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<b style="font-size: 26px;">RIPE@2014</b></p>
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<b style="font-size: 20px;">27-29th August 2014 in Tokyo, Japan</b></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><i>CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS</i></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><i>Public Service Media across Boundaries</i></span></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">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
</font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">University, </font>together with the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Our conference theme focuses on cross-boundary influences and relations as a significant issue for public service media (PSM). The theme has various dimensions. </font>International
cross-boundary influences are evident in the growth of multinational media companies, cross-border channels, trade in formats and programming, </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">development in technology and
platforms, changing tastes and perceptions among audiences, and the influence of supranational instruments and agencies. </span></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">PSM institutions are domestic in grounding and orientation but increasingly must deal with a growing range of international influences and pressures – and opportunities. </font>Other
important borders relate to growth in network communication and what that means for broadcasting; institutional boundaries that pose challenges to achieve greater <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">openness and opportunities for public
participation; challenges related to boundaries between professional journalists and citizen journalism, and more broadly in </span>professional and non-professional production; the emergence and importance of transnational audiences and audience fragmentation;
platform differentiation and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">synergies in conceptual and operational terms; the rise of social media and non-traditional providers of content and services; and challenges in spanning boundaries </span>between
PSM institutions and other institutions in the public, volunteer and private sectors. These phenomena simultaneously offer tremendous opportunities and daunting </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">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.</span></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The organisers especially invite proposals addressing the following topics in relation to </font>the conference theme:</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>1. Cross-boundary issues in PSM policy & governance</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Cross-boundary influences on domestic PSM policy</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Challenges in corporate governance and issues of trust</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Contemporary issues and trends in media regulation</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Accountability to audiences and performance assessment</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>2. Transnational audiences and PSM</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• How are the audiences still domestic, but also more than that?</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• PSM for diaspora, ethnic minorities and immigrants</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• International content and changing domestic tastes and uses of PSM</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• International influences on what PSM produces for audiences</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Openness, participation and inclusion</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>3. Transnational encounters for PSM</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• PSM in the context of global markets and international trade</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• PSM’s domestic orientation and international roles</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• The pertinence and future of world news</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Changes in targeting strategies and modes of address</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Identities beyond geographic and administrative communities</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>4. Citizen journalism and professional journalism in the PSM context</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• New boundaries and blurred boundaries in journalism</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Dynamics and conditions that challenge professional journalism</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Citizen journalism, networked journalism and ‘journalism as conversation’</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Social media and reporting</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>5. PSM and convergence</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Tools, approaches and results in cross-platform production and publishing</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Broadcasting in the context of network communications</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• PSM’s role in the development of media technology and applications</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Developments in organisational restructuring and management practices</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>6. PSM in new and young democracies</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Challenges and dynamics in countries pursuing the creation of PSM</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• The needs, roles and limitations of international support</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• PSM in relation to the promotion of free speech and free press</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Comparative studies about how PSM is being structured and developed</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• How historic ideas and established PSM institutions are important but also</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">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 </font>RIPE@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 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">proceedings).</span></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS</b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Provide the working title of the paper</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Include your name, organisational affiliation with location, and e-mail address</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Repeat the working title of the paper, but exclude your name and location</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Provide an abstract of 600 words (maximum)</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Explain what the paper will be about and how it will contribute to the theme</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">• Specify which topical areas (1-6) are a best fit (more than one, and prioritise)</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>Submissions are due 10 January 2014.</b> Decisions will be taken in February with notification of acceptance sent on 1 March 2014.</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">All submissions will be peer reviewed as the basis for acceptance. The criteria are:</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">1. Relevance to the conference theme and fit with the topics</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">2. Conceptual and analytic quality (beyond purely descriptive)</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">3. Relevance to PSM management and practice</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">4. Comparative research is highly desired</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">6. Generalisability of insights and findings is certainly desired</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3" style="font-size: 14px; ">S</font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">ixty (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 </font>conference language is English. </font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Please send your abstract proposal as an e-mail attachment (in Word, not a PDF file) to:</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Gregory F. LOWE, University of Tampere, Finland (<a href="mailto:glowe@pp.inet.fi">glowe@pp.inet.fi</a>)</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">YAMAMOTO Nobuto, Keio University, Japan (<a href="mailto:nobuto@law.keio.ac.jp">nobuto@law.keio.ac.jp</a>)</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The conference happens over 2.5 days with a welcoming reception the night before the first day. </font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The registration fee is <b>￥</b>30,000 for authors (exchange rate on 6 September 2013 was equivalent to
<b>€</b>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
<b>￥</b>45,000 (equivalent to <b>€</b>340 euros or $450 USD) Space is limited. A select number of doctoral students will be accommodated at a reduced fee of
<b>￥</b>15,000 (equivalent to <b>€</b>115 euros, or $150 USD). </font></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">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
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><span style="color: #053df5">www.ripeat.org</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">.</span></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">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
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