[ecrea] Cfp - Cross-media production and audience involvement

COST Action (ISO906) “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”

CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal /Participations /(www.participations.org
<http://www.participations.org>)
Special issue on* “Cross-media production and audience involvement”

*Special issue overview*

The new media ecosystem works with key notions such as cooperation,
interactivity, convergence or multiplatform contents. Under this scene,
Social Media are moving faster than cultural industries and media are
looking for ways to renew the links with audiences to improve their
products and storytelling formats, for instance, with cross-media
strategies and deeper integration with social networks.

Consumer routines in relation to media have changed in many different
ways: TV series and characters are interacting on Twitter, reality and
fiction becomes even more blurred; programs are made and improved with
User Generated Content which has become widespread thanks to social
networks like Facebook or the Blogosphere; the journalistic everyday
agenda is altered by citizenship´s media and social filters on the Web;
and cultural industries –like journalism- are looking for innovations
through viral campaigns and a increasing interactivity and engagement
with audiences. All these processes are just a few examples on how the
new paradigm can be described with two principles: cross-media
production and audience involvement.

We invite submissions on the following (often overlapping) themes:

- Audience involvement in multiplatform, networked media environment:
How audiences engage (select, edit, archive, share etc.) with media
products and messages? Do they merge user-generated content with
cultural industries’ content? Do they “convert” media content into the
networked and mobile environment? Etc.
- Audience response to cultural industries’ cross-media strategies: How
audiences deal with cross-media and transmedia content? Do they engage
with media narration through social networks and social media? Do they
follow News content or media content through different branded media
platform? Etc.
- We also welcome mainly theoretical or methodological papers facing the
new issues posed to academic studies by cross-media production and
audience involvement.

*Selection process*

The selection process for contribution will be twofold:
Papers will be reviewed by the editors (of the special issue) according
to the following criteria: (1) scientific quality, (2) relevance and
originality of the approach, (3) contribution to theory, (4)
appropriateness of methodology and (5) appropriateness of articles for
the special issue. When selected at the first stage, authors will be
invited to contribute full articles to the special issue but please keep
in mind that the special issue will be peer reviewed by external
reviewers and thus it cannot be guaranteed that all selected articles
will be published. Moreover, articles should be in good English,
otherwise they cannot be reviewed.

*Deadlines*

- January 30, 2012 - Submission abstract
- February 7, 2012 - Notice of acceptance of abstract to authors
- March 28, 2012 - Submission of full draft papers
- June 15, 2012 - Deadline for full articles
- June 29, 2012 – Notice of acceptance (then goes to external reviewers)
- End of August, 2012 - End of peer review process (Notice of acceptance
or not / Instructions for modifications)
- October 1, 2012 - Deadline for the final version
- September/October 2012 Final proof reading process
- November 2012 Publication Special Issue

*Submission*

Check carefully the full calendar of headlines and if you are interested
send your proposal to the editors Jose Manuel Noguera, Melanie Bourdaa
and Francesca Pasquali. Submissions (as Word attachments) should contain
a page with the title of the presentation, the name of the issue
("Cross-media production and audience involvement"), and the name(s) and
contact details for ALL authors. For submission guidelines and rules for
authors please visit:
http://www.participations.org/submission_guidelines.htm

Please make sure to use the following subject line in the email: “COST -
special issue TF4”

*Editors*

José Manuel Noguera: (jmnoguera /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(jmnoguera /at/ gmail.com)>
Melanie Bourdaa: (melaniebourdaa /at/ yahoo.fr) <mailto:(melaniebourdaa /at/ yahoo.fr)>
Francesca Pasquali: (francesca.pasquali /at/ unibg.it)
<mailto:(francesca.pasquali /at/ unibg.it)>


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