[Commlist] Special issue - (OJCMT) | Discussing local and community media

*Call for papers*

*Special issue - Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 
(OJCMT)*

*Discussing local and community media: positive experiences and impacts 
on societies*

*Editors: *

*Fábio Ribeiro*

University of Trás-os Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) – Portugal

Communication & Society Research Centre – University of Minho (Portugal)

(fabior /at/ utad.pt) <mailto:(fabior /at/ utad.pt)>

*Luís Bonixe*

Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre – Portugal

ICNOVA – Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal)

(luisbonixe /at/ ipportalegre.pt) <mailto:(luisbonixe /at/ ipportalegre.pt)>

As Bob Franklin (1998) put forward in his book Local Media, academic 
appraisals of the local and regional media typically emphasise the 
declining number of local papers, their diminishing readerships and 
circulations, constant monopolies that tend to centralise media 
productions in large regional centres. Globalization, funding models 
(commercial, public or independent/grassroots), the insufficiency of 
human resources are often regarded by academics in this area. In his 
iconic Local Radio, Going Global, Guy Starkey (2011) enthusiastically 
defined local radio as “the sleeping giant”, baffled with concentration 
models and repressions, but still resisting: “a world-wide phenomenon”, 
Starkey asserted.

This special issue of The Online Journal of Communication and Media 
Technologies (OJCMT) intends to contribute for a systematic review of 
worldwide experiences regarding the social, cultural, political impacts 
of local and community media within societies. In addition, it does not 
intend to romanticize these media, but rather a positive and empirical 
approach of experiences, examples of how local media engage with 
societies: what kind of experiences are being followed to involve local 
audiences? Is it possible to identify several key aspects to be define a 
valuable engagement with those communities?.

Taking this context as an inspiration, editors welcome all articles 
focusing the following range set of topics, not excluding other suitable 
ones:

  * Citizens’ participation in the local/community media
  * Economic models and audiences
  * Journalism and audiences
  * Community representations in local/community media
  * Heritage/historical preservation
  * Memory and local media
  * Politics in a local/community media framework
  * Rural ramifications of local media
  * Hyperlocal media
  * Local/community audiences and social networks.

*Important dates:*

Start submission: May 1, 2020

Manuscript Due:  September 30, 2020

Double blind reviewing process: from October 1, 2020 to November 30, 2020

Authors’ notification towards decision: December 1, 2020

Authors’ final versions: until December 31, 2020

Editor’s final checks: from January 2021 to February 2021

Publication: March 2021

*Submissions: *To submit your manuscripts, go to 
https://www.editorialpark.com/ojcmtand select special issue "Discussing 
local and community media: positive experiences and impacts on societies".

*About the journal:*

The Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies (OJCMT) is an 
international open access journal, rigorously peer-reviewed journal in 
the field of Communication and its related fields. OJCMT is interested 
in research not only on Theory and Practice of Communication and Media 
Studies but also new trends and developments, Communication in 
Education, Visual Communication and Design, Integrated Marketing 
Communication and Advertising.

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