[Air-L] cfp - Electronic Journal of Communication - social media in news discourse

[Donald Matheson]

Dear colleagues,

Call for papers

Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de  
Communication

Special issue: Social media in news discourse

As professional media producers pay more attention to social media,  
from personal blog entries and tweets to Facebook updates and YouTube  
videos, journalists are faced with numerous decisions. Among these are  
how to integrate personal and often-relationship-focused media with  
the public and fact-centred discourse of the news.

This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication invites  
contributions exploring the conventions that are emerging around the  
use of social media by news organisations, and the implications of  
those conventions for public communication. Contributions will have as  
their central concern whether or not the encounter with social media  
is changing aspects of news journalism.

Possible questions arising from this concern include:

how do the forms of personal expression to be found in social media  
translate into news discourse?
what authority or status as ‘knowers’ is given in the news to voices  
from various social media?
how are specific kinds of social media typically made use of within  
news discourse?
how are journalism’s ethical frameworks applied to these media?
to what extent is social media content decontextualised from its  
online social context when used by journalism?
are social media texts produced within news organisations also used in  
news texts?

Papers should be 5000-7500 words in length and submitted  
electronically to the guest editor, Donald Matheson, at donald.matheson at canterbury.ac.nz 
. Deadline for completed manuscripts is 20 November 2010. The issue is  
scheduled for publication in the second half of 2011.

Authors are welcome to contact the guest editor to discuss proposed  
papers or related matters.

Regards,

Donald

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Dr Donald Matheson
Media and Communication
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha
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Christchurch 8140
Aotearoa New Zealand
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