[ecrea] The European Symposium on Media Policy 2015

The European Symposium on Media Policy 2015

Oslo, Norway, 20 November 2015

Key Note Speaker: Robert McChesney

Plenary speakers: Ulla Carlsson, Aske Kammer, Mart Ots, Helle Sjøvaag, 
Oscar Westlund.

The 1st European Symposium on Media Policy brings together scholars, 
media executives, policy markers and regulators for a day of discussion 
and exchange. The symposium will have both plenary sessions with invited 
guest speakers and break-away sessions with paper presentations. The 
plenary sessions will especially focus on the global crisis in the 
funding of journalism, and media policy in Nordic countries.

The symposium hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Media Research, 
and takes place at Oslo and Akershus University of Applied Sciences 
(HiOA), Faculty of Social Sciences.

Abstracts due:                                                 15 
September 2015
Notification on abstract acceptance:             30 September 2015
Registration due:                                            15 October 2015
Symposium date:                                           20 November 2015

Please submit abstracts to (arne.krumsvik /at/ hioa.no) (approx. 300 words).

Topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
•	studies in comparative policy
•	in-depth study of media policy
•	structural, market and industry perspectives
•	north/south perspectives
•	media development
•	gender issues and media policy
•	how regulations affect media innovations and/or the other way around

In the presentations we would like to see a combination of focused 
studies of media regulation practices in specific societies as well as 
studies inducing a wide-ranging regional, European, or global view. 
Presentation of results from ongoing PhD projects is encouraged. Short 
papers and work-in-progress are welcome.

The best papers will be invited to a Special Issue of the Journal of 
Media Business Studies (JOMBS).

Scientific Committee: Professor Arne H. Krumsvik (Chair, HiOA), 
Professor Anker Brink Lund (Copenhagen Business School), Professor 
Kristin Skare Orgeret (HiOA), Ass. Professor Mart Ots (Jönköping Int. 
Business School), and Professor Eli Skogerbø (University of Oslo).





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