[ecrea] Call for Manuscripts for Co-Edited Volume on "Ethnic Media in the Digital Era"

Sherry Yu, (sherry.yu /at/ temple.edu) <mailto:(sherry.yu /at/ temple.edu)>; Matthew 
Matsaganis, (mmatsaganis /at/ albany.edu) <mailto:(mmatsaganis /at/ albany.edu)>

Call for Manuscripts for Co-Edited Volume on "Ethnic Media in the 
Digital Era"

ETHNIC MEDIA IN THE DIGITAL ERA

The ethnic media sector is transforming and expanding in the digital 
era. It is a sector in the media industry that has seen considerable 
growth in the past decade, while many mainstream, legacy media have 
struggled to survive or ceased to exist. Ethnic media have gained more 
visibility among not only the larger media industry’s stakeholders 
(including marketing and advertising professionals) but also 
policymakers. This has been especially true in the U.S., but also in 
Canada, Australia, and across the European Union.

A confluence of factors is transforming and expanding this sector, 
including immigration generation shifts among some of the largest ethnic 
populations in immigrant-receiving countries, the increasing visibility 
of hybrid cultural, racial, and ethnic identities, the seemingly 
constant emergence of new media technologies, and the global political 
economy of media industries. New and emerging media projects are 
constantly adding diversity to the ethnic media sector, and 
simultaneously challenging established knowledge and expectations around 
what ethnic media are and what they look like, what roles they perform 
in the lives of their audiences, what the motivations of their producers 
are, what their relationship is with mainstream media, and what 
challenges they face as they strive to become sustainable operations in 
the digital era.

The Internet has challenged, and in many ways fundamentally changed, the 
way that media interact with their audiences, the modes of media 
production and competition, as well as established business models. 
Mainstream media have tried and tested a variety of approaches to 
effectively respond to these challenges and changes, with varying levels 
of success. Their successes and failures have and continue to be 
documented in academic and trade publications.

In contrast, we know less about ethnic media. For several years, 
academics and professionals involved in ethnic media have speculated 
that ethnic media are lagging behind mainstream media with respect to 
adoption of the Internet and the use of related technologies to produce 
and distribute content, communicate with their audiences, and develop 
new revenue streams. Some have argued that this is because ethnic media 
organizations tend to be smaller, local, and often non-profit entities, 
thereby lacking the technological know-how and the human and financial 
resources necessary to create and maintain online content. From a 
different perspective, others suggest that ethnic media may be protected 
from the challenges created by the Internet (e.g., cannibalization of 
offline content, new sources of competition) because, among other 
reasons, they are well-positioned in niche markets to provide valuable 
content, for which other media (traditional and new) cannot provide 
substitutes.

Another source of innovation and change in the ethnic media sector is 
the increasing participation of younger generations in media production, 
which is facilitated, at least partially, by new communication 
technologies. Although many ethnic media are founded by and for 
first-generation immigrants, an increasingly larger number of youth who 
adopt hyphenated and hybrid identities are creating a variety of online 
communicative spaces of their own such as Angry Asian Man and 
Racialicious (U.S.) and Schema Magazine (Canada). However, there is 
scant research on these new media projects.

To begin to address the aforementioned major gaps in the literature, an 
in-depth examination of continuities and changes in the ethnic media 
landscape around the globe in the digital era is necessary.

For this edited volume, the co-editors welcome manuscripts on an array 
of topics, such as:

-Digital divides and ethnic media

-Digital diasporas or cyber ethnic communities

-The impact of the digital revolution in the everyday lives of ethnic 
media audiences

-Youth, cultural/racial/ethnic hybridity, and media consumption and 
production

-Journalism, professional identity, and ethnic media producers

-Media competition and new business models in the digital era

-Ethnic-mainstream or interethnic media relations in the global media 
industries

-Communication policy, media law, and ethnic media in the digital era

-Minority languages, media, and media technologies

-Historical perspectives on technology and ethnic media

Theoretical essays, empirical studies, case studies, and policy-oriented 
scholarship on the abovementioned topics conducted in any geographical 
area of the world are welcomed. Scholarship pertaining to regions of the 
world less studied (e.g., Africa, East and South Asia, Central and South 
America), and that is comparative in nature, is encouraged. Work based 
on any theoretical perspective and methodological framework, and work by 
authors from all disciplines, including media and communication studies, 
journalism, sociology, political science, and economics, will be considered.

Deadline for abstract:

Please indicate interest by submitting a 500-word abstract  as a Word 
document attachment directly to Sherry Yu ((sherry.yu /at/ temple.edu) 
<mailto:(sherry.yu /at/ temple.edu)>) and Matthew Matsaganis 
((mmatsaganis /at/ albany.edu) <mailto:(mmatsaganis /at/ albany.edu)>) by August 31, 2016

Decision:

September 30, 2016

Deadline for full paper:

December 15, 2016

Publication:

Spring 2018

A few words about the Editors:

Sherry S. Yu (PhD, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication) is 
Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism, and a faculty 
member in the Media & Communication doctoral program at Temple 
University. Her research explores cultural diversity and media in 
relation to cultural literacy, civic engagement, and intercultural 
dialogue in a multicultural society, with a specific focus on ethnic 
media, multiculturalism, and transnational migration. Her research has 
been published in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, the Canadian 
Journal of Communication, Canadian Ethnic Studies, and PLATFORM: Journal 
of Media and Communication.

Matthew Matsaganis (PhD, University of Southern California, Annenberg 
School for Communication & Journalism) is Associate Professor in the 
Communication Department, and Affiliate Graduate Faculty in the 
Department of Informatics, at the State University of New York at 
Albany. He is the lead author of Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, 
Consumers and Societies (Sage, 2011). His research addresses issues of 
ethnic media consumption, production and sustainability, the role of 
communication in building community capacity, health disparities and the 
social determinants of health, as well as the social impact of 
technology. His research has been published in Journalism, the 
International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Health 
Communication, the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Human 
Communication Research, the Electronic Journal of Communication, the 
Journal of Information Policy, and the American Behavioral Scientist, 
among other scholarly journals. Matthew is also a recovering print 
journalist. He has worked for a variety of publications in Athens, 
Greece, and New York City.

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Matthew D. Matsaganis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Communication
Faculty Associate, Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities
Faculty Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis
University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
E-mail: (mmatsaganis /at/ albany.edu) <mailto:(mmatsaganis /at/ albany.edu)>
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