[ecrea] CFP: Complex Evolution - Media and communication in contemporary Asia [MedieKultur]

*Call for papers: Complex Evolution - Media and communication in
contemporary Asia
*(http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/announcement/view/409?acceptCookies=1)

MedieKultur vol. 33, no. 62

Guest editors:

Jun Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Cognition and
Communication, University of Copenhagen ((liujun /at/ hum.ku.dk))

Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen, PhD fellow, Department of Media,
Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen ((lkq332 /at/ hum.ku.dk))

Deadline for Submissions: September 1st, 2016

Publication of the Special Issue: Spring 2017


Asia has some of the largest, most dynamic, diversified, and complicated
media industries in the world. Entering the 21st century, the rapid
economic and political developments of Asia have further energized the
growth of media locally and globally. But it is not just legacy media
that has seen drastic transformation over the course of the last decade.
The rapid spread of information and communication technologies in the
region has within very few years opened up a new media environment
causing changes for the entire industry with new tools for media
professionals, shifts in consumption patterns, and unfamiliar
competition from different digital media. Media and communication in
Asia have thereby continuously attracted the attention of not only
academia, but also governments, corporations, media, and the general public.

This special issue of /MedieKultur/ asks what are the latest statuses of
media in Asian countries? For instance, will greater access to
information for journalists, including independent journalists, the
professionalization of media, and the emergence of civil society change
the media ecology in the region’s transitional societies such as Vietnam
and Myanmar? Will the proliferation of new information and communication
technologies advance the process of democratization in authoritarian
regimes such as China?

The special issue invites submissions regarding the theme broadly
conceived, the complex evolution – including continuities, challenges,
and changes – in media and communication systems in Asian countries.
Potential papers, with quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods
approaches, may focus on topics such as:

- the ways in which evolving forms and practices of news media
industries and practice lead to institutional change;

- the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in
regime change;

- the impact of digital media on media consumption and practices;

- the control and enforcement mechanisms by governments, media
institutions and the like as well as the struggles against them;

- comparative studies of media systems;

- comparative studies of Easterns and Western media cultures

Theoretically, this special issue contributes to the scholarship on
political control on media and communication as well as journalistic
practices and news production in non-Western and non-democratic settings.


best

Jun

Jun Liu, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Centre for Communication and Computing

Department of Media, Cognition and Communication,
University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixens Vej 4,
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Phone: +45-35328416


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