*Call for Papers *
*International Journal of Digital Television, Issue 6.3 *
*25 years of Transition, and…? The Audiovisual Media Environment in
Central and Eastern Europe*
*Guest edited by Sally Broughton Micova (London School of Economics
and Political Science, UK) *
Deadline for Full Papers: 15 May 2015
It has been over a quarter century since communist regimes in Central
and South Eastern Europe were changed for multi-party democracies and
Yugoslavia began its painful collapse. Many of the countries in the
region have joined the European Union and others are candidate or
associated countries. These countries have become part of the common
market for audio-visual media services and opened up their borders to
television and television-like services from across the continent. At
the same time Russia has been re-exerting its influence even violently
and in Ukraine and the Baltic States there is talk of an “information
war” occurring on people’s screens.
Within many of these countries institution building during this
“transition” from centralised single party governments has been
fraught with problems posing numerous regulatory challenges for the
audiovisual media industries. The region has also seen rapid
technological developments as internet penetration has expanded
massively as have digital cable and satellite services. Liberalization
in the telecommunications sector has taken place across the region
bringing great changes.
This issue will be focused on presenting research from the CEE/SEE
region in an effort to increase the evidence base on developments in
this part of Europe and attempt to draw out themes or trends that
could contribute to theoretical debates about transition,
Europeanization, and other areas. Possible themes include, but are not
limited to the following:
• Diffusion of the delivery of public service objectives
• Alternative models of funding public service content and services
• Case studies from different national contexts
• Technology and public service media
• Implications of redistribution of resources for traditional public
service media and their responses
• Strategies by third-party players and impact on independent content
producers
• EU state aid, competition and public service communications framework
• Media and information literacies for audiences and users
• Public service ethos, professionalism and the sense of public
service mission
• Linear, on-demand and converged media
• Public service objectives and the transition from public service
broadcasting to public service media and public service communications.
Please send fill articles of 5-8000 words to (sallyijdtv /at/ gmail.com)
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','(sallyijdtv /at/ gmail.com)');>by 15 May March
2015. All submissions will be subjected to double-blind peer review.
More information about the Journal and Notes for Contributors:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=175
The /International Journal of Digital Television /describes and
explains the transition to digital TV and wider trends in television
and audiovisual services. The Journal, recently listed in accepted
into Scopus and listed in other indexes, brings together, and share,
the work of academics, policy-makers and practitioners, offering
lessons from one another’s experience. Content is broad and varied,
evolving as the focus shifts from switching off analogue TV to the
challenge of exploiting digital television’s convergence with the
Internet and telecommunications.
