[Air-L] Conference notification

[Caroline James-Garrod]

                       Call For Papers
2024 JERAA Conference
University of Melbourne
Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 November 2024
Early Career Researchers Day Tuesday 26 November 2024

Forward: facing the next wave of journalism disruption

‘Forward’ is about imagining and preparing for the future and then proceeding to face the challenges and possibilities ahead. For contemporary journalism, it implies critically anticipating and dealing with the consequences of seemingly endless waves of technological disruption. This year, the news industry - practitioners, educators, researchers and consumers - are experiencing the impacts of Artificial Intelligence, the defunding of news on digital platforms, copyright battles, further downsizing of media businesses and the belligerence of big tech, and all in the context of looming elections and global conflict. The 2024 JERAA conference will offer space to consider these pressing social and technological issues, as well as our role as educators and researchers in working to future-proof the industry, craft and discipline of journalism.

We invite abstracts (250-300 words) with short bios (100 words max.), and panel proposals that include (but are not exclusive to) industry and education discussions and theoretical and empirical research on the following themes:

Digital platforms: The line in the sand or the “post social media” moment?
Sovereign states versus Big Tech
The News Media Bargaining Code and its international adaptations
Trends and challenges for sovereign states in regulating digital platforms
The news media industry after the decline of news on social media
Identity and news
Australian journalism after The Voice referendum
First Nations media in Australia and across the globe
Race, feminism, LGBTQ+ inclusion in newsrooms and journalism
Safety and online abuse
Activism, advocacy and journalism
Freedom and journalism in war zones
New forms of journalism in conflict zones
Freedom fighters, civil rights and journalists in prison
Reportage in Gaza and Ukraine
Covering protests
Misinformation, fact-checking and ethical behaviour
Hyper-partisan and far-right media and the polarisation of news
Covering elections and political campaigns
Science journalism after COVID-19: climate change, health crises
Journalism ethics on trial, both legally and in the court of public opinion.
Trauma, stigma and framing (for good or evil)
Lessons from Bondi
Who is a terrorist?
Covering gendered violence
Guidelines for reporting suicide in Indigenous communities
Educating and training journalists
Learning and teaching journalism for international students in Australia
What to do about AI and journalism?
Podcasting and excellence in audio storytelling
New trends in authentic and experiential learning in journalism
Collaboration to tell big stories

Abstracts and panel proposals due Friday 12 July 2024, emailed to jeraa-2024 at unimelb.edu.au

The Centre for Advancing Journalism warmly invites you to the JERAA conference on the campus of the University of Melbourne on the lands of Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung People during the last week of November 2024. The JERAA Early Career Researchers Day will be held on Tuesday 26 November, followed by the main conference between Wednesday and Friday 27-29 November.

On Wednesday 27 November we will hold a joint session with the annual AANZCA (Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association) conference. This rare occasion will be an opportunity to network with colleagues and discuss issues that are critical to both associations. We will also host AANZCA for a joint celebration to mark the end of their conference and the beginning of ours.

We encourage AANZCA members to stay on and participate at JERAA. For those intending to do so, we offer a 15% discount on the conference price.



The conference will be hosting three guest speakers:

Investigative journalist Gerard Ryle will discuss Collaborative Journalism as a way to fight disruption in a Q&A-style conference discussion.

Gerard is the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-award winning director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington, DC. He led the worldwide teams of journalists who worked on the Offshore Leaks, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers investigations - the six biggest collaborations in journalism history. The Pandora Papers project involved more than 600 journalists at more than 150 news outlets in 117 countries working together. Gerard has won and shared in more than 90 major journalism awards from eight countries, including five Walkley Awards. In 2021, ICIJ was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.


Award-winning ABC journalist Bridget Brennan will deliver a keynote address on critical topics including reporting on Indigenous affairs and violence against women.

Bridget has been a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for more than a decade. A Dja Dja Wurrung, Yorta Yorta woman, she is a newsreader and presenter at News Breakfast, and recently the Indigenous Affairs Editor at ABC. In 2017, Bridget was appointed the ABC’s first National Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, reporting on the murders of Aboriginal women in Central Australian communities, and investigated racism in Australia’s health system and the escalating number of Aboriginal children being removed from their families. Last year, Bridget was a fellow with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford Universities where she researched the global pressures facing First Nations reporters in mainstream newsrooms. Bridget, together with Brooke Fryer, Suzanne Dredge and Stephanie Zillman won the 2023 Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill for their Four Corners investigation “How Many More?” which shone a light on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.


US researcher Casey Mock, Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the Center for Humane Technology, will examine AI and deception at the 2024 JERAA Conference.

Casey’s address will consider how AI disturbs coverage of this year's US Presidential Election. He will discuss latest CHT research that explores how misinformation/disinformation harms people's right to freedom of speech, and freedom to think, and what journalists can do to constructively respond.

Information about keynote speakers, panel sessions and the Early Career Researchers Day will be provided in coming weeks.

Learn more about JERAA by visiting its website: https://jeraa.org.au/#

Further information:
Main conference email:  jeraa-2024 at unimelb.edu.au
Andrew Dodd adodd at unimelb.edu.au
Caroline James-Garrod caroline.jamesgarrod at unimelb.edu.au
Silvia Montana Nino silvia.montanan at unimelb.edu.au
Sami Shah sami.shah at unimelb.edu.au
Louisa Lim louisa.lim at unimelb.edu.au

JERAA 2024 is supported by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism, Mindframe, Our Watch, Dart Asia Pacific, and Media Super


Dr Caroline James-Garrod |
Subject Co-ordinator
Centre for Advancing Journalism
School of Culture and Communication | Faculty of Arts
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
E: caroline.jamesgarrod at unimelb.edu.au

Publications:

James-Garrod, C. (2023), ''No time to think': Overloaded journalists trim practices to save time', Australian Journalism Review, 45:2, pp.257-76, https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00135_7



Dr Caroline James-Garrod |
Subject Co-ordinator
Centre for Advancing Journalism
School of Culture and Communication | Faculty of Arts
W306, John Medley Building West,
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
E: caroline.jamesgarrod at unimelb.edu.au

Publications:

James-Garrod, C. (2023), ''No time to think': Overloaded journalists trim practices to save time', Australian Journalism Review, 45:2, pp. 257-76, https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00135_7