[ecrea] Call for papers - Election reporting: Special edition of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism

*Making sense of Election reporting:  new directions, new challenges?*

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Election 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 special edition of /Journalism: 
Theory, Practice and Criticism/ aims to bring together leading scholars 
around the world to consider the changing nature of news media during 
recent election campaigns. We encourage 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

*CFP Schedule (aligned with May's 2018 ICA pre-conference in Prague)*

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500 word abstract deadline: 15 January 2018

Invitation to write 8000 word article:  end of May 2018

Mid-October 2018. Expected deadline for submission of full papers for 
journal special issue.

Peer review: October 2018-January 2019

Revisions/second draft: End of February 2019

Copy to the Journal: End of March 2019

Online Ifirst Publication:  September May 2019

Editorial information

Guest Editor: Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University, UK 
((cushionsa /at/ cardiff.ac.uk))

Guest Editor: Dan Jackson, Bournemouth University, UK 
((jacksond /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk))


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