ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Media Studies and Applied Ethics (special issue)

Deadline (abstracts): 13 December 2022

Edited by Ana Milojevic (University of Bergen)

Datafication is changing every aspect of our society including journalism as one of the important fundaments of democracy. Following the news production phases (observation, production, distribution, and news consumption) Loosen (2018:4) distinguishes between four forms of datafied journalism: data-based journalism, alogrithmed journalism, automated journalism, and metrics-driven journalism. Different aspects of data driven changes in journalism have been examined in all those forms during last decades, but many blind spots are still to be filled. Therefore, the main aim of this special issue is to put audiences in the forefront of examining different forms of journalism datafication.

Namely, data journalism as the fast-growing phenomena has been attracting scholarly attention. However, most of the research has been focusing on identifying characteristics of data journalism as the emerging subfield (genres, methods, storytelling techniques) and its integration into organizations, practices, and education worldwide (e.g. Bhaskaran, Kashyap & Mishra, 2022; Fink & Anderson, 2015; Munoriyarwa, 2022; Young, Hermida, & Fulda, 2018; Wu, 2022), while far less is known about audience relation to data journalism.

In the strand of the algorithmic journalism research, studies of user interactions with algorithms have been more prominent and diversified, including user perceptions of news personalization process (Monzer, 2020), experiences of news recommender systems (Wieland, 2021), and satisfaction with algorithmic news selections (Swart, 2021; Thurman et al. 2019). However, as Shin (2022: 1168) underlines, “little is known about the ways through which readers understand and actualize the potential for trust or affordances in algorithmic journalism”.

Also, significant body of research considers audiences in form of audience analytics and metrics as central for journalism transformation, including journalistic roles (Belair-Gagnon, Zamith, and Holton, 2020), news values (Kristensen, 2021), news selection (Lamot and Van Aelst, 2020), and journalistic norms and routines (Ekström, Ramsälv and Westlund, 2021). However, this area of research is mainly focused on editors’ and journalists’ work and decision-making processes. Much less attention has been given to data-analysts as growingly important actors in media, companies providing analytics to media, existing metrics and infrastructures for audience datafication.

Therefore, we invite submissions that theorize or empirically study the role of audience datafication in journalism, as well as audience interaction and engagement with data-based and algorithmic journalism. More precisely, studies that aim to answer: How is data journalism perceived, consumed, and valued in different contexts? What kind of audience needs data journalism gratifies? Does data journalism foster audience engagement? Second, we seek submissions that examine how users perceive algorithmic features and experience algorithm systems in the context of algorithmic journalism. Third, we welcome papers that focus on the role of various technological agents and non-journalist actors that intervene in the use of audience analytics and metrics in newsrooms.

Timeline:

Abstract deadline: 13 December 2022

Manuscript deadline: 31 March 2023

No Payment from authors will be required. More information on the call:

https://izdanja.filfak.ni.ac.rs/casopisi/media-studies-and-applied-ethics

For further details please contact Ana Milojevic

(ana.milojevic@gmail.com)

References:

Belair-Gagnon, V., Zamith, R., & Holton, A. E. (2020). Role orientations and audience metrics in newsrooms: An examination of journalistic perceptions and their drivers. Digital Journalism, 8(3), 347-366.

Bhaskaran, H., Kashyap, G., & Mishra, H. (2022). Teaching Data Journalism: A Systematic Review. Journalism Practice, 1-22.

Ekström, M., Ramsälv, A., & Westlund, O. (2021). Data-driven news work culture: Reconciling tensions in epistemic values and practices of news journalism. Journalism, DOI: 14648849211052419.

Fink, K., & Anderson, C. W. (2015). Data Journalism in the United States: Beyond the “usual suspects”. Journalism studies, 16(4), 467-481.

Kristensen, L. M. (2021). Audience Metrics: Operationalizing News Value for the Digital Newsroom. Journalism Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2021.1954058

Lamot, K., & Van Aelst, P. (2020). Beaten by Chartbeat? An experimental study on the effect of real-time audience analytics on journalists’ news judgment. Journalism Studies, 21(4), 477-493.

Monzer, C., Moeller, J., Helberger, N., & Eskens, S. (2020). User perspectives on the news personalisation process: Agency, trust and utility as building blocks. Digital Journalism, 8(9), 1142-1162.

Munoriyarwa, A. (2022). Data journalism uptake in South Africa’s mainstream quotidian business news reporting practices. Journalism, 23(5), 1097-1113.

Shin, D. (2022). Expanding the role of trust in the experience of algorithmic journalism: User sensemaking of algorithmic heuristics in Korean users. Journalism Practice, 16(6), 1168-1191.

Swart, J. (2021). Experiencing algorithms: How young people understand, feel about, and engage with algorithmic news selection on social media. Social media+ society, 7(2), 20563051211008828.

Thurman, N., J. Moeller, N. Helberger, and D. Trilling. 2019. “My Friends, Editors, Algorithms, and I.” Digital Journalism 7 (4): 447–469.

Wieland, M., Von Nordheim, G.(2021). One Recommender Fits All? An Exploration of User Satisfaction With Text-Based News Recommender Systems. Media and Communication, 9(4), 208-221.

Wu, S. (2022). Asian Newsrooms in Transition: A Study of Data Journalism Forms and Functions in Singapore’s State-Mediated Press System. Journalism Studies, 23(4), 469-486.

Young, M. L., Hermida, A., & Fulda, J. (2018). What makes for great data journalism? A content analysis of data journalism awards finalists 2012–2015. Journalism practice, 12(1), 115-135.

Methodological Developments in Visual Politics & Protest (special issue)

Deadline: December 15, 2022

War streaming on Instagram, propaganda in press photography, refugee activism on TikTok - recent European crises have shown images and videos as essential tools of communication in politics and protest, a trend mirrored in the increasing use of visual data in research methodologies. Visual data may capture practices of visual, performative, or non-verbal communication, text-image relationships, the development of visual formats, notions of aesthetics, as well as underlying meanings of symbols and codes. Extant research has since captured different elements of visual politics and protest, including social history (e.g. protest photography), political commentary or affiliation (e.g. through memes or profile picture overlays), social cues in political communication (e.g. in the form of GIFs, filters, or emoji), visual activism practices (e.g. culture-jamming, sousveillance video coverage, graphic flesh-witnessing, or video activism), and visual forms of information documentation and distribution (e.g. infographics).

Even so, new creative practices have at times challenged research practices, for example with regards to image authenticity and appropriation in mis- and disinformation campaigns (e.g. deepfakes), the role of platform affordances in new visual formats and spaces (e.g. short videos on TikTok), (mis)interpretation and differing levels of visual literacy in communications, trust in image data as factual evidence, and opaqueness in the production of visual materials. These critical debates have been particularly contentious in the arena of politics and protest, where visuals have been seen to shape political opinion and discourse, electoral campaigns, war coverage, and Covid-19 data visualisations.

In response to these trends, we are looking for methodologically oriented papers on visual politics and/or protest. This may include methodological discussions, new methods or approaches, worked examples or case studies, research on emerging visual digital phenomena, or submissions linking theory to methodology surrounding digital culture, data, or methods. Foci may be based around methods of data collection, analysis, visualisation, theorisation, or other methodological areas.

On a broad level this may include (but is not limited to):

• New methodological approaches in visual or multimodal data collection or analysis
• Platform- or format- specific mitigations in conducting visual research on politics and protest
• New methodological approaches (including software tools if applicable) for capturing visuality or visual cultures in politics and protest
• Discussions of the relevance of technological formats, tools, and infrastructures in visual research
• Innovations in embedding visuals or visuality with textual, audio, or sensory materials
• Advancements in analysing specific political visual digital practices and/or phenomena
• Methodological strategies for interpreting and/or quantifying visual data
• Emerging approaches to visualising image or video data
• Suggestions or developments in the ethical treatment of visuality in politics, protest, or activism
• Epistemological discussions of the role of the visual in politics, protest, or social movements
• Advances in collecting, interpreting, and conceptualising social media data
• Linking theory to methodology in visual research

We are open to different article structures. However, articles should have clear contributions in the arena of methodological research by outlining or describing new methodological approaches, innovations, strategies, or frameworks. As such, they should draw on methodological scholarship in the wider field.

Submission & key dates

Extended abstracts of 400-500 words excluding reference list (references are optional) are due 15th December 2022 and should be directly to the special issue editors - see email info below. Final articles should be submitted directly via the journal website of the Journal of Digital Social Research (https://www.jdsr.io/) and have a word count of up to 8500 words inclusive of everything (abstracts, reference list, notes).

• 15th December 2022: special issue abstract submissions
  
• 15th February 2023: End of abstract selection & communication of results 15th April 2023: Full papers due
  
• 15th July 2023: End of first review round
  
• 15th October 2023: End of second review round
  
• December 2023: Publication of special issue
  

Further details

This followsonfromtheECREAonlinepre-conferenceon,whichtookplaceon6thand7th October 2022 with a keynote by Dr. Jing Zeng (University of Zurich), a series of lightning 

talks, and a panel discussion with speakers Dr. Stefania Vicari, Dr. Shana MacDonald, & Dr. Jing Zeng. This special issue call follows on from the pre-conference workshop “Visual Politics & Protest - Methodological Challenges” organised by the ECREA Visual Cultures section (see https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/). Submissions to the special issue call are open to everyone. For added context, the programme can still be viewed on the pre-conference website: https://cutt.ly/visual-politics-ecrea, along with a list of references discussed during the conference.

In the case of both questions or submissions, please email us directly on the below indicated email addresses.

Special issue team

Suay Melisa Özkula, University of Trento suaymelisa.ozkula@unitn.it

Hadas Schlussel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem hadas.schlussel@mail.huji.ac.il Danka Ninković Slavnić, University of Belgrade dninkovic@yahoo.com

Doron Altaratz, The Hadassah Academic College doronal@edu.hac.ac.il

Tom Divon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem zem1987@gmail.com

The Database of Variables for Content Analysis DOCA has been available for more than half a year. Therefore, we now want to conduct a survey to find out how DOCA has been used in research and teaching so far, which benefits the database has had, and which improvements and thematic extensions would be desirable. 

We would be very grateful if you would fill in the short questionnaire (maximum duration 10 minutes): https://www.hope.uzh.ch/doca/Survey 

We will publish the results of the survey as soon as possible.

Thank you and best regards,

Edda Humprecht 

May 25, 2023

Toronto, Canada

Deadline: January 15, 2023

Participants should focus on specific metaphors, groups of metaphors, discourses around metaphors, and reconstruct their histories over time and in certain cultural settings. The local and global dimension of metaphors is indeed crucial and the organizers aim to have a broad representation of different sets of metaphors in different cultures. 

Metaphors have also to do with digital media theory. Metaphors are useful tool to make theories, they can be transversal to different fields and disciplines or, on the contrary, they increase the fragmentation of media and communication theories. Also in this case, the preconference aims to bring together scholars able to link empirical case studies of digital metaphors over time and theoretical perspectives on the relevance of these metaphors. 

Please send your abstract of max 250 words to gabriele.balbi@usi.ch and carlos.scolari@gmail.com  by 15 January 2023. Remember to include in the abstract the category or categories to which your submission refers to:

• Metaphors of transportation (e.g. info highways, surfing, etc.)
  
• Metaphors of human body (e.g. electronic brain, artificial intelligence, etc.) 
  
• Metaphors of nature (e.g. cloud, etc.)
  
• Metaphors of building (e.g. windows, etc.)
  
• Old media metaphors (e.g. envelopes, 3.5 floppy, etc.) 
  
• Objects metaphors (e.g. clocks, bells, etc.)
  
• Metaphors of places (e.g. agorà, square, etc.) 
  
• Other categories.
  

This preconference will have a peculiar structure and aims: it is made of classic presentations, but also would stimulate reflections on specific workshops/hackathon in which these and other metaphors will be discussed. The final aim is to create a group of scholars which could be later contribute to an edited book we plan to publish from the precon. For this reason, this preconference might be just the first workshop and others may follow in the future months.

Important dates:

• 15 January 2023: Submissions’ deadline
  
• 15 February 2023: Notifications of acceptance
  
• 25 May 2023: Preconference
  

Organization: conference organized by Gabriele Balbi (USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) and Carlos A. Scolari (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, Spain) 

Division Affiliation: ICA Communication History Division  

Sponsor: University of Toronto – St. Michael’s College

Venue: McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology (Coach House), 39A Queens Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario

More info here: https://digitalmetaphors.wordpress.com/ 

June 19-21, 2023

Newcastle University, University of Sanctuary

Deadline: December 9, 2023

The academic conference will take place between 19-21 June 2023 during UNHCR Refugee week) at Newcastle University, a University of Sanctuary. The conference will be in person only, although we will record the keynote presentations. The cultural festival will take place in buildings and sites on campus and at venues around the city of Newcastle, a City of Sanctuary, between 19-25 June, although some exhibitions might extend into the following weeks.  Further details about the cultural festival including a programme of events and activities, will be available nearer the time. 

Call for Papers

The experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers remains salient in and for the media as journalists report from one conflict zone to another, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine adding immediacy to the coverage of war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, (re)animating public and political debate about how ‘we’ should respond. At the same time, major crises in regions such as DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Sudan, Nigeria, Burundi and Ethiopia go largely unreported (Wanless et al, 2022). Generations of Palestinians have now grown up in UN-administered refugee camps in the Middle East, around one million Rohingya people from Myanmar are living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and the accelerating climate crisis is leading to the further displacement of millions of people worldwide.  Some scholars suggest that media coverage of war often lacks context or historical perspective, so that discussions about the economic and cultural aspects as well as the wider structural issue of migration, are largely ignored (Fengler et al, 2022). It is scarcely original to suggest that mainstream media outlets play an important role in informing the public about refugees and asylum-seekers – for example, the number of people attempting (and sometimes tragically failing) to enter Britain informally via the English Channel are a regular feature of UK national news – but the way the issue is reported is seen by many commentators as contributing to the rise of hostile populism across Europe and beyond.  However, refugees, asylum-seekers, activists and others interested in calling media to account are not standing passively by, but are increasingly using both legacy and social media platforms and technologies to challenge and contest misinformation and negative and polarising and narratives, not least in order to tell their own stories in their own words.

For the academic conference, we now welcome abstracts which focus on any aspect of the relationship between refugees, asylum-seekers and the media from a range of contributors including academics, media professionals and media practitioners, especially those with lived experience and/or experience of collaborating with refugee or asylum-seeker communities. We are keen to receive abstracts of work which will be presented in a variety of formats including text, screen and sound-based based forms, as well as multi-media work*.  Topics could range from, but are definitely not limited to:

§   representations in mainstream or social media

§   reporting policy and/or legal responses

§   refugee and asylum-seeking media practices, websites and/or social media accounts

§   refugee and asylum-seeking experiences as sources or subjects of news discourse

§   alternative media and community media representations

§   refugees and asylum-seekers making media

§   citizen journalism and the refugee and asylum-seeking experience

§   participatory media projects with refugees and asylum-seekers

§   practices of journalists and media practitioners with lived experience as refugees   

§   the ethics of reporting

§   refugee and asylum-seeker voices in the public sphere

§   empathy and affect in media discourse

§   journalism education in relation to covering refugees and asylum-seekers

§   collaborative media projects with refugee or asylum-seeker communities

§   refugees, asylum-seekers and the adoption/adaptation of media technologies

Publication opportunity

After the conference, we will be inviting full papers to be submitted for possible inclusion in a special double issue of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics which will be published in 2024 (issue 2, summer; issue 3, autumn).

Dates for your diary

§   9 December, 2022 – submission of abstracts/posters (350-500 words)

§   6 February, 2023 - decisions announced

§   20 February, 2023 – registration opens

Posters

PhD students are welcome to submit abstracts but can, as an alternative, submit a research poster.

For further information, please contact Karen Ross and David Baines at:

sanctuarysongs2023@newcastle.ac.uk  

Comunicação e Sociedade, vol. 43

Deadline (EXTENDED): December 11, 2022

Thematic editors: Daniel Brandão (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Nuno Martins (ID+, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal) and Rachel Cooper (PETRAS, Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

The growing presence of digital technologies in citizens’ daily lives has resulted in a constant enhancement of the unexpected. Spontaneity and reactivity assume an increasingly prominent role in the communication universe, inevitably influencing social dynamics.

Faced with a highly mediated and mediatised world, communication has attained significant power. A dispersed power shared between different protagonists. A power that is not always identifiable and often tends to be more associated with rumour and crisis than with information and clarification. This power of communication, more and more horizontal, challenges established power bases.

What role can design play in this mediation of interpersonal and global communication?

In its most varied perspectives and disciplines, design can be an important contribution to the construction of more informed, enlightened and, consequently, fairer societies. Whether in a supervisory capacity, deconstructing and decoding graphic, photographic, animated representations and all kinds of narratives of high cosmetic-manipulative content; or in the proposal of models, prototypes or the most varied type of solutions that seek to contribute to an active citizenship and respond to the challenges and dilemmas of digital and contemporary societies. In fact, design is much more than a tool of mere aesthetic operation. It also has a relevant role in the organisation of information, in the construction of narratives and, consequently, in the suggestion of meanings.

This thematic volume of the journal Comunicação e Sociedade invites national and international academics and researchers from different areas of design, communication and digital technologies to share scientific work developed on emerging topics, such as:

• sustainable and healthy design
  
• inclusive, collaborative and participatory design
  
• creativity, arts and design in education
  
• identities, citizenship and social cohesion in design
  
• design and communication for the mobility and the future of cities
  
• challenges of digital interaction and communication
  
• information design, data journalism and quality of information
  
• responsible design: security, privacy, ethics and trust
  
• design, equality and human rights
  
• design for health and well-being
  
• eating, dressing and breathing design
  
• design, media arts and culture
  
• expression and impression of audio-visual on digital communication
  
• sound design: perception and performance in the real
  
• frontiers and challenges of a technocentric design
  
• conceptions and misconceptions of the virtual
  

KEY DATES

Proposals submission (full manuscript): September 5 to December 11, 2022

Notification of acceptance: January 8, 2023

Deadline for the submission of the final article (PT and EN): March 19, 2023

Publication: June 2023

Comunicação e Sociedade is an open-access academic journal indexed in several databases, including SCOPUS.

https://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/revistacomsoc/announcement/view/44

November 25-26, 2022

Berlin, Germany

The Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM) and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) would like to draw your attention to the conference „Infrastructures of Autonomy“, which will take place on November, 25-26th at HIIG (Berlin, Germany). The conference will be opened with a Keynote address from Beate Rössler (University of Amsterdam).

For more information on Keynote and event regestration please visit:  https://www.hiig.de/en/events/infrastructures-of-autonomy-i-conference-opening/

For more Information on conference and regestration please visit: https://www.hiig.de/en/events/infrastructures-of-autonomy/

Journal of Digital Social Research (special issue)

Deadline: December 15, 2022

Following our preconference workshop, the Visual Cultures section is proud to share a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on "Methodological Developments in Visual Politics & Protest", to be published in the Journal of Digital Social Research (https://www.jdsr.io/). Abstracts of 400-500 words are due 15th December 2022.

Full details regarding the scope, timeline and editing team can be found on the dedicated call website: https://www.jdsr.io/call-for-papers

November 21, 2022

Virtual event

Join us on World Children’s Day for the virtual launch of our new essay collection by regulators, specialists and academics on the problems and possibilities for children’s education data.

 Details:

Date: Monday 21 November

Time: 15:00 – 16:30 GMT

Location: Virtual, see link below  

Register for the event here

Baroness Beeban Kidron and Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, LSE, will be joined by:

• Kruakae Pothong, DFC
  
• Ben Williamson, University of Edinburgh
  
• Julia Cooke, Information Commissioner’s Office
  
• Riad Fawzi, Second Stand Solutions Ltd
  
• Andrew McStay, Bangor University 
  
• Larissa Pschetz, University of Edinburgh
  
• Roger Taylor, Open Data Partners
  

More speakers are to be confirmed. 

We do hope you will be able to join us, and please do feel free to forward this invitation to anyone in your network who may be interested in attending. 

If you have any questions about the event or the Digital Futures Commission please contact us on info@5rightsfoundation.com.

Thank you,

The Digital Futures Commission team

The Digital Futures Commission – hosted by 5Rights Foundation – is a flagship project driven by a board of Commissioners. It consists of three work streams – Play in the Digital World, Beneficial Uses of Education Data, and Guidance for Innovators. In each strand we are trying to shift the dial – our outputs will be focused on reimagining the digital world as if it were built for children, by design. 

Our Commissioners represent the following organisations: 5Rights Foundation; BBC Research & Development North Lab; Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation; Erase All Kittens; EY; Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; LEGO; London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Technological University Dublin; The Alan Turing Institute; The Behavioural Insights Team; University of Leeds.

You can learn more about the Digital Futures Commission here. You can also check out our blog, where we regularly profile the DFC's work. 

Deadline for proposals (EXTENDED): November 30, 2022

Edited by Willemien Sanders and Anna Zoellner

Media occupy an increasingly central position in our everyday lives, facilitated by the development of increasingly smaller and smarter screens and sophisticated digital, interactive infrastructures. The mediatisation of society entails that the production of media is no longer limited to the field of audio-visual culture, communication and entertainment (such as film, television, radio, advertising, PR, and gaming) but pervades a range of other areas, including, but not limited to, governance, education, health care, tourism, the military, religion, and sports. In these areas, media content in the form of audio, video, apps, virtual and augmented reality, and social media is increasingly part of everyday practices.

Expanding the field and focus of existing media production research, this book explores this trend of media production in non-media domains. With non-media domains we mean domains other than legacy media (print, radio, television, film, and social media). Our focus lies on the production of media content that is not intended for communication to a wider public, such as popular and news media, and that is instrumental rather than intrinsic in its purpose: these media serve as a means to achieve some other goal. They facilitate professional and everyday practices (and will, arguably, often replace previous practices that did not include audio-visual media). In that sense, they are oriented to a specific professional/practice field. This includes media such as nutrition apps, serious games for military training, and augmented reality in tourism. In all these cases, the media texts are a means within a mediatised practice in a non-media domain. Propaganda material or public health communication, for example, would not fall in this category.

This kind of media production for non-media sectors is by nature interdisciplinary. It requires a mix of skills, techniques and technologies and therefore the collaboration of people from different sectors and work roles. We provisionally label this ‘cross-sector’ media production, to refer to the collaboration between the media sector and other sectors. This book explores how cross-sector media production functions, how different professionals collaborate – having different occupational identities, bringing in different perspectives and relying on a wide variety of work cultures, epistemologies, and ethics.

Topics may include but are not limited to the following technologies:

• virtual reality
  
• augmented reality
  
• web 2.0, web 3.0
  
• apps
  
• holograms
  
• serious games
  
• websites
  
• other sound and screen applications
  

Topics may concern but are not limited to the following sectors:

• education
  
• health care
  
• manufacturing
  
• sports
  
• travelling
  
• commerce
  
• home appliances
  
• design
• fine arts

The book will be structured in three corresponding sections: (1) theoretical debates on its origin and related developments, to discuss how we can understand cross-sector media production better; (2) methodological debates about such research, to explore methodological implications, challenges, and approaches; and (3) empirical research of cross-sector media practices, to investigate these particular production contexts including their conditions, processes and practices.   

Section 1

For this section we invite contributions that address the origins and conceptualisation of cross-sector media production. Contributions will discuss theoretical approaches and histories of digitalisation, mediatisation, platformisation, innovation and other relevant theories in different domains, with a focus on what these mean for cross-sector production specifically. The section will address various developments (technical, social, cultural, legal) that facilitate and co-shape cross-sector media production by setting and extending boundaries.

Section 2

The second section of the book discusses the investigation of cross-sector media production as research process. For this section we invite contributions that explore theoretical, epistemological, methodological and other challenges as well as solutions in the study of cross-sector media production practices. This section problematizes taken for granted research methods and approaches and invites discussion of alternatives and new directions, including those that go beyond conventional ethnography, as well as those instigated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Section 3

Drawing on empirical research of cross-sector media production practices, the chapters in this section will explore the assumptions, interests, and challenges when producing media in such cross-sector production contexts. This includes how media makers navigate the ideas and demands within a non-media domain in relation to their own expertise and preferences. The section explores what kind of values, expectations and cultures underlie cross-sector media production. It also looks at the epistemologies, competencies and best practices for the different occupations involved. 

Submission details

Please send proposals for chapters before the deadline of Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Proposals should be between 500-800 words, excluding notes and referenced sources. In addition, short bios for each author (150 words) should be included. Please indicate for which section you are proposing your chapter.

Proposals and any inquiries should be sent to the editors: w.sanders@uu.nl and  a.zoellner@leeds.ac.uk

Decisions will be communicated in January 2023. Chapter manuscripts are expected to be submitted in June 2023.

Media Production in Non-Media Domains – Researching cross-sector media production will be published in the Springer Media Industries series, edited by Bjørn von Rimscha and Ulrike Rohn.