CALL FOR PAPERS - Revista Comunicação e Sociedade, nº 20
Editors: Madalena Oliveira e Pedro Portela
Communication and Society Research Centre
University of Minho ? Portugal
<http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt>http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt
Deadline: April 30, 2011
Radio on the Web Frequency
With more than a century of history and having
been considered the most prominent medium of the
twentieth century, radio has been facing the
challenges of the new media, taking advantage of
technological progress, and adapting itself to
the new ?modes of listening.? The future of
radio, however ? as the future of all classical
media - is in question, due to its vulnerable
position before visual media. In fact, although
from the technological standpoint radio has
retained a certain versatility, it is now faced
with the demands of adapting to the challenges
of cyber culture, where it is in fact embedded.
Actually, reconfiguring the notions of time and
space and being open to interaction, the
Internet and the possibility of audio-on-demand
are, on the one hand, causing audiences?
practices to become more disperse and, on the
other, imposing the reconfiguration of sound
narratives themselves as discursive performances
that consist in reporting an event or a series of events.
A hot medium, in Marshall McLuhan?s words, radio
has always motivated passionate approaches from
professionals, but it is still a poor relative
of media studies. Thus, the objective of this
issue of the journal Comunicação e Sociedade is,
in a certain way, to recognize radio as a still
relevant medium for the construction of the
contemporary imaginary. Therefore, proposals
(essays or empirical studies) are welcome in the following topics:
- The place of radio as a non-visual
medium, in the context of such a culture of images;
- The role of radio in the
construction of the imaginary and of identity;
- The complementariness between Hertzian radio and Web radio;
- The imperatives of market and
economic politics in the radio sector;
- The fragmentation of audiences and
the transformations in radio consumption;
- Audio-on-demand and new non-linear discursive practices;
- Radio genres and the creative power
of sound (e.g., in information, entertainment, advertising);
- Radio and the stimuli to citizenship;
- The role of interactivity in maintaining the relevance of radio.
Other subjectstaking a historical approach, for
examplemight also be elected by authors, as well as book reviews.
Comunicação e Sociedade is a peer-reviewed
journal. Each submitted work is analyzed by two
reviewers who are invited to evaluate it
according to academic quality, originality, and
relevance to the objectives and thematic scope
of this volume. Original texts should be sent in
Microsoft Word format to
<mailto:(cecs /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>(cecs /at/ ics.uminho.pt).
For a message subject, authors should write ?Journal nº 20.?
Editorial rules for electronic submission of
manuscripts are available here (both in Portuguese and in English):
<http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt/upload/docs/revista_com_e_soc_normas_apresentação_originais.pdf>http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt/upload/docs/revista_com_e_soc_normas_apresentação_originais.pdf
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.
Notification of acceptance will be given via e-mail by May 20, 2011.
This issue is expected to be published in autumn of 2011.
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Madalena Oliveira
Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade
Instituto de Ciências Sociais | Universidade do Minho
Communication SciencesDepartment
Communication and Society Research Centre
Institute of Social Sciences | University of Minho
4710-057 Campus de Gualtar - Braga | Portugal
Telefone directo: 253.604295
E-mail: (madalena.oliveira /at/ ics.uminho.pt)
