Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts for the below
special edition is this Friday, 10 September 2010.
ONLINE REPORTING OF ELECTIONS
JOURNALISM PRACTICE - SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
Guest editor: Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University, UK
Elections represent a great spectacle of journalism and are therefore
ideally suited to reflect upon the current and future state of journalism
practice in relation to online political news and communication.
Online news reporting in its various guises is now an essential part of
online political journalism. Recent examples range from political blogging
and Youtube debates during the 2008 US presidential election, through the
use of Twitter to report and mobilise civic uprising in the aftermath of the
2009 Iranian and Moldovan elections, to the normalising of online news
during the 2010 UK general election.
Newspapers and broadcasters now invest heavily in election micro-websites.
Journalists increasingly use Twitter and Facebook for breaking news or
unconfirmed rumours, and also as a valuable source of Œpublic sentiment¹ and
insight into the political process. Ordinary citizens, for their part, use
social media to hold politicians and mainstream media to account.
This special edition of Journalism Practice will be an opportunity to
discuss the role of online news reporting during national elections and
referendums. It will provide a forum for both practitioners and academics to
discuss emerging and established forms and practices of online journalism.
Comparative research is of particular interest to this special edition
either different national contexts, or different news practices within the
same national context.
Suggested areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
€ How does online election reporting compare across different national
contexts?
€ Has online journalism lived up to expectations during elections?
€ How has the Internet changed the working practices of political
journalists?
€ How does online reporting of elections compare to print and
broadcasting?
€ What role have citizen journalists had in the media landscape during
elections?
€ How have Twitter and Facebook influenced the way journalists connect
with audiences?
€ How do journalists use social media, blogs and UGC as election news
sources?
€ What are the strengths and limitations of live blogging?
€ How have the features of online news impacted on election campaigns?
€ How have news organisations facilitated online public debates and
comment?
€ How has online journalism helped inform electorates?
Prospective authors should email abstracts of 500 words to Einar Thorsen
([log in to unmask]). Papers will then be invited and subject to
peer review.
€ Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 September 2010
€ Deadline for submission of articles for review: 1 December 2010
€ Final revised papers due: 31 March 2011 (following peer review)
€ Publication: end of 2011/early 2012
If you have any questions or want to discuss an idea for the special issue,
please do not hesitate to get in touch.
PDF version of CfP available on Routledge website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rjopcfp1.pdf
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Lecturer in Journalism and Communication
The Media School, Bournemouth University
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