The Journalism Research & Education Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions for its open sessions at the annual conference that will take place in Leicester, UK from 27th to 31st July 2016. The theme of the conference is “Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward.”
Conference theme: "Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward"
See the conference key dates and deadlines: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/keydates
See all Calls for Papers for IAMCR 2016: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp
Visit the conference website: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016
Contemporary societies are haunted by their collective memory (Olick, 2003) that has too often been exploited to impose on the past; the point should be to re-historicize memory and see how it is so inextricably part of the past (Matsuda, 1996). But collective memory usually revolves around major events (Dalrymple, 2014). To date, however, many theoretical aspects of such major events have not been addressed properly in the media.
At times of war, or political volatility, messages of extremities and hate, combined with emotions of honour and righteousness interplay to provide powerful media narrative to mobilize the publics and redraw the present and future.
The dilemma lies in the discrepancies between how the media and the societies conflict in their collective remembering of events. Such memories constitute a groups’ identity that is not only communicated between group members, but also projected outward.
Communities usually stage a certain frame of the past for “otherness” that shapes how the group collectively remembers important events of its past (Szpunar, 2012).
This year, the Journalism Research and Education (JRE) section, aims to address a number of key questions here: how groups communicate their collective memory and identity to outsiders and how these strangers come to understand these phenomena?
The Journalism Research & Education Section is opened for panel proposals, workshop sessions and research papers proposals to address the issues related to the historical narrative in international relations theory through the work of Jacques Derrida, and his concept of "the event" (Attridge & Baldwin, 2004). It requires acquaintance with its meaning of "the myth of presence,” by linking the event to other things with a capacity to recognizing it on other occasions and in different contexts (Wolfgrams & Stevens, 2007).
The JRE section considers this general idea through the lens of the five JRE themes:
- International Collaboration in Journalism Research: New Challenges and Emergent Perspectives
- Innovations in Journalism
- The Professional Journalism
- Methods for Quantifying Professional Journalism
- Generic Studies of Journalism
Individual papers and panels are possible, but all proposals must be submitted through the online Open Conference System from 1 December 2015 – 15 February 2016. Early submission is strongly encouraged. There are to be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to any Section or Working Group Head.
It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be submitted per person for consideration by the Conference. However, under no circumstances should there be more than two (2) abstracts bearing the name of the same applicant either individually or as part of any group of authors.
Important dates and deadlines to keep in mind:
- 1 December 2015 Open Computer System (OCS) available for abstract submission
- 15 February 2016 Deadline for submissions
- 1 April 2016 Notification of acceptances of abstracts
- 15 April 2016 Deadline to apply for travel grants and awards
- 28 April 2016 Deadline to confirm your participation
- 20 May 2016 Last day to register at discounted early-bird fee
- 30 June 2016 Deadline for full paper submission
- 7 July 2016 Final conference programme published on the website
- 27-31 July 2016 IAMCR 2016 Conference
Journalism Research & Education Section
Chair:
Ibrahim Saleh PhD
Email: jre09is [at] gmail.com
JRE Blog: jre09.blogspot.com JRE Website: http://jre.uct.ac.za/index.php
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See the conference key dates and deadlines: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/keydates
See all Calls for Papers for IAMCR 2016: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp
Visit the conference website: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016