May 17-18, 2019

Universität Salzburg, Austria

Deadline for submissions (EXTENDED): March 3, 2019

In Salzburg, at the fifth annual conference of the ECREA Journalism & Communication Education TWG, we want to take a closer look at the multi-faceted relationships between education for all types of media professionals and the respective industries. We invite abstracts of academic research and project-based experiences and various approaches (theoretical, methodological or empirical, in nature) that can touch upon, but are by no means restricted to, the following four thematic areas:

Practices of Education, Training, and the Industry: Here, we want to examine innovations and trends between the classroom and the industry, e.g. innovative media products, new training profiles in media professions, best practice examples of project-based collaboration, offering co-working spaces, working on assignment, entrepreneurial training and the potential of start-ups, etc.

Challenges and Chances of Collaboration: Here, we want to evaluate the respective roles of industry and education, e.g. methods of keeping up with innovations, the industry’s expectations with regard to media graduates, questions of ethics and professional identity, directions and types of influence etc.

The Impact of Societal and Professional Changes on the Classroom: here we want to discuss how education programs are responding or contributing to fundamental changes in society, technology and/or economy; e. the role of journalism in society and how education can contribute in strengthening its position, new didactics to prepare for future needs in society and industry etc.

Lessons for educational programs from industrial developments: We also explicitly invite presentations from various fields of media communication research which examine current developments (blurred professional boundaries, public-centeredness, fake news, crossmedia, hybrid newsrooms, datafication and automation, artificial intelligence, news games, content marketing, chatbot marketing, social commerce, native advertising, the internet of things…) and draw conclusions for present and future education for media professions.

Please note that we invite contributions in various formats, e.g. workshops, panels and individual presentations.

Workshops sessions are practice-oriented. Proposals should include a workshop description (max. 500 words) with a clearly defined workshop topic and goal, and a number of questions or assignments for discussion as well as an indication of the length of the session.

Individual presentations involve research results and/or theoretical work and/or project-based experiences relevant to the conference theme. Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words, not including references), outlining the state of the study or project, as well as the research question(s) or hypotheses, findings and conclusion(s). We also encourage submitting work in progress, e.g. new theoretical, methodological or didactic ideas. Presentations can be either short pitch/poster sessions or traditional presentations (feel free to be creative).

Panels consist of various presentations addressing a common topic from different perspectives. Panels are scheduled for one hour, including discussions. Panel proposals should include a description of the topic and an overall panel goal, addressing the relevance of the topic to the conference theme (400 words). The proposal should also suggest a chair to serve as a moderator and should include a short abstract of each of the presentations (max. 200 words each).

For the call for abstracts and further information please visit official website: http://trialanderror2019.uni-salzburg.at

The conference is organized by the local organizing committee at the Department of Communication Science/University of Salzburg and the ECREA Journalism & Communication Education TWG management team:

Dr. Susanne Kirchhoff (Head of committee) / University of Salzburg, Austria / (susanne.kirchhoff@sbg.ac.at)

Dr. Michael Harnischmacher (Chair) / University of Passau / Passau, Germany / (michael.harnischmacher@uni-passau.de)

Dr. Harmen Groenhart (Vice chair) / Fontys University of Applied Sciences / Tilburg, The Netherlands (h.groenhart@fontys.nl)

Dr. Pilar Sánchez-García (Vice chair) / University of Valladolid / Valladolid, Spain (pilar.sanchez@hmca.uva.es)