date for submitting Abstracts in response to the
attached CFP for the Workshop, ?Digital
Diversity: Serving the Public Interest in the
Age of Broadband,? has been extended ten days,
until February 10, 2011. The
by-invitationWorkshop, co-sponsored by the
Institute for Information Policy at Penn State
University and the Donald McGannon Communication
Research Center, will be held May 3-5, at the
Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in
New York City. Details can be found below:
Call for Paper Proposals
Digital Diversity:
Serving the Public Interest in the Age of Broadband
A by-invitation experts? workshop to be held at
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
May 3-5, 2011
As the delivery of mediated content experiences
an historic transformation with the transition
to delivery over broadband networks, some policy
goals of media regulation remain the same.
Central among them is the public interest goal
of ensuring diversity. Promoting diversity in
broadcasting has been a pillar of me-dia
regulation, but online there is no ?spectrum
scarcity,? the foundation of broadcast
regulation, no li-censing and arguably no ?mass
media? at all. As a result, the customary tools
for promotion of diversity must be reinvented.
Broadband is a radically different environment
in which the provision of unregulated content
may have far more impact than
traditionally-regulated television and radio.
New theoretical con-structs and mechanisms are
needed to address issues such as ?voice,?
economic equity, and serving un-served and
underserved communities. Minorities are
creatively exploring new online tools for
community building, communications, and business
opportunities. How can the public interest
standard be applied to support them in this new context?
The Institute for Information Policy at Penn
State University and the Donald McGannon
Communication Research Center at Fordham
University are pleased to announce this call for
paper proposals in which diversity enhancement
in broadband networks serves as the main theme.
Authors of the selected papers will be invited
to present and discuss them during a three day
by-invitation-only experts workshop de-signed to
bring together up to a dozen American and
international experts and to be held at the
Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University in
New York City. This workshop is part of a series
of events fo-cused on ?Making Policy Research
Accessible,? organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foun-dation.
Invited topics include, but are not limited to:
Changing concepts of diversity in the 21st century
Comparative notions of diversity and changing demographics
Defining and measuring the scope and desired
outcomes of broadband diversity policy
Diversity, new media, social media, and opportunities on the Internet
Diversity and Internet entrepreneurship
Diversity and network neutrality
Diversity and community websites and media
(e.g., community online newspapers)
Minorities embedded in major media enterprises
in content creation and as performers
Cultural/linguistic/racial/gender/religious
diversity ? are they all being served?
The marketplace of ideas and diversity
Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of
the author(s) should be submitted to
<mailto:(pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu)>(pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu)
by February 10, 2011. Please write IIPDMCWS:
YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted
presenters will be notified by March 1, 2011.
Thanks
Amit
Amit M. Schejter, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Building 72, Room 586B
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Be'er Sheva, Israel
<http://cmsprod.bgu.ac.il/humsos/departments/masscom/staff/academic/Amit.htm>http://cmsprod.bgu.ac.il/humsos/departments/masscom/staff/academic/Amit.htm
Associate Professor
Co-director, Institute for Information Policy
The College of Communications
The Pennsylvania State University
Office: 314C Willard
Mail address: 115 Carnegie Building
University Park, PA 16802-5101
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/m/ams37/
