Membership Updates
Michael Hecht
Michael Hecht (Pennsylvania State U) and Michelle Miller-Day (Chapman U) in collaboration with D.A.R.E. America launched keepin’ it REAL, a new elementary school substance abuse prevention program in September 2012. It is expected to reach 1.25 million youth in the US as well as those in 43 other countries around the world. The middle school version, disseminated by D.A.R.E. in 2009, reaches a quarter of a million US youth and is used in 23 other countries. keepin’ it REAL is now believed to be the most widely disseminated school-based drug prevention program in the world.
For more information go to kir.psu.edu.
Publication Announcements
Shelton A. Gunaratne
Shelton A. Gunaratne, professor of mass communications emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead, has published a 1,0000-page autobiographical trilogy:
iUniverse released the first in the trilogy titled Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate (ISBN 978-1-4759-3956-9) in August 2012.
Xlibris released the second in the trilogy titled From Village Boy to Global Citizen (Vol. 1): The Journey of a Journalist (ISBN 978-1-4771-4241-7) in September 2012.
The third in the trilogy focuses on the travel adventures of the author. It carries the subtitle The Travels of a Journalist (ISBN 978-1-4771-4238-7). Xlibris will release it in late 2012 as Vol. 2 of From Village Boy to Global Citizen.
All three books are available from amazon.com and barnesandnioble.com
Marcel Broersma
Rethinking Journalism
Edited by Chris Peters and Marcel Broersma, both at University of Groningen
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415697026/
Endorsements:
'Rethinking Journalism is a significant collection of essays, by distinguished scholars of journalism studies, which focuses on the structural changes which are transforming every aspect of journalism. The "rethink" on offer here is fundamental, thought provoking, but also eloquent. Reviewers risk running short of superlatives.' Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies, Cardiff University, UK
'Avoiding hyperbolic prophesies of either salvation or doom for the news media, the well-informed insights in this outstanding collection repeatedly bring us back to the fundamental importance of trust in sustaining the social relevance of journalism. As structures are transformed and social roles transposed, the grounded context provided by these top journalism studies scholars is much needed and most welcome.' Jane B. Singer, University of Iowa
Contributors:
Stuart Allan, Chris Atton, Kevin Barnhurst, Jo Bogaerts, Kees Brants, Marcel Broersma, Nico Carpentier, Amira Firdaus, Todd Graham, Thomas Hanitzsch, Ansgard Heinrich, Brian McNair, Chris Peters, Colin Porlezza, Stephan Russ-Mohl, Michael Schudson, Ingrid Volkmer, Tamara Witschge
Description:
There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the turn of the millennium, the financial health of the news industry is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and professional authority, credibility and autonomy are eroding. The outlook is bleak and it’s understandable that many are pessimistic. But this book argues that we have to rethink journalism fundamentally.
Rather than just focus on the symptoms of the ‘crisis of journalism’, this collection tries to understand the structural transformation journalism is undergoing. It explores how the news media attempts to combat decreasing levels of trust, how emerging forms of news affect the established journalistic field, and how participatory culture creates new dialogues between journalists and audiences. Crucially, it does not treat these developments as distinct transformations. Instead, it considers how their interrelation accounts for both the tribulations of the news media and the need for contemporary journalism to redefine itself.
Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking Journalism: The Structural Transformation of a Public Good; Part 1: Public Trust in Journalism; Part 2: Participatory Forms of Journalism; Part 3: Emerging Journalisms; Part 4: Rethinking Journalism Rethought
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact the editors: Chris Peters (c.j.peters@rug.nl) and Marcel Broersma (m.j.broersma@rug.nl)
Anabela Carvalho
ICA member Anabela Carvalho has recently published "Citizen Voices: Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication", edited by Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie Doyle.
This book deals with the following questions: How is 'participation' ascribed meaning and practiced in science and environment communication? And how are citizen voices articulated, invoked, heard, marginalized or silenced in those processes? Citizen Voices takes its starting point in the so-called dialogic or participatory turn in scientific and environmental governance in which practices claiming to be based on principles of participation, dialogue and citizen involvement have proliferated. The book goes beyond the buzzword of 'participation' in order to give empirically rich, theoretically informed and critical accounts of how citizen participation is understood and enacted in mass mediation and public engagement practices. A diverse series of studies across Europe and the US are presented, providing readers with empirical insights into the articulation of citizen voices in different national, cultural and institutional contexts. Building bridges across media and communication studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies and urban planning studies, Citizen Voices also offers a range of different theories and research methodologies which foreground the role of communication processes in scientific and environmental governance.
More information from the Intellect book webpage http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4937/
A copy of this book has been shipped to our second year individual members, and to the coordinators of our associated and institutional members. By sending 729 copies of this book to ECREA's core membership, the organisation not only wants to express its appreciation for these members' continued support, but ECREA also wants to maximise this publication's audience and circulation. ECREA considers the investment in the Book Series as an important contribution to one of its main objectives, which is to stimulate European communication and media studies research.
The ECREA Book Series @ Intellect, and the new Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series aim to offer a structural publication opportunities for ECREA members, as (according to our publication guidelines) at least half of the authors and one of the editors needs to be an ECREA member. So far this approach has worked well, as is evidenced not only by this publication, but also by our extensive list of publications.
Read more about the ECREA Book series @ Intellect http://www.ecrea.eu/benefits/bookseries
Read more about the new Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series http://www.ecrea.eu/news/article/id/190
