[ecrea] Call for Papers: Framing War & Conflict

*Call for Papers: Framing War & Conflict

Guest Editors: Sumaya Al Nahed & Philip Hammond

Respondents: Robert Entman & Curd B. Knupfer*

This special issue of /Media, War and Conflict/ 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mwc> focusing on framing analysis aims 
to assess the strengths and weaknesses of framing as a method for 
analysing contemporary war coverage, and to clarify how and why the 
method has been refined and modified over the years.

In the years since Robert Entman’s seminal 1993 essay sought to 
‘constitute framing as a research paradigm’ for the field of 
communication, framing analysis has been widely taken up as a key method 
for investigating news coverage of war and conflict. Yet the development 
and increasing use of framing analysis has been neither straightforward 
nor unquestioned.  For example, despite its extensive use there are 
still no settled and standardised rules for operationalising the method, 
so that in practice individual framing analyses sometimes differ sharply 
in their procedures, emphases and assumptions. Some critics have argued 
that most framing research places too much emphasis on the agency of 
individual actors, at the expense of considering more structural and 
organisational factors; others have wondered whether claims about the 
framing of events are worth making at all, if they depend on researchers 
stripping away the complex media ecology in which texts actually 
circulate. One might also legitimately ask, particularly in relation to 
the specific field of war and conflict, how far contemporary framing 
analysis still helps us, as Entman advocated, to understand the ways 
that news discourse bears the ‘imprint of power’.

We seek to bring together articles which exemplify and/or assess the 
range of ways in which framing analysis has been deployed, including 
more challenging or novel applications such as visual framing, online 
news or social media.  Possible topics might include, but are not 
limited to:

• Big Data and framing analysis
• frames vs. scripts
• framing analysis and social media
• framing and audience research
• institutionalised frames and professional routines
• linguistic and cultural differences in news framing
• political power and framing research
• quantitative and qualitative dimensions of framing analysis
• subjectivity in framing research
• textual framing and contextual meaning

Robert Entman (George Washington University) and Curd B. Knupfer (Free 
University of Berlin) will act as ‘respondents’ for the special issue, 
writing a concluding essay in response to the contributions that are 
accepted for publication.

*Submission details*

Please submit full articles directly to the guest editors by *1 October 
2017*: Sumaya Al Nahed ((sumaya.alnahed /at/ uwl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(sumaya.alnahed /at/ uwl.ac.uk)>) and Philip Hammond 
((phil.hammond /at/ lsbu.ac.uk) <mailto:(phil.hammond /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)>).

/Media, War and Conflict/ <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mwc> 
operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which reviewers’ 
names are withheld from authors, and authors’ names from reviewers. 
Reviewers may, at their own discretion, opt to reveal their name to the 
author in their review but the journal’s standard policy practice is for 
both identities to remain concealed.

Longer articles should be approximately 7,000 words and shorter articles 
5,000 words. Submissions will be refereed by anonymous reviewers. All 
articles should be accompanied by an abstract of 150 words and up to 6 
keywords. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with the 
author’s name and date in the text, and a full reference list in 
alphabetical order at the end of the article.


Link to this CfP: 
http://www.warandmedia.org/call-for-papers-framing-war-conflict/


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