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Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM<br>Subject: Special issue of Telematics and Informatics: Radio and new participatory journalisms around the World: Understanding Convergence in News Cultures<br>To: "Gabriel, Ann E (ELS-NYC)" <<a href="mailto:A.Gabriel@elsevier.com">A.Gabriel@elsevier.com</a>>, Anders henten <<a href="mailto:henten@cmi.aau.dk">henten@cmi.aau.dk</a>>, "Chen, Jie (ELS-BEI)" <<a href="mailto:J.Chen@elsevier.com">J.Chen@elsevier.com</a>>, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>>, Sandra Braman <<a href="mailto:braman@uwm.edu">braman@uwm.edu</a>>, Boonlert Supadhiloke <<a href="mailto:boonlert.s@bu.ac.th">boonlert.s@bu.ac.th</a>>, "Charron, Claude-Yves" <<a href="mailto:charron.c-y@uqam.ca">charron.c-y@uqam.ca</a>>, "Kuo Chen-Yu, Eddie (Prof)" <<a href="mailto:cykuo@ntu.edu.sg">cykuo@ntu.edu.sg</a>>, Ulla Carlsson <<a href="mailto:ulla.carlsson@nordicom.gu.se">ulla.carlsson@nordicom.gu.se</a>>, <a href="mailto:cssschange@gmail.com">cssschange@gmail.com</a>, Howard Frederick <<a href="mailto:hfrederick@unitec.ac.nz">hfrederick@unitec.ac.nz</a>>, Francois Heinderyckx <<a href="mailto:francois.heinderyckx@ulb.ac.be">francois.heinderyckx@ulb.ac.be</a>>, Steve Fox <<a href="mailto:stevejfox@gmail.com">stevejfox@gmail.com</a>>, Connie Griffin <<a href="mailto:cgriffin@cas.umass.edu">cgriffin@cas.umass.edu</a>>, Louis Heinsman <<a href="mailto:Louis.Heinsman@omroep.nl">Louis.Heinsman@omroep.nl</a>>, Kasenally Roukaya <<a href="mailto:roukaya@uom.ac.mu">roukaya@uom.ac.mu</a>>, Karol Jakubowicz <<a href="mailto:jkarol7@tlen.pl">jkarol7@tlen.pl</a>>, Carmel Mathew <<a href="mailto:C.MariaJude@elsevier.com">C.MariaJude@elsevier.com</a>>, Last Moyo <<a href="mailto:Last.Moyo@wits.ac.za">Last.Moyo@wits.ac.za</a>>, Robin Mansell <<a href="mailto:r.e.mansell@lse.ac.uk">r.e.mansell@lse.ac.uk</a>>, Pippa Norris <<a href="mailto:Pippa_Norris@harvard.edu">Pippa_Norris@harvard.edu</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">Radio and new participatory journalisms around the
World: </span></b></p><div>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">Understanding Convergence in News Cultures</span></b></p><div>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Special issue of </span></p><div>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">Telematics and Informatics</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>�</span><a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/tele/" target="_blank">http://ees.elsevier.com/tele/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">�Edited by Dr. </span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Last Moyo</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Senior lecturer,
Media Studies, University of Witwatersrand, P Bag 3, 2050, Johannesburg, South
Africa. E-mail: <a href="mailto:last.moyo@wits.ac.za" target="_blank">last.moyo@wits.ac.za</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-ZA">The Internet and mobile phones are changing the face of radio. Their
appropriation by private, public and community radio is transforming radio as a
medium thus making it at least in principle more accessible through multiple
platforms such as webcasting, mobile streaming, and podcasts. In most cases,
these technologies have had a profound impact on radio�s institutional cultures
and practices especially with regards to the way it produces and disseminates
news and current affairs programming. They have a direct impact on journalistic
practices in terms of the gathering, manufacturing, and subsequent
dissemination of news to audiences. The use of digital media is also
influencing the audiences which are seen as becoming much more actively
involved in the production and consumption of news as radio changes from a mass
medium to a more interactive, individualised, and participatory medium.<span>� </span>Hence, this Special Issue aims to
conduct a critical study of new media uses by the public, private and community
radio stations and their audiences and the potential impact such uses have<span>� </span>in democratizing citizen participation
in radio news. Specific areas of investigation will include, among others, how
radio stations and audiences use mobile phones in terms of voice calls, SMS
(texting), MMS, mobile radio, podcasts, audio streaming, blogs, electronic
mail, and discussion forums to construct and mediate reality in the medium of
news. By new participatory journalisms, we seek to refer to what has been
controversially dubbed as citizen journalism. This is a kind of journalism that
is not only embedded on people�s everyday experiences, but is also </span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">driven people themselves. While </span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-ZA">these new forms of participatory journalisms have been appropriated by
radio, they also find independent expression through digital media channels.
While giving special attention to the confluences that exist between citizen
journalism and radio journalism, this Special Issue also takes a keen interest
in the general use of mobile phones and the Internet by radio and their
audience</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-ZA">�</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">OVERALL OBJECTIVES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Contributors to this Special Issue
are encouraged to provide theoretically sound and methodologically rigorous
case study-based analysis of the uses of the Internet and mobile phones by
radio journalists and their audiences in the production and dissemination of news.
Therefore, contributions that reflect historically-grounded theorization of the
Internet and mobile phone uses by radio journalists would be most welcome. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">RECOMMENDED THEMES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Contributions must
focus on, among other related issues, the following themes:<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 32.2pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;"><span>�<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">����� </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Confluences of
radio journalism and<span>� </span>citizen
journalism </span></p>
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phones and the changing<span>� </span>news room
cultures on radio</span></p>
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citizen participation in the digital age</span></p>
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public service broadcasting in the digital age</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 32.2pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;"><span>�<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">����� </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Digital media
political economy, radio audiences and the digital divide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 32.2pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;"><span>�<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">����� </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">ICTs, gender and
newsroom policies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 32.2pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;"><span>�<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">����� </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Radio, convergence
and fragmentation of audiences</span></p>
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