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

*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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