[acc-cca-l] #ISOJ Journal 2020 call for papers / International
Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)
Alfred Hermida
alfred.hermida at ubc.ca
Thu Jul 11 10:57:41 MDT 2019
*International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)*
*CALL FOR PAPERS for #ISOJ Journal 2020*
*Deadline for extended abstracts: August 23, 2019**
Paper Theme: Power, privilege and patriarchy in journalism: Dynamics of
media control, resistance and renewal
Guest Editor: Alfred Hermida, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director
School of Journalism, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Journalism is commonly described as a public good that is essential for
the functioning of a democratic society, with journalistic discourse
imbued with a rhetoric of mission and service to the public. The
normative fundamentals and professional ideology of journalism are often
taken as a given and the starting point for practice and research. Yet
scholars have highlighted the persistence of power structures with the
discipline of communications in general, and journalism more specifically.
Journalism has been described as a form of elite discourse that
promotes, maintains and reifies political, ideological and economic
hierarchies to the detriment of other groups, reproduced by journalists
working under editorial, professional, managerial and financial constraints.
Critiques of journalism have pointed out how maleness and whiteness have
been embedded in journalistic norms and practices. These notions have
shaped the definition of what and whom is newsworthy and contributing to
a process of ‘othering’ along lines of class, ethnicity, gender, race,
Indigeneity, sexuality or national difference. Such work goes beyond
simply considering the over-representation of male whiteness in the
newsroom to consider the prominence of elite sources, disregard for
other groups, inaccurate depictions of racialised groups, and potential
harm to marginalized communities. At the same time, emergent actors,
from the Alt Right to #BlackLivesMatter to #metoo, have leveraged
networked, digital media to connect communities, advance their own
perspectives, and challenge narratives of representation in the
mainstream media, prompting initiatives among some publications to be
more representative and inclusive of diverse communities.
This issue of the #ISOJ Journal welcomes studies that engages with the
communicative power of journalism as a starting point to reimagine what
journalism could be. It seeks research that explores and advances ideas
on how journalism can better connect, reflect and serve increasingly
diverse and global publics. It invites submissions that explore how
ideas of power, privilege and patriarchy intersect and shape
journalism’s institutional forms, practices, and epistemologies,
including both empirical articles (using quantitative, qualitative,
computational and/or mixed methods) and theoretical articles. It also
invites studies that address the pervasiveness of whiteness in pedagogy
to consider how journalism education could acknowledge and address
racialized or gendered social structures.
#ISOJ Journal, the official research publication of the International
Symposium on OnlineJournalism (http://isoj.org/research/), is seeking
extended abstracts (up to 1,000 words) for a special issue on this
topic, to be published in conjunction with the next ISOJ symposium in
April 2020. A subset of the authors of selected extended abstracts will
be asked to send full manuscripts.
All submitted manuscripts will undergo a blind review process, and the
authors of those articles selected for publication also will be invited
to present their work at the symposium.
Note: For papers that are accepted to the conference and journal,
authors will not be charged or asked to make a payment in order for
their articles to appear in the journal. ISOJ doesn’t have article
processing charges.
Inquiries about this call may be directed to alfred.hermida AT ubc.ca
<http://ubc.ca>and should contain the words ‘ISOJ Query’ in the subject
line.
Extended abstracts and full manuscripts should be emailed to ISOJ
research chair Amy Schmitz Weiss at aschmitz at sdsu.edu
<mailto:aschmitz at sdsu.edu>
Notices for selected extended abstracts will be sent by September 13,
2019. Full papers are expected by October 21, 2019.
More details about the call are available here:
https://isoj.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ISOJCall2020-FINAL1.pdf
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