[ecrea] CFP - Making sense of Election reporting: new directions, new challenges?

ICA PRECONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS: Making sense of Election reporting: 
new directions, new challenges?

Date: 24 May 2018. 9.00am - 5.00pm
Location: Velka zasedaci sin (room), Karolinum, Charles University, 
Prague, Czech Republic
Divisions: Journalism Studies and Political Communication
Organisers: Dr Stephen Cushion (Cardiff University) and Dr Dan Jackson 
(Bournemouth University).
Keynote speaker: Professor Frank Esser, University of Zurich

Description and Objective
Elections reporting is one of the most studied areas of journalism 
studies and political communication. From longstanding debates about 
agenda setting to more recent inquiries about the mediatization of 
politics, elections have provided the backdrop to many of the key 
theoretical breakthroughs in the field.
But in an increasingly fragmented news environment, where people rely on 
an ever-expanding range of media to understand what is happening in the 
world, election reporting is changing across new content platforms and 
providers. As the Reuters 2017 Digital News Report established, the 
citizens of many democracies now rely to a greater extent on online 
rather than broadcast and print news, with social media platforms 
playing a greater role in disseminating information than newspapers. 
Meanwhile, the political communication environment in which political 
journalists work continues to evolve in line with cultural and 
technological trends, with new challenges emerging for reporters in 
covering candidates who might eschew the channels of communication 
traditionally overseen by journalists and appeal directly to voters. New 
journalistic practices are also emerging in response to questions of 
truth and ‘post-truth’ in political campaigns.
It is therefore crucial that we ask the important questions of election 
reporting, and seek new empirical and theoretical insights that take 
thinking forward in this field. This one day ICA preconference, 
supported by the Political Communication and Journalism Studies 
Divisions, aims to bring together leading scholars around the world to 
consider the changing nature of news media during recent election 
campaigns. We encourage submissions that explore election reporting 
across both advanced and developing democracies.
We would welcome new theoretical and empirical inquiries that examine:

  *   The quality of information supplied during election campaign 
(e.g. debates about policy Vs game, hard or soft news etc.)
  *   Representing voters during election campaigns (e.g. use of polls, 
vox pops etc.)
  *   New insights on questions of balance, objectivity and 
impartiality of election reporting
  *   Reporting elections in a post-truth environment
  *   The role of fake news during election campaigns
  *   Blurring boundaries between news genres and popular culture in 
election reporting
  *   Who sets the media agenda and intermedia agenda setting (e.g. 
between new and legacy media)
  *   The interaction between journalists, politicians and campaign 
professionals during election campaigns
  *   New insights into the relationship between news media, public 
opinion and voter behaviour
  *   Changing news consumption habits and how this is shaping the role 
and influence of mainstream news media

Outputs from the preconference
We are in discussion with relevant journals for a special issue on new 
developments in election news. If successful, submissions for the 
conference will be considered and full papers invited in September 2018.
Submission procedure
Please send proposals for 15 minute paper presentations to Stephen 
Cushion ((CushionSA /at/ cardiff.ac.uk))<mailto:(CushionSA /at/ cardiff.ac.uk))> and 
Dan Jackson 
((jacksond /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk))<mailto:(jacksond /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk))>. 
Proposals should include the following: title and name, institutional 
affiliation, and email address, together with a paper title and abstract 
of not more than 500 words. Proposers should also indicate whether or 
not they are current postgraduate students.
Contributors will be selected by peer review, and will be notified of 
the outcome of their proposal by 26th January 2018. Authors are expected 
to attend the preconference and present in person.
All participants – whether speaking or not – must register and pay fees. 
Registration costs (including a welcome breakfast, coffee breaks and 
lunch buffet) are 50 USD for presenters and non-presenters. To register, 
participants need to go to www.icahdq.org<http://www.icahdq.org> and 
register online as part of their main ICA conference registration, or as 
a stand-alone registration. As spaces are limited to 40 participants, 
priority will be given to those accepted for presentation.

Key dates

  *   15th January 2018. Deadline for paper submission.
  *   26th January 2018. Paper proposers notified of decision by 
conference committee.
  *   1 April 2018. Deadline for preconference registration.
  *   24th May 2018. Preconference starts in Prague.
  *   Mid-September 2018. Expected deadline for submission of full 
papers for journal special issue.


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