[ecrea] Journal on Radio

*REMINDER:*

Comunicação e Sociedade Jornal, nº 20

Issue: Radio on the Web Frequency

*Deadline for papers submission is approaching: April 30, 2011*

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*CALL FOR PAPERS - *Revista Comunicação e Sociedade, nº 20
Editors: Madalena Oliveira e Pedro Portela
Communication and Society Research Centre
University of Minho -- Portugal
http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt
Deadline: _April 30, 2011
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/_*/Radio on the Web Frequency
/*With more than a century of history and having been considered the 
most prominent medium of the twentieth century, radio has been facing 
the challenges of the new media, taking advantage of technological 
progress, and adapting itself to the new "modes of listening." The 
future of radio, however -- as the future of all classical media - is in 
question, due to its vulnerable position before visual media. In fact, 
although from the technological standpoint radio has retained a certain 
versatility, it is now faced with the demands of adapting to the 
challenges of cyber culture, where it is in fact embedded. Actually, 
reconfiguring the notions of time and space and being open to 
interaction, the Internet and the possibility of audio-on-demand are, on 
the one hand, causing audiences' practices to become more disperse and, 
on the other, imposing the reconfiguration of sound narratives 
themselves as discursive performances that consist in reporting an event 
or a series of events.
A hot medium, in Marshall McLuhan's words, radio has always motivated 
passionate approaches from professionals, but it is still a poor 
relative of media studies. Thus, the objective of this issue of the 
journal /Comunicação e Sociedade/ is, in a certain way, to recognize 
radio as a still relevant medium for the construction of the 
contemporary imaginary. Therefore, proposals (essays or empirical 
studies) are welcome in the following topics:

-           The place of radio as a non-visual medium, in the context of 
such a culture of images;
-           The role of radio in the construction of the imaginary and 
of identity;
-           The complementariness between Hertzian radio and Web radio;
-           The imperatives of market and economic politics in the radio 
sector;
-           The fragmentation of audiences and the transformations in 
radio consumption;
-           Audio-on-demand and new non-linear discursive practices;
-           Radio genres and the creative power of sound (e.g., in 
information, entertainment, advertising);
-           Radio and the stimuli to citizenship;

-           The role of interactivity in maintaining the relevance of 
radio.
Other subjects­taking a historical approach, for example­might also be 
elected by authors, as well as book reviews.
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Comunicação e Sociedade/ is a peer-reviewed journal. Each submitted work 
is analyzed by two reviewers who are invited to evaluate it according to 
academic quality, originality, and relevance to the objectives and 
thematic scope of this volume. Original texts should be sent in 
Microsoft Word format to (cecs /at/ ics.uminho.pt) <mailto:(cecs /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>. 
For a message subject, authors should write "Journal nº 20."

Editorial rules for electronic submission of manuscripts are available 
here (both in Portuguese and in English):
http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt/upload/docs/revista_com_e_soc_normas_apresentação_originais.pdf 
<http://www.comunicacao.uminho.pt/upload/docs/revista_com_e_soc_normas_apresenta%E7%E3o_originais.pdf> 


Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

Notification of acceptance will be given via e-mail by May 20, 2011.

This issue is expected to be published in autumn of 2011.

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Madalena Oliveira
Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade
Instituto de Ciências Sociais | Universidade do Minho
/Communication SciencesDepartment
Communication and Society Research Centre
Institute of Social Sciences | University of Minho/
4710-057 Campus de Gualtar - Braga | Portugal

Telefone directo: 253.604295
E-mail: (madalena.oliveira /at/ ics.uminho.pt)