[ecrea] International Journal of Digital Television - issue 5.1

Please note that issue 5.1 of the peer review International Journal of 
Digital Television is now out (see 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2653/) including 
articles from Toby Miller, Terry Flew, S. Papathanassopoulos, conference 
reports by I. Katsirea and Darcy Gerbarg, three book reviews, a special 
theme on ‘Private TV in Europe’ guest edited by Karen Donders and 
Caroline Pauwels with contributions from Maria Michalis, Tom Evens, Nele 
Simons and others. You may find it of interest.



You are welcome to send me ideas for full articles (6-6,500 words), 
short commentaries (1,500-2,000 words) and conference reports to be 
considered in the journal. The deadline for submitting them for issue 
5.2 is end-June 2014 and for issue 5.3 mid-October 2014.



I have copied and paste below the updated aims and scope of the Journal.



AIMS AND SCOPE

The International Journal of Digital Television aims to describe and 
explain the transition to digital TV and address the social and cultural 
questions surrounding the future of television beyond switchover. The 
Journal brings together, and shares, the work of academics, policymakers 
and practitioners, offering lessons from one another's experience. 
Content is broad and varied, ranging from a mixture of critical work on 
technological, industry and regulatory convergence, to the emerging 
wider socio-cultural and political questions such as audience behaviour, 
plurality of TV channels and television influence. The journal is rooted 
in a belief in the socio-cultural, political and economic importance of 
television and will conceive it as a platform for international and 
interdisciplinary approaches that open up new avenues for theoretically 
driven, historically inclined works that occasionally draw on 
scholarship adapting case studies and comparative analysis. In light of 
these, potential issues to be addressed in future include, among others: 
the extent to which new media developments and changing media 
consumption require changes in regulatory philosophy and business 
practice; the extent to which globalisation, privatisation and 
deregulation alter the creative freedom and public accountability of 
media enterprises; whether digital TV actually increases choice and 
diversity or just offers more of the same and/or recycled programmes; 
concentration of media ownership and its effect on pluralism and 
diversity; national debates about the role of public service 
broadcasting in the digital epoch; comparative analyses of global TV 
formats; television for children; sports programming and televised 
sports rights.



Best regards,



Petros



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Professor Petros Iosifidis | Department of Sociology

City University London | Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB



Editor, International Journal of Digital Television

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=175

Co-Editor, Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business

http://www.palgrave.com/products/SearchResults.aspx?s=GMPB&fid=33375



Phone   +44 (0)20 7040 8538

Email      (P.Iosifidis /at/ city.ac.uk)

Web http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/petros-iosifidis


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