[ecrea] Call for Discussants Academy Colloquium 'The Audience Turn in Journalism Studies'

*Call for Discussants: **/Academy Colloquium The Audience Turn in 
Journalism/**, **Amsterdam January 22-25, 2019*

We invite discussant applications for /The Audience Turn in 
Journalism/ colloquium, a focused conference organized by Vrije 
Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Groningen and hosted by the 
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The colloquium is the 
final part of /The New News Consumer/ project 
(http://www.news-use.com/?page_id=718), a collaborative research project 
funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and 
conducted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of 
Groningen with twelve news industry partners.

*Call for Discussants*

The Academy Colloquium will be held* from 22 to 25 January 2019 in 
Amsterdam*. If you are interested in participating as a discussant in 
one or more of the panels of /The Audience Turn in Journalism/ 
/Colloquium/ (see Program, panel 1 to 4), please send an e-mail to 
(audienceturn /at/ news-use.com) <mailto:(audienceturn /at/ news-use.com)> with your 
motivation (250 words), including a brief discussion of how your work 
aligns with one or more of the panel themes. *The deadline for this call 
is November 1, 2018. *Early November applicants will hear from us.**

*Program *

The program consists of four focused panels in which the speakers share 
and discuss key findings and challenges from their work on (digital) 
news use and media habits. The panel presentations are followed by a 
discussion led by selected discussants. The discussants will reflect on 
the panel presentations based on their own research expertise.

_Day 0: Tuesday, January 22_

/19h: Opening reception/

_Day 1: Wednesday, January 23_

/Introduction: /The Audience Turn in Journalism Studies (Irene Costera 
Meijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/University of Bergen)

/Panel 1: /Capturing and making sense of everyday news use: Heather 
Horst (University of Sydney), Heikki Heikkilä (University of Tampere), 
Ike Picone (Free University Brussels), Stephanie Edgerly (Northwestern 
University)

/Panel 2: /Connective news in everyday life: Elizabeth S. Bird 
(University of South Florida); Hallvard Moe (University of Bergen); Kim 
Schrøder (Roskilde University); Stephen Coleman (Leeds University)

_Day 2: Thursday, January 24_//

/Panel 3. /How young people understand and engage with news: Lynn 
Schofield Clarke (University of Denver); Paul Mihailidis (Emerson 
College); Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political 
Science)

/Panel 4. /Audiences and journalists: (how) do they know each other?: 
Seth Lewis (University of Oregon), Steen Steensen (Oslo Metropolitan 
University), and Wiebke Loosen (Hans-Bredow-Institut Hamburg)

/Panel 5. /Future of audience research in Journalism Studies:Unpacking 
current dilemmas, ambivalences and contradictions in audience research 
(moderator: Marcel Broersma, University of Groningen)

_Day 3: Friday, January 25_

/Extended Colloquium Session. /Engagement and Trust: James G. Robinson 
(The New York Times) and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Reuters Institute for the 
Study of Journalism, Oxford University)

/Masterclass PhD’s and research master students. /Measuring changing 
news use and fragmented audiences: Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University) 
and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 
Oxford University)

*Aim*

The aim of this focused conference is to further knowledge of how the 
digitalization of journalism has changed and continues to shape news 
user practices, experiences and public engagement. As evident from the 
title, the colloquium takes a user-perspective to gain a better 
understanding of changing news habits in a digital era. Thus far, the 
audience perspective has received limited attention within journalism 
studies. If we want to capture and understand how digitalisation, 
globalisation and the increasing participatory nature of journalism have 
shaped people’s engagement with news, new theories, concepts and 
research methods are needed that put the news user center-stage.

This colloquium will theoretically and methodologically guide future 
studies on digital news uses and practices by bringing together 50 
internationally renowned audience and journalism researchers from the 
fields of political communication, anthropology, social psychology, 
media and journalism studies to share, discuss and connect insights from 
their work. The outcome of this effort will be a research agenda that 
incorporates the different approaches and research findings brought 
forward by this colloquium. **

*Practical information*

The venue for the colloquium will be the Trippenhuis (Kloveniersburgwal 
29, 1011, JV Amsterdam), seat of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts 
and Sciences.

Full registration is €150. This includes reception on Tuesday, dinner on 
Wednesday and Thursday, daily lunch, and tea and coffee breaks.  Please 
note that travel to Amsterdam and accommodation are not included. 
Limited funding might be available for candidates for whom the 
registration fee is an obstacle. The masterclass for PhD-students is 
free of charge.

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