[ecrea] Call for Papers IAMCR WG on European Public Broadcasting Policies

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (IAMCR)

28TH ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE, JULY 18 ? 22, 2010
BRAGA, PORTUGAL

THEME: COMMUNICATION AND CITIZENSHIP:
RETHINKING CRISIS AND CHANGE

Working Group on European Public Broadcasting Policies

SERVING THE CITIZEN

Public Service Broadcasting and Civil Society



Call for Papers


Convenors: Jo Bardoel, ASCoR, University of 
Amsterdam/Radboud University Nijmegen & Leen 
d?Haenens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

The topic of the 2010 working group on European 
broadcasting policies is closely related to the 
overall theme of the IAMCR conference in Braga. 
The 2010 IAMCR conference aims at ?interrogating 
emergent models of communication, and opening up 
innovative debates on mechanisms for empowering 
citizenship and participation. Creative and 
alternative thinking on old and new dimensions of 
social participation is expected to shed light on 
contemporary uncertainties and deadlocks.?

Twenty years after the introduction of the first 
EU Directive Television without Frontiers and 
notwithstanding the fundamental technological and 
ideological transformations that accompanied it, 
the position of public service broadcasters is 
still quite prominent throughout European member 
states. At the same time, immense technological, 
socio-political and budgetary challenges lie 
ahead. Defining their future positions and roles 
in their respective societies will be dependent 
upon European PSB?s ability to serve the citizen 
in new ways on a variety of platforms.

In this context we suggest the following topics:
-      PSB beyond paternalism: how to relate to a 
new, more individualized and critical citizenry;
-      Public Service Media strategies: multi- 
and cross-media strategies in order to ?follow the public wherever it is?;
-      European Broadcast Policies between market 
and culture: the new EU Broadcast Communication 2009;
-      Dealing with crisis and change: PSB 
strategies in response to technological changes 
and ideological transformations in society;
-      Rethinking/-vitalizing PSB as a concept 
and an institution: distinctiveness, 
accountability strategies, new modes of governing 
and funding public service content.


Although our Working Group is focused on European 
Public Broadcasting Policies, academics from 
non-European countries are explicitly invited to submit paper abstracts.

Abstracts should be sent to our Working Group 
through the conference website: 
<http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com/>http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com/ 
and should be between 300 and 500 words long. 
Each abstract must include name, affiliation, 
institutional address and the e-mail address of the author(s).


The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 
31, 2010; by March, 15 we will communicate the 
outcome of the abstracts selection process. The 
deadline for the full text of accepted papers is 
April 30, 2010, to be submitted preferably in MS Word format.
Our adresses:
Jo Bardoel, ASCor/University of Amsterdam, 
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 
E-mail: <mailto:(j.l.h.bardoel /at/ uva.nl)>(j.l.h.bardoel /at/ uva.nl)

Leen d?Haenens, Catholic University of Leuven, 
Belgium, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
E-mail: <mailto:(leen.dhaenens /at/ soc.kuleuven.be)>(leen.dhaenens /at/ soc.kuleuven.be)


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