[ecrea] CFP 'Audiences, Users, and Producers of Public Service Content: Challenges Ahead'

Call for Papers: 'Audiences, Users, and Producers of Public Service Content: Challenges Ahead'
May 23rd, 2012

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU)


Public service provisions are going through dramatic transformations as a result of technological developments, policy changes, market pressures and new user habits in the media sectors. A significant part of this transformation is connected to the enhanced and novel roles of audience initiative to use and generate content. The scale and significance of the understanding of the new public service content use is still contested, evidences are often sporadic, case studies are still often isolated. Fundamental questions are still abound: Is the public ready to fulfil roles outlined by the new participatory content use culture? Are public service media organisations, and professionals consider seriously shifting to a radically more demand-oriented mood in the daily practice? How the populist feature of "from below" user activity would change political discourses and landscapes?



We invite submissions for a symposium on assessing recent developments in the fields of audience activity, platform and content use, and user content making in the public service framework. The symposium is open to academics as well as media industry practitioners working in the field. Papers/presentations are invited in the general subject area of user generated content and public service provisions, including:



*           active (intended or unintended) audience practices vis-à-vis public service contents;

*           public uses of public service media platforms;

*           user generated public service content;

*           gaming in the public service framework;

*           uses of public service contents and platforms overlapping with e-politics, e-health, e-education, etc. platforms.



All abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to:  Ferenc Hammer (f.hammer73 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)



The deadline for the submission is March 18th, 2012. Authors of selected proposals will be notified by March 30th, 2012. A selected group of the best contributions are planned to be published in a scholarly journal.



Dr Ferenc Hammer

Department for Media, Art and Design, CCCU

(f.hammer73 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)




Dr Agnes Gulyas
Principal Lecturer
Department of Media
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
Tel: 01227-782907
Email: (agnes.gulyas /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)



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