[ecrea] CfP: Reconceptualizing the Field: International Perspectives Conference

Call for Papers

Reconceptualizing the Field: International Perspectives Conference – 
Columbia, Missouri, September 24-25, 2015

Mass communication and the subfields of Journalism Studies, Political 
Communication, Health Communication, and Strategic Communication have 
each encountered an array of conceptual and theoretical challenges in 
the wake of digitization, globalization and other disruptions. Terms 
such as audience, journalist, and even mass communication no longer 
capture communication phenomena in the ways they once did.

This conference seeks papers that reconceptualize old, but still 
valuable concepts or that offer new concepts and theories to capture 
newly emergent communication phenomena. The conference welcomes 
perspectives from North America and around the world.

We are calling for English-language papers that address the field of 
Mass Communication and the subfields of Journalism Studies, Political 
Communication, Health Communication and Strategic Communication.

This conference is sponsored by the University of Missouri School of 
Journalism and will be held September 24-25, 2015, in Columbia, 
Missouri, USA.

A 400-500 word abstract should be submitted to 
(mujourresearchconf15 /at/ missouri.edu) 
<mailto:(mujourresearchconf15 /at/ missouri.edu)> by April 15, 2015. Notice of 
acceptance will be provided by May 15, 2015. Full papers of no more than 
8000 words will be due by September 10, 2015.

For more information, contact Tim P. Vos, Coordinator of Global Research 
Initiatives, University of Missouri School of Journalism, 
(mujourresearchconf15 /at/ missouri.edu) 
<mailto:(mujourresearchconf15 /at/ missouri.edu)>.