CfP Journalism Research & Education (JRE) Section 2014
JRE Chair,
Ibrahim Saleh, PhD
University of Cape Town
The Journalism Research & Education Section invites submissions for its open sessions at the IAMCR conference will take place in Hyderabad from 15th to 19th July 2014. The theme of the conference is “Region as Frame: Politics, Presence, Practice.”
There is an increasing sense of profound changes in both society and the media that certainly lead to a new form of political journalism that is becoming more diverse, fragmented, and complex.
Social geography is being reshaped as a result of the connectivity provided innovative news media practices and values, though the nature and extent of these changes are neither uniform nor equally distributed in different regions
The Journalism research and Education section focuses this year on the idea that we do not live with media, but in media. Our online/offline lives are becoming integrated in terms of our social and cultural contexts of use because they tend to break down and redraw the boundaries between the private and the public.
Our mediatised societies experience deeper levels, changing power relations among key message providers, while receivers are being rearranged; which makes the whole field of journalism research and education culture is being transformed. This redefinition of conventional meanings of “democracy” and “citizenship” are being questioned and rethought.