[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 <http://surlejournalisme.com/rev>

Articles are welcome in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. 
Attention: only full articles will be evaluated (30.000 to 50.000 
characters, including spaces, references and footnotes).
Deadline: March 30th 2017
Submission through:
http://surlejournalisme.com/rev/index.php/slj/author/submit/1


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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