[Commlist] CFA Digital audio communication

*CFA Digital audio communication*

*Journal: Profesional de la información (Scopus Q1, WoS Q3)*

*Coordinated by Luis Miguel Pedrero Esteban and Teresa Piñeiro Otero*

*Publication date: September-October 2022*

*Manuscript submission deadline: March 10th, 2022*

In the first months of 2021, the live social audio app Clubhouse became 
a fulgurating global phenomenon. Their success revived the orality 
relevance in the age of convergence (Jenkins, 2006), and promoted 
significant changes in other social platforms.
Despite losing its original popularity, it has made a great impact on an 
increasingly sonorous communicative ecosystem. The popularization of 
podcasts and audiobooks; the multiplication of sound streaming 
platforms; the interconnection between audio devices; and the 
consolidation of voice as a digital connection interface in smart 
assistants and speakers, have positioned the sound as one of the main 
trends in communication.
The diversification of formats and devices, and the confluence between 
media and screens, have created new sound species that provide more 
interactive and immersive experiences. This evolution from sound to 
sound-media requires a reconceptualization of profiles, practices, and 
professional work routines in this communicative ecosystem. At the 
meantime, the diversification of devices, platforms and formats has 
generated new relations between socialization and individualization of 
listening, between large audiences and hyper-segmentation.
Podcasts such as ‘Serial’ (This American Life, 2014-2018) in the United 
States or ‘El gran apagón’ (Podium Podcast, 2016-2018) in Spain reveal 
that exits a captive audience for sound stories, but also a social 
audience with an interest in interacting around those contents. 
Meanwhile, smartphones, tablets and wearables have promoted the 
emergence of personal soundscapes that are redefining our experience of 
space.
The interaction between socialization and individualization of listening 
has grown in strength during Covid-19 pandemic; mobility restrictions 
have been a boost for online audio: while radio has reaffirmed its role 
as an information and entertainment medium, other contents such as 
podcasts and audiobooks have experienced a great expansion even as a 
cultural product. The health crisis has also underlined the urgency of 
defining new business models for audio media.


This monograph invites the submission of research papers of analytical, 
theoretical, methodological or review nature, preferably of 
international scope, around the following axes and lines of research:

Evolution of radio. Adaptation of listening habits, devices, channels, 
and distribution systems. Interactions between online and offline 
broadcasting. New formats and contents. Integration of artificial 
intelligence and other technologies in the radio production and 
broadcasting process.

Podcasting. Products, genres, and formats. Creative and expressive 
innovations. Podcast platforms: effects on production, distribution, 
prescription, and personalization. The podcast as DiY media. Podcast and 
slow journalism.

Sound platforms and music streaming. Editorial and commercial models. 
Curation using algorithms. Impact on the generation and modification of 
tastes and trends.

Business models. Sound contents as part of online broadcasting and 
monetization strategies. Influencers in/of sound communication.

Online radio and audio consumption trends. Audiences and participation.

The production context. Transformations in professional routines. New 
professional profiles. Access and self-mediation of social groups.

Innovative contents. Experiences in the convergence of contents, 
formats, and genres. Segmentation and hyper-specialization. Fiction. 
Documentary. Daily. Online audio as origin and expansion of transmedia 
universes.

Immersive sound experiences. Alternate reality games with sound base. 
Audio games. Mobile urban drama.

Audiobooks. Synthetic voices and content accessibility.Audio branding. 
Branded podcasts. Audio branded content. Corporate radios.

Manuscript submission
If you wish to submit an article, please read carefully the journal’s 
acceptance criteria and rules for authors:
http://www.profesionaldelainformacion.com/authors.html

And then send us your article through the OJS journal manager on:
https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/submissions

IMPORTANT FOR AUTHORS
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https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/user/register

Evaluation
All articles published in EPI are double blind peer reviewed by 2 or 
more members of the international Scientific Committee of the journal, 
and other reviewers, always external to the Editorial Board. The journal 
undertakes to reply with the review results.

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