CfP: Online journalism and its public

Call for Papers:
Online journalism and its publics

December 5-6, 2013, Brussels

Official languages of the conference: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese

This international and interdisciplinary conference aims at fostering the debate on audience consumption, production and participation in the journalistic sphere. Discussion forums, comment spaces, fact checking, crowdsourcing, blogs and social networks have expanded the opportunities for the participation of Internet users in the news production process. The relationship between journalism and its publics has become more complex, with multiple levels of interaction that are not always easy to fit into professional practices.

Call for papers:

Contributions to the conference can be sent in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese (max. of 500 words) to publics2013@gmail.com before May 5, 2013.

Calendar:

Diffusion: February 5, 2013.
Deadline for abstracts: May 5, 2013.
Acceptance communication: June 1, 2013.
Deadline for full papers: October 5, 2013.

Organised by:

ReSIC: Centre de Recherche en Information et Communication (Université Libre de Bruxelles) & PReCoM : Pôle de Recherches sur la Communication et les Médias (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles).

Presented in partnership with:

Action COST IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies
DigiLab, Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna (Universitat Ramon Lull, Barcelona)

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