[ecrea] EMMA 2013 Call for Papers

emma Conference 2013

13 – 14 June 2013

Bournemouth University

United Kingdom



Conference Call

Digital Transformations and Transactions: emma 2013



Selected Papers to be published in the International Journal of Media 
Management

There will be a Best Paper Prize





The past decade has seen a transformation in the way media companies 
understand and manage their varied businesses. Traditional mass media 
and telecommunications have converged in the context of digitalisation, 
giving rise to new technologies and platforms, re-orienting co-opetitive 
relations between media industries and sectors, and leading to early but 
apparently fundamental changes in audience consumption behaviours. The 
environment is characterised by instability in every relevant dimension 
of media operations, systemically, institutionally and operationally. 
This provides new opportunities for growth but also poses thorny 
problems associated with decline.



Proposals are invited for papers to be presented in the emma 2013 
proceedings. These will be peer reviewed (blind). Reviewers welcome 
proposals addressing the theme of the conference. Special consideration 
will be given to international comparative studies and papers that 
clearly contribute to the development of media management theory and 
practice. Topics of particular relevance include:



· How media organisations are transforming their understandings of and 
approaches to doing business in the digital age (strategy, tactics, 
structures, products)

· Managing organisational capability, competency and dynamic capability 
under conditions of instability caused by rapid and uncertain changes

· Changing industry structure and characteristic relations between sectors

· Continuity and change in the positions, roles and functions of legacy 
media

· Publishing (of many types) in the digital environment, especially in 
comparison with traditional approaches and practices

· Trends, problems and issues in media policy and regulation

· Concerns and practices related to privacy in a networked digital 
environment

· The meanings and complications of authorship, and issues relating to 
the ownership and protection of Intellectual Property more generally, in 
this environment

· How audiences / users / consumers / citizens are changing in the 
digitised environment

· Drivers, inhibitors and development of participatory and social media 
cultures

· Emerging economic and business models for the digital economy in media

· The impact of disruptive technology in re-orienting models of many kinds



Submission Requirements and Review of Papers



Each submission will be an abstract (750-word maximum) formatted 
according to the following guidelines:



1. The first page will be separate (i.e. detachable) and will include 
the manuscript title, author names(s) and institutional affiliation(s), 
along with contact information for each author.



2. Beginning on the second page, the abstract will begin with the title 
of the manuscript and 5 to 7 keywords, followed by the abstract. The 
pages should be numbered, please. The abstract must be in English, the 
conference language.



The substance of the abstract will provide a clear summary of the 
relevance this paper will have for and to the conference theme; will 
stipulate the theoretical grounding and framework; will outline the 
methodology employed if an empirical study; will demonstrate links to 
the most relevant literature; will suggest anticipated (or known) 
findings and lessons learned.



All submissions will be peer reviewed in blind fashion by the Scientific 
Committee (at least two for each submission).



Note: Papers recommended by the Scientific Committee for submission to 
the International Journal of Media Management may be additionally 
reviewed by the Journal’s editorial board, according to the journal’s 
editorial policies.



Please send your submissions to Barbara Eklöf ((Barbara.Eklof /at/ ihh.hj.se)). 
An acknowledgement will be sent to you indicating that we have received 
your abstract. If you do not receive your abstract confirmation please 
follow-up.



John Oliver can be contacted for questions requiring clarification of 
this Call ((joliver /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)).



Important dates:

January 4, 2013 = Deadline for reception of abstract submissions

February 1, 2013 = Notification of acceptance

May 6, 2013 = Deadline for submission of full papers



Papers submitted after May 6 will NOT be considered for the Best Paper 
Prize and may not be included in the printed programme for the 2013 
conference.


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