[Air-L] Call for papers for the sixth conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics (Loughborough University, 29-30 June 2020)

[Cristian Vaccari]

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

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On *June 29-30, 2020*, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) will host the sixth conference
of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic
research on the relation between media and political processes around the
world. Professor Young Mie Kim from the University of Wisconsin 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 *March 13, 2020*. Attendees will be notified of
acceptance by *March
20, 2020*. Full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due *June 12,
2020*.

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 *March
13, 2020*. 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/IJPP2020.

The registration fee for the conference will be GBP 250, to be paid by *April
30, 2020*. A limited amount of registration fee waivers will be available
for early career scholars and scholars from countries that appear in Tiers
B and C of the classification adopted by the International Communication
Association <https://www.icahdq.org/general/custom.asp?page=tiers>.
Applications must be made by *March 13, 2020* via the abstract online
submission form available at http://bit.ly/IJPP2020.

The conference is organized by Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University,
Editor-in-Chief of IJPP). Please contact Professor 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>*
The International Journal of Press/Politics 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 published by Sage Publications and is ranked
11th by Scopus (SJR) and 12th by Journal Citation Reports in Communication.


*Professor Young Mie Wim, University of Wisconsin
<https://journalism.wisc.edu/staff/young-mie-kim/>*Young Mie Kim is a
Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty
Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim is a 2019 Andrew
Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns data-driven, algorithm-based,
digitally mediated political communication. Kim’s recent research project,
Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the
sponsors, content, and targets of digital political campaigns across
multiple platforms with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that
reverse engineers the algorithms of political campaigns. Kim and her team’s
research, “The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue
Campaigns on Facebook,” identified “suspicious groups,” including Russian
groups on Facebook. The work received the Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the
Year in Political Communication (2018), awarded by the International
Communication Association. Kim testified at the Federal Election
Commission‘s hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication
disclaimers and presented her research at the Congressional briefings on
foreign interference in elections. Kim also spoke at the European
Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and
inequality in political involvement.

*Loughborough University <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/>*
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, and the 2019 QS World University
Ranking placed us in the top 50 for communications and media research. We
are a proudly interdisciplinary centre, creatively combining social science
and humanities approaches for the rigorous exploration of the production
and consumption of different forms of communication and creative texts. Our
research draws on and contributes to theories and methods in cultural and
media studies, sociology, politics, psychology, history and memory studies,
textual, visual and computational analysis, and geography. We are
interested in exploring how media and cultural texts are produced, how they
construct meanings, how they shape the societies we live in, and how they
fit within an ever-growing creative economy.

Cristian Vaccari
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Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/>
Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/>
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics
<http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hij>
Chair, APSA Information Technology & Politics section
<https://www.apsanet.org/section18>
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Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
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Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/
Google Scholar profile
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en>
Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari>