[ecrea] Call for Papers - Special Issue of Ethical Space - Beyond clickbait and commerce: The ethics, possibilities and challenges of not-for-profit media

Call for Papers

BEYOND CLICKBAIT AND COMMERCE
THE ETHICS, POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES OF NOT-FOR-PROFIT MEDIA

A special issue of Ethical Space, an international peer-reviewed journal
for academics and practitioners, is seeking papers on not-for-profit
journalism and alternatively funded media.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 28th SEPTEMBER 2015

The media pluralism debate is dominated by concerns about overly powerful
corporate media and the effect this has on democracy and diversity of
media content.  Increasingly, scholars have extended their critical
analysis to fast-growing commercial digital intermediaries and content
providers. The counterbalance to this corporate content is public service
broadcasting and publicly owned media organisations, but what other forms
might not-for-profit media take?

With media ethics as the underlying theme, this special issue will examine
examples of alternatively funded media from around the world; critically
assessing what they actually - and could - contribute to local, national
and global society; addressing the main theoretical and pragmatic
challenges and obstacles for such initiatives, and reflecting on the
ethical dilemmas and strengths of not-for-profit media and journalism.

Submissions on community radio and television, newspapers, magazines,
websites, social networks, mobile applications, open data projects, and
any other form of not-for-profit media are welcome. Authors are also
encouraged to think beyond traditional mass media and journalism, to other
forms of communication, such as civic data sharing, NGO activities,
political campaigning and community discussion. These media might be
publicly owned, charitable, co-operative, community interest or any other
alternative to commercial and profit-making models. Funding sources might
include advertising, subscriptions, crowd-sourcing, philanthropy and
public grants, for example. And they may occur on any kind of platform.

Authors may wish to offer a thematic paper, rather than basing their
discussion on a particular model or example. Applicants are encouraged to
critically interrogate the notion of not-for-profit and charitably funded
media, and consider the particular ethical challenges posed by whatever
aspect of not-for-profit media the author is engaged with. What benefit
might there be to a profit-driven model, in terms of serving public needs
and desires? Conversely, what do not-for-profit models offer? What impact
might such models have on the PR and advertising industries? And for
public participants and audiences? What are, or might be, the power
relationships between not-for-profit media, other democratic institutions,
and the community?

Perspectives from different disciplines are welcome. These might include,
but are not limited to, legal and socio-legal studies, media, journalism
and PR studies, media sociology and anthropology, media history, and
political science.

We are looking for full papers of 5,000 words to 6,000 words including
notes and references; and short articles of 2,000-3,000 words.

Please submit abstracts of 150 words and five keywords to the guest
editors of this special issue by 28th September 2015 via
(judith.townend /at/ sas.ac.uk). Please indicate if you envisage it as a full
paper or short article.

Decisions will be made in early October. The deadline for full papers and
articles is 20 December 2015. The journal will be published in the second
half of 2016.

Guest editors:

€	Denis Muller, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne

€	Judith Townend, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced
Study, University of London

About Ethical Space

Ethical Space is an international peer-reviewed journal that provides a
space for both academics and practitioners to reflect on and critique the
ethics of communication. It contains news, views, interviews and
peer-reviewed papers on ethical matters in journalism, public relations,
marketing, health communication, information science, organisational and
management communication and related fields. Its editors are Richard
Keeble, Donald Matheson and Shannon Bowen.
http://www.communicationethics.net/





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