendous change in the commercial news media that play a central role in political processes in democracies around the world. Dramatic social changes, economic fluctuations, and new technologies have all combined to transform at least in part the media systems inherited from the 20th century. But our understanding of the direction, drivers, and implications of these changes remains incomplete and provisional, partially because there has been a tendency to try to understand the transition in purely national terms without rigorous comparison to how things have unfolded elsewhere.

This special issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics is dedicated to international comparative research on the changing character of commercial news media in democracies around the world at the beginning of the 21st century, and what these changes in turn mean for democratic politics. The motivation is our view that cross‐country analysis is necessary to understand both the causes and consequences of current changes, and that mass media and mass politics remain so tightly intertwined that changes in one will have consequences for the other. We therefore invite contributors to focus, on the basis of empirical work in two or more democracies, on both substantive and more theoretical issues including:

• Developments in news media industries including newspapers, free‐to‐air broadcasting, cable television, and pure player news provision with an emphasis on what these developments mean for their role in democracies

• Similarities and dissimilarities between trends in the functioning of news media in different democracies, in established versus new democracies, and in mature markets versus emerging markets with attention to their political consequences

• The role of public policy in responding to recent changes in the media industries across different democracies, and the wider democratic implications

• The changing definition and role of “journalism” and the potential rise of new kinds of journalism (partisan media, private high‐price subscription‐only news services, etc) in different countries and what it means for democracy

• The development of new information and communication technologies as used for news production, dissemination, and engagement across different democracies, and what this means for the relations between media and politics

• The utility of inherited conceptual vocabularies based on individual media platforms (print, broadcasting, etc) and often assuming the nation‐state as a unit of analysis (media systems, etc) in understanding present changes in times some see as defined by internationalization and convergence In each case we seek contributions that use a comparative approach to get a firmer empirical and conceptual understanding of current transformations in the media sector in democratic societies, and directly address the question of what this means for politics.

The issue will be edited by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford and Roskilde University), Frank Esser (University of Zurich), and David Levy (University of Oxford).

Authors should submit papers using the online system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpp). The deadlyne for submission is October 1st 2012. Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and bibliography. All submissions will be peer reviewed, and the editors will select 5 or 6 articles for publication. The issue is tentatively scheduled for publication in July 2013.

Questions should be directed to Dr Nielsen ((rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)) or Professor Esser ((f.esser /at/ ipmz.uzh.ch)). More information is found here: http://hij.sagepub.com/


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