[ecrea] Cfp - ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference, Odense, Denmark – March 
23-24, 2017. Hosted by the Centre for Journalism at the University of 
Southern Denmark

Deadline for abstract submissions: October 10, 2016

The 2017 Section Conference of the Journalism Studies Section of the 
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will 
take place in Odense, Denmark on March 23-24, 2017. The theme of the 
conference is "Changing audiences - Changing Joiurnalism". We welcome 
submissions dealing with journalism and news work in the broadest sense, 
in particular proposals with a focus on the role of the audience in 
journalism.

Across Europe, audiences are occupying an ever more central place in 
journalism. Economic pressure, audience fragmentation, and declining 
readership have lead journalists to reconsider who the news is made for. 
The public plays an increasingly important role in the news making 
process, through user-generated content, by sharing news on social media 
networks, or by demanding more transparency. New media and online 
networks create new empowerment opportunities, and blur the boundaries 
between news producers and consumers. Audience metrics provide instant 
feedback about the preferences and tastes of the public, which is 
directly incorporated into the news making process.
  These developments mark a clear shift from previous times when 
journalists were strongly oriented towards their peers and their 
sources, and kept the audience at arm’s length. The empowerment of the 
audience poses new questions for journalists and journalism scholars. 
Theoretically, it invites us to reconsider concepts like news values, 
and to develop new concepts, such as a public logic as opposed to a 
political and a media logic. From a normative perspective, it raises the 
question how far journalists should go to give in to the needs and wants 
of the audience. Similarly, new ways of addressing the audience, like 
constructive journalism, raise new ethical questions. Empirically, 
traditional journalism research methods as well as new methods like 
experiments or big data analysis can help to understand how journalism 
changes at a time when role of the audience is changing.

These and related questions will be addressed during the 2017 Section 
Conference of the Journalism Studies Section of ECREA. Besides papers 
focusing specifically on the role of the audience in journalism, we 
invite papers which study cultural, political, economic, social and 
professional aspects of journalism and news work in a broad sense. We 
welcome submissions from all theoretical, epistemological and 
methodological perspectives.

The conference will feature traditional paper presentations, high 
density sessions and coherent panels.
*Traditional paper presentations: Traditional paper presentations will 
take place in panels consisting of four to five papers.
*High density sessions: Participants present their research on a poster, 
which will be put up in the hall way. The session starts with an 
introduction round, where each presenter introduces her poster in a 
brief talk. After these talks the audience is invited to visit the 
posters and discuss the work with the researchers.
*Coherent panels: A limited number of slots will be available for 
coherent panels where one topic is addressed in four to five 
presentations, followed by a respondent. Preference will be given to 
panels with presenters from diverse backgrounds and affiliations.

SUBMIT:
Submissions can be sent to (ecrea /at/ sam.sdu.dk) no later than 10 October 
2016. Please include in the email (1) the title of your paper, (2) an 
abstract of no more than 400 words, (3) names and affiliations of the 
authors, (4) an indication whether you want your paper to be considered 
for a high density session.
To submit a panel proposal, a 300 words rationale should be sent 
alongside a 150 words explanation per presentation, as well as the names 
and affiliations of presenters and respondent.
-Submission will undergo scholarly peer-review.
-Only one proposal per first author can be accepted.
-Notifications of acceptance will be issued in early November 2016.

More information can be found on our website: 
https://ecreajournalism2017.wordpress.com/ Please contact the conference 
organizer, Arjen van Dalen, with questions at (avd /at/ sam.sdu.dk).



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