[Commlist] Call for papers for the sixth conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics

*Call for papers:Sixth Conference of the International Journal of 
Press/Politics*
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Also available at 
https://cristianvaccari.com/2019/12/09/call-for-papers-for-the-sixth-conference-of-the-international-journal-of-press-politics-loughborough-university-29-30-june-2020/.

On *June 29-30, 2020*, the Centre for Research in Communication and 
Culture at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) will host the sixth 
conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on 
academic research on the relation between media and political processes 
around the world. Professor Young Mie Kim from the University of 
Wisconsin will deliver a keynote lecture.

A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be 
published in the journal after peer review. The deadline for submission 
of abstracts is *March 13, 2020*. Attendees will be notified of 
acceptance by *March 20, 2020*. Full papers based on accepted abstracts 
will be due *June 12, 2020*.

The conference brings together scholars conducting 
internationally-oriented or comparative research on the intersection 
between news media and politics around the world. It aims to provide a 
forum for academics from a wide range of disciplines, countries, and 
methodological approaches to advance research in this area.

Examples of relevant topics include the political implications of 
current changes in media systems, including the increasing role of 
digital platforms; the importance of digital media for engaging with 
news and politics; analysis of the factors affecting the quality of 
political information and public discourse; studies of the role of 
entertainment and popular culture in how people engage with current 
affairs; studies of relations between political actors and journalists; 
analyses of the role of visuals and emotion in the production and 
processing of public information; and research on political 
communication during and beyond elections by government, political 
parties, interest groups, and social movements. The journal and the 
conference have a particular interest in studies that adopt comparative 
approaches, represent substantial theoretical or methodological 
advances, or focus on parts of the world that are under-researched in 
the international English language academic literature.

Titles and abstracts for papers (*maximum 300 words*) are invited by 
*March 13, 2020*. The abstract should clearly describe the key question, 
the theoretical and methodological approach, the evidence the argument 
is based on, as well as its wider implications and the extent to which 
they are of international relevance.

Please send submissions via the online form available at 
http://bit.ly/IJPP2020.

The registration fee for the conference will be GBP 250, to be paid by 
*April 30, 2020*. A limited amount of registration fee waivers will be 
available for early career scholars and scholars from countries that 
appear in Tiers B and C of the classification adopted by the 
International Communication Association 
<https://www.icahdq.org/general/custom.asp?page=tiers>. Applications 
must be made by *March 13, 2020* via the abstract online submission form 
available at http://bit.ly/IJPP2020.

The conference is organized by Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough 
University, Editor-in-Chief of IJPP). Please contact Professor Vaccari 
with questions at (c.vaccari /at/ lboro.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.vaccari /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>.

More about the journal, the keynote speaker, the University, and the Centre:

/*The International Journal of Press/Politics* 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb>/
The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary 
journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the media and 
politics in a globalized world. The journal publishes theoretical and 
empirical research which analyzes the linkages between the news media 
and political processes and actors around the world, emphasizes 
international and comparative work, and links research in the fields of 
political communication and journalism studies, and the disciplines of 
political science and media and communication. The journal is published 
by Sage Publications and is ranked 11th by Scopus (SJR) and 12th by 
Journal Citation Reports in Communication.

*Professor Young Mie Wim, University of Wisconsin 
<https://journalism.wisc.edu/staff/young-mie-kim/>
*Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass 
Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political 
Science. Kim is a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns 
data-driven, algorithm-based, digitally mediated political 
communication. Kim’s recent research project, Project DATA (Digital Ad 
Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the sponsors, content, 
and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms 
with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers 
the algorithms of political campaigns. Kim and her team’s research, “The 
Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on 
Facebook,” identified “suspicious groups,” including Russian groups on 
Facebook. The work received the Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year in 
Political Communication (2018), awarded by the International 
Communication Association. Kim testified at the Federal Election 
Commission‘s hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication 
disclaimers and presented her research at the Congressional briefings on 
foreign interference in elections. Kim also spoke at the European 
Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and 
inequality in political involvement.

*Loughborough University <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/>*
Based on a 440-acre, single-site campus at the heart of the UK, 
Loughborough University is ranked top 10 in every British university 
league table. Voted University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times 
Good University Guide 2019) and awarded Gold in the National Teaching 
Excellence Framework (TEF), Loughborough provides a unique student 
experience that is ranked first in the UK by the Times Higher Education 
Student Experience Survey 2018. Loughborough University has excellent 
transport links to the rest of the UK. It is a short distance away from 
Loughborough Train station, a 15-minute drive from East Midlands Airport 
(near Nottingham), an hour drive from Birmingham Airport, and an hour 
and 15 minutes from London via train.

*The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture 
<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/>*
Since our establishment in 1991, we have developed into the largest 
research centre of our kind in the UK, and the 2019 QS World University 
Ranking placed us in the top 50 for communications and media research. 
We are a proudly interdisciplinary centre, creatively combining social 
science and humanities approaches for the rigorous exploration of the 
production and consumption of different forms of communication and 
creative texts. Our research draws on and contributes to theories and 
methods in cultural and media studies, sociology, politics, psychology, 
history and memory studies, textual, visual and computational analysis, 
and geography. We are interested in exploring how media and cultural 
texts are produced, how they construct meanings, how they shape the 
societies we live in, and how they fit within an ever-growing creative 
economy.

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