[ecrea] Baltic Screen Media Review - new issue and CFP

The 2015 issue of Baltic Screen Media Review (BSMR) is published. See
the ToC below. The journal can be now accessed on De Gruyter Open
platform (as an open access journal free to both authors and readers) -
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bsmr.2015.3.issue-1/issue-files/bsmr.2015.3.issue-1.xml

The deadline for papers to be considered for 2016 issue is March 15.Â

CFP: Although we continue accepting articles on a variety of topics
within BSMR’s thematic scope the 2016 issue will have a specific theme
section - “Audiovisual media for neighbouring countries and ethnic
minorities in the Baltic Sea Region”.Â

The theme section is motivated by the current intensification of such
media production in the region. On the one hand there is an increase in
Russian state produced media content being targeted at Russian language
minorities in the countries around the Baltic Sea. On the other hand
these countries themselves have launched new initiatives to service
their own ethnic minorities as well as the minorities in their
neighbouring countries. New content/channels/platforms are developed for
targeting, for instance audiences in Russia, while Nordic countries are
sponsoring Russian language content provision in several ‘border
states’ of Europe (including the three Baltic countries). Majority of
these initiatives are motivated by contemporary complex geopolitics and
security considerations, but also commercial implications have a role -
media institutions looking for new niche audiences in their home
countries and in near abroad. Furthermore, emergent are also the
phenomena of participatory media production across borders, especially
by various diaspora formations. Especially the latter aspects make the
phenomenon of intensifying transborder media flows not only contained in
the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, but also in other countries in the
region. We therefore invite articles that identify and critically
disucss these complex media flows regarding different kinds of media
(linear and non-linear, videogames, etc.), different kinds of producers,
audiences and potential effects. We are interested in a wide discplinary
scope and therefore invite articles building on cultural and media
studies, sociology, political science, international relations, etc.
Articles could touch upon production aspects, audience receptiton as
well as focus on close readings of relevant media texts. The
non-exhaustive list of sub-themes:

- Russian ‘propaganda’ aimed at Baltic Sea Region (BSR)
- Baltic initiatives targeting Russian language media audiences
- Nordic media targeting Baltic audiences
- BSR countries providing media content for their diaspora in
neighbouring countries
- Ethnic minorities in regional TV drama and film (fiction and
documentaries)
- Videogames as regional ‘propaganda’ tool
- Transborder transmedia - multiplatform efforts to connect to ethnic
audiences across national borders in the region
- Regional regulation of transborder television and/or film distribution
- Audience reception of transborder media provision in the BSR
- Management challenges of transborder media provision for ethnic minorities

The editors of the theme section are Indrek Ibrus ((ibrus /at/ tlu.ee)
<mailto:(ibrus /at/ tlu.ee)>) and Andres Jõesaar ((andresj /at/ tlu.ee)
<mailto:(andresj /at/ tlu.ee)>).

TOC (Vol 3, 2015)

ARTICLES

Riho Västrik
Constructing National Identity in Soviet Estonian Documentary Cinema: A
Case Study of the Documentary Ruhnu (1965) by Andres Sööt

Dagmara Rode
Women’s Experimental Filmmaking in Poland in the 1970s and Early 1980s

Jarmo Valkola
Slowly Moving Bodies: Signs of Pictorialism in Aki Kaurismäki’s Films

Emily Schuckman Matthews
Folk Elements in Aleksei Balabanov’s Brat and Brat 2: A Morphological
Analysis

Andres Jõesaar
The Undercurrents of Estonian Broadcasting Regulation, 1992–2014

COMMENTARIES

Indrek Ibrus
Audiovisual Policymaking at Times of Convergence: An ‘Innovation
System’ as a Policy Rationale

BOOK REVIEWS

Reviewed by Karlo Funk
Jan Erik Holst (Ed.), Stork Flying over Pinewood: Nordic-Baltic Film
Cooperation 1989-2014

Reviewed by Nicola Dusi
Maarja Ojamaa, The Transmedial Aspect of Cultural Autocommunication

Reviewed by Maarja Ojamaa
Jarmo Valkola, Filmi audiovisuaalne keel [Audiovisual Language of Cinema]



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Dr. Indrek Ibrus
Associate Professor, Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School,
Tallinn University
Head of MEDIT (Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media
Innovation and Digital Culture)
Tel: +37256978885
Email: (indrek.ibrus /at/ tlu.ee) <mailto:(ibrus /at/ tlu.ee)>


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