Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly – Special Issue: Call for Submissions
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Hidden, Yet Pervasive: Social Inequality in Journalism (Research)
Andreas A. Riedl1, Thomas Hanitzsch1, Thomas R. Schmidt2, & Nik Usher3
1LMU Munich, 2University of California San Diego, & 3University of San Diego
Special Issue Editors
Social inequality is typically understood as the unequal distribution of (economic) resources, power, and prestige within society, where conditions of high inequality grant privileges, opportunities, and rewards to individuals in certain positions while denying them to others (Ballantine et al., 2019). Forms of social inequality are growing globally (e.g., Piketty, 2014) and lie at the heart of many burning problems of our time, ranging from political polarization over climate change to the societal impact of generative AI. The 2024 Human Development Report by the United Nations identifies social inequalities as a key to addressing today's grand challenges. In a deeply mediatized world, public discourses around social inequality are pivotal to how these challenges develop and unfold—positioning journalism research at the forefront of their analysis. Deadline for full-paper submissions: September 1, 2025. See complete call.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly – Special Issue: Call for Submissions