[ecrea] CFP Local news - sustainability, participation and community life

Call for papers
*Local News: *
*sustainability, participation and community life*

/About journalism – Sur le journalisme – Sobre jornalismo /
International academic journal
http://surlejournalisme.com/rev

Articles are welcome in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Deadline for full paper submissions: March 30th 2017

Editors of this special issue: David Domingo, Josep-Àngel Guimerà i 
Orts, Andy Williams
(david.domingo /at/ ulb.ac.be) <mailto:(david.domingo /at/ ulb.ac.be)>, 
(josepangel.guimera /at/ uab.cat) <mailto:(josepangel.guimera /at/ uab.cat)>, 
(WilliamsA28 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk) <mailto:(WilliamsA28 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)>

Contributions to the issue may combine empirical evidence and 
theoretical insights to analyze the current challenges of local 
journalism. We would like the combination of articles to portray the 
diversity of cultural, socio-economic and regulatory contexts in 
different parts of the world. More specifically, we invite research 
focusing on a combination of the following aspects:

• The evolving *role of professional journalism* in the production of 
the public sphere, as well
as of the significance of the boundaries between professionals and other 
actors in local
news production.

• The nature and implications of changes and/or continuities in the 
*content of *
*news* in local communities, whether this news is produced by 
established or newer players,
or combinations of (dominant, residual, or emergent) producers of local 
information
within the new local news networks.

• New *business models* aimed at local media sustainability, their 
strengths and their
weaknesses, and their implications for the production, distribution and 
use of local news.

• The*media policies* which regulate local media ecosystems, analyses of
how they are evolving (if at all), consideration of the factors which 
shape the decisions of
law makers, and assessments of the consequences for local news.
 Interrogation of the implications of the involvement of the publics in 
supporting local
media (be they private, public or third tier) through financial means 
(crowdfunding,
audience co-operatives, subscription) or through the (co)production of 
content.


For the full CFP in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish:
http://surlejournalisme.com/?p=3990 <http://surlejournalisme.com/?p=3990>

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