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--></style></head><body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Call for Papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline"><b><i><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">MIA</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> no. 154 (February 2015)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Making Media Participatory</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Theme Editors:</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> Christina Spurgeon and Maura Edmond</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">User-generated content, social media, crowd-sourcing, peer-to-peer collaboration, online communities and networked distribution have become a daily reality. Many-to-many digital technologies radically alter the top-down dissemination of mainstream media, the one-to-many flow of broadcast media and even the two-way participatory production models of community media. They have transformed how audiences expect to engage with media across the spectrum of commercial, public, community and alternative media. But, despite these changes, there are still major obstacles to population-wide inclusion in participatory media cultures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In 2002, <i>MIA</i> published a special <i>Citizen’s Media</i> issue (no. 103). It profiled new academic work that was reinvigorating research into alternative and community-interest media. More than 10 years on and in the wake of major industrial and technological changes, this issue of <i>MIA</i> will revisit the status of community-interest media, focusing on the impact of participatory digital media. It will showcase contemporary research into the role, responsibilities and relevance of community-interest media in an era of user-led innovation, paying particular attention to the facilitation of participatory media culture beyond a core of educated, urban, technologically savvy media users. The issue welcomes academic papers as well as industry commentary and analysis. It invites consideration of participatory media cultures across the full range of community-interest sectors, including community broadcasting, alternative media, community arts, cultural development, cultural heritage, social justice and documentary media.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Submissions may include discussions of:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">• good, bad and meaningful models of media participation, now and in the future<br>
• new platforms and models for participatory media production<br>• the future of citizens’ media and ICT 4 change<br>• the future of community arts and community media<br>• the future of media resource centres<br>• storytelling, including transmedia storytelling, in participatory culture<br>
• co-producing documentaries with community<br>• building community engagement in cultural heritage and arts organisations<br>• cross-sectoral convergence and collaboration<br>• policy implications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Abstracts (250 words) and author details are due 15 April 2014,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Final articles are due 15 July 2014.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Scholarly articles should be a maximum of 5000 words (including references). Industry<br>
commentary and analysis should be a maximum of 2000 words.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Send abstracts and queries to the theme editors at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:cspurgeon@qut.edu.au" target="_blank">cspurgeon@qut.edu.au</a> or <a href="mailto:maura.edmond@gmail.com" target="_blank">maura.edmond@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/calls-for-papers" target="_blank">http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/calls-for-papers</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Dr Maura Edmond</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Research Fellow</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">School of Media, Film and Journalism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Monash University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Caulfield East 3145 Victoria, Australia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">t: +61 3 990 34119</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">e: <a href="mailto:maura.edmond@monash.edu">maura.edmond@monash.edu</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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