Democracy and
Media Transformations in the 21st Century: Analysing Knowledge
and Expertise
Edited by Epp Lauk and
Peter Berglez
Deadline for Abstracts: 1-15 January 2023
| Deadline for Articles: 15-31 May 2023
Media and Communication,
peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Web of Science (Impact
Factor: 3.043) and Scopus (CiteScore: 4.2), welcomes article
proposals for its upcoming issue "Democracy
and Media Transformations in the 21st Century: Analysing
Knowledge and Expertise," edited by Epp Lauk (University of
Tartu / Vytautas Magnus University) and Peter Berglez (Jönköping
University).
This thematic issue brings the capability of European countries
to monitor and analyse media and communication development in the
21st century to the centre of the inquiry. The existing knowledge
is voluminous, but even a cursory review reveals that it is
dispersed and fragmented (geographically, linguistically, by the
scope and volume of covered areas and issues, etc.). This issue
seeks meta-analyses of existing studies and databases dealing with
media transformations in the 21st century that (may) produce risks
to democratic public deliberation.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- The scope and quality of existing research on the recent
changes in the fields of freedom of expression and information,
media usage and related skills and attitudes, and the conditions
of sustainability of journalism and the journalistic profession.
Which gaps can be identified?
- Emerging issues that need scholarly attention, and the
availability of relevant data.
- What kinds of data and by whom are being collected about media
and journalism? Who owns this data? Are the databases freely
available? Is the analysis based on collected data taken into
consideration for making media-political decisions?
- Research organisation and expertise: the level of
institutionalisation of research, structural support and
financing schemes, and scholars and their qualifications.
- Risks for deliberative communication and democracy emanating
from the 21st century’s media development.
- International comparison of media monitoring capabilities.
Authors interested in
submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the
full call for papers here.
Abstracts welcome by 1-15
January 2023.
