[ecrea] CFP: Funding and Media Management in the Convergence Era

International Journal on Media Management
Special Issue Call For Papers:
Funding and Media Management in the Convergence Era
Deadline: October 15 2016
Guest Editor: Matthew Freeman, Bath Spa University
Editor-in-Chief: Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University

Media convergence has been mapped from a variety of perspectives, with 
scholars tracing the impact of digital convergence on everything from 
texts to consumption. Yet few have examined how the rise of a convergent 
media landscape is impacting funding mechanisms in and across 
contemporary media industries. It is an important time to take stock of 
such a relationship, since recent public and scholarly debates over 
funding in the global media industries seem inextricably tied to 
digitalization, which continues to transform how media is now produced 
and consumed. As such, basic business models for funding media are 
changing too. Digital convergence has brought an increased connectivity 
and hybridity between producers, audiences and media platforms. Trends 
such as crowdfunding, co-creation (where producers and audiences share 
responsibility for financing media) and even subscription-based 
platforms like Netflix and video-on-demand services such as iTunes all 
share these characteristics of connectivity and hybridity that are 
emblematic of convergence.
This special issue aims to showcase research that examines the impact of 
convergence on funding and media management questions; that interrogates 
relationships between the digital, the funding of media, and the 
transformations emerging in production, distribution and consumption; or 
that explores the broader implications of a media culture that is more 
sharable, hybridized and connected on traditional funding models.
Specific areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not 
limited to:

     Shifts in power structures from corporate-driven to 
consumer-driven and its impact on the type of media being financed in 
contemporary creative sectors
     Digitized interfaces and shifts in funding patterns and creative 
imperatives
     Transmedia and the relationship between spreadable content and funding
     Entrepreneurship in the media and turns toward co-creativity as 
funding

We also welcome research that examines more specific media industries:

     Film funding, including Hollywood franchise models of financing 
and crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter
     Television funding, including subscription services such as 
Netflix and impacts of digital convergence on public service 
broadcasting/license fees
     Videogame funding, including social media gaming production
     Comics and book funding, including motion comics and online publishing
     Music funding, including live-touring, streaming and downloading 
platforms

Submission Instructions
If authors have any questions regarding the suitability of their work 
for this special issue, whether topical or methodological, they should 
not hesitate to contact guest editor Matthew Freeman at 
(m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk), or journal editor-in-chief Bozena Mierzejewska 
at (jmm-journal /at/ unisg.ch).
Articles will be evaluated on their general merit, contribution to new 
knowledge, and relevance to the topic “Funding and Media Management in 
the Convergence Era”. Manuscripts that meet the scope of this special 
issue will be peer-reviewed by two to three reviewers. All submissions 
must conform to academic standards, be original, and not be published 
nor under review elsewhere. Submissions must be in English and should be 
no longer than 6,000 words.
Articles must be submitted via the electronic submission system at: 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hijm.
Detailed publication guidelines are available here: 
http://www.mediajournal.org/index.php/jmm/about/submissions#authorGuidelines 
and here: 
http://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=hijm20&page=instructions
International Journal on Media Management: 
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/hijm_cfp_special_issue_convergenceera
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