[ecrea] Call for Papers: conference on news production cultures in Oxford

Call for Papers: conference on news production cultures, deadline May 15

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of 
Oxford is seeking abstracts of papers for possible presentation at its 
conference, ‘Negotiating Culture: integrating legacy and digital 
cultures in news media,’ October 28-30, 2015 in Oxford. The best papers 
will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of "Digital Journalism".

The increasing importance of the Internet, social media, and mobile 
media for the distribution of news and information has altered news 
production practices and is creating conflicts among journalistic values 
and norms, digital media values and norms, and various commercial and 
organizational imperatives. News media increasingly find that the 
organisational cultures that represent some of their greatest strengths 
are also weaknesses, even after over two decades of dealing with digital 
media. This conference explores the nature of those encounters and how 
newsrooms and news organizations are negotiating cultural differences 
and creating new hybrid cultures involving legacy and digital elements.

We are particularly interested in analysis of the central bases of these 
conflicts as well as their creative potential, i.e., how the conflicts 
are manifest, when these conflicts are mostly destructive and when more 
creative, and how organisations and their personnel respond to them. The 
emphasis of the conference will be on empirically-based papers that 
advance our understanding of how news media negotiate the cultural 
challenges that accompany the rise of digital media. We are interested 
in single organization and comparative analyses, both within-country 
comparisons and between media in different national contexts, and 
welcome work from journalism studies, media management, sociology, and 
other relevant fields.

Abstracts of papers are sought on topics such as:

· value conflicts and creative tensions within digital newsrooms

· newsroom interactions with commercial and technology departments

· determining platform priorities for products and services

· managing differing cultures in the organisation

300-500 word abstracts outlining the topic, methodological and 
theoretical approach and empirical basis should be submitted by May 15 
to Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, RISJ Director of Research, at 
(rasmus.nielsen /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk). Notification of selected abstracts 
will be made by June 26.

The best papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of 
"Digital Journalism" (Taylor
& Francis).

Keynote Speakers
Lucy Küng, Reuters Institute, Oxford, and Jönköping International 
Business School
Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute, Oxford

Conference Organizers
Lucy Küng, Reuters Institute, Oxford, and Jönköping International 
Business School
Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute, Oxford
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute, Oxford

http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/call-papers-conference-news-production-cultures?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

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