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[ecrea] Call for Papers for Special Issue of Communication, Culture and Critique to be published in 2010

Tue Feb 24 21:07:24 GMT 2009


Call for Papers for Special Issue of Communication, Culture and Critique to be published in 2010

Topic:   Media Governance: New Policies for Changing Media Landscapes

This call invites submissions for a special issue of Communication, Culture & Critique on Media Governance. This special issue strives to deepen our understanding of media governance, admittedly a somewhat elusive concept, but one that has gained importance over the recent years. Having witnessed a shift from vertical (sector-specific) to horizontal media regulation as well as a transition from national to supra- and international policy(ing), it became clear that (national) legislation is not the only way to protect citizens and the public interest. Used to describe those changing polities, politics and policies, media governance can serve as a tool to analyze media policy from a more inclusive approach. Due to rapidly changing societal and technological contexts, there are good grounds for introducing more flexibility in the regulatory mechanisms aimed at preventing excessive industry control and ensuring pluralism and diversity in converged media platforms. Moreover, the constitutional reasons for a distance between politics and the media, as well as the fact that goals of pluralism and diversity are difficult to enshrine into effective laws, make the change from the State to co-regulation and self-regulation necessary. Therefore, finding the right balance is of paramount importance. Additionally, media governance is sometimes understood as a normative demand for involving civic and professional groups in the process of media regulation and adopting inclusive mechanisms like public hearings.

In this special issue we welcome theoretical and empirical submissions which explore the contours of the multifaceted concept of media governance from different perspectives (economical, societal, political, organizational, journalistic, civil society) and in different geographical and cultural contexts, preferably also with the goal to compare. In this issue it is our intention to redefine the role of media governance as a set of new ways to come to terms with regulatory aspects of issues such as the internet becoming the essential medium encompassing television, information and entertainment, the growing concentration of ownership within and between media at national and global levels or the question whether global public service media are needed as a counterweight to commercial transnational media. Media governance should also be approached as a future-proof tool for the analysis of changing media policy in a changing media landscape, looking at critical issues such as conditions for connecting citizens and ensuring their communication rights beyond business model solutions.

Expressions of interest should be submitted to all guest editors as an e-mail attachment by no later than Friday 17 April, 2009. This should include a 300-500 word abstract, full contact information, and a biographical note (up to 75 words) on each of the authors. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by Friday 29 May 2009 and will then be invited to submit a full paper to the guest editors. Manuscripts should be no longer than 8,000 words, including notes and references, should conform to APA style, and be submitted by October 31, 2009. All papers will be subject to double-blind peer review following submission with no guarantee of eventual publication.

Guest editors:
Leen D?Haenens - (leen.dhaenens /at/ soc.kuleuven.be)
Robin Mansell - (R.E.Mansell /at/ lse.ac.uk)
Katharina Sarikakis ? (k.sarikakis /at/ leeds.ac.uk)


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