[acc-cca-l] #ISOJ Journal 2020 call for papers / International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)

[Alfred Hermida]

*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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