[ecrea] CFP Contemporary Journalistic Narratives (Brazilian Journalism Research)

We invite all fellow researchers to participate in the thematic issue 
focused on Contemporary Journalistic Narratives of the Brazilian 
Journalism Research (BJR), a biannual journal published by the Brazilian 
Journalism Researchers Association (SBPJor). Articles must be submitted 
no later than February 28th, 2015 and author guidelines are available at 
http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.

 With kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Monica Martinez, guest editor of the Contemporary Journalistic 
Narratives Thematic Issue, and Prof. Mateus Yuri Passos, assistant guest 
editor



Call for papers BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH v.11, n.1

Thematic Issue: Contemporary Journalistic Narratives

In the contemporary world, the art of the narrative is practiced in 
several levels in the press and broadcasting media, as well as in 
digital environments. In the Journalism Studies field, the discussion on 
narrative are present in several domains that aim to reflect on the 
narrative construction and its relations to historical, sociological, 
aesthetic, discursive, ideological, economic and psychological aspects, 
among others.

Wishing to systematize discussions and concepts on Journalistic 
Narratives, Brazilian Journalism Research is open until February 28th 
2015 for submissions to its thematic issue on Contemporary Journalistic 
Narratives (v.11, n.1 jan./jun. 2015). The issue will cover manuscripts 
that focus on the narrative and journalism issue through many possible 
approaches, which may include (however are not limited to):

- Journalistic Narratives as an environment for representations and 
mediations;

- Journalistic Narratives  and their relation to journalistic praxis;

- Epistemological aspects of studies on Journalistic Narratives;

- Methodological issues of the field, including discussions on methods 
such as Life History, Oral History and Family History etc., as well as 
techniques such as in-depth Interviews;

- Journalistic Narratives and the subject;

- Intersections of journalism and other fields of knowledge in the 
production of journalistic narratives;

- Narrative as an aesthetic and discursive strategy in journalism;

-  Panoramic or individual analyzes of relevant authors or narrative 
genres (biography, profile, travel writing, essay etc.);

- Journalistic narrativity in specific segments: politics, science, 
sports etc.;

- Journalistic Narratives and the construction of gender, ethnicity, 
sexuality etc.;

- Journalistic Narratives and the new media.

Texts must be between 30.000 and 40.000 characters long (including 
spaces). Since Brazilian Journalism Research publishes two versions of 
each issue (English, Portuguese and Spanish, authors of accepted 
manuscripts submitted in English must provide a translation to 
Portuguese or Spanish by the deadline we inform below. Likewise, authors 
of accepted papers submitted in Portuguese or Spanish, must provide an 
English version.

The papers must be submitted through the Open Journals System on the 
journal website: http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br

 Author guidelines can be found on the 
url:http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Deadlines

Paper submission: February 28th 2015

Peer review: April 15th 2015

Submission of revised manuscripts in english or portuguese/spanish: May 
15th 2015

Publication: July 31st 2015

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