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Date: 05-May-2014
From: Martina Temmerman
<martina.temmerman
vub.ac.be>
Subject: Hybridity and the
News: Hybrid Forms of Journalism in the 21st
Century
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Full Title: Hybridity and the News: Hybrid
Forms of Journalism in the 21st Century
Short Title: HYBRIJOU
Date: 04-Dec-2014 - 05-Dec-2014
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Martina Temmerman
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://www.vub.ac.be/en/events/2014/hybrijou
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling
& Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2014
Meeting Description:
Hybridity and the News: Hybrid Forms of
Journalism in the 21st Century
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
The essence of journalism has never been easy
to define, but in the 21st century hybrid forms
of news and current affairs journalism seem to
be the rule rather than the exception.
Therefore, this conference wants to explore
different types and aspects of hybridity, not
only related to the content that is conveyed,
but also to the forms and genres that are
applied, and to the practices of creating and
experiencing journalism. Several authors have
argued that the conventional boundaries between
news and entertainment, between public affairs
and popular culture, and between factual and
fictional modes, have become increasingly
porous. Moreover, mainstream media have long
lost their monopoly on the news and journalists
have integrated the information exchange of the
social media in their daily routines. Many
journalists do not want to be dependent on news
managers and editors and start their own news
initiatives.
This conference aims to question narrow,
uniform conceptions of journalism, and to move
beyond traditional binary oppositions between
hard and soft news, (rational) knowledge and
(emotional) experience, objectivity and
subjectivity, the sober and the ludic, expert
and non-expert, or fact and fiction, which have
stifled the debate on the implications of
journalism’s multiple and ever-changing faces.
In doing so, we want to walk the thin line
between journalism and entertainment,
journalism and literature, journalism and
advertising, and follow the journalists’
wanderings and ponderings in defining their
course and their identity in the changing media
world. The role of social media and alternative
media in this process will be a special point
of interest.
The venue for the conference will be the campus
of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), located 20
minutes by train from the city centre:
https://www.vub.ac.be/english/infoabout/campuses/etterbeek.html
Conference Fee (including pre-conference
reception, lunch, coffee):
€ 100 (regular participants), € 50 (PhD
students)
Dinner will be organized on Friday 5 December
and charged separately.
Inspirational Literature:
Baym, Geoffrey (2009). ‘Real News/Fake News:
Beyond the News/Entertainment Divide’ in Allan,
S. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to News and
Journalism Studies, New York: Routledge,
374-383.
Hutchby, Ian (2011). 'Doing Non-neutral:
Belligerent Interaction in the Hybrid Political
Interview', in Ekstrom, M. and Patrona, M.
(eds.) Talking Politics in the Broadcast Media,
Amsterdam: Benjamins, 115-134.
Call for Papers:
Our institute is part of a linguistics
department but we welcome submissions from all
relevant disciplinary backgrounds approaching
topics including but certainly not limited
to:
- Hybrid forms and hybrid genres (e.g. the
hybrid political interview, confessional
journalism, graphic journalism, fake news and
hoaxes, docufictions)
- The borderline between entertainment and
journalism (e.g. satire, humor and irony,
infotainment)
- The borderline between literature and
journalism (e.g. literary journalism,
storytelling)
- The borderline between advertising and
journalism (e.g. lifestyle journalism,
advertorials)
- Social media and journalism
- Alternative vs. mainstream media
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.
All papers will be published in the electronic
proceedings of the conference and we are
planning to publish a selection of the papers
in a volume and/or a special issue.
As there will be separate panel sessions for
PhD students, novice researchers are also
invited to participate.
Please send a proposal of no more than 300
words together with a short biography (c. 100
words) to hybrijou
vub.ac.be by 30 June 2014.
Decisions will be announced by 15 August.
Questions about any aspect of the conference
should be addressed to hybrijou
vub.ac.be.
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