Communication Papers publica el Call for Papers del Monográfico 2: Women, Media & Politics

Publicado Call for Papers del Monográfico 2 de CP titulado: “Women, Media & Politics” dirigido por la Dra. Nuria Fernandez Garcia.
Puede hacer sus aportaciones del 12 de Septiembre al 15 de Noviembre de 2014!

Accede a la revista: www.communicationpapers.es

CALL FOR PAPERS

How are women politicians represented in the media? A significant amount of research suggests that the press covers men and women politicians differently. There is a host of evidence suggesting that women politicians are framed in certain ways that differ from their male counterparts, and that those frames often put them at disadvantage. Women receive lower, less prominent and less substantive coverage than do men. Women’s viability as election contenders is often framed more negatively than men’s. News reports on women leaders tend to focus on personal appearance rather than on policy issues. Media refer to women more informally than men. Women are more likely to have their titles (such as Senator or Representative) dropped in news stories, and they are more often referred to by their first names or as ‘Ms.’ or ‘Mrs.’ than are men. Women politicians are also more likely to be described in terms of the personal traits associated with traditional ‘female’ stereotypes. The press discusses “female” issues more frequently when covering women politicians and reports “male” issues more extensively with men politicians. Media tend to use more highly charged language to report the speech of female politicians, and women are directly quoted less often than her male opponents.

Because the media have become the public sphere in which the identity of the politician is constructed, those gender biases can have electoral consequences. Gender differences in media coverage may influence women’s participation in public life, voters’ evaluations of male and female candidates, candidates’ choice of campaign strategies, and people’s view regarding women’s role in the political arena.

Some research also suggests that the increase in the access of women to political office should arguably result in a normalization of the representation of women politicians in the media coverage. If women and men have comparable access to positions of power, if women access the highest offices, should not this mean the disappearance of existing stereotyping gender roles?

TOPICS

• gender diferences in news coverage of male and female politicians,
• media gender bias in political campaigns,
• comparative studies on gender di!erences in political campaigns,
• deconstructing gender stereotypes in political advertisements of women candidates,
• conventional frames employed by the media about women candidates for office,
• the portrayal of women in power (eg. Prime Ministers, Presidents, Cabinets Members, Members of the Parliament),
• original research about the representation of women politicians in social networking sites,
• the role of the media in shaping an ideal of women in politics,
• media discourse about power from a gender perspective,
• representation of femininities in media political texts,
• the relationship between gender, sex and heteronormativity in media political texts,
• audience perception of women leadership ability,
• women politicians representation from a post-feminist perspective,
• intersectional approaches to the study of women politicians representation (how it is affected by other structures such as class, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation).

STANDARS OF SUBMISSION

Only original and unpublished proposals will be considered. Articles must respect the rules of APA style. Each manuscript should be between 7,000 and 8,500 words in main text and 200 words in abstract. All submissions will be blind-refereed. Complete manuscripts should be ready for peer review by November 15th. Publication is due for December 2014. Submission in the web sites the manuscript by the standard template of the journal. Include one separate little page containing title, author/s, affiliation/s and the address, phone, and email of the lead author. Manuscripts can be written in Catalan, Eusquera, Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Italian.

Please, submit manuscripts to the Communication Papers web site at:http://www.communicationpapers.es/

You can choose the language of the website (English, Spanish or Catalan) on the left vertical menu, in the “idioma” section.

You can download the standard template for articles in:

http://communicationpapers.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/cp_articulos_maq.doc

TIMELINE

Recordamos a los autores interesados en participar del presente número que la revista Commuication Papers publica los textos en sistema pre-print conforme superan el proceso de revisión, hasta el cierre del número en las fechas indicadas a continuación:

• Start of Call for Papers: July 30th, 2014
• End of Call for Papers: November 15th, 2014
• Date of Publication: December 19th, 2014

Communication Papers publica el Call for Papers del Número 5: La comunicación en época de crisis

Publicado Call for Papers del Número 5 (Volumen 3) titulado: “La comunicación en época de crisis”.
Puede hacer sus aportaciones del 12 de Septiembre al 21 de Noviembre de 2014!

Participen con artículos, reseñas y propuestas de ensayo!
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CALL FOR PAPERS

En la situación de crisis en la que nos hallamos, hace ya demasiados años, la comunicación es la más perjudicada y a su vez, la más necesaria. Y es que mientras el discurso político tira de las frases demagógicas en una suerte de supervivencia electoral, los medios en esta espiral de revisión permanente, se arriman a la buena sombra que los cobija, también en busca de su permanencia con la ayuda de los líderes de opinión que se afanan por estar en las tertulias más ansiadas.

En este contexto, se necesita recuperar la palabra “confianza” pues se ha perdido en esta senda del descrédito y escepticismo en las instituciones que, en definitiva, nos han de sacar de esta situación. En los últimos años nos estamos acostumbrando a las informaciones de las que se desprenden panoramas a sombríos. Las circunstancias amplificadas en los medios de comunicación,afligen el ánimo de los ciudadanos que acaban valorando con dureza el quehacer de las instituciones y de sus representantes políticos y empresariales. Los distintos estudios demoscópicos y barómetros sociales corroboran sin paliativos esta desconfianza y el recelo en la gestión del poder en cualquier sector.

Por todo ello, este número de Communication papers propone al conjunto de investigadores en el ámbito de la comunicación, contribuciones que aborden la situación y gestión de la comunicación en estos territorios tan amplios como sugerentes. A modo de ejemplo, sirvan estos descriptores que sólo son apuntes temáticos para disipar las dudas de la pertinencia de las iniciativas investigadoras.

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