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[ecrea] public service on the Baltic: the role of the state in central and northern European media systems

Sun Mar 08 10:28:23 GMT 2009



Vol 3, No 1 (4), Spring 2010

Guest Editor: Lars Nord
(Mid Sweden University, Sweden)



CALL FOR PAPERS:

PUBLIC SERVICE ON THE BALTIC:
THE ROLE OF THE STATE
IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPEAN MEDIA SYSTEMS


Governments have a long tradition of regulating public service media in Europe. Policy issues include the ownership, organization, financing, and the legal framework. In the beginning of the 1990s Kees Brants and Karen Siune proposed four main factors for the state interference analysis. Control of finance, programming and access was followed by control of media organisation regulated by the national media law. A different concept was created by Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch in 1995. By explaining dimensions of state control, the authors highlighted the process of media personnel appointment, control of the finance and the control over the media content. All of these determinants might be described in many different ways and implemented to many different regions in the world.

Taking Blumler and Gurevitch dimensions of the state interference to the media systems we will seek to analyze the concept of public service media in Central and Northern Europe. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden are different in a number of ways, but there are also important points of similarities between them. State monopoly for broadcasting was broken in most cases very nearly at the same time and some of the public service broadcasters in the Nordic and Post-Communist countries are strong and continue to play an important role in the national media markets.

In the special issue of Central European Journal of Communication we will discuss the concept of public service media, legal and institutional framework, ownership, governance, financing, technology, and the presence of public service broadcasting on the new media platforms.

We are interested in manuscripts that answer the following research questions:

- What kind of role does the state play in media systems in the Nordic and Post-Communist countries?
- What are the links between public service media and politics?
- What are the current conditions of public service media in Central and Northern Europe? - What are the perspectives of public service media development in the era of globalization, commercialization and digitalization?
- What is the current technological development of public service media?


We are looking forward for the future cooperation!
Polish Communication Association

Manuscript submission
We ask scholars and researchers interested in media systems of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden to submit an abstract of maximum 500 words before April 15, 2009. 10 papers for the publication will be selected before April 30, 2009. Full manuscripts should be submitted before June 30, 2009 according to the Style and Manuscript Guidelines:
http://www.ptks.pl/index1.php?id=cejoc_ms&lang=pl

Please note that Central European Journal of Communication accepts only online submissions:
(journal /at/ ptks.pl)


The process of publication
April 15, 2009  Deadline for abstract submission
April 30, 2009  Evaluation of abstracts,
selection of 10 papers for the publication
June 30, 2009   Deadline for full manuscripts
Spring 2010     Publication


Central European Journal of Communication (ISSN 1899-5101) is published twice a year (in Spring and Fall) on behalf of the Polish Communication Association. The Journal provides an international forum for empirical, critical and interpretative, quantitative and qualitative research examining the role of communication in Central Europe. CEJoC welcomes high quality research and analysis from all fields of communication and media studies.

Contact
Michal Glowacki
Central European Journal of Communication
e-mail: (journal /at/ ptks.pl)
website: www.ptks.pl







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