[csaa-forum] RIPE at 2014 "Public Service Media across Boundaries" Call for Paper Proposals

[Fiona Martin]

RIPE at 2014

27-29th August 2014 in Tokyo, Japan

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

Public Service Media across Boundaries


We are pleased to announce the seventh bi-annual RIPE public service media conference, this time hosted by the Institute for Media and Communications Research (MediaCom) at Keio University, together with the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).


Our conference theme focuses on cross-boundary influences and relations as a significant issue for public service media (PSM). The theme has various dimensions. International cross-boundary influences are evident in the growth of multinational media companies, cross-border channels, trade in formats and programming, development in technology and platforms, changing tastes and perceptions among audiences, and the influence of supranational instruments and agencies.


PSM institutions are domestic in grounding and orientation but increasingly must deal with a growing range of international influences and pressures – and opportunities. Other important borders relate to growth in network communication and what that means for broadcasting; institutional boundaries that pose challenges to achieve greater openness and opportunities for public participation; challenges related to boundaries between professional journalists and citizen journalism, and more broadly in professional and non-professional production; the emergence and importance of transnational audiences and audience fragmentation; platform differentiation and synergies in conceptual and operational terms; the rise of social media and non-traditional providers of content and services; and challenges in spanning boundaries between PSM institutions and other institutions in the public, volunteer and private sectors. These phenomena simultaneously offer tremendous opportunities and daunting challenges for PSM development. Familiar historic dichotomies that include public/private, national/international, broadcast/print, old/new, and market/society are increasingly problematic and require thorough, critical re-examination. Underlying all of this is a pivotal dynamic of convergence versus divergence.


The organisers especially invite proposals addressing the following topics in relation to the conference theme:


1. Cross-boundary issues in PSM policy & governance

• Cross-boundary influences on domestic PSM policy

• Challenges in corporate governance and issues of trust

• Contemporary issues and trends in media regulation

• Accountability to audiences and performance assessment


2. Transnational audiences and PSM

• How are the audiences still domestic, but also more than that?

• PSM for diaspora, ethnic minorities and immigrants

• International content and changing domestic tastes and uses of PSM

• International influences on what PSM produces for audiences

• Openness, participation and inclusion


3. Transnational encounters for PSM

• PSM in the context of global markets and international trade

• PSM’s domestic orientation and international roles

• The pertinence and future of world news

• Changes in targeting strategies and modes of address

• Identities beyond geographic and administrative communities


4. Citizen journalism and professional journalism in the PSM context

• New boundaries and blurred boundaries in journalism

• Dynamics and conditions that challenge professional journalism

• Citizen journalism, networked journalism and ‘journalism as conversation’

• Social media and reporting


5. PSM and convergence

• Tools, approaches and results in cross-platform production and publishing

• Broadcasting in the context of network communications

• PSM’s role in the development of media technology and applications

• Developments in organisational restructuring and management practices


6. PSM in new and young democracies

• Challenges and dynamics in countries pursuing the creation of PSM

• The needs, roles and limitations of international support

• PSM in relation to the promotion of free speech and free press

• Comparative studies about how PSM is being structured and developed

• How historic ideas and established PSM institutions are important but also

problematic as models


The conference will feature a presentation by representatives of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on the Vision 2020 initiative. And per our usual practice, a RIPE at 2015 book will be published by NORDICOM to include the best papers (in developed form and according to the essential theme that emerges during the conference proceedings).


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

On the first page:

• Provide the working title of the paper

• Include your name, organisational affiliation with location, and e-mail address

On the second page:

• Repeat the working title of the paper, but exclude your name and location

•  Provide an abstract of 600 words (maximum)

•  Explain what the paper will be about and how it will contribute to the theme

•  Specify which topical areas (1-6) are a best fit (more than one, and prioritise)


Submissions are due 10 January 2014. Decisions will be taken in February with notification of acceptance sent on 1 March 2014.


All submissions will be peer reviewed as the basis for acceptance. The criteria are:

1. Relevance to the conference theme and fit with the topics

2. Conceptual and analytic quality (beyond purely descriptive)

3. Relevance to PSM management and practice

4. Comparative research is highly desired

5. Empirical research is prioritised

6. Generalisability of insights and findings is certainly desired


Sixty (60) papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Each paper will be assigned to a specific workgroup keyed to topical areas (as indicated above). The conference language is English.


Please send your abstract proposal as an e-mail attachment (in Word, not a PDF file) to:

Gregory F. LOWE, University of Tampere, Finland (glowe at pp.inet.fi<mailto:glowe at pp.inet.fi>)

YAMAMOTO Nobuto, Keio University, Japan (nobuto at law.keio.ac.jp<mailto:nobuto at law.keio.ac.jp>)


The conference happens over 2.5 days with a welcoming reception the night before the first day.


The registration fee is ￥30,000 for authors (exchange rate on 6 September 2013 was equivalent to €230 euros or $300 USD). The fee does not include accommodation, but does cover the cost for conference meals and materials. For those attending but not presenting a paper the registration fee is ￥45,000 (equivalent to €340 euros or $450 USD) Space is limited. A select number of doctoral students will be accommodated at a reduced fee of ￥15,000 (equivalent to €115 euros, or $150 USD).


We are especially interested in securing participation from places where PSM is under development and needs support, for example the Middle East, Africa and Asia. And of course young scholars and Ph.D. students are warmly invited to propose papers. However the RIPE conference does not have funds to supplement personal travel costs, except for invited keynote speakers. For more information, please visit our website: www.ripeat.org.


We are considering the possibility of arranging a social programme after the conference, but that is not yet decided. The organisers will update accepted participants about that. If such a programme is organised there would be a separate, additional fee for any activities, but participation would not be obligatory.







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