[eccr] RIPE@2004 Call for Paper Proposals

RIPE@2004
June 3  5 in Denmark

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSAL ABSTRACTS

Mission, Market and Management:
Public Service Broadcasting and the Cultural Commons

Building on the fruitful experience of the inaugural RIPE@2002 conference 
in Finland, and subsequent publication of the associated book in summer 
2003 (Broadcasting and Convergence: New Articulations of the Public Service 
Remit), we invite paper proposal abstracts for the RIPE@2004 conference, 
hosted by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and the Department of 
Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus.

In recent years, management practices in public service broadcasting [PSB] 
companies have adopted or adapted market-centred logic and 
business-oriented tools. At the same time, the mission legitimating PSB is 
rooted in a cultural-services orientation. The resulting tension between 
commerce and culture, with an emphasis on the theoretical and operational 
implications, is the focus for RIPE@2004.

The cultural commons concept is associated with principles, priorities 
and practices in the public service approach to broadcasting. But that 
concepts meaning and relevance is keyed to contradictory pressures for 
continuity and change in societal values including, for example, dynamics 
of immigration, federation, domestication, globalisation and localism. 
Thus, PSB and its management can be about discrete or complex initiatives 
such as enabling shared values in a multicultural society, preserving the 
historic legacies or distinctions of comparative national cultures, 
fostering pluralism or furthering fragmentation in domestic cultures, or 
concerns related to strategies associated with audience segmentation and 
channel profiling.

What are the opportunities and obstacles for public service broadcasting 
with regard to creating and understanding the cultural commons? Should 
and can PSB continue to pursue a full range of programme services?  Do 
people actually share common values in a multicultural society? Are culture 
and democracy co-dependent or independent? What role/s do media chiefly 
play, and can or should the PSB pursue the universality principle today? 
Such questions suggest relevant theoretical treatments and research results:

·         Distinction versus commonality  global, national, regional and local
·         The PSB cultural mission and quality norms
·         PSB legitimacy and political (in)dependency
·         Professionalism, representation, participation and access
·         Programme genres, channel profiles and target audiences
·         Identity, postmodernism and multicultural societies
·         Sub-cultures, minority cultures, and mainstream cultures
·         Cultural trends and analysis
·         Segmentation, fragmentation and individualisation
·         Cultural dimensions of entertainment, information and education
·         Culture industry, cultural commerce and cultural commodity
·         Marketization and branding
·         Organisational culture and PSB restructuring
·         Media ecology, consumers and culture
·         Copyright, copyleft, broadcast rights and intellectual property
·         The culture of media politics and the politics of media culture

Proposal abstract criteria:
ü       2 paragraphs or 400 words, single-spaced in 12 point font
ü       Working title for the paper to be presented
ü       Authors name, organisational affiliation and location
ü       Authors e-mail addresses

Proposal abstracts are due on December 12, 2003 and should be sent as 
attachments in RTF format to (both, please):

             (greg.lowe /at/ yle.fi)

             (pjauert /at/ imv.au.dk)

Notification of acceptance will be sent on or before February 2, 2004.

To learn more about the RIPE initiative, the 2002 conference, and the 2003 
book, please browse our web site: www.yle.fi/keto/ripe

Sponsors for the 2004 conference include DR, the Science Foundation of the 
University of Aarhus and the National Research Fund of Denmark.  The 
conference is associated with the International Association for Media and 
Communication Research (IAMCR) and the European Consortium for 
Communication Research (ECCR).



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