[Commlist] Call for book chapters: “The Handbook of Applied Journalism and Media Studies - Investigating Journalism Practice Across Regions and Cultures”

Call for Book Chapters!
Leon Barkho (Jönköping University, Sweden) and Jairo Lugo-Ocando 
(Northwestern University, Qatar) welcome chapter submission to their 
forthcoming companion on journalism studies titled: “The Handbook of 
Applied Journalism and Media Studies - Investigating Journalism Practice 
Across Regions and Cultures”.
Following the submission of a detailed proposal, they have obtained the 
greenlight from Intellect Books, to compile the handbook, a monumental 
work of about 50 chapters. At this stage, we are seeking an abstract of 
about 250 to 300 words to be submitted to us by the end of May.
The handbook focuses on the question of how we can render our collective 
knowledge of journalism as a discipline and the mass of scholarly 
literature on the subject useful, practical, and relevant to those 
practicing journalism across regions and cultures. The edited handbook 
also welcomes contributions on any of the following key topics with 
emphasis preferably placed on own country, region, or culture:
**Interlink between journalism as scholarship and Journalism as practice:
1. Research which has practitioners (news outlets, newspapers, 
reporters, editors, media stakeholders, etc.) not merely as respondents 
or subjects, but as peers, counterparts, and co-authors.
2. Research focusing on journalism’s two planks at the same time: (1) 
content, and (2) practice.
3. Interlink between journalism studies as scholarship and journalism 
studies as practice that does not undermine the need of reporters to 
learn from the immense literature investigating their profession, and in 
turn will not deny receivers of journalistic content the opportunity to 
benefit from scholarly research.
**Journalism studies contribution to journalistic profession:
1. For the handbook, the concept of journalism research is understood as 
practice. This type of research, which takes practice as its thrust, is 
potentially meant to contribute to journalistic profession, and can be 
used by practitioners (reporters, media owners, editors, etc.).
2. What journalism studies can offer to help subjects of investigation 
(newsrooms, editors, reporters, etc.) to translate academic knowledge 
into practice to improve conditions in their field.
**Journalism practice across regions and cultures:
The utility of journalism, whether tackling conflict, economy, 
environment, peace, etc., and its relevance to journalism practitioners 
across regions and cultures.
**Toolkits to bridge the theory-practice divide
**Presentation of useful, relevant, and practical toolkits from the mass 
of journalism scholarship on how to bridge theory-practice divide.
**Theories and methods:
1. Novel research with novel methodologies and theories geared to 
benefit the practitioner world of journalism.
2. Work that investigates, operationalizes, and defines the gaping 
divide of theory and practice in journalism studies.
3. Research that shifts focus to the top of the journalistic process to 
arrive at a set of ideas involved in how reporters, editors and 
newsrooms practice their profession.
4. Research which is international in scope and examines the theory and 
practice of journalism across regions and cultures.
5. Research that looks at the entire news cycle and aims to provide a 
bridge between the theoretical and academic study of journalism and the 
actual practice of contemporary journalism.
6. Empirical examples, evidence and data of how journalists tend to 
adapt to crises, and our changing world.
The practitioner world:
1. Research demonstrating to the practitioner world, which is expanding 
and gaining greater influence due to the overwhelming power of digital 
media, that academics are useful to journalism as a profession.
2. Research papers involving theories or concepts of how journalists 
view the emerging social realities of our world, empirical studies of 3. 
How journalists view their work or go about it and how our evolving 
social realities contribute to the production of new journalistic 
frameworks.
4. Presentation of practical solutions and alternatives with models on 
how to build concrete stories, models for coverage to help journalists 
to improve quality with examples that can be used by journalists and be 
useful for journalism education, training of journalists and students of 
journalism.
5. Everyday journalistic routines, practices, problems, conditions, etc. 
that guide journalists across regions and cultures.
6. Contributions by practitioners on their views and perceptions of 
journalism studies and its relevance.
**Within this broader framework, questions that could be asked 
pertaining to the thrust of the interrelated dimensions of the handbook:
1. How can the collective knowledge we have about media content and its 
reception contribute to improvements in the field of journalism and its 
practitioners?
2. How to change the existing mind logic or mindset towards journalism 
studies?
3. How to develop theoretical, applied, and empirical research that 
engages practitioners about the future of their own profession?
4. How far globalization in its various aspects, economic, social, or 
cultural, have impacted journalism as practice.
5. What differences are there in coverage of global and local issues in 
the practice of journalism?
Submission guidelines:
Please submit your abstract of about 250 to 300 words by 31st of May 
2021 to Leon Barkho ((leon.barkho /at/ ju.se) <mailto:(leon.barkho /at/ ju.se)>)
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