[ecrea] Production in Media and Journalism - Call for Papers (thematic issue)

/Media Research / Medijska istraživanja/

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Thematic Issue (2017, Vol. 23, No. 2):

*Production in Media and Journalism*

Editor-in-Chief:

Nada Zgrabljić Rotar (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Guest Editors:

Igor Vobič & Jernej Amon Prodnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

*Scope of the Thematic Issue:*

Open-access journal Media Research / Medijska istraživanja invites 
contributions for its themed issue entitled Production in Media and 
Journalism (2017, vol. 23, n. 2). The issue will be published in the 
second part of 2017 and will focus on different facets of the production 
process in media industries, particularly journalism production chain, 
and concurring relations of production in this sphere – from more 
general issues, such as structural embeddedness of production in 
capitalism and its implications for social communication and/or 
legitimation of the existing social relations, to more specific 
questions, for example paradoxes of labour division in newsrooms and 
normalization of precarity in journalistic community, occupational 
ideology, and issues connected to automatisation. Even though production 
is not a completely ignored topic in media and communication studies, it 
often remains under-represented and under-researched in comparison to 
other moments in the accumulation process of media industries.

We invite contributions based in critical approaches, chiefly in 
political economy of communication, but not limited to it. As the sphere 
of production encompasses a variety of relations and issues, our aim is 
a thematically rich issue, which will put a deliberate emphasis on 
theoretically and historically strong contributions that are not shy of 
asking general questions regarding media and journalism in capitalist 
society.


*The journal invites contributions assessing one or more of the 
following topics:*

- Specifics of media and journalism production within general relations 
of production

- The role of media and journalism production in reproduction of 
capitalist social relations

- (Ir)relevance of the base and superstructure model for the research of 
media in capitalism

- Changing forces of production in media and technological changes 
affecting production process

- Information sources and reproduction of power through journalism 
production (e.g. international press agencies, unnamed sources, routine 
sources)

- Convergence between production and consumption in media and journalism

- Production of audiences, audiences’ production

- Changes in physical production of media and communication technologies

- Labour(ers) in media industries’ production chains

- Dilemmas of automatisation and algorithms in media and journalistic 
production

- Precarious labour in journalism and occupational ideology

*Timetable:*

Submission of abstracts of 300-400 words and author’s details: 15th of 
November 2016

Notification of abstract acceptance: 15th of December 2016

Full manuscript of 6000-7000 words submission: 1st of May 2017

Results of double blind peer reviews: 1st of July 2017

Revised and proofread papers submission: 15th of September 2017

Final notification of acceptance: 15th of October 2017

All abstract submissions should be sent to guest editors Igor Vobič 
((igor.vobic /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si) <mailto:(igor.vobic /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si)>)
and Jernej Amon Prodnik ((jernej.amon-prodnik /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si) 
<mailto:(jernej.amon-prodnik /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si)>).

Journal Media Research / Medijska istraživanja (ISSN: 1330-6928 (Print), 
1846-6605 (Online)) is indexed in Sociological Abstracts (SA), 
Linguistic and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), Social 
Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA), Current Index to 
Journals in Education (CIJE) and in SCOPUS.

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