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[ecrea] CfP Media Democratization: Media Systems Twenty Five Years after the Revolutions of 1989

Tue Jun 10 23:41:10 GMT 2014






www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr



CALL FOR PAPERS



Media Democratization: Media Systems Twenty Five Years after the Revolutions of 1989



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



Edited by Monika Metykova (University of Sussex, UK) and Lenka Waschková Císarová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic).



Following the fall of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s much scholarly attention has focused on exploring the so-called transition to democracy and particularly the role of media in it. The establishment of democratic governments and the free market were considered key aspects of the transition. However, scholarly interest in media democratization in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc largely disappeared by the mid-2000s when some of these countries joined the NATO and the European Union. The literature becomes scarcer and also more specialized, with little attention paid to the complexity of issues within the frameworks of individual nation states while at the same time on the ground in these countries we find instances that question the extent to which media fulfil their democratic roles. The special issue will be focused on various aspects of media democratization in transitive media systems.



Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

•       media and democracy

• media independence, particularly from political and economic influences

•       public service media

•       media ownership

•       media legislation

•       plurality of contents in the media

•       journalism culture

•       journalists’ professionalization

•       developments in online journalism

•       local journalism and civic engagement



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 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The articles should not be published before (neither partially nor completely), nor currently be considered for publication by any other journal or book, nor should the submissions be a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 in 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) to the guest editors and please make sure that it addresses the theoretical framework, method and (preliminary) conclusions. The deadline for abstracts is 15 July 2014 and authors will be notified by 1 August 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 15 December 2014.



Please send your abstract or questions to the guest editors:

Monika Metyková (monikametykova /at/ googlemail.com)

Lenka Waschková Císarová (waschkova.cisarova /at/ gmail.com)


Dr. Monika Metykova
School of Media, Film and Music
Silverstone Building Room 304
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH

Tel. +44 1273 877387

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