Call for Papers:
Exploring
News Literacy:
Preparing future journalists—and citizens—for engagement in global
digital culture
Special Issue of Journalism Education
Guest editors:
Paul Mihailidis, Emerson
College, Boston, USA
Stephanie Craft,
University of Illinois, USA
This special issue of Journalism
Education is devoted to the emerging field of news literacy. It aims to provide
new understanding, approaches, and foundations for how we understand the
competencies that future journalists – professionals and citizens alike -- need
to effectively report news stories that demand attention in digital culture
today.
Contributions to this special issue will identify and critique a range
of factors that are facing journalism and media educators. In recognizing the pedagogical
challenges engendered by the destabilization of traditional models for news,
this issue calls for theoretical treatments of the term ‘news literacy’ as a
productive basis for rethinking media literacy and public engagement in civic
life.
Research examining news literacy in primary, secondary or higher
education contexts is welcome. Possible topics include:
- How best to define news literacy?
- News literacy as a response to
a destabilizing industry
- Evolving forms and practices of
news media pedagogy
- Students’ uses of social media for
engagement with news
- News literacy in connective
networks and sharing culture
- Training citizen journalists
- Curation as news pedagogy
- Storytelling as news literacy
- Teaching reporting in an
“everything is free” culture
- How best to keep up with the
changing demands for teaching about news and journalism?
- Innovation and experimentation
in news education in digital culture
- Ethical responsibilities in
producing, curating, disseminating and consuming news
Prospective authors should submit
an abstract of approximately 250 words by email to Paul Mihailidis (paul_mihailidis@emerson.edu).
Following peer-review, a selection of authors will be invited to submit a full
paper in accordance with the journal’s ‘Instructions for authors.’ Please note
acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all
papers will be put though the journal’s peer review process.
Timeline
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December
2014; deadline for submission of full papers: 1 April 2015. Final revised
papers due: 15 June 2015. Publication: Volume 9, Number 4 (September 2015).
Guest Editors
Paul Mihailidis is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies
in the school of communication at Emerson College and Associate Director of
Emerson’s Engagement Lab. He also Directs the Salzburg Academy on Media and
Global Change. He newest book is titled Media
Literacy and the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in
Digital Culture (Peter Lang, 2014).
Stephanie Craft’s is an Associate
Professor of Journalism in the College of Media at the University of Illinois.
Her research, focusing on news literacy, press practices and journalism ethics,
has appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Mass
Media Ethics, Communication Law & Policy, Mass Communication & Society,
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, and Journalism & Mass
Communication Educator. With Charles Davis, she is author of the textbook
Principles of American Journalism, published by Routledge. Before earning a
PhD, Craft worked as a newspaper journalist in California, Washington and
Arkansas.
Editorial Contact
Paul Mihailidis
Emerson College
120 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
email: paul_mihailidis@emerson.edu
tel: +001(978)761-2412
web: paulmihailidis.com
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