May 27-28, 2020

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), School of Communication (Australia)

Deadline: December 1, 2019

ICJ2020 is an ICA post-conference. It aims to spur an engaged scholarly debate on how different cultures of journalism become distinctly visible across the world. Though journalism is usually taught and practiced through a traditional model developed in the West, the routines and conventions of journalism have distinctive meanings in the non-Western context. For an effective practice of journalism, there is a need to develop a model that will sit outside the long-established Western paradigm and reflect better national contexts. Therefore, this conference offers an international and intercultural environment for academics, researchers, journalists and postgraduate students to exchange and share research results and experiences about the various cultures of journalism.

The International Cultures of Journalism conference ICJ2020 aims to focus on how journalism is developing in different countries outside Western contexts. Traditionally journalism across the world has been taught and practiced through an Anglo/American apparatus, which has not necessarily been very useful for non-Western contexts. The reasons behind this include differing political, economic, technological, social, and ideological systems in various parts of the world, which make one model of journalism training and practice infeasible. Even journalistic linguistic structures offer an effective variant to journalism practices across the world.

This two-day conference aims to discuss these variants within different structures of journalism operation around the world, and addresses issues that are relevant, but not restricted, to the following questions:

• What are the challenges or opportunities for training and/or practicing journalism within different parts of the world?
• What kind of factors influence the development of journalism in certain contexts?
• Can we see particular practices of investigative journalism emerge in different cultural journalism contexts?
• What kind of models of operation can develop in order to foster the training and practice of investigative journalism outside Western contexts?
• What case studies can we use to understand the complexity of developing non-Western models of journalism?
• What kind of theoretical or policy-based models of journalism can be developed for specific regions of the world?
• How can cultures of journalism evolve in non-Western contexts? Are there examples of ones that have developed? What do they look like?
• How have new technologies impacted and/or facilitated the development of distinctive cultures of journalism?

The conference will include paper and panel presentations, with keynote speakers: Professor Barbie Zelizer and Professor Hugo de Burgh. You will have the chance to receive constructive and meaningful feedback from experts in the field, engage in academic debate and create connections with researchers with similar interests.

Submission:

https://www.uts.edu.au/icj2020

For any enquiries, please contact Professor Saba Bebawi (conference convener) or Oxana Onilov (conference organiser) at icj2020@uts.edu.au

Key dates:

• Call for papers opens – 1 August 2019
• Closing date for abstract and panel submissions – 1 December 2019
• Author notifications – 15 January 2020
• Registration opens – 20 January 2020
• Registration deadline – 3 March 2020
• Full paper submission (to be considered for post-conference publication in an edited book collection) – 3 April 2020
• Conference dates – 27-28 May 2020