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New Perspectives on Public Service Media

A special issue of Medijske studije/ Media Studies Journal to be
published in December 2015. (See: www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr)

CALL FOR PAPERS

New Perspectives on Public Service Media

A special issue of Medijske studije/ Media Studies Journal to be
published in December 2015.

Edited by Minna Aslama Horowitz (St. John’s University, USA) and
Viktorija Car (University of Zagreb, Croatia).

About the issue
The idea and ideal of public service media will soon celebrate its
first 100 years. Although many argue that the definition and
principles of PSM still work after all these years, others posit that
it is time to challenge them thoroughly.
In the 1920s the concept of PSM was developed following the idea of
electronic media as a public good, because of a spectrum scarcity.
That is why public monopolies were created.
As technology developed, spectrum scarcity was not any longer an
argument for defining PSM as a public good. Within time, PSM really
became a form of social capital – a social value developed in a long
time period as a result of relations among people (journalist, editors
and the audience) and the trustworthiness among them (Coleman, 1988 ).
In the past decade, with the increasingly rapid proliferation of
online and mobile technologies, the idea of public service in terms of
media and communications has become intertwined to a variety of new
cases, such as open source and access software, or participatory
platforms and projects such as crisis mapping. Should this new form of
activity be called PSM? Or, should traditional public service
institutions extend their mandate? Should PSM organizations
collaborate with other actors (Horowitz & Clark 2014 ) in forming a
new, networked public media ecosystem?
At the same time, in many emerging democracies, new media systems are
being established. Is the idea and ideal of PSM obsolete, or, is it
more relevant than ever? And, can the existence of specific public
service media organizations be considered a human right (Boev &
Bukovska 2011 )?

Given the complexity of the new media landscapes, new perspectives on
Public Service Media are crucial to the related scholarship. Topics of
interest for this special issue include but are not limited to the
following:
•    Public service media – a policy project under revision
•    Public service media as a public good, as a social capital, or as a
part of the communications rights regime
•    Public service media and the changing public sphere(s)
•    Media management challenges of public service media in the
multi-platform environment
•    Comparative outlooks on PSM
•    Transitions from state (or other media) systems to PSM
•    New PSM? Public service media beyond institutions (alternative
media, community media, social networks, mapping)

Information about the journal:
Media Studies is an interdisciplinary journal published by the
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science and the Croatian
Communication Association. The journal provides an international forum
for the presentation of research and the advancement of discourse
concerning media, communications, journalism, and public relations,
within each field’s cultural, historical, political and/or economic
contexts.
The articles should not be published before (neither partially nor
completely), nor currently be considered for publication by any other
journal or book, nor should the submissions be a translation of
previously published articles.
The journal is indexed in the SCOPUS database.
For more see
http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr/index.php?q=/izdavastvo/casopisi/media-studies

Submission guidelines: Please send your abstract (500 - 700 words) and
a short CV with contact information, to the guest editors and please
make sure that it addresses the theoretical framework, method and
(preliminary) conclusions. The deadline for abstracts is 15 September
2014 and authors will be notified by 1 October 2014. Upon acceptance,
manuscripts shall undergo a rigorous international double-blind peer
review. Manuscripts should be written in English, using Times New
Roman; size 12; 1.5 line spacing; all pages should be numbered
appropriately. The main text of the article should be between 5,000
and 6,000 words (for more see
http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr/docs/MEDIA_STUDIES_nfa.pdf).
The deadline for full articles is 31 March 2015.

Please send your abstract or questions to the special issue editors:
Viktorija Car (viktorija.car /at/ fpzg.hr)
Minna Aslama Horowitz (minna.aslama /at/ helsinki.fi)


Edited by Minna Aslama Horowitz (St. John’s University, USA) and
Viktorija Car (University of Zagreb, Croatia).

About the issue
The idea and ideal of public service media will soon celebrate its
first 100 years. Although many argue that the definition and
principles of PSM still work after all these years, others posit that
it is time to challenge them thoroughly.
In the 1920s the concept of PSM was developed following the idea of
electronic media as a public good, because of a spectrum scarcity.
That is why public monopolies were created.
As technology developed, spectrum scarcity was not any longer an
argument for defining PSM as a public good. Within time, PSM really
became a form of social capital – a social value developed in a long
time period as a result of relations among people (journalist, editors
and the audience) and the trustworthiness among them (Coleman, 1988 ).
In the past decade, with the increasingly rapid proliferation of
online and mobile technologies, the idea of public service in terms of
media and communications has become intertwined to a variety of new
cases, such as open source and access software, or participatory
platforms and projects such as crisis mapping. Should this new form of
activity be called PSM? Or, should traditional public service
institutions extend their mandate? Should PSM organizations
collaborate with other actors (Horowitz & Clark 2014 ) in forming a
new, networked public media ecosystem?
At the same time, in many emerging democracies, new media systems are
being established. Is the idea and ideal of PSM obsolete, or, is it
more relevant than ever? And, can the existence of specific public
service media organizations be considered a human right (Boev &
Bukovska 2011 )?

Given the complexity of the new media landscapes, new perspectives on
Public Service Media are crucial to the related scholarship. Topics of
interest for this special issue include but are not limited to the
following:
•    Public service media – a policy project under revision
•    Public service media as a public good, as a social capital, or as a
part of the communications rights regime
•    Public service media and the changing public sphere(s)
•    Media management challenges of public service media in the
multi-platform environment
•    Comparative outlooks on PSM
•    Transitions from state (or other media) systems to PSM
•    New PSM? Public service media beyond institutions (alternative
media, community media, social networks, mapping)

Information about the journal:
Media Studies is an interdisciplinary journal published by the
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science and the Croatian
Communication Association. The journal provides an international forum
for the presentation of research and the advancement of discourse
concerning media, communications, journalism, and public relations,
within each field’s cultural, historical, political and/or economic
contexts.
The articles should not be published before (neither partially nor
completely), nor currently be considered for publication by any other
journal or book, nor should the submissions be a translation of
previously published articles.
The journal is indexed in the SCOPUS database.
For more see
http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr/index.php?q=/izdavastvo/casopisi/media-studies

Submission guidelines: Please send your abstract (500 - 700 words) and
a short CV with contact information, to the guest editors and please
make sure that it addresses the theoretical framework, method and
(preliminary) conclusions. The deadline for abstracts is 15 September
2014 and authors will be notified by 1 October 2014. Upon acceptance,
manuscripts shall undergo a rigorous international double-blind peer
review. Manuscripts should be written in English, using Times New
Roman; size 12; 1.5 line spacing; all pages should be numbered
appropriately. The main text of the article should be between 5,000
and 6,000 words (for more see
http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr/docs/MEDIA_STUDIES_nfa.pdf).
The deadline for full articles is 31 March 2015.

Please send your abstract or questions to the special issue editors:
Viktorija Car (viktorija.car /at/ fpzg.hr)
Minna Aslama Horowitz (minna.aslama /at/ helsinki.fi)



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