From: Carpentier Nico <[email protected]>
Call for papers: Technology, power and the political economy of new media
Editors Rasmus Helles (guest editor) and Anne Mette Thorhauge, University of
Copenhagen
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2013
Publication deadline: Fall 2013
Recent developments in digital communication technologies have challenged
commonly held notions of media systems and the power and production relations
that they involve. The networked, global nature of new media challenges has
established regulatory frameworks for mass- and interpersonal communication,
and displaces previously well-known markets and business models. For example,
the introduction of new platforms (smartphones, tablets) not only makes content
available to consumers in new ways, but also undermines existing constellations
between actors at different points in the chain from content production to
consumption. Network-providers and platform-owners (Apple, Facebook) become
distributors of content, and thereby marginalise the established position of
retailers. The digitisation of content therefore amounts to an introduction of
new types of gates and gatekeepers (Spotify, Facebook, Google etc). While many
of the new actors in media markets have been discussed in terms of their
potential for empowering users, democratic innovation or market failure, few
studies have addressed the dynamics of their emergence in a manner that traces
the development of new institutional actors in the media sector and its
implications for media development.
Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to promote critical discussion
about the intersections between technology, power and political economy, based
on systematic theoretical and empirical analyses.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
– new vocabularies of power
– old mass media in new media environments
– new communication technologies and political and regulatory bodies
– social media, democracy and political power
Please note: Although we organize most of our articles into special issues, we
encourage your contributions and will happily find a place for articles of high
quality regardless of topic.
Link to full call for papers:
www.mediekultur.dk
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