[Commlist] Call for Papers: Behind the Paywall

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access)*

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*Title:* ‘Behind the Paywall: Implications of the Budding Market for 
Paid-for Online News’​.
*Special issue editors:*Aske Kammer (IT-University of Copenhagen), 
Carl-Gustav Lindén (University of Helsinki), Jonas Ohlsson (Nordicom) 
and Helle Sjøvaag (University of Stavanger).
*Deadline for full paper submissions*: May 31, 2019

*The past few years have seen a dramatic upsurge in paywalls*being 
erected across the news media landscape. Online news content that was 
previously circulated for free is now available only to those who are 
willing to pay for it. The paywalls are an industry response to two 
interacting market forces: the gradual decline in printed newspaper 
sales and the increasing dominance of global networking platforms such 
as Google and Facebook on national and local advertising markets. In 
order for commercially funded news media outlets to survive, online 
audience revenue seems to be the most viable way forward.

*The implications of what appears to be a fundamental shift*from 
“free-for-all” to “subscribers-only” access to online news, are 
plentiful. As a research area, it raises important questions regarding 
such diverse topics as digital business models and digital media policy, 
journalistic processes and journalistic content, news media audiences 
and news media use, and – indeed – the democratic function of commercial 
news media at large. What happens with news media products and what 
happens with news media audiences when paywalls are erected? What 
happens with those that chose not to pay? And how does this 
metamorphosis of the private news media sector affect the role and scope 
of public service media?

*Against the backdrop of these rather fundamental questions*, Nordicom 
invites the international research community to submit articles to a 
special issue of /Nordicom Review/ devoted to the implications of online 
news media paywalls.

*The special issue will have an inter-disciplinary scope*and the editors 
welcome contributions on themes including, but not limited to:

  * Newsroom organization, newsroom processes and editorial
    decision-making in a paywall environment
  * Strategies on converting print subscribers to digital subscribers
  * Policy approaches to advancing online business models for commercial
    news media
  * Digital business models for commercial news media
  * Paywall solutions and pricing
  * Comparisons of paid-for news media and ad-financed news media
  * News audience analyses
  * News content analyses
  * The impact of user-data in paywall setups
  * The paywall phenomenon in relation to democratic theory
  * Comparisons between reader-financed and ad-financed news

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*The deadline for full paper submissions is on May 31, 2019.*All 
manuscripts should be submitted to (editors /at/ nordicom.gu.se) 
<mailto:(editors /at/ nordicom.gu.se)>. The preliminary time of publication is 
Winter 2019/2020. /Nordicom Review /adheres to a double-blind reviewing 
policy.


*Submission guidelines *
Download the submission guidelines 
<http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/bilder/submission_guidelines_paywall_2019.pdf>(PDF) 



*About*/Nordicom Review/**
/Nordicom Review/is an international peer-reviewed open access journal 
published by Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and 
Communication Research) at the University of Gothenburg. The publication 
of /Nordicom Review/is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. 
/Nordicom Review///is indexed by SCOPUS. For more information, please 
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*Contact *
Jonas Ohlsson, PhD, assoc. professor
Editor-in-chief, Nordicom Review
Director, Nordicom
(Jonas.ohlsson /at/ nordicom.gu.se) <mailto:(Jonas.ohlsson /at/ nordicom.gu.se)>
+46 31 786 6125


View this CFP on Nordicom’s website: 
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/call-papers-nordicom-review-special-issue-2

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NORDICOM

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