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Invitation to attend the conference Online journalism and its publics (Brussels, December 4-6)
We are pleased to invite you to attend the conference Online journalism and its publics, to be held in Brussels from 4 to 6 December.
You can find the detailed program at this address: http://publics2013.ulb.ac.be/?page_id=208
The opening conference (in partnership with the Belgian Association of Professional Journalists) will take place Wednesday, December 4 at the Maison des journalistes, at 18h, with a debate between researchers and professionals, followed up with a cheerful cocktail. The scientific sessions will be held Thursday 5 and Friday 6 at Campus Solbosch ULB.
Please, confirm your participation by sending an email to publics2013@gmail.com. You should indicate whether you plan to attend the opening conference and/or the two-day event (Thursday 5 and Friday 6).
Participation on Wednesday, December 4 is free. Participants of the scientific sessions on Thursday and Friday will contribute 50 euro (30 euro for PhD students) to cover the costs of meals and coffee breaks. This sum can be paid in cash on-site, before the first session on December 5.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Laura Calabrese, David Domingo and Florence Le Cam - ReSIC-ULB.
Geoffroy Patriarche - Université Saint-Louis - Brussels
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ReSIC-ULB and PreCOM – Université Saint-Louis organise this international and interdisciplinary conference with the aim of 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.
In the last decade we have heard utopian discourses announcing a revolution in journalism and the end of one-way mass communication. But we have also lived through the normalisation of audience participation on online news media, with gatekeeping criteria and isolation from news production as key strategies. The moment calls for an in-depth analysis of the circumstances, motivations and habits of the production and consumption of news in a digital context. We know well the professional practices in the newsrooms, but we lack empirical evidence on their publics, how do they select the information they consume and why do they decide to contribute information through any of the available means.
The opening conference (in partnership with the Belgian Association of Professional Journalists) will take place Wednesday, December 4 at the Maison des journalistes, at 18h, with a debate between researchers and professionals, followed up with a cheerful cocktail. The scientific sessions will be held Thursday 5 and Friday 6 at Campus Solbosch ULB.
You can find the detailed program at this address: http://publics2013.ulb.ac.be/?page_id=208
Please, confirm your participation by sending an email to publics2013@gmail.com. You should indicate whether you plan to attend the opening conference and/or the two-day event (Thursday 5 and Friday 6).
