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 Online Journalism, 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@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@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.
Deadline for extended abstracts: August 23, 2019
Guest Editor: Alfred Hermida, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director
School of Journalism, University of British Columbia (Canada)
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