CfP Journalism Research & Education (JRE) Section 2014
JRE Chair
Ibrahim Saleh, PhD
University of Cape Town
The Journalism Research & Education Section invites submissions for its open sessions at the IAMCR conference will take place in Hyderabad from 15th to 19th July 2014. The theme of the conference is «Region as Frame: Politics, Presence, Practice.»
There is an increasing sense of profound changes in both society and the media that certainly lead to a new form of political journalism that is becoming more diverse, fragmented, and complex.
Social geography is being reshaped as a result of the connectivity provided innovative news media practices and values, though the nature and extent of these changes are neither uniform nor equally distributed in different regions
The Journalism research and Education section focuses this year on the idea that we do not live with media, but in media. Our online/offline lives are becoming integrated in terms of our social and cultural contexts of use because they tend to break down and redraw the boundaries between the private and the public.
Our mediatised societies experience deeper levels, changing power relations among key message providers, while receivers are being rearranged; which makes the whole field of journalism research and education culture is being transformed. This redefinition of conventional meanings of «democracy» and «citizenship» are being questioned and rethought.
Journalism research and education is subject to politics of convergence at all levels, though it is more felt on the regional one causing a new territory for politics, though it also raises questions about the national boundaries within which the political realm has traditionally been cast.
Within the general theme, some difficult questions must be raised:
• How have the privatization and commercialization inherent in (digital) media convergence altered the relation between the state and civil society at regional levels?
• What modes of political participation, or expression/exertion of power have become (im) possible?
• What new literacies are needed in order to be able to access, and possibly criticize, a political discourse and public sphere steeped in franchising, entertainment and «Regional convergence culture»?
The Journalism Research & Education Section is opened for panel proposals, workshop sessions and research papers proposals to address the issues related to exploring the dynamics of media systems, communication patterns and organizational relationships within this new «framing» of region as a physical and conceptual category.
The JRE section considers this general idea through the lens of the five JRE themes:
- International Collaborative Research in Journalism Research: New Challenges and Emergent Perspectives
- Innovations in Journalism
- The Professional Journalism
- Methods for Quantifying Professional Journalism
- Generic Studies of Journalism
Abstracts should range between 300 and 500 words in length including the research objectives, theoretical framework and methodology. Each proposal must include title, name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email addresses of the author(s). All abstract submissions must be made centrally via the IAMCR Open Conference System (OCS) available for abstract submission at http://iamcr-ocs.org.
It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be accepted per person in the research paper proposals in the JRE section Program. But the author could also submit a panel proposal. Please note also that the same abstract or another version with minor variations in title or content must not be submitted to other Sections or Working Groups of the Association for consideration, after an initial submission. Such submissions will be deemed to be in breach of the conference guidelines and will be automatically rejected by the Open Conference System, by the relevant Head or by the Conference Programme Reviewer. Such applicants risk being removed entirely from the conference programme.
The JRE section encourages its members to take part in their moderation and chairing sessions so please let us know, if you are interested (jre09isatgmail.com)
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Ibrahim Saleh, Ph.D.
Convenor of Political Communication Programme at the Centre For Film & Media Studies, University of Cape Town (UCT); Chair of the Journalism Research and Education Section in the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR);Co-editor of the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies; Editor of Global Media Journal African Edition, Fellow of Africa Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI) and Global Partner Organization of the UN Alliance of Civilization Media Literacy Education Clearinghouse.
Email: Ibrahim.Saleh@uct.ac.za,Isaleh@aucegypt.edu,jre09is@gmail.com & librasma@gmail.com
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Email: Ibrahim.Saleh@uct.ac.za,Isaleh@aucegypt.edu,jre09is@gmail.com & librasma@gmail.com
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