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[ecrea] CFP Media Information Australia (Sage) - Published in May 2017 - Children's Television in Transition

Fri May 27 20:55:26 GMT 2016







*Call for Papers*

*/MIA/** no. 163 (May 2017)*

*Children’s Television in Transition: Policies, Platforms and Production*

*Theme Editors: Anna Potter and Jeanette Steemers*

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*Abstracts (300 words) are due by 30 June 2016.*

*Full articles (5000 words maximum) will need to be submitted by _31 August 2016_.*

Children’s television has recently undergone a period of rapid technological, regulatory and economic change and is subject to powerful globalising forces. Despite the proliferation in children’s media offerings facilitated by the Internet, television remains the dominant medium, central to children’s lives all over the world. However, the child audience has, like all media audiences, become more active; platform-agnostic children are accustomed to watching television on demand and on the move.

Within this transforming landscape, children’s television is now produced and distributed through complex processes in a globalised media environment characterised by convergence and multi-platform delivery. Digital regimes heralded the opening up of national markets for children’s media in the early 2000s, accompanied by increasingly concentrated, vertically integrated, transnational ownership structures in media industries. Yet within policy circles locally produced children’s television retains its importance with its perceived contribution to national cultural representation often used to justify financial and policy supports for the genre.

This support for homegrown children’s content for sustaining citizenship and representing a nation in all its diversity, stands in contrast to the growing multiplicity of mainly commercial providers whose content can be distributed seamlessly across national borders. The arrival of services like Netflix and Amazon and a dedicated YouTube children’s app have further complicated the global production ecology, increasing the transnational nature of children’s screen offerings.

These transformations offer myriad areas of investigation for researchers, particularly as broadcasters, service providers, producers and other stakeholders attempt to formulate policy responses that take into account children’s changing consumption patterns, ever greater financial pressures on local content, and the advance of new transnational players in the market place.

We invite original submissions from a range of disciplinary perspectives including (but not limited to) media studies, cultural studies, production studies, film and television studies, sociology and cultural geography . We particularly encourage studies of children’s television outside the Australian context, or in a transnational setting.

*Abstracts (300 words) are due by 30 June 2016.*

*Full articles (5000 words maximum) will need to be submitted by _31 August 2016_.*

*Abstracts and queries should be sent to Anna Potter at:
(apotter /at/ usc.edu.au) <mailto:(apotter /at/ usc.edu.au)>*

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