[ecrea] Cfp Brazilian Journalism Research: Special Issue Journalism in Brazil and Africa: Cross-influences, Developments, and Perspectives

Call for articles

Special Issue: Journalism in Brazil and Africa: Cross-influences, 
Developments, and Perspectives

Guest editors: Marie-Soleil Frère (ReSIC, FNRS and Université Libre de 
Bruxelles, Belgium), Antonio Hohlfeldt (Faculdade de Comunicação Social, 
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Viola 
Milton (Department of Communication Science, University of South 
Africa,, South Africa), Susana Salgado (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)


This Special Issue of BJR will look at the theory and practice of 
journalism in Africa and Brazil. It focuses on the professional 
practices and institutions in these contexts of the Global South. 
Journalism in non-Western contexts has emerged under circumstances that 
often compelled it to contribute to anti-colonial movements, fight 
against discrimination imposed by the colonial and later on 
post-colonial elites against local populations, distance itself  from 
decades of single-party rule and government control on the media sector, 
while facing unprecedented economic challenges in poverty-stricken 
countries.
This Special Issue is interested in exploring the conditions within 
which journalism is practiced and studied in these contexts and how  it 
is different or similar from Western journalism. It also intends to 
address journalism’s relationship to and its role in shifting global 
relations and changing media environments. It wishes to explore the 
range of research, education and praxis issues for journalism in the 
diverse contexts of Brazil and Africa, with an eye on the individual 
tensions and interests that come to the fore when looking at each 
individually and comparatively.

This Special Issue of BJR wishes to contribute to meaning-making through 
a focus on possible cross-influences between these two geographical 
entities, similar developments and perspectives in their media systems, 
but also theoretical tools that can fertilize the reflexion about a 
“de-westernized” approach of journalism. At issue is the need to expand 
our knowledge through adopting a globalized approach to journalism 
research, education and practice. What are the varied contextual 
influences – social, cultural, political, and economic – that impacts 
upon journalism in these contexts? How do journalists and journalism 
scholars in African countries and Brazil perceive of journalism, its 
changing roles and foci and its relationships with various others? What 
new and developing approaches to journalism and journalism education and 
research are central to the intellectual pursuit of internationalizing 
journalism and media studies in these contexts? How were post-colonial 
studies integrated in these approaches? What are the constraints that 
journalists experience in these contexts? How do journalists contribute 
to political and social change in these contexts? How has journalism 
adapted to the Internet in access-wise peculiar environments?

We are looking for original contributions from researchers working on 
any aspect of journalism within these contexts. While a comparative 
approach to journalism in the context of Africa and Brazil is not 
compulsory for inclusion, it is strongly encouraged. Papers should not 
focus on single country case studies, but include a larger reflexion 
about new concepts and approaches developed in the “Global South”, and 
especially in these two areas, and how they can connect to each other. 
Contributors may choose to look at different types of media, i.e. 
newspapers, TV, radio, online, etc., and use quantitative and 
qualitative data, or different methodologies (content analysis, 
discourse analysis, case study, interviews, etc.) in their analyses.

Contributors are invited to focus on the following issues:
Journalism and:
- politics, - representation
- elections,
- freedom of expression,
- citizenship,	
- international relations, - media freedom and plurality,
- corruption, - human rights, - emerging markets,
- digitalization, - health,
- education, - citizen media/citizen journalism,


To be considered, articles must be submitted by May 30, 2017.


The length of texts must be between 30 000 and 40 000 characters with 
spaces.


As the Brazilian Journalism Research publishes two versions of each 
number (Portuguese/Spanish and English), the authors of accepted papers 
submitted in Portuguese or Spanish must provide a translation into 
English. Likewise, the articles submitted and accepted in English must 
provide a translation into Portuguese or Spanish. A selected number of 
accepted papers from non-Portuguese or Spanish speaking contexts will be 
eligible for translation services provided by the journal.

 Authors may also submit articles in French, but if approved for 
publication, they will be requested to provide translations as per the 
above.

Articles should be sent exclusively through the electronic system SEER / 
OJS, available from the journal website: http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br
If you have any questions, send an e-mail to (bjr /at/ gmail.com).


Guidelines for authors: 
http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/aboutsubmissions#authorGuidelines



Deadlines

Submission of papers: until May 30, 2017

Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2017

Delivery of final versions in English and Portuguese or Spanish and with 
revision and additional information suggested by the editors: October 
30, 2017

Publication: December 2017

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