[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (Special Issue: ‘Digital Media, Public Policy and the Implementation of the Revised AVMSD’)

*Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy *


Special Issue: ‘Digital Media, Public Policy and the Implementation of 
the Revised AVMSD’


*Deadlines *


• abstracts of 400 words to be received by Friday 31 October 2020;

• full manuscripts of 6–8,000 words, including references, by Monday 15 
March 2021 in order to be sent for peer review;

• peer-reviewed manuscripts will need to be with the Guest Editors by 
Monday 31 May 2021;

• final decisions/papers to be sent to the publisher by Wednesday 30 
June 2021;

• we will also consider short reports/commentaries with a policy focus 
of between 1,500-2,000 words.


All submissions should be directed to the guest editors Sally Broughton 
Micova (University of East Anglia, (s.broughton-micova /at/ uea.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(s.broughton-micova /at/ uea.ac.uk)>) and Krisztina Rozgonyi 
(University of Vienna, (krisztina.rozgonyi /at/ univie.ac.at) 
<mailto:(krisztina.rozgonyi /at/ univie.ac.at)>).


The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is the centrepiece of 
media policy in the European Union. It sets the foundations of 
regulating broadcast media without frontiers. Over multiple revisions in 
the last two decades it was gradually extended, first to on-demand 
audiovisual services and most recently to video sharing platforms 
dealing in user-generated content. This policy journey was a remarkable 
one, characterized by the careful balancing of economic and cultural 
policy objectives and various policy innovations. It has resulted in an 
enlightenment amongst member states with media markets suffering from 
oppressive and politically driven regulatory regimes, but it has also 
taken a heavy toll on smaller markets distressed by major transnational 
audiovisual content providers.


The revised AVMSD adopted in late 2018 promised to create a more level 
playing field for European media outlets competing with US-based tech 
giants and fighting for shrinking sources of income and increasingly 
fragmented audiences. The deadline for national transposition is 19 
September 2020. Whether and how all member states meet this deadline 
given the COVID-19 related consequences on legislative processes raises 
several issues. Legal and policy scholars are dealing with challenging 
questions about the wide-reaching impact of entering a new phase of 
regulation and the next level of media governance, while old problems 
were still dragging along without due response.


This special issue considers the numerous questions and challenges 
arising in the implementation of the AVMSD in the context of the role of 
European policy in a global digital media environment. It will bring 
together scholars of communication and media, law, economics, policy and 
technology to answer some of these questions and debate the limits and 
potential of the AVMSD’s novelties.


*Therefore, contributors are invited to address issues such as: *


1.the fate and function of the country of origin principle, particularly 
in light of some efforts to re-nationalize speech regulation and the 
implications of applying the principle to global platform-owning companies;


2.the ‘level playing field’, both as a policy aim and as a condition of 
competition in the market for audiences and advertising, considering 
both societal and economic concerns;


3.the allocation of responsibility to video sharing platforms without 
eroding exemption from liability and the wider consequences of this 
policy innovation;


4.the design of co- and self-regulatory models for video-sharing platforms;


5.the increased obligations on video-on-demand services in relation to 
European works, especially from the perspective of smaller national markets;


6.the expectations of independence of audiovisual regulators and 
potential for regulatory cooperation, particularly given the challenges 
facing some ‘troubled’ national regulators;


7. implications for future public policy, such as the impact of Brexit 
and interaction with the proposed for a Digital Single Act: overlapping 
competencies, competing policy objectives.



To download the full CFP, click here >> 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/51563/1/CfP_JDMP_Revised_AVMSD_2020.pdf 


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