[Commlist] Call for Papers: Local and Community Media

Call for Papers: Reappraising Local and Community Media.
MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network. One-day conference, Coventry 
University. November 1, 2019.

Abstracts are invited for a one-day symposium examining the current 
landscape for local and community media. The event is the first 
organised by the MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network and aims to 
bring together scholars and practitioners together to reappraise the 
sector as it undergoes rapid change and disruption. Keynote sessions 
will be delivered by Professor Bridgette Wessels from Glasgow 
University, researcher in the REGPRESS project, which is based in Sweden 
and which is examining the role of regional and local press, and Matthew 
Barraclough, head of BBC Local News Partnerships.

Papers which examine any area of the above are welcome and may include 
both theoretical reflections and practice-based interventions to 
consider the range of responses to this disruption and how those relate 
to the perceived role and purpose of local and community media.

Areas which might be addressed include, but are not limited to:
•	Local democratic processes
•	Social justice
•	Information provision
•	Local media ecosystems
•	Communities
•	Policy makers
•	Media entrepreneurs and emerging business models
•	Alternative local and community media
•	Interventions, for instance the Local Democracy Reporting Service, 
Facebook-funded Community News Project.

Papers will be peer-reviewed. Please send an abstract of no more than 
300 words and a cover sheet with a brief biographical note, your 
institutional affiliation (where relevant) and your contact details 
(including your email address). Abstracts should be sent to network 
chair (r.matthews /at/ coventry.ac.uk). Please address any queries to the same 
address in the first instance. Closing date for proposals:  July 31 
2019. You will be notified of the acceptance of your paper by early 
September.

The event will be held at Coventry University in the Midlands of the UK 
on Friday, November 1, 2019. A nominal fee of £10 will be charged for 
attendance. A limited number of travel grants will also be available to 
enable attendance by PG/ECR researchers. Please state on your abstract 
if you would like to be considered for a grant and the amount requested.

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