[Commlist] Call for Papers: Emerging Directions in News Use Research' Open Conference & Project Launch Event.

Emerging Directions in News Use Research' Open Conference & Project 
Launch Event

We are delighted to have received some excellent submissions already and 
given the upcoming winter holidays, are extending the deadline for this 
Call for Papers, for the fully virtual and free 1 day conference on 
Emerging Directions in News Use Research taking place on 20th March 2024.

Extended submission deadline: 5pm BST on Monday 15th January 2024.

We are delighted to announce this Call for Papers, for the fully virtual 
and free 1 day conference on Emerging Directions in News Use Research on 
20th March 2024. The event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust 
funded parents’ news use project - which runs from the fall of 2023 to 
the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use project aims to examine how 
parents engage with and respond to news at critical moments of crisis. 
The project team includes Professor Ranjana Das, Dr Thomas Roberts, Dr 
Emily Setty and Dr Maria Nerina Boursinou from the Department of 
Sociology (University of Surrey).

Emerging Directions in News Use Research - a day-long, international, 
virtual conference - aims to bring together a global group of scholars 
researching news use, news audiences and consumption, and news 
engagement and disengagement. We are keen to hear from a range of 
empirical contexts, from projects using tried and tested as well as more 
creative and innovative methodologies, and to showcase the work of 
scholars across career stages in the fields of Sociology, Journalism, 
Media and Communication, and more. In particular we are keen to receive 
papers related to the two case studies at the centre of the News Use 
project: Environmental change and the climate crisis; Young people and 
sex and relationships.

Keynote speakers at the event include Professor Brita Ytre-Arne, 
University of Bergen, Norway; Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst; Professor Kim Schroeder, Roskilde University, 
Denmark; Professor Sahana Udupa, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 
Germany and Professor Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, Colorado.


Call for Papers

We welcome submissions for a 10-12 minute paper presentation on areas 
including (but not limited to):


- News use, environmental change and the climate crisis

- News use in relation to young people and sex and relationships

- Datafication, algorithms and the news

- Theoretical perspectives on news use

- Methodological aspects of news consumption research

- News use, risk and anxiety

- Families, parenting, children and the news

- News audiences and users

- News literacy

- News use research and global disparities and inequalities

- Disinformation

- News use and disconnection research


Abstract Submission Details:


Final submission deadline: 5pm BST on Monday 15th January 2024

Notification of outcome: Monday 29th January 2024

Deadline for Registrations (registration is free): Monday 18th March 2024

Please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/Qih6zcLmCt 
<https://forms.office.com/e/Qih6zcLmCt>

Event date: Wednesday 20 March 2024 , 0900 to 1700* GMT

Submission portal: https://forms.office.com/e/BiwVNNABnY 
<https://forms.office.com/e/BiwVNNABnY>

Please email any question you may have about submissions to Dr Nerina 
Boursinou at m.boursinou [at] surrey.ac.uk <http://surrey.ac.uk>.
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