Dear Colleagues, At the 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM 2018, from 30 May to 1 June, 2018, in Szeged, Hungary, http://ceecom2018.hu/ ) we are organizing a panel entitled *Platforms and Digital Journalism – Mapping the Connections between Technology, Culture and Policy*, and we would welcome submissions from scholars of the current digital media ecosystem and digital journalism. *The CFP:* Platforms – particularly Facebook and Google – have become dominant in shaping how digital media and journalism functions in the contemporary media ecosystem. As more and more users consume news and various other types of content through the newsfeeds and algorithms of platforms, the more power platforms have over influencing or even controlling the means of distributing, ways of consuming and scope of creating and sharing digital media content (Bell-Taylor 2017, Helberger-Trilling 2016, Pew 2014, Kalogeropoulos-Newman 2017, Tremayne 2017). The ubiquitous presence of platforms alters editorial decisions and journalistic practices, also users’ perception of news, thus affects deeply how traditional online media companies are able to reach their audiences and monetize their reach. We wish to organize an open, interdisciplinary panel, with 5-6 participants, including talks on the most important relations between either the cultural, policy, journalistic and technological aspects regarding the intertwined nature of platforms and digital journalism. We would particularly welcome presentations on the following aspects: country- or region-specific, data-based analyses on the role of platforms in local media markets; changing journalistic roles, strategies and practices in the newsfeed-ecosystem; news consumption habits and trends. Researchers with diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds are welcome. *The deadline to submit a short (250 words) abstract is close: 31 January 2018. * *You can submit an abstract here:* https://docs.google.com/forms/d/142i0NmdMXY9JcgC60DsmEaER3lezm_MFkuQtpop88rU... If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, best, Tamas Tofalvy Tamas Tofalvy, PhD Researcher, consultant | Digital media, journalism, popular music assistant prof @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Dept. of Sociology and Comm.) project lead @ Hungarian Online and Digital Media History (MODEM) project M: [0036] 30 488 75 84 Web: [EN / HU] http://tofalvytamas.hu A: H-1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1., BME GTK E ép., 713.