[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies (Special Issue: 'Media, Poverty & Inequality')

Call for Papers: Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies


Special Issue: ‘Media, Poverty and Inequality’


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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-applied-journalism-media-studies#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-applied-journalism-media-studies#call-for-papers>


The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies(AJMS) invites 
submissions to a Special Issue on Media, Poverty and Inequality.


Media framing of poverty has been shown by many scholars to be highly 
problematic (see Golding and Middleton 1982; Devereux 1998; Breen and 
Devereux 2003; Devereux 2007; Devereux and Power 2019; Clawson and Trice 
2000). Those experiencing poverty and inequality have, variously, been 
ignored, demonized and sensationalized, and poverty is more likely to be 
explained in terms of individual failings/weaknesses (Lyndon 2019; 
Morrisson 2019).  Discourses circulate which divide the poor into the 
‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’, with Moral Underclass Discourses ensuring 
that the ‘genuineness’ of particular groups experiencing poverty (the 
homeless; welfare-recipients; lone-parents; immigrants; Roma, for 
example) is called into question (Lens 2002). In this discursive space, 
classed, gendered and racialized discourses often intersect when poverty 
is alluded to (Edelman 1998; Lens 2002).


In a media setting, the conspicuous silence about the underlying 
structural causes of poverty and how it might be reduced or eliminated 
through redistributive means is notable (Harkins and Lugo-Ocando 2018; 
Lens 2002). 35 years ago, Devereux (1988) for example, noted how 
reporting on poverty suffered from source bias in that it relied heavily 
on the perspectives and actions of elite figures rather than the poor 
themselves. Equally, charitable as opposed to structural responses were 
favoured, thus permitting existing unequal power structures to go 
unchallenged. The long-standing deficit in terms of how media report on 
poverty has, if anything, been exacerbated in recent years, with media 
conglomeration resulting in even more infotainment and even less 
critical media coverage of issues such as poverty and inequality 
(Shildrick 2018).


This Special Edition seeks to examine such continuities and changes in 
media coverage of poverty and inequality and consider the ideological 
underpinnings of how poverty and inequality are explained to the public 
by both legacy and new news media organisations. Academics, 
practitioners, and researchers with an active interest in the following 
themes are especially invited to submit a research paper:


  *

    Media coverage of class and poverty,

  *

    ‘Deservedness’ versus ‘Undeservedness’,

  *

    Welfare and immigration,

  *

    Media coverage of food poverty/food banks,

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    Homelessness and housing crisis,

  *

    The capacity or not of citizen journalism to provide alternative
    counterpoints to hegemonic media discourses concerning poverty,

  *

    Media stigmatization of poor neighbourhoods,

  *

    Media discourses concerning poverty in ‘new’ media settings,

  *

    Media constructions of ‘the new poor’,

  *

    Source bias and media explanations of poverty,

  *

    Ethnographies of news production concerning social welfare, poverty.


TIMELINE


Abstract (300 to 500 words) – 7 April 2023


Accepted abstracts notification – 14 April 2023


Full paper submission – 30 September 2023


Accepted papers notification – 15 November 2023


Revisions and Publishing Contract – 30 December 2023


Final submissions – 29 March 2024


Date of print –June 2024


The acceptance of submission will be based on the quality of research, 
study or discussion, the originality of the paper, and the relevance of 
the contribution to the subject focus of the Special Issue. All 
submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer review process. 
Final papers should be 6,000-8,000 words in length.


CORRESPONDENCE


Please direct enquiries and abstract submissions to (martin.j.power /at/ ul.ie) 
<mailto:(martin.j.power /at/ ul.ie)>.


Visit the journal website here: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-appliedjournalism-media-studies 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-appliedjournalism-media-studies>


Guest Editors: Martin J. Power ((Martin.j.power /at/ ul.ie) 
<mailto:(Martin.j.power /at/ ul.ie)>) and Eoin Devereux ((Eoin.devereux /at/ ul.ie) 
<mailto:(Eoin.devereux /at/ ul.ie)>)


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