[Commlist] Call for Papers: Reappraising Local and Community Media. One-day Conference.

Call for Papers: Reappraising Local and Community Media: practice and 
policy environments.

Organised by: MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network and  MeCCSA 
Policy Network

One-day conference: Coventry University, UK. June 26 2020


The landscape for local and community media is undergoing a period of 
rapid change in the wake of the disruption of traditional business 
models and the advent of diverse, entrepreneurial reactions to the 
spaces created. At the same time this disruption has prompted reflection 
by those within and without the industry as to the impact of these 
changes, and so to the consideration of the purposes of local media. 
Recent policy responses have been explored at the level of a 
Government-initiated review (Cairncross Review, 2019), while the BBC and 
the News Media Association launched their Local Democracy Reporting 
Service in 2017 (an initiative now seeking to expand).


This one-day interactive conference aims to capture the range of 
responses to this challenged environment, how those responses build on 
and diverge from traditional forms of local media, and to consider the 
implications of this to the UK context in which they operate.


The format of the day will bring together academic papers with parallel 
lightening ‘PetchaKucha’ sessions and interactive workshops, designed to 
highlight both areas of developing practice and areas for future 
research. Contributions from practitioners and academics are equally 
invited.


Areas which might be addressed include, but are not limited to, the 
implications of local and community media practices and policies for:

  *

    Local democratic processes

  *

    Social justice

  *

    Information provision

  *

    Local media ecosystems

  *

    Community development

  *

    Government policy – present and future

  *

    The regulatory environment

  *

    Public subsidy

  *

    Media entrepreneurs and emerging business models

  *

    The local media workforce

  *

    Alternative local and community media

  *

    Interventions, including but not limited to, the Local Democracy
    Reporting Service

  *

    Facebook-funded Community News Project, and the Future News Pilot
    Fund (Nesta)

*

The event will be held at Coventry University in the Midlands of the UK 
on June 26, 2020. A

nominal fee of £20 will be charged for attendance. A limited number of 
UK travel grants will

also be available to support presentations by PG/ECR researchers . 
Please state on your abstract

if you would like to be considered for a grant and the amount requested.


Contributions on academic research and practice-based projects are 
welcome. Please state if you are proposing:

  * A conference paper
  * A lightening PetchaKucha provocation
  * An interactive workshop (please state facilitators and goals)
Contributions will be peer-reviewed. Please send an abstract of no more 
than 300 words and a

cover sheet with a brief biographical note, your institutional 
affiliation (where relevant) and your

contact details (including your email address). Abstracts should be sent 
to the MeCCSA Local

and Community Media Network network chair, Rachel Matthews, 
(r.matthews /at/ coventry.ac.uk)

and Policy Network chair, Phil Ramsey, (pt.ramsey /at/ ulster.ac.uk)


Please address any queries to the same addresses in the first instance. 
Closing date for proposals,

March 31, 2020.


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