RESEARCHING SHIFTING JOURNALISM PARADIGMS
Our very first event tomorrow, when we kick off the establishment of GjC. This first invitation has not gone out wide; only to those who have participated in past calls for research projects. As we move forward, the invitations will be more open. Below are some key points for the opening tomorrow, reflected in the event description found on this link: https://www.globaljournalism.community/event/cjc-kick-off-event/
Some of us have tried for a number of years to create a common forum in South Norway where colleagues at two institutions could find a common arena for collaborating with our peers in the projects we engage in. Those two institutions are NLA University College (the journalism division) and Agder University (two different faculties collaborating). Our local community is small and we all know each other. Many of us have collaborated for years on projects in Eastern Africa and the Balkans. Through this history of collaboration, GjC can start off with an already strong network comparable to many one might find internationally.
That is why we begin here, inviting our peers from these past and ongoing research collaborations. Our working language will be English. Our focal lens will be global journalism. We will want to define what that concept contains, but that is for a later workshop. The hope is that we together might forge a more resilient research community where new projects are well cultivated and in which we can also foster MA and PhD students.
In the presentation on March 16th. we will elaborate on this idea. Please see the enclosed presentation. We will then open up for a joint discussion on how we might develop the core idea of the center together: Identifying and exploring new/shifting journalism paradigm sin research and in the profession.
Needless to say, GjC takes a globalist-transformative point of view, which is neither a North-South or a Western framework but a recognition of the transformational power inherent in contemporary dynamics of digitalization and globalization.
Please join us tomorrow to reflect in these dimensions and how they impact on journalism, as well as journalism research.