September 16-17, 2019
Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) will host the fifth conference of the
International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic research on the
relation between media and political processes around the world.
The conference brings together scholars conducting
internationally-oriented or comparative research on the intersection between
news media and politics around the world. It aims to provide a forum for
academics from a wide range of disciplines, countries, and methodological
approaches to advance research in this area.
Examples of relevant topics include:
- the political implications of current changes in media systems, including the increasing role of digital platforms;
- the importance of digital media for engaging with news and politics;
- analysis of the factors affecting the quality of political information and public discourse;
- studies of the role of entertainment and popular culture in how people engage with current affairs;
- studies of relations between political actors and journalists;
- analyses of the role of visuals and emotion in the production and processing of public information;
- and research on political communication during and beyond elections by government, political parties, interest groups, and social movements.
- The journal and the conference have a particular interest in studies that adopt comparative approaches, represent substantial theoretical or methodological advances, or focus on parts of the world that are under-researched in the international English language academic literature.
Titles and abstracts for papers (maximum 300 words) are
invited by May 10, 2019. The abstract should clearly describe the key question,
the theoretical and methodological approach, the evidence the argument is based
on, as well as its wider implications and the extent to which they are of
international relevance.
A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal after peer review.
Please send submissions via the online form available here.
The conference is organized by Cristian Vaccari
(Loughborough University, Editor-in-Chief of IJPP). Please contact Dr Vaccari
with questions at c.vaccari@lboro.ac.uk
More about the journal, the keynote speaker, the University,
and the Centre:
The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal
for the analysis and discussion of the role of the media and politics in a
globalized world. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research
which analyzes the linkages between the news media and political processes and
actors around the world, emphasizes international and comparative work, and
links research in the fields of political communication and journalism studies,
and the disciplines of political science and media and communication. The
journal is ranked 4th by Scopus (SJR) and 12th by Journal Citation Reports in
Communication.
Stuart Soroka is the Michael W. Traugott Collegiate
Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science, and Faculty Associate
in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan. His research focuses on political communication, the
sources and/or structure of public preferences for policy, and the
relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media. His most recent book is Negativity in
Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences (2014, Cambridge University
Press). Soroka is currently collaborating on a project focused on
cross-national psychophysiological reactions to news content, funded by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; and a large-scale
content-analytic project on media coverage of US public policy, funded by the
National Science Foundation.
Based on a 440-acre, single-site campus at the heart of the
UK, Loughborough University is ranked top 10 in every British university league
table. Voted University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times Good University
Guide 2019) and awarded Gold in the National Teaching Excellence Framework
(TEF), Loughborough provides a unique student experience that is ranked first
in the UK by the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018.
Loughborough University has excellent transport links to the rest of the UK. It
is a short distance away from Loughborough Train station, a 15-minute drive
from East Midlands Airport (near Nottingham), an hour drive from Birmingham
Airport, and an hour and 15 minutes from London via train.
Since our establishment in 1991, we
have developed into the largest research centre of our kind in the UK. We are
an interdisciplinary centre, crossing over social science and humanities
disciplines to draw on theories and methods in social psychology, sociology,
politics, history and geography. Renowned for the breadth of our research, we
range across interpersonal and small-group communication, social media,
political communication, media education, mainstream communications—including digital
and online and the analysis of communicative work, such as political
campaigning, popular music and memory. Our core research themes are all
regarded as world-leading by our peers. We use a diversity of methods for data
gathering and analysis and work with a variety of partners, including the BBC,
the police, NSPCC and the Electoral Commission as well as our international
collaborators, to deliver fundamental and applied research of exceptional
quality.
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