[Air-L] Please post: EJC call for papers: Social Media in News Discourse

[Harrison, Teresa M]

Special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication:  Social Media in News Discourse
Guest Edited by Donald Matheson

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-centered 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.

Deadline for completed manuscripts is November 20, 2010.  For the complete call for papers, see http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/calls/socmedia_news.htm.  For more information about the issue contact Donald Matheson at donald.matheson at canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:donald.matheson at canterbury.ac.nz>



Teresa M. Harrison
Managing Editor, EJC
Professor of Communication
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222
Voice:  518-442-4883
Fax: 518-442-3884
email: harrison at albany.edu