[ecrea] Media International Australia "Making Media Participatory" - journal cfp

Call for Papers

MIA no. 154 (February 2015)

Making Media Participatory

Theme Editors: Christina Spurgeon and Maura Edmond

User-generated content, social media, crowd-sourcing, peer-to-peer 
collaboration, online communities and networked distribution have become 
a daily reality. Many-to-many digital technologies radically alter the 
top-down dissemination of mainstream media, the one-to-many flow of 
broadcast media and even the two-way participatory production models of 
community media. They have transformed how audiences expect to engage 
with media across the spectrum of commercial, public, community and 
alternative media. But, despite these changes, there are still major 
obstacles to population-wide inclusion in participatory media cultures.

In 2002, MIA published a special Citizen’s Media issue (no. 103). It 
profiled new academic work that was reinvigorating research into 
alternative and community-interest media. More than 10 years on and in 
the wake of major industrial and technological changes, this issue of 
MIA will revisit the status of community-interest media, focusing on the 
impact of participatory digital media. It will showcase contemporary 
research into the role, responsibilities and relevance of 
community-interest media in an era of user-led innovation, paying 
particular attention to the facilitation of participatory media culture 
beyond a core of educated, urban, technologically savvy media users. The 
issue welcomes academic papers as well as industry commentary and 
analysis. It invites consideration of participatory media cultures 
across the full range of community-interest sectors, including community 
broadcasting, alternative media, community arts, cultural development, 
cultural heritage, social justice and documentary media.

Submissions may include discussions of:

• good, bad and meaningful models of media participation, now and in the 
future
• new platforms and models for participatory media production
• the future of citizens’ media and ICT 4 change
• the future of community arts and community media
• the future of media resource centres
• storytelling, including transmedia storytelling, in participatory culture
• co-producing documentaries with community
• building community engagement in cultural heritage and arts organisations
• cross-sectoral convergence and collaboration
• policy implications

Abstracts (250 words) and author details are due 15 April 2014,

Final articles are due 15 July 2014.

Scholarly articles should be a maximum of 5000 words (including 
references). Industry
commentary and analysis should be a maximum of 2000 words.

Send abstracts and queries to the theme editors at:

(cspurgeon /at/ qut.edu.au) or (maura.edmond /at/ gmail.com)

http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/calls-for-papers

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Dr Maura Edmond

Research Fellow

School of Media, Film and Journalism

Monash University



Caulfield East 3145 Victoria, Australia

t: +61 3 990 34119

e: (maura.edmond /at/ monash.edu)



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