*CFP* "AUDIENCIAS Y NUEVAS FORMAS DE EMISIÓN: LINEAL, BAJO DEMANDA, STREAMING Y/O SOCIAL", VOL. 14 Nº 1, REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN

La multiplicación de las pantallas donde se pueden consumir todo tipo de contenidos ha complicado la forma para medir el éxito y el impacto de cualquier tipo de obra audiovisual o campaña de comunicación estratégica (publicidad, RR.PP.). Este call for paper está abierto a cualquier investigación que intente medir, cuantificar o comparar la medición de la nueva era digital ante la que nos enfrentamos. ¿Volverá a recuperar la televisión del salón la hegemonía? ¿Se quedará el teléfono móvil con la mayoría de cuota de consumo audiovisual como ya ha hecho con la navegación web frente a otros dispositivos? ¿Cómo están afectando las nuevas ventajas de distribución a los consumos y el comportamiento de los públicos? Nos encontramos ante un contexto cambiante donde se agradecen investigaciones que abran nuevas líneas que ayuden a esclarecer el futuro de las audiencias en el mundo de las campañas y el entretenimiento.

 

Tématicas de investigación:

• El nuevo concepto de audiencia. ¿Qué constituye una audiencia hoy? ¿Cuáles son sus características e intereses?

*CFP* "MEDIATING DIGITAL SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUALS: JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION IN THE TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY", MOSCOW READINGS CONFERENCE

On 18-19 November 2021, the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University will hold its annual Moscow Readings conference. The topic is 'Mediating Digital Society and Individuals: Journalism and Communication in the Times of Uncertainty'. The conference will be organized as a virtual event, with all sessions taking place online. Moscow Readings conferences is co-sposored by the International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR, and organized in partnership with IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Group, IAMCR Journalism Research and Education Section, UNESCO chair in communication, European Journalism Training Association, the Global Risk Journalism Hub, and National Association of Mass Media Researchers.

Today, historical transformations affecting media industries and production such as digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and related trends identified by scholars long ago (Hamelink, 1998) amplify and accelerate due to new disruptive processes influencing media work on a global scale. This includes the rapid growth of platform power and platform convergence, the emergence of telecommunications giants as competitors in the content market, and growing concerns about sustainability of the news industry and journalism as a profession in this context (Deuze, & Prenger, 2019; Meese, 2021).

*CFP* "HISTORIES OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM", CONFERENCE

Histories of Digital Journalism

A conference exploring the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism

Budapest, Hungary: 24–25 June 2022

 

Although the shared past of digitization and journalism stretches back at least to a half-century, digital journalism history is a field still in formation. Building on the momentum of the recent ‘historical turn’ in digital media and internet studies, the aim of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars to interrogate digital journalism histories and to start a global critical exchange on various approaches to and aspects of historicising digital journalism. As digital journalism has been re-configured by socio-historical contradictions of communication and complexities of its technological innovations, journalism scholarship should continuously strive for enhancing critical exchange to advance studies that intersect with numerous disciplines, theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Emphasis of the conference is on the plurality of histories instead of one single digital journalism history, acknowledging diachronic as well as synchronic complexities of social relations, political contingencies, cultural traditions and power configurations between journalism and digitisation. Instead of enforcing one great master narrative, the conference aims to offer a space to embrace the co-existence of parallel, sometimes complementing, often conflicting historical investigations and narratives.

*CFP* "MEDIATING DIGITAL SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUALS: JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION IN THE TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY", MOSCOW READINGS CONFERENCE

On 18-19 November 2021, the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University will hold its annual Moscow Readings conference. The topic is 'Mediating Digital Society and Individuals: Journalism and Communication in the Times of Uncertainty'. The conference will be organized as a virtual event, with all sessions taking place online. Moscow Readings conferences is co-sposored by the International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR, and organized in partnership with IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Group, IAMCR Journalism Research and Education Section, UNESCO chair in communication, European Journalism Training Association, the Global Risk Journalism Hub, and National Association of Mass Media Researchers.

Today, historical transformations affecting media industries and production such as digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and related trends identified by scholars long ago (Hamelink, 1998) amplify and accelerate due to new disruptive processes influencing media work on a global scale. This includes the rapid growth of platform power and platform convergence, the emergence of telecommunications giants as competitors in the content market, and growing concerns about sustainability of the news industry and journalism as a profession in this context (Deuze, & Prenger, 2019; Meese, 2021).

*CFP* "GENDER AND MEDIA STUDIES. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES", SPECIAL ISSUE, SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Despite the widespread perception of an abundance of literature and opportunities for discussion about gender and media, “researching the gender-media dyad is still an important project for media scholars” (Ross, 2010, p. 3). One reason for the prominence of the topic is the richness and rapidity of the evolution of media products, technologies and actors. Indeed, the contemporary media landscape and its cultural dimension are the result of the accumulation and juxtaposition of content, media forms, production and consumption practices, and everything in between (Bolter, 2020). Rigid and stereotyped images of women, men and other subjectivities coexist with critical content, as the result of practices of remix, sharing, co-creation and contestation.

The relationship between gender and media also appears to be of interest due to the growth of studies about the complexity and variety of subjectivities, identities, orientations and social and sexual relations in the media universe. Indeed, in the last two decades, theoretical reflections and empirical analyses have flourished in the scientific debate, thematizing the gender-media dyad beyond the conspicuous theme of representations, beyond binary opposing and heteronormatively visions (Buonanno, Faccioli, 2020; Farris, Compton, Herrera, 2020; Kay, 2020; Scarcelli, Krijnen, Nixon, 2020; Ross, 2020). Moreover, gender and media studies have recently been enriched by wide-ranging interdisciplinary analyses that look at the topic from a prismatic, intersectional perspective, which deepens the encounter between sociology and feminist media studies (Corradi 2008; Buonanno, 2014; Byerly, 2017). In this regard, there is an increasing sensitivity to the transformations in the social discourse of feminism due (also) to its mediatisation and the re-signification of feminist terms in a neoliberal perspective (Banet-Weiser, 2018; Gill, 2016; McRobbie, 2020; Rottenberg, 2018).

*CFP* "CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SECOND WIFE", BOOK CHAPTER

This slightly revised call is for abstracts for a scholarly, international edited collection entitled, Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen.

Currently I am seeking a number of academics and professionals in the field who might like to send me an abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book.

Due to effects of the covid-19 pandemic 2020-21, and the strain this has placed on people and businesses (including academics and universities world-wide), the deadline for abstracts for this project has been extended.

The aim of this scholarly edited collection is to reveal how the personal expectations and actual experiences of the second wife may differ from the social and cultural expectations and realities of the role of the second wife; and how the second wife may be perceived in the popular and social culture of various cultures, in screen, stage, and literary productions and pop culture narratives.

In any culture, religious and cultural beliefs are inseparable, and intrinsic one to the other, and are important to the marriage customs and laws of that particular culture or society.

*CFP* "DESINFORMATION STUDIES AS AN EMERGING RESEARCH FIELD", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNALISM PRACTICE

This special issue of Journalism Practice looks at the complexities of disinformation and its implications on society. The number of studies that were already growing increased exponentially with Covid-19. The main goal of this special issue is to develop a set of studies and policies that allow us to identify and contribute to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of disinformation, misinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field.

The contributions to this special issue, from different national and international contexts, can focus (among others) on the following topics:

• Identifying through case studies, examples of media whether revealing weaknesses or, instead, using strategies particularly directed to fight the phenomenon;
• Discussing new manipulation and disinformation strategies, considering in those the study of the audience from the perspective of their manipulation through the mobilization of emotions;

*CFP* "HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL MEDIA HISTORIOGRAPHY", ECREA COMMUNICATION HISTORY SECTION WORKSHOP

History of Digital Media and Digital Media Historiography

A ECREA Communication History Section Workshop 

co-sponsored by the ICA Communication History Division

Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg

Luxembourg, 2-4 February 2022

 

The digital turn has had a transformative effect on all media, and it has also influenced the way in which media and communication history is shaped, written and disseminated. First, it has had an impact in terms of devices, distribution, production and content, as well as access and participation. Looking at these changes with the lenses of history is beneficial, because it helps contextualizing “revolutions” and continuities with the past. Consequently, the history of digital media can be seen as a new label for media histories related to digital politics, economics, technologies and cultures shaped by digitalisation. But it also deals with analogue media which have been digitised or have resisted digitisation is a new and relevant field.

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE", BOOK CHAPTER

Indigenous African language media, also referred to as ethnic or minority language media in some contexts, encompass tools of communication, socialisation and community that Africans used during pre-colonial periods and are still in existence despite the advent of Western-styled media.

 

The research entity of Indigenous Language Media in Africa is inviting contributions in the form of essays and articles from interested individuals to honour his contributions to these various fields of knowledge in communication and journalism studies. These will be published in the form of a double blind peer reviewed festschrift. Possible topics to explore for submission to this book include:

• Media Representations: representations of gender, race, class and ethnicity in minority/African indigenous language news media;
• Practice-based studies: Cases studies that demonstrate the use of minority/African indigenous media of drama, songs, folklore, theatre for development communication or democratisation;
• Media texts and contents: Studies that utilise discourse analysis, thematic analysis and content analysis to analyse minority/African indigenous language media constructions of social reality in Africa;

*CFP* "CHANGES IN COMMUNICATION IN, FROM, AND ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS", THEMATIC SECTION, STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES JOURNAL

We are seeking contributions for a thematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) exploring changes in communication of higher education institutions. SComS is a peer-reviewed journal of communication and media research with platinum open-access (no article processing charges).

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are pivotal organizations in modern societies (Schäfer & Fähnrich, 2020). In past decades, the higher education sector has expanded considerably in many countries, with rapid increases in research output, growing student enrollment, and newly founded colleges and universities. New public management reforms and a growing need for societal legitimation have led many HEIs to prioritize communication, i.e., to establish communication offices, pursue branding, marketing, and reputation management, and to professionalize their communication efforts on traditional channels, websites, and social media (Davies & Horst, 2016; Elken, Stensaker, & Dedze, 2018; Marcinkowski, Kohring, Fürst, & Friedrichsmeier, 2014; Raupp & Osterheider, 2019; Schwetje, Hauser, Böschen, & Leßmöllmann, 2020; Vogler & Schäfer, 2020). This has resulted in competition for public visibility, involving researchers, HEI leadership, and professional communicators at central levels, research centers, and departments (Crettaz von Roten & Entradas, 2018; Entradas et al., 2020; Friedrichsmeier & Fürst, 2012; Koivumäki & Wilkinson, 2020; McKinnon, Black, Bobillier, Hood, & Parker, 2019; Rödder, 2020; Watermeyer & Lewis, 2018). 

*CFP* "NAVIGATING DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND CHALLENGES FOR ORGANIZATIONS", BOOK CHAPTER

The dialogue between organizational communication and digital communication is a common practice in contemporary organizations. This cross working allows the development of new narratives inside and outside organizations, causing communication professionals to face a moment of change in communication management, regarding form, content and production. Digital communication is not developing a virtual world, but a real virtuality integrated with other forms of interaction in an increasingly "hybridized" everyday life. In fact, the relationship between organizations and its publics evolved into more symmetrical models - allowed by digital media -, being imperative the recognition of the inevitable involvement of citizens in organizational communication processes that give rise to new business and institutional choices. On the other hand, the relationship that audiences establish with organizational information in digital environments may also interfere with the way in which each individual experiences daily life. Thus, the impacts are conjoint and paradoxical. It is well known that public involvement has the power to promote an active circulation of media content and that this can generate economic and cultural value for organizations. The current perspectives on interactions between audiences, organizations and content production suggest a relational logic between audiences and media, through new productivity proposals. In this sense it is interesting to observe the reasoning of audience experience through the concepts of interactivity and participation. However, it can be observed a gap between the intentions of communication professionals and their organizations and the effective circulation and content retention among the audiences of interest, as well as the distinction between informing and communicating. Thus, the goal of this book Navigating Digital Communication and Challenges for Organizations is to provide an in-depth review of research related to the concepts and theories around topics such as Publics and Productivity, Interactivity and Participation in organizational communication settings, including, but not limited to conceptualizations, theoretical foundations, conceptual analysis, empirical studies, cases, applications, and interventions. We aim to contribute to an improvement in our understanding of Digital Communication in Organizations, and to present resources to better navigate this difficult times of organizational communication management.

*CFP* "ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNALISM: EMERGING MODELS AND LIVED EXPERIENCES. LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD", VOL. 8 Nº 2 (2022), BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH

This special edition of Brazilian Journalism Research interrogates and collates the links between entrepreneurialism and journalism, in emergent journalistic practices and socioeconomic models. The growing recognition of entrepreneurial values and practices in the journalism domain has occurred against a backdrop of interlinked changes in journalism and media in the economic, technological, social, ideological and regulatory terrains. These are most prominent not only in the emergence of new digital actors and new configurations of national and international media landscapes but also in the reframing of normative journalistic practices, organisational structures, modes of production, distribution and financial sustainability. In this vein then, entrepreneurial journalism delineates new relations between actors, publics and domains of activity (Hang and Van Weezel, 2005; Mitchelstein and Boczkowski, 2009; Lee-Wright et al., 2012; Mercier and Pignard-Cheynel, 2014; Carbasse, 2015; Grohmann et al., 2019).

Taking shape in a movement which moves beyond traditional journalism boundaries (Neff et al., 2005) these transformations have created favourable conditions for new editorial projects to grow outside of traditional legacy, corporate or mainstream media. They exist as heterogeneous independent structures where journalists are confronted with operational challenges and financial obstacles that question any hard divide between editorial and business operations, which are little understood. New journalistic techniques and products are developed and iterated through a process of experimentation outside of normative practices. Whether they openly embrace the ‘entrepreneurial journalism’ label (Briggs, 2011) as distinguished at least in part from the other non-salaried forms of employment such as freelance (De Cock and De Smaele, 2016) or whether they adhere to certain entrepreneurial competences and general qualities without wanting to be overtly labelled, these journalistic projects are united by a certain level in their journalistic practices of deindustrialization and decentralisation. They necessitate new definitions and understandings hinged on flexible structures and new manners of doing and financing journalism.

*CFP* "PARTICIPATORY CULTURE WARS: CONTROVERSY, CONFLICT AND COMPLICITY IN FANDOM", EDITED COLLECTION

It has become increasingly clear that fandoms and participatory culture are sites of controversy, conflict and even complicity, complicating earlier assessments that sought to celebrate creativity, collegiality, and community. As we continue to make sense of the consequences of web 2.0, the study of fans – the affective bonds, identities, and productive cultures of a highly mediated and networked society – is vital in understanding our current moment, whether expressed in debates about “cancel culture” or ongoing “culture wars”. Fans have had to rethink and reassess their relationships to fan objects, consider their role in reproducing global systems of inequality, and reflect on the meaning of participation in an era that is marked by both moral ambivalence and political earnestness. 

Implicitly and explicitly, fannish practices are involved in a variety of key social, political, and cultural issues across the globe. They can be seen in politics, ranging from QAnon’s role in the storming of the US Capitol building, conspiracy theories relating to the covid pandemic, and the continued expansion of the global reactionary and populist right, from Britain to India to Brazil. They can be seen in new cultural terrains produced by networked movements like #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, #OscarsSoWhite, and the accompanying activism and responses as fans come to terms with the crimes, misdemeanors, and disagreements of former faves, like Xiao Zhan, Joss Whedon, or JK Rowling. They are expressed in the strategies and tactics of inter- and intra-fandom conflicts, whether Meghan Markle and the Royal Family or some Chinese fan responses to BTS talking about the Korean war. And, pressingly, fan tourism, collector culture, and the energy use of digital culture all contribute to the ongoing climate crisis. 

*CFP* "POLÍTICA, MEDIOS Y REDES SOCIALES. ENTRE LA CONVERGENCIA Y LA DIVERGENCIA", VOLUMEN 17, Nº 1, REVISTA INMEDIACIONES DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

La influencia mediática convencional ya no tiene asidero en el nuevo ecosistema, donde el surgimiento de plataformas interactivas convive con las dificultades económicas y financieras que atraviesan los medios tradicionales, vulnerados en su capacidad de demarcar la opinión del público de manera generalizada y homogénea. En este interregno, la pregunta que subyace es: ¿las redes sociales son un desafío real para los estándares tradicionales del periodismo o, en cambio, una herramienta de normalización? Depende.

Más allá de las promesas democratizadoras, las redes sociales son entidades jerárquicas, caracterizadas por asimetrías entre los usuarios y por una alta concentración de la información. Los mayoristas de la información siguen siendo los mismos: Twitter y Facebook comunican masiva y desproporcionadamente la información creada por autoridades de la red o influenciadores virtuales. En esa arena, donde las voces reconocidas por el público no son muchas ni diversas, las batallas culturales las gana la mayor difusión y no el mejor argumento. No todas las noticias tienen un lector. En los medios tradicionales existen brechas entre la instancia de producción y la instancia del consumo de la información, aun cuando los cuadros de mando dan señales a los periodistas y editores acerca del comportamiento de los usuarios en tiempo real, distinguiendo las noticias que tienen alta demanda o las etiquetas que marcan tendencia.

*CFP* "VISUALIZING CLIMATE CRISIS", NEW ISSUE, VISUAL STUDIES JOURNAL

Visual Studies Journal in collaboration Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool invite thematic and illustrated essays in traditional format (6-8,000 words) that critically and conceptually examine how we come to see, understand, and respond to climate crisis. 

By foregrounding the visual as an optic to better understand and examine these pertinent and timely issues, we welcome proposals that examine:

• How artists, activists, communities, and institutions deploy the use of photography and visual culture as a way of understanding the past, present and future impacts on communities, audiences, and people around the globe.
• Specific works of art and art practices that either historically or contemporaneously explore issues of climate crisis.
• Critique the role and relationship between galleries, museums, institutions and issues of climate crisis, advocacy, and education.
• Climate migrancy, the history of land and water management, food, and agricultural processes and/or the impact of food, clothing, and electrical consumption in relation to climate crisis.
• Food, biodiversity, recycling, land and water use, climate and race justice, architecture, non-human animals, and alternative energy sources as issues related to the climate crisis, either negatively or positively.

*CFP* "AUDIENCIAS Y NUEVAS FORMAS DE EMISIÓN: LINEAL, BAJO DEMANDA, STREAMING Y/O SOCIAL", VOL. 14 Nº 1, REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN

Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación / Mediterranean Journal of Communication invita al envío de textos para el monográfico: Audiencias y nuevas formas de emisión: lineal, bajo demanda, streaming y/o social, coordinado por la Dra. Belén Puebla-Martínez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España), Dr. Jorge Gallardo-Camacho (Universidad Camilo José Cela, España) y el Dr. Cesar García (Central Washington University, EE.UU.) que se publicará en enero de 2023 (V14N1). 

Fecha tope de recepción de artículos: 1 de septiembre de 2022. 

See details in English. 

Audiencias y nuevas formas de emisión: lineal, bajo demanda, streaming y/o social

La multiplicación de las pantallas donde se pueden consumir todo tipo de contenidos ha complicado la forma para medir el éxito y el impacto de cualquier tipo de obra audiovisual o campaña de comunicación estratégica (publicidad, RR.PP.). 

*CFP* "DISRUPTING AND RESETTLING THE LOCAL IN DIGITAL NEWS SPACES", SPECIAL ISSUE, DIGITAL JOURNALISM JOURNAL

We are inviting proposals to an exciting special issue on digital local news and journalism. Please consider to submit and/or forward to interested parties. Deadline for extended abstracts is June 30, 2021.

This special issue of Digital Journalism invites scholars to explore theoretically, conceptually and empirically the 'place', power and challenges of the local in digital news spaces. Both single-country and comparative research are welcome, as well as both theoretical and empirical manuscripts. The latter may involve quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approaches. The issue particularly welcomes cross-national comparative analyses and non-Western perspectives.

Possible topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

• How do journalists, audiences, policymakers and others define and shape understandings of the 'local' in digital spaces.
• What are the changing ways in which journalism reproduces, represents or builds notions of locality and location in digital space?

*CFP* "AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE NORDICS: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND RECEPTION IN A MULTI-PLATFORM ERA", ANTHOLOGY CHAPTER

The Nordic countries have a long and proud tradition of taking children and adolescents seriously as an audience with their own specific needs, in wider cultural policy frameworks focusing on children’s culture [børnekultur] as well as in specific film and media contexts (Bakøy, 1999; Christensen, 2002, 2006; Drotner, 1997; Jensen, 2017; Mouritsen, 1996; Rydin, 2000). However, the media use and viewing habits of children and adolescents have changed dramatically in the past decade – also in the Nordic region. Audiovisual content in the shape of film, series, and various “media snacks” on, for example, Netflix, Disney+, YouTube, Twitch, Snapchat, and TikTok are now a major part of their media diet, while their encounters with national film, series, and online content are declining.

This anthology invites contributions that further theories about industry notions of conducive production and distribution practices related to content for children and adolescents, and about children and adolescents’ receptionor “produsage” – or both – of audiovisual content and their own notions of relevance and quality in a digital and thoroughly globalised media landscape. Contributions can deal with questions concerning all genres and all aspects of audiovisual content made for or consumed by Nordic children and adolescents – from policy and production perspectives to textual analysisand reception studies. For example:

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION", BOOK PROJECT

Since the 1970s, the active role and involvement of marginalized citizens in development and social change programmes at local, national, and in some instances, international levels, has sparked much interests from scholars around the globe (cf. Waisbord, 2008). At the heart of this scholarship is the need to coordinate active citizen participation in different aspects of development, which is a breakaway from the earlier top-down development agenda of the 1940s- which placed emphasis on the Marshall plan of economic growth (i.e. Modernisation), where beneficiaries of development played little or no role in decision-making processes involving them (cf. Melkote & Steeves, 2015; Manyozo, 2008). Through participatory communication- which was influenced by Paulo Freire’s work on dialogical praxis, liberation pedagogy, and conscientisation as part of his classical treatise: /“Pedagogy of the oppressed” /(cf. Molale, 2021), scholars around the global south, largely from Latin America, began exploring ways in which different theories, frameworks and models can be established to facilitate and enhance meaningful and sustainable transformation in the quality of life for local citizens through their active involvement in development processes (cf. Manyozo, 2012).

The alternative paradigm that emerged was geared toward the popularisation of the development and design of campaign messages, that are supposed to be culturally sensitive, */language specific/* (emphasis intended) and in tune with the social realities of the people of the developing world (cf. Salawu, 2015; Nwuneli, 1993; Uribe-Jongbloed, 2013). The language in which a development message is disseminated is a very important aspect of the massage treatment. It is posited that the indigenous language of any community is best suited for the purpose of conveying any message, whatsoever, to the said community (cf. Salawu, 2015; Nwuneli, 1985: 203). 

*CFP* "STAGING POPULAR MUSIC: SUSTAINABLE MUSIC ECOLOGIES FOR ARTISTS, INDUSTRIES AND CITIES", 12TH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS

12th International Music Business Research Days

Staging popular music: sustainable music ecologies for artists, industries and cities

Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 3-4-5 November 2021

 

This conference focuses on the intersection between key transformations in the popular music industries. Music represents and generates value on various levels from the individual to the global, and in many different spheres from the cultural and social to the economic and political. Popular music is staged through multiple platforms, actors, businesses, intermediaries and policies. The current COVID-19-crisis both challenges the music industries and acts as a catalyst of new digital innovations. This is a vital moment to (re)consider the future directions of the music industries. While the music industries are characterized by continuous change and transformation, significant disruptions have always impacted its resilience. Such disruptions can be external shocks, including the current crisis, new technologies, political change or aesthetic-cultural innovations. From an ecological perspective, all transformations force the industry to reshape and rethink itself. This will likely result in both positive as negative consequences. We need to critically reflect on what the immediate and long-term future of music ecologies entails, who benefits and who suffers from such disruptions.