[ecrea] Call for papers Digital TV

The next issue of /Cuadernos de información/, the peer-reviewed journal 
edited by the School of Communications of Pontificia Universidad 
Católica de Chile, will include a thematic section on digital television 
in Ibero-America. We invite researchers and academics to submit their 
work. *Articles on the special issue's subject as well as papers on 
other aspects of communication are welcome.*

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*CALL FOR PAPERS CUADERNOS DE INFORMACIÓN N° 31 (Dec. 2012)*

*Special theme: **Digital TV in Ibero-America*

*Guest editors: Valerio Fuenzalida and Francisco Fernández*

*Deadline for paper submission: August 30, 2012 *

_About the thematic section_

Although in Latin America, Spain and Portugal broadcast television 
remains the most influential media, digitization is redefining the bases 
on which the industry is based, its language, its relationship with the 
audience, the business model and the very concept of television. This is 
what the experience of several European, Asian and North American 
countries suggest, where the so-called "analog blackout" has already 
occurred or is in process of completion. /Cuadernos de Información/ 
invites researchers in the field to submit papers for this special 
section, preferably comparative studies on digital television in 
Ibero-America.

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Possible subjects include:

. Digital TV in Ibero-American countries (comparative studies)

. Public TV in digital format

. Exportation and importation of shows and formats

. Convergence

. Production of TV shows in digital formats

. 360° production schemes

. Fragmentation versus mass audience

. Challenges for broadcast TV

. Competition between on-air TV, TV cable, Internet TV

. Interactive TV and convergence of platforms

. Skills

. Comparative legal frameworks

. Economic-legal issues that digital change involves, for example:

o critical views to liberalization and marketization of the radio 
electric spectrum

o on demand TV

o the duration of concessions

o new uses of residual frequencies

o the financial implications of simulcast

o the social costs of the blackout

o the change of the quantity of receivers in each country

o demand for digital TV

Best regards

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María Olga Delpiano
Editora Cuadernos de Información
Facultad de Comunicaciones
Universidad Católica de Chile
09- 438 2085 / (56 2) 354 2035