[ecrea] CfP: “Media Policy and Digitalization” workshop @ NoPSA2017

CfP: “Media Policy and Digitalization” workshop at NOPSA 2017

University of Southern Denmark, Odense (DK), August 8-11, 2017

Deadline for abstract: January 15, 2017. Abstracts should be sent 
directly to workshop chair Aske Kammer, (aska /at/ itu.dk) <mailto:(aska /at/ itu.dk)>.


Description:

Media policy constitutes a neglected sub-field of political sciences and 
has, traditionally, been relegated to the realms of media and 
communication studies. However, since it concerns the structures that 
support and regulate democracy, freedom of expression, and public 
participation, and since it is of increasing interest to policy-makers 
on both national and super-national levels, it is an area that could 
also be of interest for the political-science community. This workshop 
proposes an occasion for starting such a conversation and fertilizing 
the ground for increased integration of media policy in the political 
sciences.

Issues of media policy have become pertinent in recent years as 
technological and social development reconfigures the object of this 
policy area. So, the workshop will focus particularly on the challenges 
that digitalization poses to media policy and the questions that it 
raises. These challenges include – but are not limited to – (1) how 
traditional media markets such as broadcasters and the press 
increasingly converge on digital media, challenging the regulatory 
frameworks and subsidy systems put in place by policy-makers; (2) how 
digital intermediaries such as Google and Facebook are central actors in 
citizens’ media use but transgress the tools of the same policy-makers; 
and (3) the extent to which one can even distinguish between “media 
policy” and other policy areas such as cultural policy, policies of 
infrastructure (telecommunications), and trade/business policy.

The workshop will constitute The 2nd European Symposium on Media Policy.



Workshop format:

We emphasize the workshop format of the event, expecting all authors 
with accepted abstract to submit full papers before the workshop (see 
timeline below) and act as designated opponents on other authors’ papers 
(i.e., reading the paper in advance and prepare comments). At the 
workshop, we will have 45-60 minutes for each paper: 20 minutes for 
presentation, 10 minutes for comments from the opponent, and 15-30 
minutes for general discussion. This format should allow for time to 
work in-depth with the paper contributions. The workshop will accept a 
maximum of 15 papers, and we hope to be able to publish the best of them 
as a special issue.



Timeline:

January 15, 2017: Deadline for paper proposals. Proposals should have 
the form of extended abstracts (750 words) and be sent directly to 
workshop chair Aske Kammer ((aska /at/ itu.dk) <mailto:(aska /at/ itu.dk)>)

March 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance

May 15, 2017: Deadline for Early Bird registration

July 15, 2017: Deadline for submission of full papers (send to workshop 
chair Aske Kammer, (aska /at/ itu.dk) <mailto:(aska /at/ itu.dk)>)

August 8-11, 2017: Conference



Workshop leadership:

- Chair: Aske Kammer (The IT University of Copenhagen, (aska /at/ itu.dk) 
<mailto:(aska /at/ itu.dk)><mailto:(aska /at/ itu.dk)>)

- Vice-chair: Vilde Schanke Sundet (Lillehammer University College, 
(Vilde.Schanke.Sundet /at/ hil.no) 
<mailto:(Vilde.Schanke.Sundet /at/ hil.no)><mailto:(Vilde.Schanke.Sundet /at/ hil.no)>)



Venue:

The workshop will be part of the Nordic Political Science Association’s 
(NoPSA) XVIII Political Science Congress, which will be held at the 
Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University 
of Southern Denmark on August 8-11, 2017. For more information, please 
visit http://www.sdu.dk/NOPSA2017.




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