[ecrea] Call for Papers: JDM - JOURNALISM AND MOBILE DEVICES

Call for papers for International Congress
*/JDM - JOURNALISM AND MOBILE DEVICES/*

*/Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal), 15-16 November 2012/*

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The media ecosystem is constantly changing due to the complex process of 
convergence that currently takes place. Jenkins (2006)states that this 
convergence occurs in four areas (content, technology, business models 
and professional activity) and is characterized by the existence of 
multimedia content, intermedia collaboration and audiences behavior 
search for personal interest content. In this conference we are 
interested in contents specifically intended for mobile devices like 
smartphones, tablets and tabphones.

The growing penetration of mobile broadband (3G/4G) and the reported 
increase in smartphones and tablets sales created an alternative channel 
for news distribution: the mobile devices. Aguado (2009) believes that 
the emergence of this fourth screen - after the film, television and 
computer - represents a business opportunity for media companies, seeing 
these devices an alternative to the traditional distribution of 
journalistic information. This new "push" media ecosystem (Fidalgo, 
2009) is characterized by a change: news are searching for the consumers 
and not the opposite. This change immediately implies us to rethink the 
news delivering system.

*Theme 1: How do mobile devices affect the traditional forms of 
delivering news?*

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Mobile devices are an excellent reception platform due to its ability to 
receive multimedia information, but also because their characteristics - 
such as portability and ubiquity -- that enable a global and 
personalized distribution of information. Tom Ahonen (2009) stresses the 
business side of this new medium that allows for effective market 
segmentation and target audience. Mobile users are a group who is 
already accustomed to paying for

access to content (ringtones, music, news alerts, apps). This creates 
conditions for the emergence of a new market that has experienced a 
remarkable success, especially in the field of native applications 
(apps). The app economy has grown exponentially and, in 2011, the online 
markets - iTunes, Android Market, WP7Market Place, OVI and BB App Store 
- generated about 15 billion dollars.



*Theme 2: The app economy can be an alternative to selling content?*

But the technical conditions are not enough for this market to become a 
reality. According to Nielsen (2010), micro-payments (52%) and simpler 
and safer payment systems (43%) are crucial to get consumers to pay for 
content access, however this only happens if the news have better 
quality than the current (71%) and exploit the devices technical

capabilities such as multimediality, hypertextuality, interactivity, 
personalization, ubiquity, immediacy and memory . Innovation and keeping 
up with technology trends is crucial to improve the quality of content, 
responding to consumer expectations Kaye & Quinn (2010). This leads us 
to the third question:



*Theme 3: Is there a new journalistic language and new journalistic 
genres for these devices?*

This set of questions summarizes the theme of this congress. We are 
interested in texts that:

a) help us to understand how media companies are taking advantage of 
this new ecosystem characterized by a mobile and personal reception;
b) reports experiences in the development of specific languages and 
formats to these platforms;
 c) case studies related to the development of apps news;
d) data analysis related to the distribution of apps and studies of 
economic models used by companies.

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*Abstracts submission:* until June 30, 2012
*Acceptance notification*: July 25, 2012
*Paper submission*: September 30, 2012

*Website*: www.jdm.ubi.pt <http://www.jdm.ubi.pt>

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*Final notes:*
Papers should follow the APA rules can be written in Portuguese, Spanish 
or English.
Accepted papers will be published in the book "Journalism for mobile 
devices" (2013)
There is no conference fee.

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João Canavilhas
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Director do Mestrado em Jornalismo 
<https://www.ubi.pt/Curso.aspx?CodigoCurso=873>
Subdirector do Labcom <http://www.labcom.pt>
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