[Air-L] Call for papers: Fifth Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics - Deadline 10 May

[Cristian Vaccari]

*Call for papers: Fifth Conference of the International Journal of
Press/Politics*

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September 16-17, 2019, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) will host the fifth conference
of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic
research on the relation between media and political processes around the
world. Professor Stuart Soroka from the University of Michigan will deliver
a keynote lecture.

A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be
published in the journal after peer review. The deadline for submission of
abstracts is May 10, 2019. Attendees will be notified of acceptance by June
7, 2019. Full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due September 2,
2019.

The conference brings together scholars conducting internationally-oriented
or comparative research on the intersection between news media and politics
around the world. It aims to provide a forum for academics from a wide
range of disciplines, countries, and methodological approaches to advance
research in this area.

Examples of relevant topics include the political implications of current
changes in media systems, including the increasing role of digital
platforms; the importance of digital media for engaging with news and
politics; analysis of the factors affecting the quality of political
information and public discourse; studies of the role of entertainment and
popular culture in how people engage with current affairs; studies of
relations between political actors and journalists; analyses of the role of
visuals and emotion in the production and processing of public information;
and research on political communication during and beyond elections by
government, political parties, interest groups, and social movements. The
journal and the conference have a particular interest in studies that adopt
comparative approaches, represent substantial theoretical or methodological
advances, or focus on parts of the world that are under-researched in the
international English language academic literature.

Titles and abstracts for papers (maximum 300 words) are invited by May 10,
2019. The abstract should clearly describe the key question, the
theoretical and methodological approach, the evidence the argument is based
on, as well as its wider implications and the extent to which they are of
international relevance.

Please send submissions via the online form available at
http://bit.ly/IJPP2019.

The conference is organized by Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University,
Editor-in-Chief of IJPP). Please contact Dr Vaccari with questions at
c.vaccari at lboro.ac.uk.

More about the journal, the keynote speaker, the University, and the Centre:

The International Journal of Press/Politics (
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb)
IJPP is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the
role of the media and politics in a globalized world. The journal publishes
theoretical and empirical research which analyzes the linkages between the
news media and political processes and actors around the world, emphasizes
international and comparative work, and links research in the fields of
political communication and journalism studies, and the disciplines of
political science and media and communication. The journal is ranked 4th by
Scopus (SJR) and 12th by Journal Citation Reports in Communication.

Professor Stuart Soroka, University of Michigan (http://www.snsoroka.com/)
Stuart Soroka is the Michael W. Traugott Collegiate Professor of
Communication Studies and Political Science, and Faculty Associate in the
Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan. His research focuses on political communication,
the sources and/or structure of public preferences for policy, and the
relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media.  His
most recent book is Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and
Consequences (2014, Cambridge University Press). Soroka is currently
collaborating on a project focused on cross-national psychophysiological
reactions to news content, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada; and a large-scale content-analytic project on
media coverage of US public policy, funded by the National Science
Foundation.

Loughborough University (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/internal/)
Based on a 440-acre, single-site campus at the heart of the UK,
Loughborough University is ranked top 10 in every British university league
table. Voted University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times Good
University Guide 2019) and awarded Gold in the National Teaching Excellence
Framework (TEF), Loughborough provides a unique student experience that is
ranked first in the UK by the Times Higher Education Student Experience
Survey 2018. Loughborough University has excellent transport links to the
rest of the UK. It is a short distance away from Loughborough Train
station, a 15-minute drive from East Midlands Airport (near Nottingham), an
hour drive from Birmingham Airport, and an hour and 15 minutes from London
via train.

The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/)
Since our establishment in 1991, we have developed into the largest
research centre of our kind in the UK. We are an interdisciplinary centre,
crossing over social science and humanities disciplines to draw on theories
and methods in social psychology, sociology, politics, history and
geography. Renowned for the breadth of our research, we range across
interpersonal and small-group communication, social media, political
communication, media education, mainstream communications—including digital
and online and the analysis of communicative work, such as political
campaigning, popular music and memory. Our core research themes are all
regarded as world-leading by our peers. We use a diversity of methods for
data gathering and analysis and work with a variety of partners, including
the BBC, the police, NSPCC and the Electoral Commission as well as our
international collaborators, to deliver fundamental and applied research of
exceptional quality.

Cristian Vaccari
Reader in Political Communication, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Bologna
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