[ecrea] Call for Papers for Special Issue of Communication, Culture and Critique to be published in 2010

Call for Papers for Special Issue of 
Communication, Culture and Critique to be published in 2010

Topic:   Media Governance: New Policies for Changing Media Landscapes

This call invites submissions for a special issue 
of Communication, Culture & Critique on Media 
Governance. This special issue strives to deepen 
our understanding of media governance, admittedly 
a somewhat elusive concept, but one that has 
gained importance over the recent years. Having 
witnessed a shift from vertical (sector-specific) 
to horizontal media regulation as well as a 
transition from national to supra- and 
international policy(ing), it became clear that 
(national) legislation is not the only way to 
protect citizens and the public interest. Used to 
describe those changing polities, politics and 
policies, media governance can serve as a tool to 
analyze media policy from a more inclusive 
approach.  Due to rapidly changing societal and 
technological contexts, there are good grounds 
for introducing more flexibility in the 
regulatory mechanisms aimed at preventing 
excessive industry control and ensuring pluralism 
and diversity in converged media platforms. 
Moreover, the constitutional reasons for a 
distance between politics and the media, as well 
as the fact that goals of pluralism and diversity 
are difficult to enshrine into effective laws, 
make the change from the State to co-regulation 
and self-regulation necessary. Therefore, finding 
the right balance is of paramount importance. 
Additionally, media governance is sometimes 
understood as a normative demand for involving 
civic and professional groups in the process of 
media regulation and adopting inclusive mechanisms like public hearings.

In this special issue we welcome theoretical and 
empirical submissions which explore the contours 
of the multifaceted concept of media governance 
from different perspectives (economical, 
societal, political, organizational, 
journalistic, civil society) and in different 
geographical and cultural contexts, preferably 
also with the goal to compare. In this issue it 
is our intention to redefine the role of media 
governance as a set of new ways to come to terms 
with regulatory aspects of issues such as the 
internet becoming the essential medium 
encompassing television, information and 
entertainment, the growing concentration of 
ownership within and between media at national 
and global levels or the question whether global 
public service media are needed as a 
counterweight to commercial transnational media. 
Media governance should also be approached as a 
future-proof tool for the analysis of changing 
media policy in a changing media landscape, 
looking at critical issues such as conditions for 
connecting citizens and ensuring their 
communication rights beyond business model solutions.

Expressions of interest should be submitted to 
all guest editors as an e-mail attachment by no 
later than Friday 17 April, 2009.  This should 
include a 300-500 word abstract, full contact 
information, and a biographical note (up to 75 
words) on each of the authors.  Authors of 
accepted abstracts will be notified by Friday 29 
May 2009 and will then be invited to submit a 
full paper to the guest editors.  Manuscripts 
should be no longer than 8,000 words, including 
notes and references, should conform to APA 
style, and be submitted by October 31, 2009.  All 
papers will be subject to double-blind peer 
review following submission with no guarantee of eventual publication.

Guest editors:
Leen D?Haenens - (leen.dhaenens /at/ soc.kuleuven.be)
Robin Mansell - (R.E.Mansell /at/ lse.ac.uk)
Katharina Sarikakis ? (k.sarikakis /at/ leeds.ac.uk)


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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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