CFP - Audiences and new consumption of journalistic content in the digital age

Posted on 2024-03-27 10:52:01

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is calling for articles on Audiences and new consumption of journalistic content in the digital era. For this issue, articles are requested that reflect current research on the new audiences that access the consumption of journalistic content and the new consumption habits of both journalistic media and platforms that generate alternative content to conventional journalism or forward and value content of journalistic brands on social networks that allow the interaction of their users, search engines for internet browsing to track information or opinion on current events, news aggregators that select journalistic content according to the user's profile, among others. The deadline for receipt of full articles (via the magazine's platform) is October 1st, 2024.

In this monograph we ask the research community to answer these questions in order to create knowledge about one of the dimensions that is most intensely transforming the journalistic media, the professional practice of journalism and the citizens who consume news and information. This monographic issue is linked to the central theme of the XXX International Congress of the Spanish Society of Journalism (SEP), which will be held on 6 and 7 June 2024 in the building of the San Carlos Hospital on the Aranjuez Campus. In order to answer these questions in a varied and contrasted way and from different approaches, a call for manuscripts is made on the thematic lines that organise the XXX International Congress of the Spanish Society of Journalism:

  1.  Digitalisation, platformisation and the new logic of audiences in the production of journalistic content.
  2. Audiences and news consumption habits in the digital media ecosystem.
  3.  Journalism in the face of disinformation.
  4. Journalism market, journalist training and the role of the university.
  5.  Journalism studies: the study and critical discussion of journalism as a subject of academic research and as a field of professional practice.
  6. AI and journalism: what challenges does AI pose for the journalistic profession, media companies?
  7. The role of journalism in today's society: strategies for building trust and engagement with the public.
  8. Journalists, branded content and corporate communication
  9. Journalism and crisis communication in a society at risk.


Keywords: journalistic content, new audiences, information consumption habits, digital platforms, journalistic brands in the digital era.

References:

Cañedo, A. and Rodríguez-Castro, M. (2023). Hacia una definición del valor de los medios de comunicación de servicio público: una propuesta sostenible y adaptable. In Á. Carrasco-Campos and J. Candón-Mena (eds.). Sostenibilidad de los medios en la era digital (17-39). Comunicación Social.

Couldry, N. (2015). The myth of ‘us’: Digital networks, political change and the production of collectivity. Information, Communication & Society, 18(6). https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.979216 .

Humanes, M. L., Alcolea, G., López-del-Ramo, J. and Mellado, C. (2023). Performance of journalistic professional roles in digital native media news in Spain: Toward a journalistic micro-culture of its own. Profesional de la información 32(2). https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.mar.25

Meijer, I. C., and Kormelink, T. G. (2020). Changing news use: Unchanged news experiences? New York: Routledge.

Newman, N. (2022). How publishers are learning to create and distribute news on TikTok. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. 8 December 2022. Available online: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-publishers-are-learning-create-and-distribute-news-tiktok  (accessed on 24 October 2023).

Newman, N., Fletcher, R., Eddy, K., Robertson, C. T., and Nielsen, R. K. (2023). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023. Available online: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Digital_News_Report_2023.pdf (accessed on 26 October 2023).

Nielsen, R. K., and Ganter, S. A. (2022). The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nielsen, R. K., and Feltcher, R. (2023). Comparing the Platformization of News Media Systems: A Cross-country Analysis. European Journal of Communication, 38(5), 484-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231189043

Pew Research Center (2021). Social Media Use in 2021. Report April 7. Available online: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/04/07/social-media-use-in-2021/ (accessed on 26 October 2023).

Pew Research Center (2022). Teens, Social Media and Technology. Report August 10. Available online: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/ (accessed on 27 October 2023).

Poell, T., Nieborg, D. and van Dijck, J. (2019). Platformisation. Internet Policy Review 8(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2019.4.1425.

Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.

 

We invite you to submit your research until  October 1st, 2024 for this monographic issue of MHJournal to be published in January 2025.

For questions about the suitability of the proposal please contact María Luisa Humanes (marialuisa.humanes@urjc.es) and Enric Saperas (enric.saperas@urjc.es).

Guidelines for authors:

https://revistas.innovacionumh.es/index.php/mhcj/about/submissions

Coordinators:

María Luisa Humanes. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

marialuisa.humanes@urjc.es

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6860-4463

PhD in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid since 1997. Postgraduate Training Course for Specialists in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas). Since 2002, she has been a University Lecturer in the area of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and has been awarded two six-year research periods by the CNEAI (1997-2009). She has been Director of the Department of Communication Sciences II at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and has been a member of the Delegate Commission of the Faculty of Communication Sciences for the reform of Communication degrees within the framework of the European Higher Education Area. She is a member of the Scientific Policy Commission of AE-IC. She is currently Vice-Rector for International Relations at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

Enric Saperas. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

enric.saperas@urjc.es

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-078X

Since 2003 he has been responsible for the 'high performance' research group Grupo de Estudios Avanzados de Comunicación (www.geac.es) at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Since 2006 he is responsible for the management of the research infrastructure Laboratorio de Investigación de la Imagen Electrónica y Televisiva (LIITE- www.geac.es/liite/). Since 2010 he has been the director of the Master's Degree in Applied Communication Research. At the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Pompeu Fabra University and the King Juan Carlos University, he has held research management functions linked to faculties or departments. He has held academic responsibilities in the three universities as Vice-Dean of Research in the Faculty of Information Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1984-1987), Director of the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University (1994-1998), Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Rey Juan Carlos University, among other management responsibilities.