ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

University of Oregon

Dear colleagues,

The Department of Romance Languages in the School of Global Studies and Languages of the University of Oregon has an open position for Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Languages with a research focus on Italian and global media, technology studies, or transnational communication, and a regional focus on Europe, the Mediterranean, and/or Africa. Please see the full listing here. The deadline to submit application materials is October 1, 2023.

Best wishes,

David (chair of search committee)

Journalism: Theory, practice and criticism (Special Issue) 

Deadline for abstract submission: September 4, 2023 

Scholars have pointed out how critical findings regarding media practices are often dismissed and lead to minimal impact. Equally, media professionals criticize scholars for being extractive in their data collection practices rather than collaborative or disconnected from the practices on the floor. With an aim to address this gap, this special issue focuses on exploring the relationship between academia and journalism. Our goal is to showcase how academic research could impact and shape the professional field of journalism in a fruitful way and to highlight concrete methodologies for collaborations. We welcome submissions that cover different theoretical, methodological, and empirical topics and formats to provide a thorough understanding of this critical relationship. 

Full call here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GTwdKKBRazd25bFoAv7Il-g4h47TbveN/view

Edited By: Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Sandra Ponzanesi

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003269748/creating-europe-margins-krist%C3%ADn-loftsd%C3%B3ttir-brigitte-hipfl-sandra-ponzanesi

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global North and the Global South as well as internal regional differentiation within Europe itself. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and colonialism.

While recent discussions of migration into ‘Fortress Europe’ seem to assume that Europe has clearly demarcated geographic, political and cultural boundaries, this book argues that the reality is more complex. The book explores margins conceptually and positions margins and centres as open to negotiation and contestation and characterized by ambiguity. As such, margins can be contextualized in relation to hierarchies within Europe, with different processes involved in creating boundaries and borders between different kinds of Europes and Europeans. Deploying case studies from different places, such as Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Sicily, European colonies in the Caribbean and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors analyse how different geopolitical hierarchies intersect with racialized subject positions of diverse people living in Europe, while also exploring issues of gender, class, sexuality, religion and nationality. Some chapters draw attention to the fortification of Europe’s ‘borderland,’ while others focus on internal hierarchies within Europe, critiquing the meaning of spatial boundaries in an increasingly digitalized Europe. In doing so, the chapters interrogate the hierarchies at play in the processes of being and becoming ‘European’ and the ongoing impacts of race and colonialism.

This timely and thought-provoking collection will be of considerable significance to those in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in Europe.

Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

September 14, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Express crisis management: the 1-hour diagnostic will be presented by Gerry McCusker on Thursday 14 September 2023 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The Drill Crisis Simulator is an online crisis management technology, developed by crisis management experts. Based around a custom SaaS portal, the Drill portal is an interactive, real-time crisis immersion simulator, that replicates the decision-making and publishing challenges of customised crisis scenarios to test, train and upgrade crisis management skills. The goal of The Drill is to teach the methodological steps that empower professionals to handle crisis, disaster, emergency and issues communication. 

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.) A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org

Background to Gerry McCusker

Gerry McCusker is an issues management specialist and the author of the book "PR Disasters." He also writes a regular blog on crisis management and PR.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

May 21 – May 24, 2024

Stuttgart, Germany

Deadline: November 30, 2023

Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society

https://websci24.webscience.org/

Important Dates

• Thu, November 30, 2023: Paper submission deadline
  
• Wed, January 31, 2024: Notification
  
• Thu, February 29, 2024: Camera-ready versions due
  
• Tue-Fri, May 21 – May 24, 2024: Conference dates
  

All dates are 23:59 Anywhere on earth time

About the Web Science Conference

Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society and vice versa. The discipline is well situated to address pressing issues of our time by incorporating various scientific approaches. We welcome quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, including social sciences and computer science techniques. In addition, we are interested in work exploring Web-based data collection and research ethics. We also encourage studies that combine analyses of Web data and other types of data (e.g., from surveys or interviews) and help better understand user behavior online and offline.

Possible topics across methodological approaches and digital contexts include but are not limited to:

Understanding the Web

• Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web
  
• Trends in globalization, fragmentation, and polarization of the Web
  
• The architecture and philosophy of the Web
  
• Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies
  

Making the Web Inclusive

• Issues of discrimination and fairness
  
• Intersectionality and design justice in questions of marginalization and inequality
  
• Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people on the Web
  
• Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security, and trust
  
• Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide
  

The Web and Society

• Social machines, crowd computing and collective intelligence
  
• Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation
  
• Legal issues, including rights and accountability for AI actors
  
• Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web
  
• Politics and social activism on the Web
  
• Online education and remote learning
  
• Health and well-being online
  
• The role of the Web in the future of (augmented) work
  
• The Web as a source of news and information, and misinformation
  

Doing Web Science

• Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science
  
• Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information
  
• Analysis and modeling of human vs. automatic behavior (e.g., bots)
  
• Analysis of online social and information networks
  
• Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake content, spam)
  

2024 Emphasis: Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society

In addition to the topics at the heart of Web Science, we also welcome submissions addressing the interplay between the Web, AI and society. New advances in AI are revolutionizing the way in which people use the Web and interact through it. As these technologies develop, it is crucial to examine their effect on society and the socio-technical environment in which we find ourselves. We are nearing the crossroads wherein content on the Web will increasingly be automatically generated, blended with that created by humans. This creates new potential yet brings new challenges and exacerbates existing ones in relation to data quality and misinformation. Additionally, we need to consider the role of the Web as a source of data for AI, including privacy and copyright concerns, as well as bias and representativity of resulting systems. The potential impact of new AI tools on the nature of work may bring a transformation of some careers while creating whole new ones. This year’s conference especially encourages contributions documenting different uses of AI in relation to how people use the Web, and in the ways the Web affects the creation and deployment of AI tools. 

Format of the submissions

Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmwebsci24

There are two submission formats.

• Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages (including references, appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on mature and completed projects.
  
• Short papers should be up to 5 pages (including references, appendices, etc.). Short papers will primarily report on high-quality ongoing work not mature enough for a full-length publication.
  

All accepted submissions will be assigned an oral presentation (of two different lengths).

All papers should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template under “Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform, which is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty. In particular; please ensure that you are using the two-column version of the appropriate template.

All contributions will be judged by the Program Committee upon rigorous peer review standards for quality and fit for the conference by at least three referees. Additionally, each paper will be assigned to a Senior Program Committee member to ensure review quality.

WebSci-2024 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. References to authors’ own prior relevant work should be included but should not specify that this is the authors’ own work. It is up to the authors’ discretion how much to further modify the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does not extend outside of the review process, e.g., the authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers over the Internet. Even in cases where the author’s identity is known to a reviewer, the double-blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard to the authors’ reputation.

For authors who wish to opt-out of publication proceedings, this option will be made available upon acceptance. This will encourage the participation of researchers from the social sciences that prefer to publish their work as journal articles. All authors of accepted papers (including those who opt out of proceedings) are expected to present their work at the conference.

ACM Policies

“By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.”

“Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.  ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors.  The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022.  We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”

Program Committee Chairs:

Oshani Seneviratne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Luca Maria Aiello (IT University of Copenhagen)

Yelena Mejova (ISI Foundation)

For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission, please contact the chairs at acmwebsci24@easychair.org. 

NECSUS

Deadline: April 28, 2023

Edited by the NECS Open Scholarship Committee – Bregt Lameris, Miriam de Rosa, Jeroen Sondervan, Victoria Pastor-González and Tereza Czesany Dvořáková

This special section guest edited by members of the NECS Open Scholarship Committee invites submissions that engage with questions of openness as an inherently broad notion. Such a concept underpins a variety of practices in scholarship as well as in publishing, and allows us to reconsider and ethically reposition our work as researchers, educators, artists, practitioners, and authors. As such this issue wishes to investigate #Open from a number of different perspectives that are all interwoven in practices of our academic work as media scholars. 

The three main strands of exploration are as follows:

Open and the media: How are media configurations addressing openness content-wise by means of narrative and engagement strategies that invite us to think about problems from open-ended storytelling, open and closed systems, to questions of openness in art, cinema, or the digital humanities. Also, this strand explores the dynamics between media platforms, content producers, and audiences. It raises questions about the extent to which these systems facilitate openness and inclusivity, as well as the democratisation of creative processes – or conversely, restrict access and participation. This has an impact on the very epistemology of media, challenging their pre-fixed scripts versus interactive media practices, creating new assemblages, connecting creators and audiences through collective generative practices of meaning, initiating alternative forms of media consumption and distribution.

Openness in media education: Higher education defines itself by embracing the principles of openness and encouraging a free exchange of ideas, knowledge, and diverse perspectives. However, students and educators are now actively questioning this accepted view, casting a critical eye over curriculum content and pedagogical approaches. In response to these movements, academic institutions are implementing strategies that seek to diversify, decentralise, and decolonise their curricula. As with any change this causes friction and raises new questions, both in the classroom and otuside, about what we teach and how we teach. Be it hybrid or in-person delivery, the progressive adoption of experiential and learner-centred approaches challenge traditional understandings of the role of lecturers but also open up possibilities for more collaborative forms of teaching. Recently, we are also being confronted with generative AI and the need to respond to this new phenomenon in our role as educators. According to UNESCO, AI has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education today, but also cautions that ‘the deployment and use of AI in education must be guided by the core principles of inclusion and equity’ (UNESCO, 2021, p.1) How can lecturers, institutions, and students engage in open discussions about these challenges?

Openness in research and creative practice: Within this broader field of openness, we invite contributions to focus specifically on the topic of open scholarship understood as open access publishing, open data, open peer review, open source software, open archives and libraries. Open scholarship aims to democratise academia by fostering transparency, reproducibility, diversity, inclusion, and public engagement. A commitment to open scholarship demands that we consider carefully where and how we publish our research. Are we ready/supported/equipped to challenge existing structures and hierarchies that reproduce inequalities? 

On a more creative level, cinema and media as areas of research have historically engendered a creative approach when it comes to thinking of new ways to present research results (e.g. video essays, podcasts, online interactive media artefacts, and more recently expository papers opening the black boxes of data and code). Moving across these strands, we welcome contributions engaging with the multiple dimension of #Open, including for example: 

# What are the ethical implications of practising openness as researchers, educators, and creators, e.g. through appropriation, use, misuse, mix, and remix?

# Openness and copyright/intellectual property

# How can we work in open structures that are sustainable both in an environmental and collaborative perspective?

# How does open scholarship affect the roles and relationships of cinema and media studies researchers with their peers, students, policymakers, publishers, and publics?

# How does openness challenge or reinforce existing power structures and inequalities in cinema and media practices, media studies, and academia at both global and local levels?

# How can higher education foster openness, equality, and inclusivity through critical interventions in curriculum design, pedagogical innovation, and/or increased collaboration with diverse partners (students, practitioners, policymakers, archives, etc.)?

# How can cinema and media studies researchers engage with diverse forms of knowledge production and dissemination that are enabled by open scholarship, such as digital storytelling, citizen science, participatory action research, inclusive research, and public humanities?

# How does ‘openness’ relate to media archives and libraries, including shadow libraries, internet archives, collections of digital or digitised (archival) materials?

We look forward to receiving abstracts of 300 words, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a short biography of 100 words by 28 August 2023 to necsus.info@gmail.com. On the basis of selected abstracts, writers will be invited to submit full manuscripts by 1 February 2024 (6,000-8,000 words, revised abstract, 4-5 keywords) which will subsequently go through a double-blind peer review process before final acceptance for publication. Please check the guidelines at: https://necsus-ejms.org/guidelines-for-submission/ 

NECSUS also accepts proposals throughout the year for festival, exhibition, and book reviews, data papers, as well as proposals for guest edited audiovisual essay sections. We will soon open a general call for research article proposals not tied to a special section theme. Please note that we do not accept full manuscripts for consideration without an invitation. 

November 22-23, 2023

University of Glasgow, UK

Deadline: August 17, 2023

Media are integral to how we both remember and forget conflict.  While individuals refer to the family photo album, the collective memories of communities are often shaped by iconic photographs of traumatic events such as popular uprisings, terrorist attacks, and wars. This memory work was traditionally confined to repositories such as historical archives, museums and institutions. In recent years the ‘connective turn’ has ‘unmoored’ memory from these institutions, replacing traditional notions of collective memory with the searchable ‘memory of the multitude’ online (Hoskins, 2017). The automated systems of online platforms like Facebook ‘dig’ for memories on behalf of their users, including those of (Jacobsen and Beer, 2021). Historical photographs shared on photo sharing sites like Instagram facilitate informal learning about events such as the Holocaust among younger generations (Commane and Potton, 2019). This has empowered a new generation of memory activists who leverage the affordances of online platforms for commemoration rituals (Fridman, 2022). More recently, apps like Telegram have made it easier to document human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, whilst simultaneously creating a curated, unsanitized ‘war feed’ for global audiences  (Hoskins and Shchelin, 2023). 

This hybrid workshop seeks to advance the discussion about the role of media in conflict memory work. We adopt a purposefully broad definition of conflict which includes (but is not limited to) armed insurrections, civil disorder, geopolitical interstate conflict, political violence in divided societies, terrorist attacks, and wars. 

We are looking for original and creative contributions that demonstrate the broad range of methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, digital) in this emergent field. Abstract submissions should explicitly address the role of media (e.g. newspapers, social media, television) in conflict memory. We will accept both theoretical and empirical studies provided they are relevant to the workshop’s key themes.

Possible topics for the workshop include:

• Conflict memory, media and education
  
• Mediatization of war, terrorism, armed conflict and civil disorder
  
• Journalistic practice and collective memories of conflict
  
• Media and conflict memory in post and neo-authoritarian societies
  
• Memory activism after conflict
  
• Radio, memory and conflict
  
• Social media and conflict memory
  
• Television news and audience understanding of conflict
  

We especially encourage submissions from early career researchers and those based in Global South countries. There will be a limited number of travel bursaries available for those traveling to Glasgow to attend in-person. 

Abstracts of 300-500 words, excluding references, should be sent to paul.reilly@glasgow.ac.uk and virpi.salojarvi@helsinki.fi. Please indicate on your submission whether you will attend in-person or online, and if you wish to be considered for a travel bursary should your abstract be accepted. There will be no registration fee for participants accepted for the workshop. Workshop participants will be invited to submit an abstract for a co-edited volume based on the workshop.

The deadline for submissions is 17 August 2023.

This event is co-sponsored by the Crisis, Security and Conflict Communication and Communication in Post and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Groups of the International Association of Media and Communication Researchers (IAMCR). 

If you have any questions about the workshop please contact the organisers:

Dr. Paul Reilly, University of Glasgow (paul.reilly@glasgow.ac.uk)

Dr. Virpi Salojärvi, University of Vaasa/University of Helsinki  (virpi.salojarvi@helsinki.fi)

Dr. Katja Lehtisaari, Tampere University (katja.lehtisaari@tuni.fi)

November 16-17, 2023

Cologne, Germany, and online

Deadline for Submission: August 30, 2023 (AoE)

Website: https://www.gesis.org/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/gesis-tagungen/conference-on-harmful-online-communication-choc2023

The event is funded by the Thyssen Foundation.

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ABOUT:

A two-day hybrid conference with sessions focused on different aspects of Harmful Online Communication and talks from leading experts. The main event will take place in Cologne, Germany, with the option of online participation.  

ORGANIZED BY: 

Katrin Weller, Pascal Siegers, Indira Sen, Christina Dahn (GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne) 

Contact: css.events@gesis.org

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OUTLINE:

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Harmful Online Communication refers to a variety of ongoing activities on communication platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and many more. Independent of the platform, harm can, for example, occur in the form of hate speech towards different groups, including racist or sexist content. Harmful online communication can also include aspects of mis- and disinformation, or threats of physical violence. Depending on the type of content, different strategies may be needed to detect it and to apply appropriate counter measures. The aim of this conference is to bring together a group of experts in computer-based detection and analysis of harmful online communication to discuss new developments in the field. The focus will lie on theoretical concept definitions, data quality, and comparative measurement tools. This will benefit the field of harmful online communication studies by building a community around validity and reliability and creating a baseline that can inform the building of comparative research and shared knowledge. The output of the conference will inform the future work in Computational Social Sciences and help more traditional social scientists to improve their use of data from online platforms.

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CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:

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- Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen

- Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen & University of Washington

- Iginio Gagliardone, University of the Witwatersrand

- Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan

- Homa Hosseinmardi, University of Pennsylvania

- Tetsuro Kobayashi, Waseda University

- Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg

- Philip Lorenz-Spreen, Max-Planck-Institute Berlin

- Ilia Markov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

- Diana Rieger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München

- Björn Ros, University of Edinburgh

- Mattia Samory, Sapienza University of Rome

- Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (for ONSITE POSTER SESSION in Cologne)

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CHOC2023 welcomes proposals for an onsite poster session on 16 November 2023 at the Conference on Harmful Online Communication in person in Cologne. This conference seeks to bring together a community of researchers from the (Computational) Social Sciences and related disciplines to discuss data quality, methods, ethics, theoretical work, and practical challenges related to harmful online communication.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

* Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research on topics subsumed under harmful online communication including but not limited to abusive language, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, and online harassment

* Computer-mediated approaches for tackling such types of communication such as content moderation and policy making.

* Computational methods for research on harmful online communication, such as network analysis, textual and image analysis, large language models and machine learning.

* Resource creation for studying harmful online communication such as datasets, codebooks, annotation tasks, and taxonomies

* Theoretical discussions and practical concepts related to countering misinformation and harmful online communication.

* Ethical and legal aspects of Harmful Online Communication research.

* Bias and inequalities of (automated) hate speech detection, datasets, and analysis methods 

* Development of communal resources in Harmful Online Communication research

Presentations at the poster session can be of published work, in preparation for publication or work in-progress. Submissions are open to researchers from all career stages, including PhD candidates and Master students. Abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding references) should be submitted via email to css.events@gesis.org until 30 August 2023 (AoE). 

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PARTICIPATION:

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PLEASE NOTE:The number of poster presentations is limited, given that it will only take place in person in Cologne. In case of a higher number of high-quality submissions, we may have to limit both the number of accepted posters and the registration to first authors of the posters. Co-authors and other attendees will be admitted if space permits and potentially be wait-listed.

Online participation will be available for everyone interested, but registration will be required to receive the access information.

POSTER PRESENTERS NEED TO PRESENT IN PERSON.

REGISTRATION FEE: Eur 60,- for on-site participation in Cologne / free online participation (poster presenters need to present in-person)

Edited By: Margreth Lünenborg, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003365426/affective-formation-publics-margreth-l%C3%BCnenborg-birgitt-r%C3%B6ttger-r%C3%B6ssler

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the interdisciplinary volume "Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media" to be published in September 2023. In it, editors Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler have compiled English-language contributions that analyze contemporary publics with the perspective of affect and emotion theory.  

Based on empirical case studies in Europe, India, Pakistan, Tanzania, and the American continents, public spheres are conceived as relational structures that include both people and their mediatized environment. Affectivity is understood as constitutive for all public spheres, whose intensity and characteristics, however, differ considerably. In the three parts "Places", "Networks" and "Media" the authors make visible on which aspects of publics the interdisciplinary view of emotion and affect research can be directed. 

The book addresses researchers and advanced students in media and communication studies, theater studies, literary studies, and social and cultural anthropology who are concerned with the unfolding of contemporary public spheres. The book is a result of the work in the second term of the SFB 1171 "Affective Societies", funded by the German Research Foundation.

Peter Bro

Routledge, July 2023

https://www.routledge.com/Constructive-Journalism-Precedents-Principles-and-Practices/Bro/p/book/9781032516097

This book offers a deep and comprehensive overview of constructive journalism, setting out the guiding principles and practices for a journalism that aims to do more than simply inform about problems.

In this authoritative yet concise volume, Peter Bro asks what does constructive journalism mean, what are the underlying principles, how is it practiced, and in what ways does it differ from other types of journalism? Drawing on studies of the rapidly growing number of works by both journalism practitioners and researchers, the book reaches beyond these questions to show how the notion of being constructive has been a part of journalism from the very beginning of the profession.

This introduction to what constructive journalism is and was and what it can accomplish will guide new journalists; journalism, media, and mass communication students; and scholars working on journalistic theory and practice.