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Media and Communication (open access journal)

Special issue on Central and Eastern European media
http://cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/specialissues#CEEmedia

*Title:* Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media: 
Perspectives of the Past, Present and Future

*Guest Editor:*
Professor Epp Lauk
Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; E-Mail: 
(epp.lauk /at/ jyu.fi) <mailto:(epp.lauk /at/ jyu.fi)>

*Deadline for Abstracts:* 1 March 2015
*Deadline for Submissions:* 31 May 2015
*Publication of the Special Issue:* December 2015

*Information*: Since the collapse of communism in Europe, 18 countries 
in Central and Eastern Europe have been going through the turmoil of 
societal changes that coincided with the digital revolution and the 
overall globalization of the media in the 1990s. They have experienced 
the acceleration of mediatization of society and politics, 
commercialization of media and journalism and a change of professional 
values and the emergence and rapid spread of the social media in the 
2000s and 2010s. Earlier research both in the CEE countries and 
elsewhere has brought forth various 'deviances' in the development of 
their media and journalisms compared to the western normative models. 
These have often been interpreted as failures of western concepts of 
democratization and professionalization of media in the region. These 
phenomena can, however, be also seen as specificities of the 
democratization process in these countries, induced by particular 
cultural and historical circumstances. The special issue is looking for 
contributions focusing on the pivotal (problematic, controversial) 
issues and moments in the development of the CEE media and societies, 
and what messages they carry for the rest of Europe.

We especially welcome contributions discussing (from a comparative 
perspective):
- the practices of media ethics and accountability within the context of 
social media powered news ecosystem;
- the role of cultural and historical phenomena in forming particular 
patterns of media environment and behavior of media professionals;
- the trajectories of media policy and regulation;
- the prospects of social media as an emerging 'Fifth Estate' within the 
power structures of CEE societies;
- the current state and the potential of media literacy;
- the promising paths of future research on media and journalism in the 
region;
- the reappraisal of the normative professional model of journalism and 
openings of new theoretical approaches.

*Keywords:* Central and Eastern Europe; CEE media; culture; history; 
journalism; media ethics; media policy and regulation; media professionals

*Instructions for Authors:* Authors interested in submitting a paper to 
this Special Issue are kindly asked to carefully read the Instructions 
for Authors of the journal and send their abstracts by email to Mr. 
António Vieira ((antonio.vieira /at/ cogitatiopress.com) 
<mailto:(antonio.vieira /at/ cogitatiopress.com)>) by 1 March 2015.

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