[ecrea] VIEW Journal CfP: Convergent Television(s)

VIEW has a call for papers out for its sixth issue, dedicated to the 
theme "Convergent Television(s): Political Ideas, Industrial Strategies, 
Textual Features and Audience Practices."

Please find the detailed call below. Paper proposals (max. 500 words) 
are due on April 15th. Submissions should be sent to the managing editor 
of the journal, Dana Mustata ((journal /at/ euscreen.eu) 
<mailto:(journal /at/ euscreen.eu)>). Articles (2-4,000 words) will be due on 
July 1st.

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact 
the co-editors: Gabriele Balbi ((gabriele.balbi /at/ usi.ch) 
<mailto:(gabriele.balbi /at/ usi.ch)>) and Massimo Scaglioni
((massimo.scaglioni /at/ unicatt.it) <mailto:(massimo.scaglioni /at/ unicatt.it)>).

Kind regards,

Erwin Verbruggen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
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VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
http://www.viewjournal.eu <http://www.viewjournal.eu/>
(support /at/ viewjournal.eu) <mailto:(support /at/ viewjournal.eu)>


=== CfP: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture Vol. 
3, Issue 6 ===

Convergent Television(s): Political Ideas, Industrial Strategies, 
Textual Features and Audience Practices.

Since the 1980s, media convergence has become a buzzword for media 
studies, a crucial site for academic debate and research and especially 
a major topic of interest for politics, media industries, technics, and 
audiences. The complex process of media convergence combines technical 
issues linked to digitization, political ideas of deregulation, 
corporate strategies of merging, and grassroots’ cultural practices.

TV studies have been discussing the topic of media convergence from 
many different angles and perspectives: political, institutional, 
technological, industrial, textual, and cultural issues of convergence 
have been put to the forefront. The theme of the Fall 2014 issue of VIEW 
seeks to shine a light on past and on-going processes of convergent 
television in different national and historical contexts. We welcome 
contributions that face the topic of convergence from different 
disciplinary and historical points of view.

Proposals are invited on (but not limited to):

* Archaeology of TV Convergence: convergence before digitization;
* Historical cases of successful and/or failed convergence in broadcasting;
* National or international policies (especially at European level) that 
are specifically addressed to favour TV and broadcasting convergence;
* Strategies of convergence (and effects of divergence): how 
different national broadcasters are confronting the challenges of media 
convergence
and digitization in an innovative (or regressive) way;
* Historical case studies in terms of convergent business strategies: 
how TV companies combined with other media or even other than media 
companies;
* Players of TV convergence: national or multinational production 
companies committed to original content production;
* Technical devices and affordances: how technology has affected the way 
of producing, distributing and use TV content in a more and more convergent
manner;
* The textual features of Convergent TV: how media convergence 
affects traditional TV genres, styles and aesthetics
* Convergent TV formats, transmedia narratives and forms of branded 
content entertainment;
* Changing audience habits and practices.

Contributions are encouraged from authors with different expertise and 
interests in television history, media studies, television studies, 
media history, political economy of communication, media economics and 
media industries, audience studies, television professionals and archivists.

Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on April 15th. Submissions 
should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana 
Mustata ((journal /at/ euscreen.eu) <mailto:(journal /at/ euscreen.eu)>). Articles 
(2-4,000 words) will be due on July 1st.

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact 
the co-editors: Gabriele Balbi ((gabriele.balbi /at/ usi.ch) 
<mailto:(gabriele.balbi /at/ usi.ch)>) and Massimo 
Scaglioni ((massimo.scaglioni /at/ unicatt.it) 
<mailto:(massimo.scaglioni /at/ unicatt.it)>).