[ecrea] RIPE@2014 - Public Service Media across Boundaries

RIPE@2014

27-29 August 2014 in Tokyo, Japan



CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS



Public Service Media across Boundaries



We are pleased to announce the seventh bi-annual RIPE conference, this 
time hosted by the Institute for Media and Communications Research 
(MediaCom) at Keio University, together with the Japan Broadcasting 
Corporation (NHK).



Our conference theme focuses on cross-boundary influences and relations 
as a significant issue for public service media (PSM). The theme has 
various dimensions. International cross-boundary influences are evident 
in the growth of multinational media companies, cross-border channels, 
trade in formats and programming, development in technology and 
platforms, changing tastes and perceptions among audiences, and the 
influence of supranational instruments and agencies. PSM institutions 
are domestic in grounding and orientation but increasingly must deal 
with a growing range of international influences and pressures – and 
opportunities.



Other important borders relate to growth in network communication and 
what that means for broadcasting; institutional boundaries that pose 
challenges to achieve greater openness and opportunities for public 
participation; challenges related to boundaries between professional 
journalists and citizen journalism, and more broadly in professional and 
non-professional production; the emergence and importance of 
transnational audiences and audience fragmentation; platform 
differentiation and synergies in conceptual and operational terms; the 
rise of social media and non-traditional providers of content and 
services; and challenges in spanning boundaries between PSM institutions 
and other institutions in the public, volunteer and private sectors. 
These phenomena simultaneously offer tremendous opportunities and 
daunting challenges for PSM development. Familiar historic dichotomies 
that include public/private, national/international, broadcast/print, 
old/new, and market/society are increasingly problematic and require 
thorough, critical re-examination. Underlying all of this is a pivotal 
dynamic of convergence versus divergence.



The organisers especially invite proposals addressing the following 
topics in relation to the conference theme:



1. Cross-boundary issues in PSM policy & governance

·      Cross-boundary influences on domestic PSM policy

·      Challenges in corporate governance and issues of trust

·      Contemporary issues and trends in media regulation

·      Accountability to audiences and performance assessment







2. Transnational audiences and PSM

·      How are the audiences still domestic, but also more than that?

·      PSM for diaspora, ethnic minorities and immigrants

·      International content and changing domestic tastes and uses of PSM

·      International influences on what PSM produces for audiences

·      Openness, participation and inclusion



3. Transnational encounters for PSM

·      PSM in the context of global markets and international trade

·      PSM’s domestic orientation and international roles

·      The pertinence and future of world news

·      Changes in targeting strategies and modes of address

·      Identities beyond geographic and administrative communities



4. Citizen journalism and professional journalism in the PSM context

·      New boundaries and blurred boundaries in journalism

·      Dynamics and conditions that challenge professional journalism

·      Citizen journalism, networked journalism and ‘journalism as 
conversation’

·      Social media and reporting



5. PSM and convergence

·      Tools, approaches and results in cross-platform production and 
publishing

·      Broadcasting in the context of network communications

·      PSM’s role in the development of media technology and applications

·      Developments in organisational restructuring and management practices



6. PSM in new and young democracies

·      Challenges and dynamics in countries pursuing the creation of PSM

·      The needs, roles and limitations of international support

·      PSM in relation to the promotion of free speech and free press

·      Comparative studies about how PSM is being structured and developed

·      How historic ideas and established PSM institutions are important 
but also problematic as models



The conference will feature a presentation by representatives of the 
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on the Vision 2020 initiative. And per 
our usual practice, a RIPE@2015 book will be published by NORDICOM to 
include the best papers (in developed form and according to the 
essential theme that emerges during the conference proceedings).



SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS



On the first page:

ü Provide the working title of the paper

ü Include your name, organisational affiliation with location, and 
e-mail address



On the second page:

ü Repeat the working title of the paper, but exclude your name and location

ü Provide an abstract of 600 words (maximum)

ü Explain what the paper will be about and how it will contribute to the 
theme

ü Specify which topical areas (1-6) are a best fit (more than one, and 
prioritise)



Proposal submissions are due 10 January 2014. Decisions will be taken in 
February with notification of acceptance sent on 1 March 2014. The paper 
will be due in early summer 2014, with the precise date most likely in 
mid June.



All submissions will be peer reviewed as the basis for acceptance. The 
criteria are:

  1. Relevance to the conference theme and fit with the topics

  2. Conceptual and analytic quality (beyond purely descriptive)

  3. Relevance to PSM management and practice

  4. Comparative research is highly desired

  5. Empirical research is prioritised

  6. Generalisability of insights and findings is certainly desired



Sixty (60) papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. 
Each paper will be assigned to a specific workgroup keyed to topical 
areas (as indicated above). The conference language is English.



Please send your abstract proposal as an e-mail attachment (in Word, not 
a PDF file) to:

   Gregory F. LOWE, University of Tampere, Finland ((glowe /at/ pp.inet.fi))

YAMAMOTO Nobuto, Keio University, Japan ((nobuto /at/ law.keio.ac.jp))



The conference happens over 2.5 days with a welcoming reception the 
night before the first day.



The registration fee is ?30,000 for authors (exchange rate on 6 
September 2013 was equivalent to €230 euros or $300 USD). The fee does 
not include accommodation, but does cover the cost for conference meals 
and materials. For those attending but not presenting a paper the 
registration fee is ?45,000 (equivalent to €340 euros or $450 USD) Space 
is limited. A select number of doctoral students will be accommodated at 
a reduced fee of ?15,000 (equivalent to €115 euros, or $150 USD). The 
RIPE conference does not have funds to supplement personal travel costs, 
except for invited keynote speakers. For more information, please visit 
our website: www.ripeat.org.



We are considering the possibility to arrange a social programme after 
the conference, but that is not yet decided. The organisers will update 
accepted participants about that. If such a programme is organised there 
would be a separate, additional fee, but participation would not be 
obligatory.

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