[Commlist] Call for articles: Media Studies in a Nordic Context

*Call for articles:
*Media Studies in a Nordic Context

Call for articles for the 2020 issue of /Nordic Journal of Media Studies/


Which topics would a journal called/Nordic Journal of Media Studies 
/address in a global, interconnected and postcolonial world of rapidly 
changing media systems and user patterns?

With this question we want to invite articles on the state of the art of 
media research, on the relation between the regional and the global, and 
on what is Nordic and what is not. Is there a specific Nordic 
perspective in media research? What would be the scholarly advantages of 
pursuing a question like this – and what would be the challenges? In 
which ways do questions of the regional – and national – contribute to 
our understanding of global media? And vice versa.

Traditionally, a range of cultural and societal features are attributed 
to the Nordic countries: the welfare state, and its welfare media state 
– public service, state support of film production, subsidies for print 
journalism – the high penetration of digital media, the Nordic countries 
traditionally high level of news readership, etc. But while there are 
specificities to the Nordic media system, is there a corresponding 
perspective or media theoretical approach that can be called Nordic? Is 
this question at all meaningful?

We invite scholars of different nationalities around the world to 
address these questions in*short articles of 3-4,000 words*. The 
articles can be descriptive, analytical as well as normative, and can 
relate to for example but not exclusively the following topics:

  * Media studies in a global world, focuses and pitfalls
  * The Nordic media welfare state
  * Is there a Nordic media system?
  * Are there empirical specificities in the Nordic countries that
    challenge international media theory?
  * Is there such a thing as a Nordic theoretical approach?
  * The history of Nordic media research
  * Small nations and the media
  * Diversity and media in a Nordic media systemic context
  * Gender equality and media in a Nordic context
  * Media literacy and the Nordic public school systems, challenges and
    possibilities
  * International media interests in the Nordic countries – which, how
    and why
  * Regulation policies in a Nordic and European perspective
  * Small geographies, local content in an era of globalization

Abstracts (300-400 words) should be sent to issue editors, Professor 
Göran Bolin, Södertörn University ((goran.bolin /at/ sh.se) 
<mailto:(goran.bolin /at/ sh.se)>) and Professor Anne Jerslev, University of 
Copenhagen ((jerslev /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(jerslev /at/ hum.ku.dk)>)*no later than 
26 April.*

**

*About the journal*

/Nordic Journal of Media Studies/ 
<https://nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/nordic-journal-media-studies>is 
published once a year and each volume focuses on a particular theme. All 
submitted articles are subject to double-blind peer review by two 
external reviewers./Nordic Journal of Media Studies /is a digital-only 
open access journal published by Nordicom. The publication of the 
journal is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

View this CFP on Nordicom’s website: 
https://nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-articles-media-studies-nordic-context


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