Media & Journalism is a pioneering scientific journal in Portugal in the field of media studies and journalism. The first issue was published in 2002 by the then CIMJ - Centro de Investigação Media & Jornalismo / Center for Research Media & Journalism, tackling a "diversity of the themes of its articles, methodologies and reflections" and being "a space that promotes qualified discussion, not only in the academic community, but also among all those interested in the media and journalism in contemporary societies." The magazine is currently published by ICNOVA - NOVA Communication Institute, which has since merged with CIMJ. The journal is still published twice a year (April and October of each year), and is indexed in SCOPUS, Scielo and DOAJ databases, and it follows a rigorous scientific arbitration procedures. Moreover, all of its content is openly accessible and free of charge. Media & Journalism publishes top academic research and is a space for qualified discussions aimed at elucidating the social and political dynamics prompted by media and journalism in contemporary society. The reflections contribute to a more profound and critical knowledge of the various factors, time periods and impacts of the complex phenomena of communication. It seeks to bring together a variety of issues and approaches, from history to sociology, from law to economics, from practices, to technologies and uses, and constitutes an element of reflection and debate within a vast community looking at the peculiaries of the fields of media and journalism.
Cfp (2027) | SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION AND ACADEMIC CAPITALISM
Cfp (2027) | SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION AND ACADEMIC CAPITALISM Joint Initiative Comunicação e Sociedade, Estudos de Comunicação, Media & Jornalismo, and Observatorio (OBS)* In a landscape dominated by the hegemony of Big Tech and the rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence — which are reshaping information flows, power dynamics, and the production and dissemination of knowledge — it is vital to reflect on the status, nature, and practices of scientific publishing. In recent decades, the perception of scientific knowledge has been shaped by institutional pressures, including competition for funding, the creation of internal and external evaluation systems that prioritize productivity, the transformation of scientific reputation and quality into quantified bibliometric indicators controlled by multinational publishers, the linkage of academic careers to these same systems of measurement and endemic rivalry, and Labor precarity. Furthermore, the rise of academic capitalism tends to subordinate research to agendas of innovation, impact, and immediate "utility," thereby reducing intellectual autonomy and increasing dependence on public and private funders. In this sense, four Portuguese free-to-read and free-to-publish journals in the field of Communication Studies (published by public universities) – Comunicação e Sociedade, Estudos em Comunicação, Media & Jornalismo, Observatorio (OBS*) – have decided to jointly launch a special issue with the aim of fostering reflection on the policies and logics of sharing scientific knowledge. Over one million articles are published annually in peer-reviewed journal, averaging only 1.5 readers each. Within this framework, debates on alternative publishing models gain prominence, such as those proposed by the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which question the centrality of bibliometric metrics and editorial oligopolies. This initiative is driven by a critical reflection by the editors of these four journals, who share a diagnosis of concerns associated with the dynamics of periodical publishing. The growing volume of submissions, the challenges of peer review processes, the expectation of rapid publication, editorial competition, and, more broadly, the acceleration of practices in the production and communication of science all prompt a debate on the relevance and impact of scientific literature. With the aim of charting a counter-trend path, we seek submissons that interrogate the material and institutional conditions of conducting research in Communication Studies, including the role of digital platforms in the circulation of knowledge, the limits and potential of open access, and the tensions between quantitative evaluation and the substantive quality of reflection and critical thought. Suggested Topics Marketization of science and academic capitalism; Academic freedom and university autonomy; Forms of cultural and organizational resistance; The nature and reconfiguration of scientific reputation; Science and language policies; Academic and scientific rankings; Oligopolies and scientific publishing; Metrics, quantification, and impact; Open access policies and repositories; The impact of AI on scientific writing and review; Invisibility, bias, and inequality in scientific citations; Big Tech, platformization, and publishing ecosystems; Algorithmic regimes of visibility and classification; Research independence and innovation agendas; Research assessment, DORA, and alternatives. Submission Guidelines Full manuscripts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Submissions can be made via the specific web form (Submission of manuscripts to the dossier SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING AND ACADEMIC CAPITALISM), or, alternatively, via the email address: pub.interrevistas@gmail.com If submitting by email, the author(s) must send, separately, the manuscript file in Word (file without author identification or metadata; max. 8,000 words) and the file containing the authors’ details (name, affiliated institution, email, ORCID, institutional address and a biography of approximately 100–150 words). An inter-journal editorial team will manage the evaluation and review process and assign accepted manuscripts to one of the four participating journals. The alignment with the special section theme, the formal suitability for academic writing and APA compliance, as well as the relevance, significance, and originality of the approach are the criteria for selecting articles for review. It is part of the spirit of this joint initiative to emphasize an interest in the sharing of critical knowledge, setting aside concerns about the different (and fluctuating) classifications/quartiles of the journals in which the articles will be published. All four journals are indexed in Scopus. Bibliographic references must follow APA 7ª style. Important Dates Submission Period: April 20 to September 30, 2026. Publication Period: 1st Semester of 2027.
Revista Media & Jornalismo volta a estar posicionada no Quartil 1 (Q1) no Scimago Journal Rank 2025
A equipa da Media & Jornalismo, revista científica do ICNOVA (Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA), tem o prazer de anunciar que atingiu o Quartil 1 (Q1) no Scimago Journal Rank, a mais importante métrica da Scopus e indicador de referência para a qualidade e impacto das publicações de ciência. Na avaliação do Scimago Journal Rank relativa a 2025, a Media & Jornalismo volta a estar posicionada no Q1 (no domínio Cultural Studies), situando-se também no Q2 (no domínio Communication). Atualmente, a Media & Jornalismo é a única revista portuguesa da área das ciências da comunicação (publicada por uma instituição universitária pública) que se situa no Quartil 1. Esta avaliação representa outra grande conquista para a Media & Jornalismo e reforça a posição da revista como publicação científica de referência, a nível nacional e internacional. A equipa editorial agradece os inestimáveis contributos de todos os autores e revisores e convida a comunidade científica das ciências da comunicação a submeter os seus melhores trabalhos científicos à Media & Jornalismo. A direção e gestão editorial: Marisa Torres da Silva (Diretora), Filipa Subtil e Susana Sampaio-Dias (Diretoras Adjuntas); Patrícia Contreiras (Gestora editorial).
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New Deadline | Cfp: Vol. 26 Nº 49 (2026) Building the Algorithmic Audience
CfP |Building the Algorithmic Audience: Shifting Paradigms in Communications, Media, and Democracy EDITORS Berta García Orosa “ University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, berta.garcia@usc.es Inês Amaral “ University of Coimbra, Portugal, ines.amaral@uc.pt Noel Pascual Presa “ University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, noel.pascual.presa@usc.es The topic of this call for papers seeks to gather original, interdisciplinary, and empirically grounded research that exploreshow audiences are constructed within digital public spheres. The development of technologies such as artificial intelligence or big data has not only transformed the production, distribution, and circulation of information, but also redefined theways in which audiences are imagined and constructed. In its early stages (approximately 20 years ago), the continuous analysis of big data allowed for real-time audience insights and, subsequently, the prediction of audience behaviour, as exemplified by the Cambridge Analytica case. However, the focus has now shifted towards constructing audiences beforemessages are even produced, particularly in the context of electoral campaigns. While there is a growing academic interest in the effects of media automation and personalisation, there has yet to be aconvergence of studies that systematically examine the epistemological, political, ethical, and communicative implicationsof this new relationship between algorithms and audiences. This gap is even more striking when considering the far-reaching nature of the phenomenon, which spans across journalism, political communication, digital culture, and platformgovernance. In this fourth wave of digital communication, algorithms not only predict audience behaviours but also influence and shape them, giving rise to what has been termed the "algorithmic audience" (Riemer & Peter, 2021). This process ofdatafication has led to new methods of classification, personalisation, and micro-segmentation of audiences, profoundlytransforming the logic of political mediation. This scenario marks a paradigm shift: while traditional scientific episteme conceived of audiences through ascribed categories such as class, gender, or ideology, the new algorithmic paradigm is grounded in behavioural data, adopting aperformative logic that dissolves fixed classifications (Fisher & Mehozay, 2019). However, this transformation is far from neutral. The new ways of constructing algorithmic audiences present democraticrisks: automated biases (Kordzadeh & Ghasemaghaei, 2021), opacity in content selection (Livingstone, 2019), challengesto informational plurality and freedom of expression (Riemer & Peter, 2021), and growing inequality in voice representation (Jones, 2023; Zarouali et al., 2021). The construction of new public spheres requires critical and urgentanalysis. These changes are affecting public discourse, with journalism at the forefront of the transformation. The growing relianceon algorithms is reshaping the profession, giving rise to what has been termed "automated journalism" or "robot journalism", driven by the automation and personalisation of news content (Carlson, 2015; Clerwall, 2014). Although thispersonalisation offers opportunities to strengthen the relationship with audiences (Ford & Hutchinson, 2019), it also introduces challenges, as public trust in the media may be undermined by the perceived risks inherent to these dynamics(Livingstone, 2019; Sehl & Eder, 2023). These new tools have far-reaching implications, both professionally and socially:from threats to freedom of expression and the need for new policies on content authorship, to the impact on the legitimacy of journalistic judgement and the reconfiguration of audiences (Carlson, 2018; Fisher & Mehozay, 2019; Montal & Reich,2016; Riemer & Peter, 2021). From an identity perspective, the relationship with audiences remains central. However, the emphasis has shifted:personalised and individualised messaging have lost prominence, giving way to a more community-centred discourse. Inpractice, community is constructed around paid subscriptions and access to exclusive features and content. Narratives areconstructed around this group of members or subscribers to persuade them of their relevance to the survival and qualityof the media’s journalistic practice. At the same time, users often perceive algorithmic content selection based on their consumption behaviour in a positive light (Thurman, 2018). This personalisation is accompanied by increasing categorisation and micro-segmentation, allowing for more granular and precise user classification (Beauvisage et al., 2024). Nonetheless, this positive perception and micro-segmentation do not protect users from the risks inherent to algorithmic governance, often carefully designedaround opaque or hidden interests (Jones, 2023; Reynolds & Hallinan, 2024). This Call for Papers aims to: Explore epistemological transformations in the conceptualisation of audiences Analyse emerging journalistic and communicative practices within algorithmic logics Examine the democratic, ethical, and regulatory implications of algorithm-mediated personalisation Propose innovative methodologies for investigating hyper-segmented and opaque audiences Foster interdisciplinary dialogue bridging political communication, digital sociology, platform economics, and critical theory Suggested topics for articles Political audiences and datafication Automated journalism and personalized news delivery Algorithmic biases and polarisation Algorithmic transparency and accountability Ideological segmentation and targeting strategies Civic participation in automated media environments Ethics, privacy, and data governance New forms of audience agency and performativity Youth audiences and platform culture Regional and comparative case studies Content automation Ethical and privacy implications of datafication The role of journalism in algorithmic communication Risks and opportunities of hyper-personalization Transformation of media consumption habits Informational plurality Echo chambers and information bubbles Polarisation and algorithmic bias Impact of algorithms on agenda setting Transformation of media power Trust in sources of algorithmic information Disinformation and fake news Transparency and regulatory mechanisms Audiences and engagement Media literacy New audiences and youth audiences Astroturfing campaigns At the point of submission, the author must explicitly indicate the journal issue to which the manuscript is being submitted. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submitting articles: from January 22 to June 30, 2026 Publication period: continuous edition (September to December 2026) This call for papers is part of the R&D projects Artificial Intelligence in Digital Media in Spain: Effects and Roles (PID2024-156034OB-C22), funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033 and by “ERDF/EU”; & (d)e-HATE - Exploring Cyber Hate: Online Racism Targeting Immigrant and Racialized Communities in Portugal" (2024.18170.PEX). Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science (EmergingSources Citation). Each paper is sent to two reviewers, who are invited in advance to evaluate it based on the criteria ofquality, originality, and relevance in line with the aim and theme of the specific issue of the journal. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). Once accessing RMJfor the first time, registration is required to submit the article and track the editorial process. We recommend reviewing the Author Guidelines, Submission Conditions, and thejournal's Editorial Policy. For more information, you can contact patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt References Beauvisage, T., Beuscart, J.-S., Coavoux, S., & Mellet, K. (2024). How online advertising targets consumers: The uses of categories and algorithmic tools by audience planners. New Media & Society, 26(10), 6098-6119.https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221146174 Carlson, M. (2018). Automating judgment? Algorithmic judgment, news knowledge, and journalistic professionalism. New Media & Society, 20(5), 1755-1772.https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817706684 Carlson, M. (2015). "The Robotic Reporter: Automated Journalism and the Redefinition of Labor, Compositional Forms, and Journalistic Authority." Digital Journalism, 3(3), 416-431. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.976412 Clerwall, C. (2014). "Enter the Robot Journalist: Users’Perceptions of Automated Content." Journalism Practice, 8(5), 519-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2014.883116 Fisher, E., & Mehozay, Y. (2019). How algorithms see their audience: media epistemes and the changing conception of the individual. Media, Culture & Society, 41(8), 1176-1191. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719831598 Ford, H., & Hutchinson, J. (2019). Newsbots That Mediate Journalist and Audience Relationships. Digital Journalism, 7(8), 1013-1031. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2019.1626752 Jones, C. (2023). How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok. Media, Culture & Society, 45(6), 1192-1209. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231159555 Kordzadeh, N., & Ghasemaghaei, M. (2021). Algorithmic bias: review, synthesis, and future research directions.European Journal of Information Systems, 31(3), 388-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2021.1927212 Livingstone, S. (2019). Audiences in an Age of Datafication: Critical Questions for Media Research. Television & New Media, 20(2), 170-183. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418811118 Montal, T., & Reich, Z. (2016). I, Robot. You, Journalist. Who is the Author? Authorship, bylines and full disclosure in automated journalism. Digital Journalism, 5(7), 829-849. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2016.1209083 Reynolds, C., & Hallinan, B. (2024). User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance onYouTube. New Media & Society, 26(9), 5107-5129. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241251791 Riemer, K., & Peter, S. (2021). Algorithmic audiencing: Why we need to rethink free speech on social media. Journal of Information Technology, 36(4), 409-426. https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962211013358 Sehl, A., & Eder, M. (2023). News Personalization and Public Service Media: The Audience Perspective in ThreeEuropean Countries. Journalism and Media, 4(1), 322-338. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia4010022 Thurman, N., Moeller, J., Helberger, N., & Trilling, D. (2018). My Friends, Editors, Algorithms, and I: Examining audience attitudes to news selection. Digital Journalism, 7(4), 447-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2018.1493936 Thurman, N. (2018). Social Media, Surveillance, and News Work: On the apps promising journalists a "crystal ball." Digital Journalism, 6(1), 76-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2017.1345318 Zarouali, B., Helberger, N., & De Vreese, C. H. (2021). Investigating Algorithmic Misconceptions in a Media Context: Source of a New Digital Divide? Media and Communication, 9(4), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i4.4090
Media & Jornalismo ‹no Diamond Discovery Hub ‹(DDH)
É com grande alegria que comunicamos que a revista Media & Jornalismo passou a integrar o Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH), plataforma do European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) e um dos resultados práticos do projeto CRAFT-OA, projeto europeu dedicado à Ciência Aberta. O Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) tem como objetivo tornar-se um registo abrangente de revistas de acesso aberto publicadas institucionalmente e dirigidas por académicos, sem taxas para os autores, na Europa, concebido para melhorar a visibilidade e a facilidade de descoberta das revistas de acesso aberto diamante. Informamos também que a Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra é já uma Trusted Source de conteúdo nesta plataforma (a primeira em Portugal). Estamos orgulhosos por integrar este esforço europeu em prol de uma publicação académica verdadeiramente aberta, cumprindo integralmente os critérios de qualidade e transparência definidos pela plataforma. Pode explorar a revista aqui: https://ddh.diamas.org/en
Media & Jornalismo promove Seminário "As pressões competitivas na Universidade e no conhecimento"
Seminário "As pressões competitivas na Universidade e no conhecimento" 4 de junho | 14h00 | Online A revista Media & Jornalismo do Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA (ICNOVA) da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa com a chancela da Imprensa Universidade de Coimbra, promove um seminário em torno das pressões competitivas na Universidade e Conhecimento. A iniciativa terá lugar no dia 04 de junho, pelas 14h00, e terá caráter exclusivamente online. A atual gestão managerial do ensino superior e da ciência exige produtivismo de publicações e obtenção de fundos por parte dos docentes, investigadores e todos os que aspiram dedicar-se ao conhecimento na academia. Em que contexto das relações entre ensino superior, ciência e economia é que surgiram essas exigências? Que tipo de predicados são requeridos aos docentes e investigadores? Quais são os argumentos usados para justificar o produtivismo científico? Qual é o desígnio conferido à ação de publicar e à de conseguir financiamentos? Há um modelo de docente-angariador de fundos-publicador projectado por parte dos organismos dirigentes do ensino superior e da ciência? O seminário As pressões competitivas na Universidade e no conhecimento: o caso das revistas científicas é aberto a toda a comunidade académica e, muito em particular, das Ciências da Comunicação, e procura realizar uma reflexão aprofundada sobre as questões acima anunciadas e outras afins que incidem no modo como nas últimas décadas se pensa o ensino superior e a ciência. O evento conta com a participação de José Luís Garcia (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa), Vania Baldi (Observatorio - OBS*), Madalena Oliveira (Comunicação e Sociedade), Teresa Flores (Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens), Marisa Torres da Silva (Media & Jornalismo), Gisela Gonçalves (Estudos em Comunicação), e Tiago Lima Quintanilha (ICNOVA). A moderação e apresentação dos oradores estará a cargo da direção da Media e Jornalismo, Marisa Tores da Silva, Filipa Subtil e Susana Sampaio-Dias. Link Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/8484379768?omn=98386512462 ID da reunião: 848 437 9768 Organização: Direção Media & Jornalismo <img id="<64CFC8AA-3ED5-4929-8DB2-F0B945AFD293>" class="Apple-web-attachment Apple-edge-to-edge-visual-media" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 13px; opacity: 1;" src="[binary]
NEW DEADLINE | Cfp: Vol. 26 Nº 48 (2026) Audiences and Intersectionalities
Title: Audiences and Intersectionalities EDITORS: Juan José Sánchez Soriano - Universidad de Murcia, España; juanjose.sanchez4@um.es Rafael Ventura - Universitat de Lleida, España; rafael.ventura@udl.cat Isabel Villegas Simón - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, España isabelmaria.villegas@upf.edu The research topic of this call for papers primarily focuses on studies of audience reception across various intersectionalities, including LGBTIQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, older adults, racialized communities, people with diverse body types, and women. The objective is to analyze how these social groups interpret and engage with their representation in various media formats (TV news, press, reality shows, TV series, feature films, social media, content creation platforms, etc.). Additionally, it is valuable to examine how general audiences perceive media discourses surrounding these intersectionalities. In this way, the goal is to explore both the mirror effect and the window effect within the audience. On the one hand, we define audiences in a broad sense, encompassing all individuals who engage with and interact with media content reflective of their time (Ha, 2020). Moreover, we propose viewing audiences not merely as passive consumers of cultural and media content, but as active agents with a crucial role in interpreting these messages (Livingstone, 2015). Therefore, it is essential to understand and explore how these audiences relate to and engage with such content, as evidenced by recent studies, such as those examining the interpretations of trans individuals regarding their representation in television series (Villegas-Simón et al., 2024). On the other hand, like the society in which it exists, the audience is diverse and heterogeneous (Kristensen & From, 2015). Thus, we are in a context where, historically, the representation of minority social groups has been underrepresented or often constructed through stigma and negative stereotypes (Sánchez-Soriano, 2023), as is the case with people with disabilities (Page et al., 2024) or individuals with diverse body types (Collins et al., 2024). As a result, numerous studies have focused on discourse analysis of both traditional and emerging representations (Ventura et al., 2024). However, we believe it is essential to shift the focus to the final stage of the entire media cycle: how audiences interact with these representations, examining how they engage with and respond to such content. At the same time, social media has allowed the emergence of new content and representations that generate seemingly more diverse discourses, but which also compete with the spread of hate speech (Miranda et al., 2024). For this reason, it is valuable to develop new research that, within the framework of intersectionality, focuses on analyzing the reception of content from any media and format, including the press, radio, and cinema, as well as social media and content creation platforms like SVODs, while focusing on the current cultural and media context. Topics: Methodologies focused on audiences and their interactions with cultural and media content. Reflections and ethics surrounding their application; Minority audiences and their media and cultural consumption, including women, LGBTIQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, older adults, racialized communities, and individuals with diverse body types; Perceptions, interactions, and responses of general audiences to content addressing diversity and intersectionality; Media literacy and intersectionality. Formal and informal learning about diversity and intersectionality through the media; Fandom and intersectionality; Youth, intersectionality, and cultural and media consumption; Digital audiences and intersectionality. Interaction, consumption, and responses to content generated on digital platforms; Meta-research focused on academic production about audiences and intersectionalities. IMPORTANT DATES NEW DEADLINE: October 31, 2025 Deadline for submitting articles: September 15, 2025 Editors' decision: January 2026 Expected publication date: April 2026 Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation). Each paper is sent to two reviewers, who are invited in advance to evaluate it based on the criteria of quality, originality, and relevance in line with the aim and theme of the specific issue of the journal. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). Once accessing RMJ for the first time, registration is required to submit the article and track the editorial process. We recommend reviewing the Author Guidelines, Submission Conditions, and the journal's Editorial Policy. For more information, you can contact patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt
Media & Jornalismo achieved the 1st Quartile in the Scimago Journal Ranking
Cfp: Vol. 24 N.º 45 (2024) Youth views of the world and contexts of digital citizenship
Title: Youth views of the world and contexts of digital citizenship Editors: Maria José Brites - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; maria.jose.brites@ulusofona.pt Teresa Sofia Castro - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; teresa.sofia.castro@ulusofona.pt Paloma Contreras-Pulido - Universidade Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR); paloma.contreras@unir.net Topics: Children, youth, and news Children, youth, and contexts of digital citizenship Subtopics: Algorithms and datafication Audiences and news Socialisation, families, and peer influence News literacies Information disorders News resistance and avoidance Theoretical reflection and future perspectives of the field Methodological discussions Participatory media Decolonization of the field Glocal news contexts Glocal digital citizenship contexts In this special issue, we aim to capture theoretical and empirical reflections that shed light on how, why, and where young people follow, understand and express what is currently happening in the world in the context of digital citizenship and information disorders (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic and recent wars accelerated a torrent of fake news and other information disorders (Galan et al., 2019, Frau-Meigs et al, 2017), in which social media platforms revealed underlying ambivalences. This is why it is so pressing to consider diverse approaches in the investigation that identifies what, how and where young people from diverse contexts and geographies propose their views and expressions of what is happening in the world. By anticipating normative and/or decolonised definitions of news, we aim to apprehend research that assesses themes related with youth voices and views of the world, their (dis)connection with news and contexts of digital citizenship. The research continually points to a shift from the traditional journalism environments to new opportunities for consumption and production (Clark and Marchi, 2017), fostering participative processes. By proposing the concept of "connective journalism", Clark and Marchi (2017) highlight the need for sharing, having a self-view of the news stories, and considering making their stories. They also note a disruption between young audiences' needs and news outlets. What are the social environments where these processes are grounded? Even if the peer group influence has an impact, family, and in particular parents, are at the centre of the socialisation process for seeking news and different views of the world (Brites et al., 2017; Edgerly et al, 2018a; Lemish, 2007; Silveira, 2019), including contexts for operating digital devices (Edgerly et al, 2018a). Self-socialization is found in other studies regarding youth information consumption: incidental and leisure (Boczkowski et al, 2018) and news avoidance and resistance (Brites e Ponte, 2018; Edgerly et al, 2018b). These sociocultural environments pose additional challenges to news brands and the production of stories that fit young people’s interests and expectations. It is thus imperative to reflect on these timely issues, namely considering how young people regard and deal with algorithms (Swart, 2021), algorithmic literacy, and what are the implications for information selection and consumption processes in their everyday lives, and even to observe how in some cases this content is used for participatory, prosocial and citizen purposes, shaping initiatives that promote social change. This special issue [under the project Youth, News and Digital Citizenship - YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021); https://youndigital.com] invites articles that theoretically and/or empirically tackle these and other dimensions, considering youth layers in terms of social, educational, gender, and cultural diversity, which demands to be studied and analysed within their relationship with digital media, news, platforms, and digital citizenship. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submitting articles: March 15, 2024 Review process: March-June 2024 Editors' decision: July 2024 Expected publication date: October 2024 Authors must indicate the special issue to which they are submitting the article. Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal that operates in a double-blind review process and is indexed in Scopus. Each submitted work will be distributed to two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, according to academic quality, originality, and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme of this edition of the journal. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). When accessing RMJ for the first time, you must register to be able to submit your article and accompany it throughout the editorial process. Consult the Instructions for Authors and Conditions for Submission. For more information, contact: patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt
Cfp: Vol. 24 N.º 44 (2024) Journalism and Fiction
CALL FOR ARTICLES |JOURNALISM AND FICTION EDITORS: Mar Chicharro-Merayo (Universidad de Burgos) Javier Mateos-Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Lorena Antezana (Universidad de Chile) IMPORTANT DATES: New deadline: 2024, February 7th Article submission deadline: January 15, 2024 Editors’decision: May 2024 Expected publication date: May/June, 2024 The history of journalism was first captured on celluloid with the Lumières’1895 moving image of a train steaming into a station. The brothers wished to open "their objectives to the world", to reflect the reality of the planet, to inform. It is well established that audiovisual journalism was born and developed within the framework of cinema. The seventh art fostered and popularized journalism through documentaries and newsreels from around the globe which, together with fiction, were the genres most beloved and followed by the public. Audiovisual journalism was to later establish itself on television, where it spread as informative content, consolidating its place on programming schedules and creating its own audiovisual language. At the same time, journalism was carving out a space for itself in audiovisual fiction through stories showing the profession in practice, events based on real life, or stories featuring journalists themselves -or others from the communication industry-, that have configured a subgenre of journalistic fiction, an area which in recent times has produced some outstanding work, and which has been broadcast on the many different screen formats that make up the audiovisual industry. Thus, films like Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941); Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951); All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976); The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982); The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998); The insider (Michael Mann, 1999); Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005); State of Play (Kevin Macdonald, 2009); Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015); The Post (Steven Spielberg, 2017); etcetera, make up a solid legacy of work about journalism and the media, which have been joined by another small contingent of programs conceived, produced and broadcast on television, such as Lou Grant(CBS, 1977); Murphy Brown (CBS, 1988); Periodistas (Tele5, 1998); State of Play (BBC, 2003); The Hour(Prime, 2011); The Newsroom (HBO, 2012); Secret City (Foxtel, 2016); Crónica de sucesos (TVE1, 2016); Press (BBC, 2018); The Morning Show (AppleTV, 2019); Blinded (TV4, Sweden, 2019); Bala loca (Netflix, 2016); July 22 (NRK, 2020); among others. Apart from being represented in film and television fiction, journalism is also capable of presenting its work in feature film format. Documentaries are the most common genre for this perspective, though in recent times narratives typical of fiction have been appearing and have shifted to the setting of journalistic genres to give greater appeal to the author’s message, to make it touch the audience. In the same way, techniques such as storytelling, proposals such as docudramas, or more heterodox formats such as docuseries or audiovisual essays have become more commonplace. They propose mixtures of codes that broaden the horizons and blur the boundaries between information and entertainment. Starting from these initial coordinates, the monograph proposed for Media & Journalismo aims to contribute to debate, to research, and to reflection, setting out the academic implications. Researchers are encouraged to submit papers that address approaches such as representations of journalism in the audiovisual world; the relations between information and fiction; or the new hybrid formats that are being used to showcase journalists’work. Contributions to the monograph may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: The relationship between news genres and fiction formats: general issues. The creation, dissemination, and consumption of products in which information and fiction are connected. Uses of genres and strategies that hybridize information and fiction: docudrama, docuseries, reality television. Professional deontology and ethics in the face of the hybridization of content and codes. Information and fiction narratives: synergies and contagion. Fiction as a source of information. The case of historical fiction and memorial processes. Television fiction and journalistic imaginaries. Representations of journalism through fiction. The female journalist in fiction. Film journalism. Case Studies. The adaptation of journalism to fiction. Representing reality. The documentary and the audiovisual essay. Reception processes: audiences face confusion between reality and fiction. Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal that operates in a double-blind review process and is indexed in Scopus. Each submitted work will be distributed to two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, according to academic quality, originality, and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme of this edition of the journal. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). When accessing RMJ for the first time, you must register to be able to submit your article and accompany it throughout the editorial process. Consult the Instructions for Authors and Conditions for Submission. 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Journal "Media & Journalism" indexed in Web of Science
Media & Jornalismo, ICNOVA's journal, climbs to Q2 of Scopus CiteScore!
The Media & Jornalismo editorial team informs its authors and readers about the journal's recent inclusion in quartile 2 in Scopus' second most important metric, Scopus CiteScore. The editorial team emphasizes this first goal that results from a new editorial strategy adopted over the last year, and encourages all interested researchers to submit new scientific papers for evaluation in this journal. More information: https://www.scopus.com/ sourceid/21100902606#tabs=0
The Scopus indexed Media & Jornalismo receives articles in continuous flow and accepts proposals for the organization of special issues Media & Jornalismo, an internationally recognized and Portuguese pioneer journal in the field of Media and Journalism Studies (indexed in Scopus and ERIH Plus), invites the national and international scientific community to submit articles that fall within the thematic scope of the journal and to submit proposals for the organization of special issues. This call for papers and proposals for thematic issues is related to the editorial changes that Media & Journalism is implementing and that will come into full force in 2024: 1) From the second semester of 2023 onwards, the submission of articles will happen in continuous flow, all year round. This measure aims to privilege the heterogeneity of themes, responding to a need to cover the most salient academic and scientific issues at a given moment, in the disciplinary field of communication sciences. 2) From 2024, the continuous flow modality is now accompanied by the online first publishing policy, thus reducing the waiting times for publication of the different articles that overcome the double-blind peer review and ensuring the timely dissemination of the critical findings generated that are so important for the systematic accumulation of knowledge in the discipline of communication sciences. Articles published in the online first publishing modality will continue to integrate the Scopus database (in which the journal is indexed) under the denomination "Article in Press". All the articles published in this double format, continuous flow and online first publishing, will integrate, in due time, and in definitive publication, numbers of the journal, which will maintain its biannual periodicity. 3) Also from 2024, all articles accepted for publication will be published in a bilingual version (Portuguese and English or Spanish and English), the English version being compulsory. The journal seeks, with this measure, to internationalize itself and to achieve a different dissemination. The costs resulting from the necessary translations (Portuguese into English; Spanish into English; English into Portuguese), will be borne by the authors of the articles, in a practice followed by other important national journals. 4) The free-to-publish policy of submission and the policy of consultation at no cost for the reader (free-to-read) will be maintained. 5) The continuous flow of submissions and the online first publishing policy do not preclude the organization and publication of special issues, whether a) they are proposed to the journal by guest editors with recognized research merit, b) they seek to cover a topic that is salient in the academic community at the time the proposal is made, and c) the proposal is in line with Media & Journalism's editorial strategy and main thematic lines. In the case of special issues, the articles included and organized by the guest editors are published together and immediately after the formatting of the various articles that integrate the different special issues.
CALL FOR ARTICLES | COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE (closed)
Title: Communication and Social Change Editors: Thomas Tufte - Loughborough University - Institute for Media and Creative Industries Ana Margarida Barreto “ NOVA FCSH “ ICNOVA Nuno Correia de Brito “ Universidade Autónoma “ ICNOVA Topics: - Strategic Communication - Communication in 3rd sector organizations - Community Communication - Alternative Communication - Communication and Social Movements - Communication and Activism - Communication for development As stated by Tufte & Tacchi in their book Communicating for Change (2020), "communicative practices are at the centre of all processes of social change" (p.1). But despite its omnipresence (or because of it) understanding the impact or role of communication practices in processes of social change is complex. This issue of Revista Media & Jornalismo wishes to shed light on this complex relation, between communication practices and social change, taking into consideration the new developments in technologically mediated practices of communication, but also the challenges, contestations and critiques of dominant paradigms of development and social change. The field of both research and practice around communication and social change has in recent years broadened, and this issue calls for contributions that shed light on the next-generation research questions and communication practices. The concept of social change has also in the past been associated with several paradigms of development and social change with shifting attention given to power structures, international organizations, private entreprise and civil society. The longstanding legacy of two dominant paradigms of development, the modernization and participation paradigm remain strong (Peruzzo 2012, 2014), but the field has expanded in many directions in recent years. It is these new directions in both conceptual development and communicative practices enhancing social change, that this journal issue wishes to capture. Epistemologies of the South, decolonial perspectives, intersectional approaches and a broad variety of critiques of dominant western paradigms of development are opening new avenues of inquiry, allowing new voices to be heard, and challenging power in multifaceted ways. Strategic communication is still very much part of the efforts to articulate change through or with communication, but the thinking informing the field of communication and social change draws on new sources and is opening to other knowledge systems. Communication and social change seem in many ways to be a field in the early stages of reformulating theories of communication and change as well as seeing new practices of communication emerge or become visible. However, the dominant paradigms of communication and of social change are also innovating and gaining new strengths. What are the tensions, what are the debates in communication for development and social change today, and what practices and empirical cases are breaking new grounds or opening up for innovative and hitherto marginalized or silenced practices? This call for articles welcomes contributions from voices and experiences previously not heard, but also from communities, social movements, organisations and companies north that are offering new and innovative perspectives on how strategic communication enhances social change and with what impact. The purpose of this proposal for a thematic issue of the journal Media & Jornalismo is thus to receive articles that support and expand the reflection and study of this field of investigation and practice, cutting across the areas of media and communication studies, strategic communication and the field of social change and development. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submitting articles: September 30, 2022 Editors' decision: December 2022 Expected publication date: April 2023 Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal that operates in a double-blind review process, being indexed in Scopus. Each submitted work will be distributed to two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, according to academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme of this edition of the journal. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). When accessing RMJ for the first time, you must register to be able to submit your article and accompany it throughout the editorial process. Consult the Instructions for Authors and Conditions for Submission. For more information, contact: patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt
CALL FOR ARTICLES | MEDIA & JORNALISMO: TWENTY YEARS (closed)
Editors: Carla Baptista (NOVA FCSH / ICNOVA, Portugal), Marisa Torres da Silva (NOVA FCSH / ICNOVA, Portugal), Alberto Pena Rodriguez (Universidade de Vigo, / CEIS20, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) Article submission deadline: April 30, 2022 Expected publication date: November 2022 The journal Media & Jornalismo turns 20! In these two decades, in which new technologies and forms of digital communication have developed processes of revolutionary transformation, the journal has managed to consolidate itself as a peer-reviewed publication indexed in some of the most relevant international databases. Many dozens of national and foreign researchers have collaborated in it, making it a medium for scientific debate that aspires to achieve the maximum accuracy and quality in the publication of each new issue since its foundation in 2002. We are thus celebrating the date with a special issue dedicated to critical thinking about the contribution of media studies and journalism to the understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics since then. The call is open for original and systematized contributions on the complex modalities of the tantalizing relationship between media and society. We want to promote a critical edition, able to historicize the academic thought in this field of studies, to debate with new insights the identified problems, and to project creative and engaging solutions for the future. Media & Jornalismo was the first Portuguese academic journal to systematically publish pioneering research in the field of communication sciences. Maintaining the initial focus of being a qualified discussion space to understand the social and political dynamics activated by the media and journalism in contemporary societies, this special issue cannot fail to signal the transformations in the objects of study and theories. In the first two decades of the second millennium, society has become datafied, and new conglomerates of production and circulation of the symbolic reign. Structured on a technical infrastructure that fulfills the dream and nightmare of technological determinists, machines have become intelligent. People adjectivize politics as "disruptive" and "extreme", journalism has almost disappeared, public spheres have become privatized and maintained ongoing dynamics of fragmentation, activisms are digital, and algorithmic programming capitalizes on the spheres that most characterize the human and the post-human: intimacy, affections, emotions. The new media, networks and digital communication tools have not only transformed our way of perceiving and telling reality, but also the structure of social relations, the circulation of information between broadcasters and audiences in any context, the commercial exchange between producers and consumers, the debate between political, social, economic and cultural agents in public spaces, the production and dissemination routines of audiovisual content, the way of conceptually representing the world around us and, in short, also ways of feeling, thinking and living. We are witnessing, in fact, the birth of a new society, in which technological innovation associated to the cyber world, the virtuality of narratives and their robotized viralization are some of the characteristics of this great digital earthquake that shakes the foundations on which the productive system of modern communication is based, affecting in particular the traditional media, in the emergence of a new transmedia panorama in which classic journalism and serious and rigorous informative discourse have lost their protagonism in the simplification of communication models that trivialize or disregard the reality of facts or promote disinformation and propaganda at the service of manipulative causes that pervert the democratizing meaning of the Internet and social networks. In this special issue of Media & Jornalismo, we want to reflect in an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological way on the ruptures and permanencies that most mark the last 20 years of production, distribution, sharing, and reception of journalistic and media content by differentiated and globalized audiences. Thus, we encourage (but not exclusively) the submission of proposals focused on the following themes: - Contemporary challenges for theories of journalism and media; - Disruptive phenomena in the digital age: disinformation, hate speech, populism; - Media and social conflicts; - Media and digital activisms; - Social uses of communication technologies; - New forms of political and citizen participation; - Critical, historical views or case studies on media as cultural technologies; - Essays on media figurations in physical and/or symbolic territories; - Languages in communication; - Mediatization processes - Media influences in the construction of collective memory and social identities; - Media, racism and sexism; - Reflections on the future of media and journalism; - Teaching and training in the field of media and journalism; - The media arts in the contemporary landscape. KEY DATES Article submission deadline: April 30, 2022 Editors’decision on articles: June 2022 Expected publication date: November 2022 Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is a peer-reviewed and Scopus indexed journal that uses a double blind review process. After submission, each paper will be distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it, in terms of its academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme chosen for the journal’s current issue. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). If you are accessing the RMJ for the first time, please register in order to submit your article. Please check the Conditions for submission and Instructions to authors. For further information, please contact: patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt
Cfp: Vol. 22 N.º 40 (2022) Media & Populism (closed)
The "populist" label is almost always used to describe a wide range of individuals, parties, and movements, from left to right, who structure their political strategy around a dualistic and simplifying conception of reality. Concept of multiple semantic variations, depending on historical and political context in which it is employed, populism has been identified as a low-density ideology, quite sophisticated in terms of electoral effectiveness, which considers “ in a Manichean perspective -society divided in two antagonistic groups: "the pure people" and "the corrupt elite" postulating the people’s unrestricted sovereignty. The populist assumes strategies of communication and rhetoric that value the perception of the existence of a monolithic people, whose identity would be threatened by the action of enemy groups -what some leaders call "Homeland enemies". In this sense, populism is defined as discourse based on simplistic judgments and easy dichotomies, where the people (the crowd) are told what they hope to hear, polarizing society and dividing citizens between good and bad people. Last decade we have witnessed the emergence of populist governments in several countries around the world, that threaten the rules of liberal democracy, especially regarding individual rights, freedom of expression and press. They are populist and authoritarian governments installed many times, based on the holding of free elections, followed by the attempt of constitutional changes, which aim to perpetuate the leaders in power and to condition civil and human rights. Contemporary populisms, or neopopulisms, seek to distort the notion of "volonté générale du people", adulterating this democratic value, to attack, in the public sphere and through an anti-democratic rhetoric, instances of representation and mediation. The preferred targets have been parliaments and courts, knowledge institutions, scientific communities, social and humanitarian movements, and the media themselves. Thus, modern authoritarian populisms, embodied by leaders who are or have recently left power, such as Donald Trump (United States), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Recep Erdogan (Turkey), Viktor Orbán (Hungary), Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines), Matteo Salvini (Italy) and others, increase, or have increased an attitude of contesting democratic values and their institutions of mediation and regulation. In this scenario, the mainstream and new media assume an evident centrality both in creating the conditions for the emergence of the populist phenomenon and in offering the ideal technological equipment for the popular leader to be able to establish a direct communication with the "people". Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) and instant messaging applications (WhatsApp, Telegram) gave to populists’great visibility in the public sphere from the dissemination of extremist and conspiracy theories. Examples of this situation are the profiles of ghost users and the "shots" of false, uncharacterized and or modified information, based on programming technologies mastery and data misappropriation. The networks strategy of populist leaders also involves the denounce of "bad information" disseminated by traditional media that oppose to populist theses, accusing them of factional and false makers of news. The traditional media, despite being permanently attacked by populist rhetoric, have a direct relationship with the phenomenon. In fact, they have contributed last decade, directly, to the naturalization of populist rhetoric, by giving visibility to the messages of these leaders in the media coverage. This journalistic discourse encouraged political conflict and the growing discredit of democratic institutions, as happened in contexts of journalistic corruption scandals coverage. The relevance of the topic and its centrality in Communication Sciences in this debate leads the review Media & Jornalismo to invite researchers to submit articles that discuss the contemporary populisms. Texts in Portuguese, Spanish and English will be accepted, addressing, from multiple geographical and political contexts, and from political and communication understanding, this complex issue. The Media and Populism volume is included in the ongoing Research Projects "Freedom of Expression and the Press “ a comparative analysis of electoral processes in Portugal and Brazil" (OBCOM-USP/IPA/ICNOVA) and "Observatory of Populism in the 21st Century (ICNOVA, Institute of Contemporary History/UNL, Postgraduate Program in Communication/ University of Brasilia and Postgraduate Program in Communication/Federal University of Mato Grosso; Università degli Studi de Milão. The volume accepts studies that address one or more of the following topics: Historical contextualization of populisms; Representation of leaders and populist movements in traditional media; Populism and pandemic; Populism, digital media and election campaigns; Populism media and political representations; Populism and disinformation in the post-truth context; Comparative studies between right and left populisms; Populism, media and democratic crisis. Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses a double blind review process. After submission, each paper will be distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it, in terms of its academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme chosen for the journal’s current issue. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). If you are accessing the RMJ for the first time, please register in order to submit your article. Please check the Conditions for submission and Instructions to authors: For further information, please contact: patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt
Cfp: Vol. 21 N.º 39 (2021) Journalism in contemporary history (closed)
Journalism in contemporary history Editors: Carla Baptista (ICNOVA/NOVA FCSH) and Jorge Pedro Sousa (ICNOVA/UFP) Deadline: March 30, 2021 The journal Media e Jornalismo, edited by ICNOVA, is accepting full scientific articles focused on the history of journalism, from a broader and transmedia perspective. We encourage the submission of original articles with a historical perspective on journalism or whose focus is on problematizing historical research about journalism, from a methodological point of view. The view of journalism as an actor in history and the theoretical issues arising from the mediatization of history are areas of research relevant to this edition. The media as builders of collective memories and the journalistic outcomes generated around strong, "painful" memories or resulting from historical trauma and expiation processes, are valued in this call. The history of the profession, journalistic institutions, companies, and journalists, in Portugal and in the world, preferably from a relational, cultural, and critical perspective, with a focus on the contemporary history of journalism (XIX and XX century onwards) are relevant for publication within the scope of this issue. More generic historical questions, as long as they are articulated with journalism and the media, such as the history of censorship, of media regulation, the digital, of the technologies and innovation processes, the journalistic coverage of politics, of celebrities, the dynamics and institutionalization of journalistic values, elections coverages, trends and changes in journalistic narratives and the preservation of journalistic outputs themselves, are also research topics which for discussion. The articles must be rigorous original, contain a clear explanation of the main problem, the theoretical framework, and the methodology. Articles with the inclusion of empirical results, with critical analysis and capable of contributing to sustained interpretations of more general phenomena based on specific case studies and time frames, are valued. The articles will be subject to a first evaluation by the coordinators of the issue and by the editorial board of the journal, to assess their suitability for the objectives of the call. The selected papers will later be sent to blind scientific review. Only articles that comply with the submission rules, collect favorable opinions from reviewers will be published and, if proposals for improvement are suggested, these should be accepted and carefully implemented. Authors can consult the submission rules for the journal Media and Journalism at https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj/information/authors
Call for papers for the journal Media & Jornalismo on "Hybridism in the media: new journalistic genres and formats" (closed)
The call for papers for the journal Media & Jornalismo on "Hybridism in the media: new journalistic genres and formats" was opened, with António Granado (ICNOVA-NOVA FCSH, Portugal) and Dora Santos Silva (ICNOVA-NOVA FCSH, Portugal) as publishers. September 20th is the submission deadline. The concept of "genre" and "format" is rooted in academic research on journalistic routines. Without "genre" and "format", we would lose two intrinsic categories of the communication and journalistic ethos. However, the study of this field, beyond its traditional approaches, is not yet fully explored, given the conceptual framework guided by new approaches such as hybridism, transmediality and innovation in media and journalism or in the context of multimodal and multimedia methodological research (Liestol & Morrison, 2016). Understanding the journalistic genre as "the class of units of mass communication that groups different forms and respective types of transmission" (Marques de Melo & Assis, 2016, p.49) and the journalistic format as the shape of the information transmitted by the media (idem, p. 50), these units need, nevertheless, a new reflection and mapping when we face reader reviews, locative media, mini-documentaries in virtual reality, live-tweetings or a simple infographic that is assumed as "the" journalistic format and not the medium. At the same time, the growing transformation of journalistic pieces into what Steen Steensen calls a family of genres that shares a "literary, intimate and adventurous discourse" (2011, p.50), obeying the new news value of sharing on social networks, puts the frontier between opinion and information genres at stake. This blurred frontier is clear, for example, in cultural journalism (Santos Silva & Silva, 2017). In this issue of Revista Media & Jornalismo we suggest a discussion about the most recent advances in journalistic genres and formats framed in two fundamental approaches. First, that of innovation, using the classic definition of Joseph Schumpeter who sees innovation as "new combinations" of what already exists or the implementation of an invention in a specific socio-economic context. Second, that of hybridity, which we can see in the frontiers between what is journalism and what is not journalism, between what is an opinion and what is information, between what is specialist and non-specialist. Hybridism in journalism today involves "people, practices and platforms" (Carlson, 2015, p.2). We encourage contributions that focus on: classification proposals and models for genres and journalistic formats; theoretical approaches of genres and journalistic formats in a digital environment; impact of new sources of information and new "specialists" in redefining genres and formats; innovation in journalistic genres and formats; reconfiguration of traditional journalistic formats; empirical studies on the use of new genres and journalistic formats in the media; empirical studies on the presence of hybridism in journalistic genres and formats; empirical studies on journalistic genres and formats in specialized journalism; hybridity of formats and blurring of boundaries between journalism and advertising, journalism and entertainment, among other cases. KEY DATES Full article submission deadline: September 20, 2020 Editor’s decision on full articles:: November 15, 2020 Publication date: April, 2021 EDITION AND SUBMISSION Media & Jornalismo is a peer-reviewed journal that uses a double blind review process. After submission, each paper will be distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it, in terms of its academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme chosen for the journal’s current issue. Originals manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj/). If you are accessing Media & Jornalismo for the first time, you must register in order to submit your article here. The guidelines for authors can be consulted here. The guidelines for authors can be consulted https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj/about/submissions
Call for papers for the Revista Media & Jornalismo on "Innovation in the media and in the creative industries"
The call for papers for the journal Media & Jornalismo (Vol. 20, nº 36) on "Innovation in the media and in the creative industries" was opened, with António Granado (NOVA FCSH, ICNOVA), Dora Santos Silva (NOVA FCSH, ICNOVA) and Paulo Nuno Vicente (NOVA FCSH, ICNOVA/iNovaMediaLab) as publishers. October 30th is the submission deadline. Innovation in the media and in the creative industries, such as advertising, design, cinema and photography, video games and educational entertainment software, has been the subject of study in recent years by both academia and industry. This trend has come as a response to the opportunities and constraints “ brought by the emerging creative digital ecosystem. The growing social role of creativity and its economic impact (Howkins, 2001 and Florida, 2002) also imposed the need to rethink media practices as part of creative industries that provide us with symbolic content (Hesmondhalgh, 2007). This multidisciplinary and convergent context triggers a number of research agendas that need to be revisited: first, the innovation typologies proposed to understand products, processes, positions, and paradigms (Storsul & Krumsvik, 2013; Bleyen et al., 2014; Santos Silva, 2016); second, the available case studies related to innovation and entrepreneurship in the media and in these creative industries; next, the emerging journalistic practices and the reconfiguration of their narrative formats, the repercussion that innovation and creative industries have on the curricula of higher education institutions (Crespo, Foa & Cardoso, 2016). These are just a few examples that illustrate the potential of this comprehensive thematic issue, its diversification and, above all, its timeliness and need for discussion. In this issue of Media & Jornalismo, dedicated to the theme "Innovation in the Media and in the Creative Industries", we aim to document and discuss the latest trends and advances in the media and creative industries We encouragecontributions that focus on: proposals for new innovation typologies in the creative media and industries; essays and analysis on the reconfiguration of relations between the media and other creative industries in a convergent environment; empirical studies on media innovation strategies and creative industries in relation to their products in the fields of television, radio, print and digital media, and their relationship with design, advertising, software industry and new formats; empirical studies on innovation in digital media and emerging technologies; empirical studies on media innovation strategies and creative industries in relation to the developing processes of new narrative forms; empirical studies on media innovation strategies and creative industries in relation to paradigmatic business models and organizational culture(s); empirical studies on media innovation strategies and creative industries particularly stressing online social networks and communication with audiences KEY DATES: The CFP ends at 30/10/19. The issue will be published in April 2020. Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses a double blind review process. After submission, each paper will be distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it, in terms of its academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme chosen for the journal’s current issue. Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). If you are accessing the RMJ for the first time, please registerin order to submit your article. Please check the Conditions for submission and Instructions to authors: For further information, please contact: patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt
Aberta chamada de artigos para a revista Media & Jornalismo sobre "Inovação nos Media e Indústrias Criativas Limítrofes"