CFP Special issue: Audiences' Trust in the Media

COST Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”

Working Group 1 - Task Force 3 “Trust and the Media” is announcing a call for papers to a special issue on "Audiences’ Trust in the Media" in co-operation with the peer reviewed Serbian journal Communication Management Quarterly – Časopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem.

The special issue is based on a panel at the conference organized in Zagreb, April 2011. Now also other members of the action are invited to submit their abstracts.

More information below and attached.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Audiences’ Trust in the Media

Special issue of Communication Management Quarterly, CM – Časopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem
http://www.fpn.bg.ac.rs/2011/10/24/cm-casopis-za-upravljanje-komuniciran...

Guest editors: Lars Nyre and Liina Puustinen

The question of trust has interested many scholars in the social sciences and media studies. Yet, the development of new media technology has influenced the ways people interact with the media, and this has elicited new questions on trust in both old and new media.

Digitalisation has made it possible to easily produce texts and images, and this evokes the question of manipulation of media texts. The media are more diverse and audiences have more to choose from. The volume of entertainment has increased in the commercial media. How do people trust different media? One significant transformation of the audiencehood is the possibility to participate in media production. Various applications on the internet allow the non professional journalists to publish their ideas and images. Also the institutionalised media offer opportunities for the audience to participate in various ways. Have the power relations between media producers and audiences changed?

The question of trust involves many levels of people’s relation to the media: starting from trust at the micro level of a single media text to confidence in the media institutions and policies at the national level. There are great differences between the European countries. Moreover, the answer to the question of trust is not always a clear cut ‘yes’ or ‘no’. What is trust, after all?

We invite theoretical and empirical paper abstracts, dealing with historical cases or the situation in contemporary Europe. Methodological and conceptual discussions about the dynamics of trust are also welcome.

Important dates:

Submission of long abstracts in English (600-800 words) 18.5.2012.
Notification of the accepted proposals 25.5.2012.
Full manuscript submission for peer review 30.9.2012.

Contact information:

Please send your proposal by email to the guest editors
Lars Nyre: lars.nyre @ infomedia.uib.no
Liina Puustinen: liina.puustinen @ helsinki.fi.