Themes

The IJ-7 Academic Track discusses the following main themes:

1. How journalism and innovation interact.
   
2. How journalism can cover innovation processes and innovation ecosystems.
   
3. Towards a systems view: Public attention and attention work in innovation communication ecosystems, the stakeholders and audiences, and the interaction between these elements.

 Examples of research topics of interest:

• Professional norms, values, codes of ethics and principles of innovation journalism.
•  How newsrooms and other professional organizations affect the coverage of innovation.
• Democracy and governance: The role of journalism in the innovation economy.
• Concept of attention work, the professional generation and brokering of attention.
• Concept of innovation communication systems; the flow of attention in innovation systems.
• How innovation processes and innovation ecosystems interact with public attention, with news media as an actor.
• Interdependencies between journalism and other actors in the innovation system.
• The roles of reputation and trust in the innovation ecosystem.
• Business Models for innovation journalism.
• Models of innovation and media, including firm, industry and economy-wide innovation systems.
• Governance, accountability and innovation in and by journalists and media actors.
• State of the art as well as theory and practice in the teaching of innovation journalism.
• Innovation journalism and feminism.