[ecrea] Call for papers: Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism

Call for papers: Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism
Digital Journalism

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

Guest editors: Michael Karlsson (Karlstad University) and Helle Sjøvaag 
(University of Bergen)

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

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)<mailto:(michael.karlsson /at/ kau.se)>)
Guest edited by: Helle Sjøvaag
((helle.sjovaag /at/ infomedia.uib.no)<mailto:(helle.sjovaag /at/ infomedia.uib.no)>)


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