[Commlist] CFP: Exploring climate journalism from globalized perspectives

*Call for Papers*: Exploring climate journalism from globalized 
perspectives - an IAMCR pre-conference

(8 July, 2023 - University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3,Lyon France)

Abstract submission deadline: 11 May, 2023 (submission details below).

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of the age.  While 
journalists prime the publics’ interest toward the issue (Brüggemann and 
Engesser 2017; Thiel and Lin 2022; Painter et. al 2022), politicians and 
corporate giants use the media to manipulate  as well as influence 
public discourse (Al Rawi et al 2021). Disinformation continues to 
spread (D'I. Treen et al 2020) in various spheres, including social 
media platforms and credible, impartial and accurate information on the 
climate change issue remains in short supply. In response, this IAMCR 
preconference call seeks to uncover the role that climate journalism 
(Schäfer and Painter 2020) is playing presently in mediating this most 
persistent and significant issue.

Researchers and affiliates associated with the Global Risk Journalism 
Hub, an international research network of journalism scholars from the 
Global South and Global North have spent the last two years 
investigating the dynamics of risk journalism in a rapidly changing 
world. These risks have been explored from a wide range of geographical, 
methodological, theoretical as well as empirical perspectives. In 
expanding this focus, the Global Risk Journalism Hub is currently 
engaged in research that seeks to probe the role that journalism is 
playing in shaping climate change discourse.

This preconference therefore offers an opportunity to present and 
discuss findings ahead of a second edited collection focused on 
journalism and climate change reporting.

The preconference invites papers that focus on the following questions 
(alongside other matters) related to climate reporting:

-How is the climate crisis being reported?

-When should reporting move beyond stating facts?

-What roles can sources, other than those of climate experts, play in 
reporting?

-Who should be a climate journalist (under which conditions and whose 
determination)?

-What role can debate play in reporting?

-What role is climate change reporting playing in shaping and 
influencing public discourse and attitudes to climate change?

-Possible comparative patterns of climate change reporting between 
regions or Global North & Global South

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*Abstract submission
*

Please submit abstracts of 300 words, including your name and 
institutional affiliation, to Ingrid Volkmer (ivolkmer /at/ unimelb.edu.au) and 
Bruce Mutsvairo (b.mutsvairo /at/ uu.nl) by *11 May 2023*.

*Pre-conference details
*

*Website*

https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/climate-journalism

*Date *

8 July, 2023

*Location*

University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon France.

*Convenors*

Bruce Mutsvairo (Utrecht)

Ingrid Volkmer (Melbourne)

Hayes Mabweazara (Glasgow)

Julian Matthews (Leicester)

Sara Chinnasamy (Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia)

Saba Bebawi (University of Technology Sydney)

*Contact email *

(bruce.mutsvairo.journalism /at/ gmail.com)

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