[ecrea] Cfp ECREA Radio Research Section Conference, LONDON 11-13 September2013

Conference Call for Papers



RADIO RESEARCH 2013: Radio, the resilient medium.



11-13 September 2013



London, UK



The next conference of the Radio Research Section of ECREA will be held 
at the LONDON campus of the University of Sunderland, from 11-13 
September 2013. The venue is a bright, modern building with excellent 
lecture theatres and seminar rooms for plenary and panel sessions. 
There, the Gateway provides a pleasant and relaxing yet stimulating 
conference 'hub' for registration, refreshment, networking and 
communication. The campus is located two minutes walk from the South 
Quay station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), which is just 15 
minutes from Bank station and the rest of the London Underground 
network. There are a wide range of hotels, restaurants and bars within 
easy travelling distance to suit every budget, and South Quay is just 
seven minutes from the historical and cultural site of the former 
seagoing vessel Cutty Sark, now located in Greenwich beside the Royal 
Observatory and the River Thames.



Conference theme

Radio is a resilient medium. As in different countries around the world 
celebrations have already begun to mark the ninetieth anniversaries of 
the first regular domestic radio services, predictions of its demise 
have so far been proven wrong. Again, dire warnings have suggested that 
radio is an 'old' medium which cannot withstand the increased 
competition from 'new' media that advances in technology have brought. 
Radio transmission remains overwhelmingly analogue in a world where 
digital switchover of television preoccupies many governments and 
audiences alike.

Radio Research 2013 aims to explore the many ways in which the medium of 
radio is proving once again to be resilient in ways which could not have 
been predicted even a short time ago. In some markets, radio listening 
is being recorded at record levels, partly due to its relatively recent 
emergence on a wide variety of new and established platforms, such as 
social networking sites, mobile phones, tablets, the internet and 
television EPGs. Production practices are now firmly situated in the 
digital domain, and producers benefit from greater studio-quality access 
to a wider variety of contributors and locations. Economic and corporate 
pressures are disrupting old certainties about the provenance of 
programming, as local stations become quasi-national ones. New forms of 
user-generated content appear in traditional radio genres, while à la 
carte and diasporic listening brings remote and specialised radio 
stations to international audiences where once only medium and short 
wave transmissions significantly disrupted geographical, political and 
socio-economic boundaries to the dissemination of news and information 
and to human cultural interaction.

Out of change has emerged a new confidence, but also new uncertainties. 
What, now, is radio, and at what point might multi-platform radio 
content simply cease to be radio because listening is no longer 
dependant on Hertzian transmissions or the use of a radio receiver? 
Should we evolve into 'audio researchers'? And what of 'blindness'? At 
Radio Research 2013 there is much to be problematised.



Submissions

We welcome submissions which are broadly related to the central theme of 
the conference, the resilience of radio in an increasingly 
multi-platform digital age. Relevant topics might include: radio genres; 
radio audiences; radio technologies; production practices; radio 
journalism; distribution technologies; ownership, regulation and 
governance of radio; histories and historiographies of radio; radio and 
multi-platform delivery; radio and parallel visual and textual content; 
radio futures; redefining radio content on new platforms; radio pedagogies.



It is NOT necessary to be a member of the Radio Research Section of 
ECREA in order to participate in the conference, however ECREA members 
will be encouraged to join the section.



It is NOT necessary to be a member of ECREA in order to participate, 
although a substantial discount of the registration fee will apply to 
ECREA members.



Presentations should normally take the form of posters or 15-minute 
papers. For posters and individual papers, please submit a 250-word 
abstract, as well as a short biographical note of up to 100 words.



We also welcome proposals for workshops or panels. For panel and 
workshop proposals, please provide a brief outline of the session’s 
aims, together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker 
and for the proposed panel chair.



Please bear in mind that the main language of the conference is English, 
but that contributions should be easily understood by as wide an 
audience as possible. You might consider presenting in one language and 
showing text on a PowerPoint in another.



All proposals should be emailed as a Word document to the organisers at 
(radioresearch2013 /at/ sunderland.ac.uk) by the deadline of Friday 8th March 
2013 (1800 hours Greenwich Mean Time).



All proposals will be acknowledged and then blind peer-reviewed by the 
conference scientific committee. Final decisions will be communicated to 
proposers personally no later than 29 March 2013.



Further information

For the latest information about keynote speakers, the programme and the 
venue please visit the conference website at 
http://radioresearch2013.sunderland.ac.uk/



We look forward to welcoming as many Radio Research Section members, 
other members of ECREA, and other scholars of radio as possible in 
LONDON in September.



Guy Starkey

Madalena Oliveira

Graz.yna Stachyra



Chair and Vice Chairs, ECREA Radio Research Section







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