[CMA] Call For Chapters

[Michelle Doust]

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Subject: call for chapters
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:27:28 +0100
From: Micol Carmignani <micol.carmignani at virgin.net>

"Notions of Community An edited collection of community media debates"
Edited by Janey Gordon, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Call For Chapters

Community media in all its guises has come to have an importance and
significance for communities globally in many differing circumstances. 
It has variously developed as a public sphere, uncensored by 
authoritarian or hegemonic view-points; it has aided economic and social 
development: it has provided an outlet for cultural products of 
minority, under-represented or repressed groups of people; it has given 
practical information, self-esteem and self-worth to those without other 
media forms at their disposal.

This edited collection gets beyond descriptions of the values and 
processes and is deliberately looking for argument and structured debate 
around the issues of this vibrant sector of the media.

The book seeks to examine the recent debates and dilemmas that have 
emerged with in this sector.  It provides a critical overview of the 
major issues facing community media and discusses some of the dilemmas 
that concern community media practitioners and their audiences. It seeks 
to unpick the relationships between such matters such as funding and 
content; producers or editors and their audiences; community media and 
commercial and national media and the over arching ethics of this sector 
with the regulatory authorities guidelines.

This book is an edited collection for students studying mainstream and
alternative media and also practitioners involved in the community media
sector. It has an international perspective and covers the traditional
formats of radio, TV and print as well as newer technologies and forms.

Peter Lang Books, Oxford, UK have strongly indicated that they are
interested in publishing this collection.

The editor is seeking abstracts for chapters in the following areas,

* Funding: Where does funding for community media come from?  Does it 
define content? What is the relationship with funding providers?
* Content: Is community media truly providing a public sphere of 
discourse? To what extent does it risk further marginalizing minority 
cultures?
* Audiences:  How is a 'community' defined? Who is accessing community 
media? How does community media engage with its audiences?
* Practitioners: Who are community media practitioners? What do they get 
out of their participation in community media? How do practitioners know 
they are 'successful' by their own definitions?
* Organisation: How does community media ensure that it is acting for 
those it seeks to represent? What forms of organisational structures 
best promote the ideals of community media? How does the ethos of 
community media relate to authorities and regulatory bodies? What is the 
relationship between community media and mainstream media providers?
* Dissemination: Is community media being marginalized by new 
technology? How is community media using and engaging with newer forms 
of dissemination such as web casts, ezines, pods, blogs, SMS, MMS and 
digital transmission systems?

This list is not exhaustive and discourse concerning cutting-edge 
community media dissemination systems is encouraged. These areas do not 
constitute a comprehensive list and proposals on other related themes 
will be considered. Selection will lay emphasis on papers that are 
accessible, clearly written, and enhance the debates and illustrate
the dilemmas surrounding the community media sector.

Submission deadline for abstracts is: 1st June 2007, with the final
chapters being completed by 30th September 2007.

Abstracts of 200 words and  biographical details of 50 words should be
submitted to Janey Gordon, janeygordon at beds.ac.uk


Janey Gordon

Principal Lecturer

Bridges CETL Fellow

janey.gordon at beds.ac.uk






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