[Commlist] cfp - Future of Journalism

Reminder -- Call for Papers closes**in**three weeks.


*Future of Journalism, Cardiff University, UK, September 2019*

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Future of Journalism: “Innovations, Transitions and Transformations”


The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff 
University will host the seventh biennial Future of Journalism 
conference on 12-13 September 2019.

The conference will take place in JOMEC's new state-of-the-art home in 
Cardiff's city centre. The theme will be “Innovations, Transitions and 
Transformations.”

Our distinguished keynote speakers are Professor Andrew Chadwick 
(Loughborough University), Professor Adrienne Russell (University of 
Washington), and Professor Nikki Usher (University of Illinois). Please 
see their bios below.


The call for abstracts is now open. We invite contributions on all 
aspects of journalism, with those addressing the conference theme 
particularly encouraged. Issues to be addressed may include:

  * How are definitions of journalism changing in an evolving news
    ecosystem?
  * What is the future for today’s journalist in an environment
    increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, big data,
    algorithmic processing and "liminal" journalism practices?
  * How are standards of quality, balance and fairness changing,
    including with regard to the perceived decline of ‘mainstream media’
    and the rise of hyper-partisan outlets?
  * To what extent are social media democratising citizens’ engagement
    with news across mobile platforms?
  * How best to encourage new cultures of experimentation and innovation
    for rethinking journalistic form and practice?
  * How should journalism studies respond to these shifts, conceptually
    and methodologically?
A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in 
special issues of the international peer-reviewed journals /Digital 
Journalism/, /Journalism Practice/ and /Journalism Studies/. Routledge / 
Taylor & Francis have kindly agreed to sponsor the conference.


The conference will take place on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th 
September 2019. The registration fee will be £250 (£200 for postgraduate 
students), which includes tea and coffee breaks as well as the 
conference dinner (to be held on the evening of 12th September).


The deadline for submitting abstracts (250 words maximum) for papers is 
January 31^st , 2019. Please submit your abstract via the conference 
email address: (FofJ2019 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk) <mailto:(FofJ2019 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)>


Please do not submit more than one abstract as first author, with no 
more than two abstracts in total.Should you have any questions, please 
contact Bina Ogbebor at (FofJ2019 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(FofJ2019 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)>



Bios for our Keynote speakers:


Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Communication, Director of the 
Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) 
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/doctoralresearch/civic-culture-cdt/>, 
and a member of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture 
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/>at Loughborough University, where 
he is also the University’s Research Beacon leader for Political 
Communication and developed and launched Loughborough’s new MA Social 
Media and Political Communication 
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/social-media-political-communication/>.His 
books include /The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power/ (Oxford 
University Press, 2013; Second Edition, 2017), which won the 2016 
/International Journal of Press/Politics/ Book Award for an outstanding 
book on media and politics published in the previous ten years and the 
American Political Science Association Information Technology and 
Politics Section Best Book Award, 2014; /The Handbook of Internet 
Politics/, co-edited with Philip N. Howard (Routledge 2009, 528pp), and 
/Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication 
Technologies/ (Oxford University Press, 2006, 400pp), which won the 
American Sociological Association Best Book Award (Communication and 
Information Technologies Section) and is among the most widely-cited 
books in its field. Andrew is the series editor of Oxford University 
Press’ book series /Oxford Studies in Digital Politics/ 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-studies-in-digital-politics-osdp/?cc=gb&lang=en&view=Grid>, 
which currently features 27 books. His website is www.abdrewchadwick.com 
<http://www.abdrewchadwick.com/>and he is on Twitter at 
https://twitter.com/andrew_chadwick


Adrienne Russell is Mary Laird Wood Professor in the Department of 
Communication and Associate Director of the Center for Communication and 
Civic Engagement at the University of Washington. Her research focuses 
on the digital-age evolution of activist communication and journalism 
and explores communication related to climate change and social justice. 
She is the author of /Networked: A Contemporary History of News in 
Transition/, which came out in 2011, and /Journalism as Activism: 
Recoding Media Power/, which was published in 2016. She is co-editor of 
the volumes /Journalism and the NSA Revelations (2017) 
/and/International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics 
(2009). /Her work has been published in the top journals of the 
communication field. She recently co-launched “2K,” a special section of 
/Social Media + Society /that’s dedicated to public scholarship related 
to media and technology.


Nikki Usher, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at The School of Media and 
Public Affairs at The George Washington University and an associate 
professor at The University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in the 
College of Media. Her research focuses on news production in the 
changing digital environment, blending insights from media sociology and 
political communication. Her first book, Making News at The New York 
Times (University of Michigan Press, 2014) was the first book-length 
study of the US’s foremost newspaper in the Internet era and won the 
Tankard Award, a national book award from the Association for Education 
and Mass Communication in Journalism. Her second book, Interactive 
Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code (University of Illinois Press, 
2016), focused on the rise of programming and data journalism, and was a 
finalist for the Tankard Award, making Usher the first solo author to be 
a two-time finalist.  Usher co-edits the Oxford University Press book 
series "Journalism and Political Communication Unbound." She has been a 
fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University's 
Graduate School of Journalism and a fellow at the Reynold's Institute at 
the University of Missouri. She is the winner of the AEJMC Emerging 
Scholar Award and was named the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding 
Junior Scholar, in addition to joining the Kopenhaver Center as a 
leadership fellow.





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