27.1219, Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Subject: 27.1219, Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:13:25
From: Martina Temmerman [construjou at vub.ac.be]
Subject: Constructive/Constructed Journalism

 
Full Title: Constructive/Constructed Journalism 
Short Title: construjou 

Date: 08-Dec-2016 - 09-Dec-2016
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Martina Temmerman
Meeting Email: construjou at vub.ac.be
Web Site: http://www.vub.ac.be/en/events/2016/constructed-constructive-journalism 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

This conference aims at bringing together researchers from different
backgrounds investigating construction in journalism. 

We define construction in a twofold way. On the one hand, there is the
perspective of journalism as an interpretive and discursive construction of
social reality which goes back to postmodern and poststructuralist approaches.
In this view, news is the product of linguistic and journalistic choices with
possible ideological implications. On the other hand, there is the perspective
of journalism as a constructive activity. Many practitioners and scholars
nowadays adhere to the vision that journalists should not only point out
problems, but should also play an active role in proposing solutions. Also, in
the constructive view, journalists should not ruminate the negative aspects of
the news, but they should try to bring untold and affirmative stories.
Inclusion is an important topic within this perspective. 

Possible linguistic approaches to these topics are the exploration of
journalistic practices or processes of representation, applying pragmatics,
conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic ethnography  or
text/corpus linguistics.

The venue for the conference will be the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for
Science and the Arts, Academy Palace – Hertogsstraat/ Rue Ducale 1 - 1000
Brussels, Belgium (next to the Royal Palace, in the heart of Brussels).
(http://www.kvab.be/default.aspx?lang=en)

Conference fee (including pre-conference reception, lunch, coffee):  
€ 150 (regular participants), € 75 (PhD students).
Dinner will be organized on Friday 9 December and charged separately.

Inspirational literature:

Bull, Peter, Ralph Negrine & Katie Hawn (2014). Telling it like it is or just
telling a good story? Editing techniques in news coverage of the British
parliamentary expenses scandal. Language and Dialogue 4:2, 213-233. 
Gyldensted, Cathrine (2015). From Mirrors to Movers. Five Elements of Positive
Psychology in  Constructive Journalism. s.l., GGroup Publishing.


Call for Papers:

We want to encourage participants to engage in a critical discussion of
constructed and/or constructive forms of journalism and to also consider
possible overlap and tensions or interactions between both forms. Is
constructiveness a construction just like objectivity, adversarialness,
neutrality or neutralism? Does construction sometimes occur with constructive
purposes? The role of social media and alternative media in this process will
be a special point of interest. 

Possible topics:  

- The construction of news in broadcast journalism as well as in the written
and online press 
- The borderlines between constructive journalism, solution-oriented
journalism and activism
- (Linguistic aspects of) the representation of minority groups and the
underprivileged
- Psychological effects of good/bad news and of specific types of framing
- Social media and journalism from a constructivist/constructive perspective
- Alternative vs. mainstream media from a constructivist/constructive
perspective

As there will be separate panel sessions for PhD students, junior researchers
are warmly invited to participate.

Please send a proposal of no more than 300 words (excluding selected
references) together with your affiliation and a short biography (c. 100
words) to construjou at vub.ac.be by 30 June 2016. Decisions will be announced by
15 August.




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