*CFP* "INVESTIGATING TRUE CRIME & THE MEDIA", JOURNALISM@NEWCASTLE CONFERENCE

"Investigating True Crime & the Media"

Journalism@Newcastle

Ethical Space, the International Journal of Communication Ethics

23 June 2022

Submissions are open to researchers, PhD students, and practitioners working in the field, and parity of esteem will be afforded to both theoretically-driven and practice-related papers.

We particularly welcome submissions from diverse voices and nations and regions beyond Western perspectives. The aims of the conference and  double issue are to explore current and emerging concepts, developments and potential future trajectories of true crime narratives and  production from a global perspective.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Feminist perspectives (production, consumption, reception)
• Theorising the field
• Queer theory and true crime
• True crime in Africa, Asia, South America and the Pacific
• European perspectives and the Nordic Noir
• The rise of the true crime podcast and dedicated channels and platforms
• Ethical tensions
• Campaigning and investigative journalism
• Literary true crime – critical reception and unease
• Media reporting
• Representations of victimhood
• The accused and control of the narrative
• The writer’s mission
• Fictionalisation and negotiations of truth
• The commodification of fear
• Institutional failure and the quest for social justice
• True crime and a warming planet
• Commercial imperatives and the public interest
• The political economy of true crime

Deadlines:

Please submit abstracts of 500 words plus a 50-word biography to Barbara.henderson@newcastle.ac.uk by Friday 29 October 2021. 

Authors will be notified of the outcome by 19 January 2022.

PowerPoint presentations are acceptable for the conference on 23 June 2022, but full papers (5,000 words including references) for publication in Ethical Space Winter 2022 should be submitted by 31
August 2022.