34.3420, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Constructive News Across Cultures

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Subject: 34.3420, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Constructive News Across Cultures

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Date: 22-Oct-2023
From: Amal Haddad Haddad [amalhaddad at ugr.es]
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Constructive News Across Cultures

Call for Book Chapters: Constructive News Across Cultures

Co-editors: Ashley RIGGS and Lucile DAVIER

We seek contributions for an edited volume on constructive news across
cultures, to be published by Routledge in 2025 as the IATIS
(International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies)
Yearbook.

Constructive news (Bro, 2023; Haagerup, 2017), or solutions
journalism, is much more than “good” or positive news. It is news that
applies the tenets of positive psychology – in a nutshell, the notion
that encouraging feelings of hope and optimism contributes to
well-being – “to news processes and production in an effort to create
productive and engaging coverage, while holding true to journalism’s
core functions” (McIntyre & Gyldensted, 2017: 20; our emphasis). As
such, it typically involves “rigorous reporting about how people are
responding to problems” (Solutions Journalism Network, 2023) or about
new initiatives being tested. The selection of stories goes beyond the
five famous “W” questions to both the “How?” and, especially, the
“What now?” (Constructive Institute, 2023). It is future-oriented; the
main goals are to inform and to inspire; the content focuses on
solutions, best practices, and productive outcomes rather than drama,
violence, wrong-doing or victims, which in turn means a style that is
“curious” (although this remains vague) rather than dramatic; and the
role of the journalist is that of a fact-finder and facilitator,
rather than of the “police” or a “judge” (Constructive Institute,
2023).
Constructive news thus provides an antidote to the “if it bleeds, it
leads”-driven content and resulting negativity bias of most news.
Research has shown that constructive news leads to positive results,
including a feeling of agency and a readiness to engage with and act
on the issues reported (Curry & Hammonds, 2014). Yet the nuts and
bolts of how it accomplishes this (stylistic features or
multimodality, for example) have been under-researched up to now. Put
otherwise, constructive news is “done” differently than a lot of other
mainstream news, but what exactly does this mean? Research suggests
that constructive news can be addressed with qualitative or
quantitative content analysis (Mast et al., 2019; Zhao & Xiang, 2019).
We know that mainstream news models, practices or linguistic/stylistic
choices (Hallin & Mancini, 2004; Hanusch, 2017; Keeble, 2007 [1994];
Riggs, 2020, 2021) may differ across cultures; does this also show
through in constructive news from different countries and/or regions?
Preliminary research on a parallel corpus of English-Spanish
constructive news (Riggs, in progress) shows that the content by
linguaculture (i.e., language and culture) differs in terms of length,
level of formality, use of metaphor, wordplay and interpellation, as
well as didactic tone. Atanasova’s study (2022) of metaphor in
constructive news from the UK that dealt with both COVID-19 and
climate change found that colour and movement metaphor prevailed over
the ubiquitous war metaphor, which could be considered a positive
practice.

Submission information and deadlines
Language of the publication: English
Abstracts should be 500 to 600 words, including references. They
should be sent to Ashley Riggs (ashleymerrill.riggs at unive.it) and
Lucile Davier (Lucile.Davier at unige.ch). Please comply with the
following structure:

-       Introductory sentence
-       Literature review
-       Methods
-       (Expected) data and results
-       Potential impact for research, teaching and/or society

Deadline for abstracts: 19 November 2023
Notification of acceptance (potentially subject to revision): 27
November 2023
Submission of proposal by co-editors: by 15 December 2023
Submission of full-draft chapters by contributors: by 15 June 2024
Notification of full-chapter acceptance: 15 July 2024
Revision and editing phase: July – November 2024
Submission of final manuscript to Routledge by co-editors: 20 December
2024

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

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