[ecrea] Call for papers special issue for Digital Journalism

Call for papers special issue for Digital Journalism

Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism

Call online:http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/rdij-research-methods/

The digitization of media and journalism creates challenges for scholars as content, audiences and editorial spaces all become increasingly elusive when old boundaries, distinctions and demarcations dissolve. This holds true particularly for established methods developed and perfected for an environment where sender, channel, message and receiver have been distinct, predictable and static.

In order to study the changing content, dynamics and practices of the journalistic field, research methods need to be assessed, adjusted, re-designed and possibly even invented. The digital world of journalism is developing fast, and researchers need appropriate, stringent and viable methods for capturing and understanding these changes. Best practices and general recommendations that can help guide researchers are needed.

This issue of Digital Journalism is dedicated to Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism and will focus on discussing, developing and proposing methods for researching journalism in the contemporary technological context. We invite contributors to submit state-of-the-art review articles that make an inventory of, conceptualize, evaluate, synthesize, reflect on and recommend improvements to current scholarship on methods in digital journalism research including, but not limited to, the following areas of inquiry:

• Newsroom studies as production becomes dynamic, virtual, outsourced, down-scaled, off-shored and co-created
• Audience studies in an era marked by fragmentation, mobility, information overflow, cross-media consumption, sharing and user created content
• Analysis of journalistic content by means of computer automation as well as addressing news as a continuous, interconnected and interactive process
• Approaches to algorithms and ‘robo-journalists’ that are increasingly doing news work
• Analysis of third party intermediaries– such as Facebook, Google News and Instagram – that collect, aggregate, promote and host news and discussions
• Analysis of relationships in and between networks and publishing platforms
• Hybrid or multi-method approaches

How to Submit

Prospective authors should mail an extended abstract of roughly 500 words to guest editors Michael Karlsson and Helle Sjøvaag. All submissions will be reviewed by the editors and successful authors will be invited to contribute with a full 8,000 word paper that will be subjected to double blind peer-review.

Deadline for abstracts: April 30 2014
Deadline for full papers: January 2015

Editorial information
Guest edited by: Michael Karlsson ((michael.karlsson /at/ kau.se))
Guest edited by: Helle Sjøvaag ((helle.sjovaag /at/ infomedia.uib.no))

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Michael Karlsson
Associate Professor Media and Communication
Docent Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Karlstad University
+46 54 700 14 77
054-700 14 77
(michael.karlsson /at/ kau.se)



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