Dear colleagues and friends,
The deadline for JRE call for papers is Feb. 8
Regards,
Ibrahim
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Call for Papers
Dear Colleagues and Friends
On behalf of Joao Carlos Correia, please find the call for papers on the conference "Public Sphere Reconsidered."
Please would you be so kind of publishing both papers in the JRE Blog?
http://www.ec.ubi.pt/ec/call.htm
lhttp://www.agendadocidadao.ubi.pt/PSR
JRE Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001546097378#!/group.php?gid=145905192098100&v=wall
On behalf of Joao Carlos Correia, please find the call for papers on the conference "Public Sphere Reconsidered."
Please would you be so kind of publishing both papers in the JRE Blog?
http://www.ec.ubi.pt/ec/call.htm
lhttp://www.agendadocidadao.ubi.pt/PSR
JRE Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001546097378#!/group.php?gid=145905192098100&v=wall
Monday, January 17, 2011
Less than three weeks remaining before JRE Call for Papers' deadline
Feb 8th is the last day to receive any abstracts' submission
Friday, January 14, 2011
Ibero-American Communication Congress
I Ibero-American Communication Congress
I Confibercom 2011
01-06 of August, 2011
The First World Congress of Ibero-American Communication will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, from the 1st to the 6th of August, 2011. The theme of the Congress shall be Communication Systems in Times of Cultural Diversity.
The 1st Ibero-American Congress has the support of the School of Arts and Communication of São Paulo University, ECA/USP; the Ibero-American Confederation of Academic and Scientific Associations of Communication, Confibercom; and the Brazilian Federation of Scientific and Academic Associations of Communication, Socicom.
Papers for the Sections of the Congress shall be accepted no later than March 11th, 2011 and should be written in Portuguese or in Spanish.
To obtain further details about the Congress and the delivery of the papers, please reach us at: www.confibercom.org/congresso
Economize papel, recicle, etc etc.
Olhaí gente: claudialago07.blogspot.com
I Confibercom 2011
01-06 of August, 2011
The First World Congress of Ibero-American Communication will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, from the 1st to the 6th of August, 2011. The theme of the Congress shall be Communication Systems in Times of Cultural Diversity.
The 1st Ibero-American Congress has the support of the School of Arts and Communication of São Paulo University, ECA/USP; the Ibero-American Confederation of Academic and Scientific Associations of Communication, Confibercom; and the Brazilian Federation of Scientific and Academic Associations of Communication, Socicom.
Papers for the Sections of the Congress shall be accepted no later than March 11th, 2011 and should be written in Portuguese or in Spanish.
To obtain further details about the Congress and the delivery of the papers, please reach us at: www.confibercom.org/congresso
Economize papel, recicle, etc etc.
Olhaí gente: claudialago07.blogspot.com
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Refereed JRE Journal Braga 2010
Refereed JRE On-Line Journal 2010
Braga, Portugal 2010
ISBN 978-0-6464704-5-0
Journalism Research & Education Section, The International Association For Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Forward by JRE Section Chair and Journal Editor
Ibrahim Saleh
The JRE On-Line Journal attempts to explore the means and the ways of using action journalism research to help journalists, journalism students and journalism educators or concerned citizens design the successful integration of "new paradigms" of educational ideas (online or other), materials and content with traditional and/or innovation orientation the ideas of change through an integrated process.
It is often challenging to average people to take on ideas that come from research, nonetheless the three steps in action research of discovery because action and reflection will seem familiar as indeed they are. What may be new will the unique blend of how they interact in the process to make seemingly difficult things become very simple? This allows us to move ahead and make changes in your journalism educational design that may not have previously been considered.
This new edition of JRE On-Line Journal aims to address the main theme of IAMCR 2010 conference: “communication and citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change.” The journal attempts to find ways of making this connection between journalism and citizenship to enhance their levels of engagement, & satisfy a global news-hungry appetite as a sound investment in better policy-making and a core element of good governance. In that context, all submitted papers were reviewed were of high quality.
The rejection rate was very high because the journal goal is to promote conduct and dissemination of research into all facets of journalism research and journalism education. As a result, only six papers were accepted and cover both different aspects of the journalism research and education on one hand, and variant geographical areas ranging from Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Israel, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Some of these papers also mark international collaborative research from scholars and JRE members from different countries and different journalism schools.
Regardless the location, this historical moment witnesses sweeping changes in the relation between journalism research and education field with the societies it serves, and the audiences for news and public affairs it seeks to address. Besides, there are more changes to come in technology that have blurred any traditional lines between professionals and citizens, partisan and objective bystanders, particularly in the emerging public zones of new media and e-learning, as well as the related innovations.
This volume of the journal examines these changes and the new concepts needed to understand them in the diverse context of journalism research and education in today’s setting and the years ahead. With the accepted research of the JRE members and their contributions, this collection identifies key issues in the field and paves the way for further research on the role of journalism in today's world.
The first paper is entitled: “Artificial Intelligence. The Future of Journalism: And Digital Identities,” by Noam Lemelshtrich Latar from Sammy Ofer School of Communications in Israel and David Nordfors from Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication, Stanford University in the USA.
In this paper Naom and David talk about the interaction between journalism, the Internet and social communities is familiar and intensely discussed, helping us understand how journalism can raise our collective intelligence. They discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) democratic society and suggest questions to be explored. Algorithms on the journalism profession and journalism's role in a issue a call for stakeholders to jointly explore the potential effects of AI-digital identities in journalism, and suggest examples of such principles.
The two scholars discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) will add to that picture and thus influence the future of journalism. Along the way, they describe 'Digital Identities' and their future interaction with journalism. Besides, they attempt to summarize state-of-the-art (AI) methods that could be usable to establish the 'DNA' of journalistic content, how matching that content with digital identities enables behavioural targeting for consumer engagement. They also attempt to review the driving forces of such procedures and show an example of a journalistic behavioural-targeting engine.
In the second paper by Dimas Antônio Künsch, Faculdade Cásper Líbero, Brazil that is written in Portuguese and is entitled: “JORNALISMO E CIDADANIA: A VIOLÊNCIA COTIDIANA DOS DISCURSOS NÃO-COMPREENSIVOS (Journalism and Citizenship: the daily violence of the incomprehensive discourses,” a rather different aspect is explored. Dimas aims to investigate "humanity's true spiritual mission" (Morin) is analyzed, for its relation with Communication in general and with Journalism in particular.
Under this point of view, the article studies at first the journalistic covering of the earthquake in Haiti (January 2010) by the main Brazilian weekly magazine, Veja. Secondly, the article brings the results of a research that analyzed a more ample and older covering of the war against Iraq (March-April 2003) by the three biggest weekly magazines in Brazil, Veja, IstoÉ and Época. One report in particular, unique in the ample field of texts about the war, is pointed as the symbol of the comprehension sign, going against the warmongering thought.
Methodology-wise, the analysis of the said coverings is built from the attentive look and the examination of the ways journalism reveals itself and allows itself to be known in the production of the daily information: the sources and subjects chosen, the characters, the game of information and opinion, the different genres, titles and headlines, visual appeals and pictures, the editing of the text, and the highlighted ideas. Among the authors quoted are Dominique Wolton and Norval Baitello Junior (non-communication), Edgar Morin (complex thought) and Michel Maffesoli (comprehensive sociology).
Moving to a different angle of journalism, Billy K Sarwono from the Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in the Universitas Indonesia offers an important study on the coverage of the 13th and 15th UNFCCC in Two Indonesian Daily Newspapers. The research is entitled: “Local Media Construction in Coverage of News on Global Climate.”
The research main thesis is based on the simple idea that there is no single country in the world that could prevent from the impacts of global warming, and one of the measures taken at the global level is to conduct UNFCCC.
It is thus both timely and crucial is to consider how local media present information on UNFCCC while still taking into account the local interests. Data collection for this study was done through a framing analysis on the coverage of the 13th and 15th UNFCCC, supported by in-depth interviews to learn about the underlining construction. The analysis shows that news construction on UNFCCC tends to reflect the interests of the elite community group and sacrifice the interests of those without power.
In the fourth paper, Carla Rodrigues Cardoso from the Licenciatura em Comunicação e Jornalismo, Escola de Comunicação, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação in Lisboa, Portugal deals with the link of political journalism and citizenship. Carla presents a paper entitled: “ Obama on the Cover.”
The paper kicks off with the selection of the first cover of Time in 2009 of Barack Obama as "Person of the Year”. This choice is considered by the author recognized the path Obama had initiated in 2008 until his election as the first black president in the U.S. History. The inauguration of Barack Obama occurred on 20 January 2009, and on that date he began his first year in office with the backdrop of a world plunged into a deep economic crisis.
The objective of this paper is to understand how Barack Obama was portrayed on the covers of newsmagazines during the year 2009. This particular type of press, closer to the newspapers than the universe of magazines is characterized by a rational approach to the events, similar to weekly quality newspapers, their main competitors. Hence, the research explores the nature of the narratives written by newsmagazines covers around the figure of Barack Obama? And questioned the differences that might have existed when considering different titles? This research involves six different newsmagazines. Four are international editions: Time, Newsweek (U.S.A.), L’ Express and Le Nouvel Observateur (France); the other two are national editions: Visão and Sábado (Portuguese).
This case study aims to understand how newsmagazines structure their dispositif cover and what kind of narratives this hybrid construction that lies between journalism and advertising is capable of supporting.
The fifth paper is by Lawrie Zion La Trobe University, Australia and is entitled: “Upstart: An innovation to facilitate student publishing.” Lawrie begins the research with a hypothesis, if you’re graduating from a journalism degree in Australia and you don’t have a portfolio of publications, your chances of landing a media job are virtually zero. Of course, even graduating students who have had some media experience are heading into an increasingly competitive environment.
The imperative for journalism students to graduate with a portfolio of published work has never been greater. But how can journalism degree programs best facilitate this?
In an attempt to address this challenge in the field of journalism, the paper reviews the work introduced in June 2009 by the team at Melbourne’s La Trobe University that launched upstart (http://www.upstart.net.au), a web-based publishing platform for emerging journalists, writers and filmmakers. The site was designed to provide a showcase for student work and a playground for experiments in digital journalism, as well as to a platform for teaching and research.
In the sixth paper entitled: “Electronic approach to teaching journalism: A pedagogical perspective,” by Manisha Pandey from UK with a main thesis that innovations are built on existing perceptions, ideas and structures, at least until the new ideas and thoughts are fully manifested.
The research assumes that innovations discard the shackles of the old models and structures and stand on its own merits and strengths. The development of e-learning and new internet technologies are used to support this phenomenon and thus reach out to the mass learners with learning when they want, what they want, where they want and how they want, making it a learner centric, self paced and individualized instruction.
Students are increasingly developing a mindset towards education that skips the boundaries of where lessons can take place, how learning is undertaken and how it is disseminated. Location will become less and less important; education will increasingly become seamless. Such ease of access and choice is far from most adults' memories of school. "Class spaces" of the future should enable journalism students anywhere to acquire information directly from experts and like-minded individuals.
The paper also mentions the ‘fractional learning’, where a student can sort an individualized, balanced view from a multitude of views that is inevitable in Journalism and Communication. The paper suggests that relative technologies foster a highly cooperative approach to learning, which enable students to share knowledge wherever they are. The paper concludes by stating that technology enables critical discussion between pupils in class spaces in different cities, countries and continents.
At the end, changes in journalism practice and education always present problems. If you change too early the new idea may prove to be a bust and there you are, having invested in an idea that quickly deteriorated. Universities with online platforms are the fastest growing anywhere in the world, and new media and e-learning are quickly gaining in importance, especially for younger generations and in developing societies.
Regards,
Ibrahim Saleh, Chair of JRE Section and Editor of JRE On-Line Journal
Braga, Portugal 2010
ISBN 978-0-6464704-5-0
Journalism Research & Education Section, The International Association For Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Forward by JRE Section Chair and Journal Editor
Ibrahim Saleh
The JRE On-Line Journal attempts to explore the means and the ways of using action journalism research to help journalists, journalism students and journalism educators or concerned citizens design the successful integration of "new paradigms" of educational ideas (online or other), materials and content with traditional and/or innovation orientation the ideas of change through an integrated process.
It is often challenging to average people to take on ideas that come from research, nonetheless the three steps in action research of discovery because action and reflection will seem familiar as indeed they are. What may be new will the unique blend of how they interact in the process to make seemingly difficult things become very simple? This allows us to move ahead and make changes in your journalism educational design that may not have previously been considered.
This new edition of JRE On-Line Journal aims to address the main theme of IAMCR 2010 conference: “communication and citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change.” The journal attempts to find ways of making this connection between journalism and citizenship to enhance their levels of engagement, & satisfy a global news-hungry appetite as a sound investment in better policy-making and a core element of good governance. In that context, all submitted papers were reviewed were of high quality.
The rejection rate was very high because the journal goal is to promote conduct and dissemination of research into all facets of journalism research and journalism education. As a result, only six papers were accepted and cover both different aspects of the journalism research and education on one hand, and variant geographical areas ranging from Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Israel, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Some of these papers also mark international collaborative research from scholars and JRE members from different countries and different journalism schools.
Regardless the location, this historical moment witnesses sweeping changes in the relation between journalism research and education field with the societies it serves, and the audiences for news and public affairs it seeks to address. Besides, there are more changes to come in technology that have blurred any traditional lines between professionals and citizens, partisan and objective bystanders, particularly in the emerging public zones of new media and e-learning, as well as the related innovations.
This volume of the journal examines these changes and the new concepts needed to understand them in the diverse context of journalism research and education in today’s setting and the years ahead. With the accepted research of the JRE members and their contributions, this collection identifies key issues in the field and paves the way for further research on the role of journalism in today's world.
The first paper is entitled: “Artificial Intelligence. The Future of Journalism: And Digital Identities,” by Noam Lemelshtrich Latar from Sammy Ofer School of Communications in Israel and David Nordfors from Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication, Stanford University in the USA.
In this paper Naom and David talk about the interaction between journalism, the Internet and social communities is familiar and intensely discussed, helping us understand how journalism can raise our collective intelligence. They discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) democratic society and suggest questions to be explored. Algorithms on the journalism profession and journalism's role in a issue a call for stakeholders to jointly explore the potential effects of AI-digital identities in journalism, and suggest examples of such principles.
The two scholars discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) will add to that picture and thus influence the future of journalism. Along the way, they describe 'Digital Identities' and their future interaction with journalism. Besides, they attempt to summarize state-of-the-art (AI) methods that could be usable to establish the 'DNA' of journalistic content, how matching that content with digital identities enables behavioural targeting for consumer engagement. They also attempt to review the driving forces of such procedures and show an example of a journalistic behavioural-targeting engine.
In the second paper by Dimas Antônio Künsch, Faculdade Cásper Líbero, Brazil that is written in Portuguese and is entitled: “JORNALISMO E CIDADANIA: A VIOLÊNCIA COTIDIANA DOS DISCURSOS NÃO-COMPREENSIVOS (Journalism and Citizenship: the daily violence of the incomprehensive discourses,” a rather different aspect is explored. Dimas aims to investigate "humanity's true spiritual mission" (Morin) is analyzed, for its relation with Communication in general and with Journalism in particular.
Under this point of view, the article studies at first the journalistic covering of the earthquake in Haiti (January 2010) by the main Brazilian weekly magazine, Veja. Secondly, the article brings the results of a research that analyzed a more ample and older covering of the war against Iraq (March-April 2003) by the three biggest weekly magazines in Brazil, Veja, IstoÉ and Época. One report in particular, unique in the ample field of texts about the war, is pointed as the symbol of the comprehension sign, going against the warmongering thought.
Methodology-wise, the analysis of the said coverings is built from the attentive look and the examination of the ways journalism reveals itself and allows itself to be known in the production of the daily information: the sources and subjects chosen, the characters, the game of information and opinion, the different genres, titles and headlines, visual appeals and pictures, the editing of the text, and the highlighted ideas. Among the authors quoted are Dominique Wolton and Norval Baitello Junior (non-communication), Edgar Morin (complex thought) and Michel Maffesoli (comprehensive sociology).
Moving to a different angle of journalism, Billy K Sarwono from the Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in the Universitas Indonesia offers an important study on the coverage of the 13th and 15th UNFCCC in Two Indonesian Daily Newspapers. The research is entitled: “Local Media Construction in Coverage of News on Global Climate.”
The research main thesis is based on the simple idea that there is no single country in the world that could prevent from the impacts of global warming, and one of the measures taken at the global level is to conduct UNFCCC.
It is thus both timely and crucial is to consider how local media present information on UNFCCC while still taking into account the local interests. Data collection for this study was done through a framing analysis on the coverage of the 13th and 15th UNFCCC, supported by in-depth interviews to learn about the underlining construction. The analysis shows that news construction on UNFCCC tends to reflect the interests of the elite community group and sacrifice the interests of those without power.
In the fourth paper, Carla Rodrigues Cardoso from the Licenciatura em Comunicação e Jornalismo, Escola de Comunicação, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação in Lisboa, Portugal deals with the link of political journalism and citizenship. Carla presents a paper entitled: “ Obama on the Cover.”
The paper kicks off with the selection of the first cover of Time in 2009 of Barack Obama as "Person of the Year”. This choice is considered by the author recognized the path Obama had initiated in 2008 until his election as the first black president in the U.S. History. The inauguration of Barack Obama occurred on 20 January 2009, and on that date he began his first year in office with the backdrop of a world plunged into a deep economic crisis.
The objective of this paper is to understand how Barack Obama was portrayed on the covers of newsmagazines during the year 2009. This particular type of press, closer to the newspapers than the universe of magazines is characterized by a rational approach to the events, similar to weekly quality newspapers, their main competitors. Hence, the research explores the nature of the narratives written by newsmagazines covers around the figure of Barack Obama? And questioned the differences that might have existed when considering different titles? This research involves six different newsmagazines. Four are international editions: Time, Newsweek (U.S.A.), L’ Express and Le Nouvel Observateur (France); the other two are national editions: Visão and Sábado (Portuguese).
This case study aims to understand how newsmagazines structure their dispositif cover and what kind of narratives this hybrid construction that lies between journalism and advertising is capable of supporting.
The fifth paper is by Lawrie Zion La Trobe University, Australia and is entitled: “Upstart: An innovation to facilitate student publishing.” Lawrie begins the research with a hypothesis, if you’re graduating from a journalism degree in Australia and you don’t have a portfolio of publications, your chances of landing a media job are virtually zero. Of course, even graduating students who have had some media experience are heading into an increasingly competitive environment.
The imperative for journalism students to graduate with a portfolio of published work has never been greater. But how can journalism degree programs best facilitate this?
In an attempt to address this challenge in the field of journalism, the paper reviews the work introduced in June 2009 by the team at Melbourne’s La Trobe University that launched upstart (http://www.upstart.net.au), a web-based publishing platform for emerging journalists, writers and filmmakers. The site was designed to provide a showcase for student work and a playground for experiments in digital journalism, as well as to a platform for teaching and research.
In the sixth paper entitled: “Electronic approach to teaching journalism: A pedagogical perspective,” by Manisha Pandey from UK with a main thesis that innovations are built on existing perceptions, ideas and structures, at least until the new ideas and thoughts are fully manifested.
The research assumes that innovations discard the shackles of the old models and structures and stand on its own merits and strengths. The development of e-learning and new internet technologies are used to support this phenomenon and thus reach out to the mass learners with learning when they want, what they want, where they want and how they want, making it a learner centric, self paced and individualized instruction.
Students are increasingly developing a mindset towards education that skips the boundaries of where lessons can take place, how learning is undertaken and how it is disseminated. Location will become less and less important; education will increasingly become seamless. Such ease of access and choice is far from most adults' memories of school. "Class spaces" of the future should enable journalism students anywhere to acquire information directly from experts and like-minded individuals.
The paper also mentions the ‘fractional learning’, where a student can sort an individualized, balanced view from a multitude of views that is inevitable in Journalism and Communication. The paper suggests that relative technologies foster a highly cooperative approach to learning, which enable students to share knowledge wherever they are. The paper concludes by stating that technology enables critical discussion between pupils in class spaces in different cities, countries and continents.
At the end, changes in journalism practice and education always present problems. If you change too early the new idea may prove to be a bust and there you are, having invested in an idea that quickly deteriorated. Universities with online platforms are the fastest growing anywhere in the world, and new media and e-learning are quickly gaining in importance, especially for younger generations and in developing societies.
Regards,
Ibrahim Saleh, Chair of JRE Section and Editor of JRE On-Line Journal
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Third Notice-JRE Call for Papers of IAMCR 2011 Conference
Dear friends and colleagues,
Mark your calanders. We are approaching deadline on Feb 8 so 36 days left.
Please read carefully the call for papers and submit your abstracts through IAMCR portals.
Cheers,
Ibrahim
Mark your calanders. We are approaching deadline on Feb 8 so 36 days left.
Please read carefully the call for papers and submit your abstracts through IAMCR portals.
Cheers,
Ibrahim
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Joint meeting between JRE-IAMCR and WJEC
World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) joint meeting with Journalism Research and Education Section (JRE) in the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2011 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (July 13-18)
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