*CFP* "VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED AND MIXED REALITIES IN JOURNALISM: THEORY, PRACTICE, CRITIQUE", SPECIAL ISSUE, BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH JOURNAL

The magnitude of the changes that occurred during the last 25 years of digital journalism has given way to a new communication scenario full of opportunities but also of professional and ethical challenges (Salaverría, 2019). Technology is behind many of the transformations that have taken place during this time and that have had an impact on the models of production, distribution and even consumption of information. The metamorphosis experienced, as referred to by certain authors (López-García, 2010; Vázquez-Herrero et al., 2020), has led to the current scenario: convergent, mobile and now also ubiquitous (Pavlik, 2001; Salaverría, 2015).

News media organizations are currently witnessing the introduction of a set of high- technologies in our daily lives: 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, intelligent virtual assistants, among others (López- García, 2019; Mosco, 2017). Its introduction in journalism practices has given way to what has been named as Hi-tech Journalism (Larrondo and López-García, 2020; Murcia and Ufarte, 2019; Pérez-Seijo et al., 2020; Salaverría, 2015; Ufarte et al., 2020). This label encompasses different trends that shape the "journalism that will tell the future" (López- Hidalgo, 2016, p. 255): use of drones to cover news (Fischer, 2019); VR and 360-degree video Journalism (Mabrook and Singer, 2019), also referred to as Immersive Journalism (De la Peña et al., 2010); augmented reality for news (Aitamurto et al., 2020); Automated, Robot or Algorithmic Journalism (Caswell and Dörr, 2018); and, among others, use of conversational bots –chatbots– in news websites (Ford and Hutchinson, 2019; Jones and Jones, 2019).

*CFP* "JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PROBLEMS", SPECIAL ISSUE, SUR LE JOURNALISME

According to Gusfield (1981), a social fact only becomes an object of concern, of claim and of debate in public policies after a work of conversion has been performed by several operators (Best, 2008; Neveu, 2015). Included in these operators are journalists and, to a larger extent, the media, which contribute to the construction of public problems and present the interlocutors involved, the questions raised and any possible answers in terms of public action.

At a time when journalism is experiencing a double crisis; one of profitability and credibility (Poulet, 2011; Descôteaux, Brin, 2018; Benton, 2019), how can we understand its role in the construction of public problems? The theme of this dossier discusses the competitive exercise of fighting for the validation of problems and proposals and their “framework”. What place do journalists occupy in these processes? What changes does the new information ecology (intensive use of digital social networks and the multiplicity of information producers and sharing) (Rebillard, Smyrnaios, 2010) bring to the genesis of public problems?

Articles submitted for this edition shall focus on the following theme: the relationship between generalist information media and journalists and the construction of public problems. We recommend the articles be based on one of the three topics listed below; however, we shall not exclude other proposals that may not necessarily be based on these three topics.

*CFP* "QUESTIONING ETHICS IN DIGITAL CONTEXTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES", Nº 25, REVUE FRANÇAISE DES SCIENCES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION

Created two years ago, the Group on Ethics and the Digital in Information-Communication research (GENIC) is now an accredited working group of the French national scientific association for information and communication science (Société Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication - SFSIC). The group promotes work on questions of ethics affecting all information-communication processes, in a context marked by the growing presence of digital technologies, through the analysis of phenomena, practices, social interactions. Indeed, all fields of research are touched by ethical questions (we refer the reader to the volume Dynamics of Information-Communication Research edited by the Conference of French Research Centers in Information-communication Sciences), take for instance the research fields related to the media, to legal, communicational, or organizational issues, or the role and the place of technologies in methods of research and scientific publication, in particular through the design of algorithms and data processing.

Beyond analyzing research practice, work in information-communication ethics should also take into account the logics of actors and their productions embedded in discursive, socio-economic, cultural, political and regulatory realities of digital and communication practices. Faced with a generalization of social controversies, whether related to the health crisis, the environmental crisis, public health issues, etc. it appears essential today that information-communication researchers participate in public debates around ethics and prepare those on the questions to come.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METHODOLOGIES IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (COIME 2021)

 The 8th International Conference on Methodologies in Communication Research (COIME 2021)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Información

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2,3 & 4 November, 2021

 

We are accepting proposals for papers for COIME 2021, the 8th International Conference on Methodologies in Communication Research. November 2 to 4 at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (in person and online).

Send an abstract here until September 19, 2021.

• Papers must necessarily deal with methodological aspects of communication research.

*CFP* "CINCUENTA AÑOS EN LA FORMACIÓN DE COMUNICADORES EN IBEROAMÉRICA", NÚMERO 37 (2022-1), REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

Después de cincuenta años de experiencia universitaria en la formación de comunicadores en Iberoamérica, podemos esbozar ideas y reflexiones críticas para entender los cambios por los que hemos pasado, hacer un balance de logros y limitaciones, así como proyectarnos en un tiempo de profunda incertidumbre a causa de la crisis sanitaria que enfrentamos desde el 2020. En el 2022, además, la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Lima cumplirá cincuenta años y tenemos ante nosotros la posibilidad de mirarnos y extender nuestro balance sobre lo ocurrido entre las instituciones universitarias con las cuales hemos crecido y cooperado a lo largo de estas décadas. Pero, además, podemos examinar el ejercicio de los profesionales formados en las aulas universitarias en Iberoamérica.

La vida académica en nuestras facultades y programas de comunicación aporta ofreciendo profesionales, así como conocimiento y creatividad que le permite intervenir en el destino colectivo de nuestras sociedades, de forma autónoma, con un espíritu vivo y una ética que resguarde las múltiples miradas y el aporte en la formación de ciudadanos para el ejercicio de la vida pública. No se trata solamente de realizar un examen histórico de los estudios universitarios, necesario para contextualizar el tema, sino de profundizar y evaluar las diferentes dimensiones referidas a los docentes y los alumnos, los modelos de enseñanza, la investigación y la transferencia, así como los vínculos con la comunidad científica, el mercado laboral y los aportes a la sociedad.

*CFP* "THE SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS IN TIMES OF INFODEMICS", MEKK CONFERENCE

The safety of journalists in times of infodemics

Oslo 2 and 3 November 2021

The research group MEKK

Oslo Metropolitan University

 

The term ‘infodemics’ had its breakthrough in 2020. The term – a combination of information and pandemics – describes a rapid and important spread of both factual and false information in a situation marked by uncertainty, also for those who are expected to disseminate information about the pandemic. In some countries journalists are being deprived of the right to report on the pandemic and experience increased risk associated with covering the governments’ social and economic policies. Several organizations working with the safety of journalists, such as Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) have repeatedly documented in 2020 attacks and direct violence against journalists covering Covid-19. This includes both coverage of the actual situation at a given time, as well as for instance coverage of demonstrations against strict Covid measures.

*CFP* "30 YEARS SINCE THE ATTACK ON DUBROVNIK: POLITICAL, COMMUNICATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE CITY UNDER SIEGE", SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Scientific conference titled “30 years since the attack on Dubrovnik: Political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege” will be held on October 1-2, 2021 at the University of Dubrovnik.

Thirty years after the attacks on Dubrovnik, the University of Dubrovnik in cooperation with the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts and Linnaeus University, Sweden, are organizing an interdisciplinary conference on political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege. A special focus of the conference will be given to analysis and comparisons with other cities that were under siege (Vukovar, Sarajevo, Srebrenica...) during the wars in the former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), but comparisons with other conflicts are also welcome.

Proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Understanding the context: the dissolution of Yugoslavia 
• War reporting practices from the Dubrovnik area; 
• Media analysis on the subject of war in Dubrovnik, Croatia and the ex-Yugoslav area from 1988 to 1995; 

*CFP* "ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNALISM: EMERGING MODELS AND LIVED EXPERIENCES. LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD", VOL. 8 Nº 2 (2022), BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH

This special edition of Brazilian Journalism Research interrogates and collates the links between entrepreneurialism and journalism, in emergent journalistic practices and socioeconomic models. The growing recognition of entrepreneurial values and practices in the journalism domain has occurred against a backdrop of interlinked changes in journalism and media in the economic, technological, social, ideological and regulatory terrains. These are most prominent not only in the emergence of new digital actors and new configurations of national and international media landscapes but also in the reframing of normative journalistic practices, organisational structures, modes of production, distribution and financial sustainability. In this vein then, entrepreneurial journalism delineates new relations between actors, publics and domains of activity (Hang and Van Weezel, 2005; Mitchelstein and Boczkowski, 2009; Lee-Wright et al., 2012; Mercier and Pignard-Cheynel, 2014; Carbasse, 2015; Grohmann et al., 2019).

Taking shape in a movement which moves beyond traditional journalism boundaries (Neff et al., 2005) these transformations have created favourable conditions for new editorial projects to grow outside of traditional legacy, corporate or mainstream media. They exist as heterogeneous independent structures where journalists are confronted with operational challenges and financial obstacles that question any hard divide between editorial and business operations, which are little understood. New journalistic techniques and products are developed and iterated through a process of experimentation outside of normative practices. Whether they openly embrace the ‘entrepreneurial journalism’ label (Briggs, 2011) as distinguished at least in part from the other non-salaried forms of employment such as freelance (De Cock and De Smaele, 2016) or whether they adhere to certain entrepreneurial competences and general qualities without wanting to be overtly labelled, these journalistic projects are united by a certain level in their journalistic practices of deindustrialization and decentralisation. They necessitate new definitions and understandings hinged on flexible structures and new manners of doing and financing journalism.

*CFP* "JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PROBLEMS", NEXT ISSUE, ABOUT JOURNALISM JOURNAL

According to Gusfield (1981), a social fact only becomes an object of concern, of claim and of debate in public policies after a work of conversion has been performed by several operators (Best, 2008; Neveu, 2015). Included in these operators are journalists and, to a larger extent, the media, which contribute to the construction of public problems and present the interlocutors involved, the questions raised and any possible answers in terms of public action.

At a time when journalism is experiencing a double crisis; one of profitability and credibility (Poulet, 2011; Descôteaux, Brin, 2018; Benton, 2019), how can we understand its role in the construction of public problems? The theme of this dossier discusses the competitive exercise of fighting for the validation of problems and proposals and their “framework”.

What place do journalists occupy in these processes? What changes does the new information ecology (intensive use of digital social networks and the multiplicity of information producers and sharing) (Rebillard, Smyrnaios, 2010) bring to the genesis of public problems? Articles submitted for this edition shall focus on the following theme: the relationship between generalist information media and journalists and the construction of public problems. We recommend the articles be based on one of the three topics listed below; however, we shall not exclude other proposals that may not necessarily be based on these three topics.

*CFP* "ENTERPRENEURIAL JOURNALISM: EMERGING MODELS AND LIVED EXPERIENCES", VOL.18 Nº2, 2022, BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH JOURNAL

This special edition of Brazilian Journalism Research interrogates and collates the links between entrepreneurialism and journalism, in emergent journalistic practices and socioeconomic models. 

 

The growing recognition of entrepreneurial values and practices in the journalism domain has occurred against a backdrop of interlinked changes in journalism and media in the economic, technological, social, ideological and regulatory terrains. 

 

These are most prominent not only in the emergence of new digital actors and new configurations of national and international media landscapes but also in the reframing of normative journalistic practices, organisational structures, modes of production, distribution and financial sustainability. 

 

In this vein then, entrepreneurial journalism delineates new relations between actors, publics and domains of activit.

*CFP* "EVOLUCIÓN DE LAS NARRATIVAS DIGITALES PARA LA COMUNICACIÓN Y EL PERIODISMO", NÚMERO 39, REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

El número 39 de Contratexto abordará la temática referida a la evolución de las narrativas digitales para la comunicación y el periodismo en los últimos años. Se propone crear un marco de reflexión a partir de propuestas de investigación en torno al desarrollo de la innovación narrativa que usan particulares, medios, empresas e instituciones sobre temas de actualidad, publicidad, periodismo, comunicación audiovisual o comunicación corporativa, entre otros.

Todo esto, a partir de las intersecciones entre la teoría y la práctica que siempre resulta fundamental para el estudio de la narrativa transmedia; y en un contexto donde las audiencias se segmentan cada vez más, llegando a condicionar los canales y la estructura de los mensajes. Por lo tanto, es necesario precisar si las nuevas narrativas tienen un enfoque específico de cara a nuevas audiencias o simplemente, en muchos casos, solo obedecen a tendencias impuestas por la industria tecnológica, constituyendo así “burbujas” temporales.

Hoy se considera que las audiencias, lejos de mantener la pasividad plateada por iniciales modelos de comunicación unidireccionales, desean participar cada vez más en el mensaje de medios, empresas, instituciones y particulares; y apropiarse y construir otros tipos de espacios de comunicación (Marzal & Casero, 2017), al tiempo que se construyen nuevos espacios de diálogo y nuevas oportunidades laborales (Salaverría, 2016).

*CFP* "PERIODISMO Y ALGORITMOS", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, REVISTA DOCUMENTACIÓN DE LAS CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN

La revista Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información profundizando en su interés por analizar los temas relacionados con la Documentación y los medios de comunicación dedica este próximo número a Periodismo y algoritmos.

Además, como es habitual en la revista, hay una sección miscelánea donde se incluyen otros artículos relacionados con la documentación en los medios.

Preguntas de investigación que busca responder el monográfico

• ¿Cuáles son las relaciones entre los algoritmos y la producción de noticias (“robot periodista”) y cuál es el panorama actual y las perspectivas de futuro en este sentido?
• ¿Qué influencias tienen los algoritmos en las recomendaciones de información de actualidad o información de interés social y político en las redes sociales y otras plataformas digitales y qué consecuencias tienen para el periodismo?
• ¿Cómo influyen los algoritmos en la difusión de las noticias falsas, bulos, etc., y en general en la desinformación y qué medidas podrían tomarse para frenar este fenómeno?
• ¿Cuáles son sus dimensiones y de qué manera se pueden analizar, entender o concebir los efectos del SEO cuando es aplicado al periodismo?

*CFP* "THE HANDBOOK OF APPLIED JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES: INVESTIGATING JOURNALISM PRACTICE ACROSS REGIONS AND CULTURES", BOOK CHAPTER

Leon Barkho (Jönköping University, Sweden) and Jairo Lugo-Ocando (Northwestern University, Qatar) welcome chapter submission to their forthcoming companion on journalism studies titled: “The Handbook of Applied Journalism and Media Studies - Investigating Journalism Practice Across Regions and Cultures”.

Following the submission of a detailed proposal, they have obtained the greenlight from Intellect Books, to compile the handbook, a monumental work of about 50 chapters. At this stage, we are seeking an abstract of about 250 to 300 words to be submitted to us by the end of May. The handbook focuses on the question of how we can render our collective knowledge of journalism as a discipline and the mass of scholarly literature on the subject useful, practical, and relevant to those practicing journalism across regions and cultures. 

The edited handbook also welcomes contributions on any of the following key topics with emphasis preferably placed on own country, region, or culture:

1. Interlink between journalism as scholarship and Journalism as practice:

*CFP* "AUTOMATION AND DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM BEYOND THE WESTERN WORLD: ACTORS, PRACTICES, AND SOCIOPOLITICAL IMPACT", ONLINE CONFERENCE OF THE SUSTAINABLE JOURNALISM FOR THE ALGORITHMIC FUTURE PROJECT

Sustainable journalism for the algorithmic future conference

Automation and data-driven journalism beyond the Western world: actors, practices, and socio-political impact

May 5th-6th, 2021

 

The research project ‘Sustainable journalism for the algorithmic future’ in partnership with the Aleksanteri Institute and Swedish School of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki invite the submission of papers to be presented at the online conference ‘Automation and data-driven journalism beyond the Western world: actors, practices, and socio-political impact’.

Algorithmic systems and other data-driven practices exert increasing influence over today’s societies, reshaping how social and economic systems function (Gillespie 2014). Algorithms are society’s new “power brokers,” dictating the stories that we pay attention to, the activities we participate in, and the people we connect with (Kitchin 2017). The news media is among those industries where artificial intelligence and algorithms are making strides and reordering the playing field as their use diversifies and expands.

*CFP* "RE-EXAMINING SCIENCE COMMUNICATION: MODELS, PERSPECTIVES, INSTITUTIONS", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Science communication continues to develop and change, as a discipline, practice and professional career path, with significant growth in both professional practice and academic study. Changes in the relationships between science and society and its increasing inclusion in official discourses have opened new opportunities for dialogue and collaboration. At the same time, this may have produced challenges for the authority of science, which can be openly contested, negotiated and transformed in public arenas. This transformation of the relationships between science and society has been fundamentally intensified by the digitalization of the media landscape. New media have increased the diversity of actors using, sharing and generating science content, their communication practices and the strategies they use.

These changes affect the working practices of scientists, R&I stakeholders, science communicators, journalists, museum/events mediators, and other practitioners whose engagement with science/science communication is rapidly evolving. What are the (new) roles that scientists, science communicators and institutions could or should play in this emerging landscape? Such changes also impact how citizens relate to science and science communication. How do different publics perceive, trust and rework messages and engage with science in a vast landscape that may include misinformation about science?

*CFP* "INTERACCIÓN Y VISUALIZACIÓN", NÚMERO ESPECIAL, REVISTA EL PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

El pasado 23 de marzo Navid Mamoon y Gabriel Rasskin, dos estudiantes de la Carnegie Mellon University lanzaron Covisualizer, una aplicación de visualización interactiva que permite consultar, prácticamente en tiempo real y por medio de un globo terráqueo, el número de víctimas y afectados por el Covid-19 en todos los países. En pocos días llegó a los 70 millones de usuarios. Covisualizer es sólo una de las numerosas interfaces que se han creado para facilitar la comprensión y consulta de los datos estadísticos que constantemente se registran sobre la pandemia. Su éxito se debe a la habilidad mostrada por sus autores en diseñar una interfaz en la que visualización e interacción se combinan eficazmente.  Es decir, por medio de la interactividad, el usuario explora los mapas y establece su propia narrativa visual. A través de mapas interactivos medios de comunicación, agencias estatales y centros de investigación han construido el relato de la epidemia focalizando aquellos aspectos del brote que han considerado más relevantes (Danielson, 2020).

Plantear interactividad y visualización como binomio refuerza la centralidad del usuario en los procesos de acceso, diálogo y relación con datos por medio de interfaces (McKenna et al., 2017). Así, por ejemplo, en comunicación social, frente a los medios clásicos en los que en un artículo periodístico el texto explicaba la historia y las gráficas o imágenes daban soporte o evidencia a lo narrado, en lo nuevos medios digitales se escapan de ese papel secundario. 

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPAR, NÚMERO ESPECIAL, REVISTA CUADERNOS.INFO

Cuadernos.info abre una convocatoria para la publicación de un número especial o tema central sobre cualquiera de las áreas de comunicaciones que cubre la revista y que sea del interés de nuestros lectores, para ser publicado en junio 2022. Dichas áreas de interés son: teorías, evidencia empírica y desarrollos metodológicos respecto de los medios, prácticas profesionales, audiencias, instituciones, tecnologías, y los efectos de la comunicación en lo social, político, económico y cultural, en las siguientes áreas: periodismo, comunicación institucional, audiovisual, multimedial y publicidad.

Un número especial normalmente comprenderá entre 5 a 8 artículos, más un breve editorial redactado por los editores invitados.

Los interesados en participar y postular como editores invitados de un número especial deberán tener en consideración las siguientes directrices.

*CFP* "CINEMATIC BODIES", 15.1 ISSUE, CINEPHILE JOURNAL

The body on the screen and the body of the screen have always formed a compelling and productive pairing. From apparatus theory to production and exhibition histories, these two conceptualizations of cinematic bodies remain valuable avenues for reflecting on the use of images, their visibility, materiality, and presentation. As cinema continues to fracture and expand across our cell phones and living spaces, the screen is increasingly tangible, mobile, and ubiquitous. Like the mobile toys and popular illusions preceding modern cinema, these forms of new media present particular bodies on particular screens. 

The unifying darkness of the movie theatre is being replaced by a brighter multiplicity of global media objects, at once scattered and reconciled through social media, streaming platforms, and the internet in general. Even as borders and nations are re-entrenched, international connections are being forged. Though research on the body of the screen (in exhibition histories, affect theory, and tactility) and on the body on the screen (in critical theory on the making of race and gender) has proliferated in recent years, bringing the two together will produce a more nuanced consideration of how and who we are watching today.

*CFP* "PERIODISMO CULTURAL EN EL SIGLO XXI (2). TENDENCIAS TRANSMEDIA Y PERFILES PROFESIONALES", CAPÍTULO DE LIBRO

Invitación a participar con un capítulo de libro a académicos del Periodismo y la Comunicación para el libro titulado Periodismo cultural en el siglo XXI (2). Tendencias transmedia y perfiles profesionales. Se trata de un libro centrado en las rutinas de los profesionales especializados en el ámbito cultural y la adaptación a las narrativas transmedia o la aplicación de métodos innovadores en sus rutinas de trabajo (multimedia, formatos digitales, propuestas empresariales, etc.). 

El volumen está coordinado por:

• Montserrat Jurado Martín, profesora de la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
• Beatriz Peña Acuña, profesora de la Universidad de Huelva.

Temática:

*CFP* "TRAUMA RESILIENCE BUILDING IN JOURNALISM CURRICULA: FACING RESEARCH CHALLENGES, ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE", CONFERENCE

Trauma Resilience Building in Journalism Curricula: Facing Research Challenges, Ethical Considerations and Implementation of Evidence Based Practice.

Jointly organised by

Lincoln School of English and Journalism 

Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies 

in partnership with 

Association for Journalism Education 

Manchester and Salford Branch of the National Union of Journalists, UK.

Thursday 14th and Friday 15th May, 2020.

University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln. LN6 7TS. UK.

Time: 9.30am.

Research has documented the impact of trauma on journalists. So far, it is not clear if this has fostered a clearer understanding amongst journalism educators and other stakeholders about how to foster resilience among journalism students to face potentially distressing situations through their taught curricula and practical experience.