Special Issue Call For Papers:
Funding and Media Management in the Convergence Era
Deadline: October 15 2016
Guest Editor: Matthew Freeman, Bath Spa University
Editor-in-Chief: Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University
Media convergence has
been mapped from a variety of perspectives, with scholars tracing the
impact of digital convergence on everything from texts to consumption.
Yet few have examined how the rise of a convergent
media landscape is impacting funding mechanisms in and across
contemporary media industries. It is an important time to take stock of
such a relationship, since recent public and scholarly debates over
funding in the global media industries seem inextricably
tied to digitalization, which continues to transform how media is now
produced and consumed. As such, basic business models for funding media
are changing too. Digital convergence has brought an increased
connectivity and hybridity between producers, audiences
and media platforms. Trends such as crowdfunding, co-creation (where
producers and audiences share responsibility for financing media) and
even subscription-based platforms like Netflix and video-on-demand
services such as iTunes all share these characteristics
of connectivity and hybridity that are emblematic of convergence.
This special issue aims
to showcase research that examines the impact of convergence on funding
and media management questions; that interrogates relationships between
the digital, the funding of media, and the
transformations emerging in production, distribution and consumption; or
that explores the broader implications of a media culture that is more
sharable, hybridized and connected on traditional funding models.
Specific areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
- Shifts in power structures from corporate-driven to consumer-driven
and its impact on the type of media being financed in contemporary
creative sectors
- Digitized interfaces and shifts in funding patterns and creative imperatives
- Transmedia and the relationship between spreadable content and funding
- Entrepreneurship in the media and turns toward co-creativity as funding
We also welcome research that examines more specific media industries:
- Film funding, including Hollywood franchise models of financing and crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter
- Television
funding, including subscription services such as Netflix and impacts of
digital convergence on public service broadcasting/license fees
- Videogame funding, including social media gaming production
- Comics and book funding, including motion comics and online publishing
- Music funding, including live-touring, streaming and downloading platforms
Submission Instructions
If authors have any
questions regarding the suitability of their work for this special
issue, whether topical or methodological, they should not hesitate to
contact guest editor
Matthew Freeman at
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or journal editor-in-chief
Bozena Mierzejewska at
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Articles will be
evaluated on their general merit, contribution to new knowledge,
and relevance to the topic “Funding and Media Management in the
Convergence Era”. Manuscripts that meet the scope of this special
issue will be peer-reviewed by two to three reviewers. All submissions
must conform to academic standards, be original, and not be published
nor under review elsewhere. Submissions must be in English and should be
no longer than 6,000 words.
International Journal on Media Management:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/hijm_cfp_special_issue_convergenceera
