[ecrea] CFP - Public Service Media for Communication and Partnership

>The deadline for abstracts is 29 February 2008
>
>
>RIPE@2008 Conference
>
>October 8 ­- 11, 2008 in Germany
>
>CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
>
>Public Service Media for Communication and Partnership
>
>We are pleased to announce the fourth bi-annual 
>RIPE conference, this time hosted by ZDF 
>(Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), Germanys 
>national public service television broadcasting 
>company, and two universities: The 
>Medienintelligenz programme together with IAK 
>Medienwissenschaften at the Johannes 
>Gutenberg-University of Mainz and with the 
>Institute of Media Design at the Mainz 
>University of Applied Sciences. Our theme will 
>focus on what is involved and at stake in the 
>transition from public service broadcasting to 
>public service media. What is required to secure 
>relations with the public as a partner? What are 
>the strategic implications of managing a 
>portfolio of platforms? What are the significant 
>long-term trends affecting media in general and 
>public service media in particular? What is 
>involved in the transformation from emphasizing 
>content transmission to emphasizing human communication?
>
>Conference organisers request abstracts in six 
>topical categories. Comparative research will be 
>prioritized for selection. The organizers are 
>especially keen for research that suggests 
>generalizable insights and has implications for media management.
>
>1. Participation Dynamics
>
>    * How can people be engaged with public service media at two levels:
>      by managers for decision making and by makers for content
>      development? Indeed, what happens to the notion of the maker?
>    * How do structures at various levels invite people to participate
>      or discourage their participation? For example, in the structures
>      of story telling and the structures of decision-making?
>    * Why does PSM have such problems in serving young people? How
>      concerned should PSM be about this?
>    * In what ways are PSM companies successful in facilitating public
>      participation in processes and practices related to democracy,
>      culture, learning, etc?
>
>2. Patterns of Media Use
>
>    * How do people use media today? What are the predictors? What are
>      the characteristic patterns? Do use patterns vary significantly
>      across cultures or nations?
>    * What has not changed in patterns of media use over the past twenty
>      years?
>    * What are the most important effects of media use? For example, the
>      impact on health, social perceptions, cultural relations, etc?
>      What are the most important consequences of participation in
>      online media, especially unanticipated effects?
>
>3. Identifying the Drivers and Meta-Trends
>
>    * Beyond the rise and fall of new media fads, what really matters?
>      What are the consistent factors and underlying dynamics?
>    * What meta-trends are especially important for understanding the
>      changes underway in society that have real implications for media?
>      What are the drivers? What should PSM be focused on for strategic
>      and theoretical development?
>    * What ought to have the strongest impact in the development of PSM
>      strategies?
>
>4. Changing Aesthetics and Expectations
>
>    * How do the aesthetics of non-linear media affect the aesthetics in
>      all media?
>    * What is the experience of media today as described by ordinary
>      people? What do they like and want more of, and what do they find
>      irritating and want to change?
>    * What are the normative implications of interactivity and are they
>      valid in social practice? What is interactivity and to whom does
>      this actually matter?
>    * What is the role of social networking and collective intelligence
>      in relation to the needs of media audiences in general?
>    * What do people want from PSM? What are typical expectations, and why?
>
>5. Branding PSM
>
>    * What is the public service brand and how can PSM keep that in
>      the public eye?
>    * What makes people want to stick with the public service brand?
>    * What are PSMs unique selling propositions?
>    * How does the PSM brand matter outside the traditional channel
>      structures and institutional context?
>    * What are recommended improvements in content management strategy
>      for handling the multiplicity of platforms, genres and types of
>      content?
>    * How does this differ among marginal and new audiences for PSM, for
>      example youth, immigrants and minority language communities?
>
>6. Refining the PSM Ethos
>
>    * What are the core ingredients of the public service ethos? What
>      are the criteria for legitimacy in public service media and how is
>      this different compared with its PSB heritage?
>    * What is social responsibility today? What is the role of the
>      public domain in an online environment? What does enlightenment
>      mean today? What is cohesion and pluralism? Where and how should
>      universalism work?
>    * Is the PSB ethos out of date, as some contend? If so, what is out
>      of date and why? What does the public no longer want?
>    * In what ways and to what extent is the PSM ethos suffering with
>      marketization and competition? What is in danger of being lost and
>      how could that be preserved?
>    * How do definitions and perceptions of public service vary? Are
>      there common denominators? What are the strategic implications?
>      What are the policy implications?
>    * How is journalism being redefined, and why? What must be preserved
>      from the PSB heritage? How should PSM journalism be further developed?
>
>PROPOSAL CRITERIA
>
>- Provide the working title of the paper
>
>- Include your name, organisational affiliation 
>with location, and your e-mail address
>
>- Specify the categories that would suit your 
>contribution best (from the above 6)
>
>- The maximum abstract length is 400 words
>
>- Format the document in Rich Font Text (.rtf format ­ not .doc format)
>
>- Abstract submissions are due on or before _February 29, 2008_
>
>
>Please send your abstract proposal as an e-mail 
>attachment to both of the following:
>
>(Susanne.Marschall /at/ medienintelligenz.de)     Susanne Marschall
>
>(glowe /at/ netsonic.fi)                                         Gregory F. Lowe
>
>About 60 papers will be accepted for 
>presentation at the conference. All abstract 
>submissions for the conference will be peer 
>reviewed as the basis for acceptance. The 
>conference language is English. Notification of 
>proposal acceptance will be sent on or before April 14, 2008.
>
>The conference registration fee will be ¬275 for 
>authors. The fee _includes_ two nights of hotel 
>accommodations in Mainz, as well as meals, 
>amenities and all conference materials. If the 
>paper is co-authored, then the two nights of 
>hotel accommodation are paid for one author. For 
>those attending the conference but not 
>presenting a paper, the registration fee is ¬350 
>plus all accommodation costs. Space is limited. 
>The RIPE conference does not have funds to 
>supplement personal travel costs except for 
>invited keynote speakers. A conference web site 
>that will launch as the registration period begins in spring 2008.
>
>

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