[Air-L] CFP - Inaugural issue, Journal of Media Innovations

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

I am very pleased to call your attention to a new publication venue that
should be of interest to many of you - namely, the Journal of Media
Innovations.  Please distribute the following as appropriate.

The Journal of Media Innovations explores how changing technologies and
changing modes of usage and engagement with media bring about innovations in
media.  It is an Open Access journal published by Fritt (Frie tidskrifter
fra UiO - free journals from the University of Oslo), using the Open Journal
Systems.  Under this system, authors retain copyright of their work.
 
The Journal emphasizes innovations in the following areas:
§  New media services
§  New players in the media landscape
§  New roles of users
§  New practices by existing media organizations

Users of digital media are becoming increasingly more active as producers
(and re-distributors) of content, contributing to new services, new social
constellations and new business models.  Over the last decade a number of
studies have focused on how Internet and mobile communication impact media
services, business models and strategies, and user patterns.  The Journal of
Media Innovations builds on this large body of research, and takes it one
step further by explicitly integrating perspectives on the roles of media
technology and innovation, with perspectives on the roles users have in
generating innovation and transformation in the media sector.

We invite submissions to our inaugural issue, ŒResearching Media
Innovations: Defining the Fields; Tracing Research Trajectories¹

The aim of this inaugural issue is to bring together articles that explore
how interrelations between media technology and users contribute to driving
innovation.  In doing so, we wish to collate and demarcate overviews of
relevant fields, perspectives and trajectories for studying innovations in
media.  The articles will also facilitate critical reflection of the social,
economic and political implications of Media Innovations.  Theoretical
perspectives may be linked to any field within the humanities or social
sciences.  These include, but are not limited to: user perspectives;
economic perspectives; product perspectives; regulatory perspectives; and,
strategic and organisational perspectives.
 
Issue Coordinators
Editor: Charles Ess; Editorial Assistant: Karoline Andrea Ihlæbeck
 
Publication Information:
Deadline for Submission of Papers: 30 September 2013; Publication Date: 15
January 2014
Articles should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length.  All articles
will be reviewed in a double-blind system. 
Additional inquiries should be addressed to: Karoline Andrea Ihlæbeck
<k.a.ihlebak at media.uio.no>
 
Editorial Board:
Piet Bakker, Technical University Utrecht, The Netherlands; Axel Bruns,
Queensland University of Technology; Pieter Ballon, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium; Sabine Baumann, Jade University, Germany; Niamh Ní Bhroin,
University of Oslo, Norway; Terje Colbjørnsen, University of Oslo. Norway;
Charles H. Davis, Ryerson University, Canada; Leyla Dogruel, Freie
Universität Berlin, Germany; Rasmus Helles, Institut for Medier, Erkendelse
og Formidling, Københavns Universitet; Arne H. Krumsvik, Oslo and Akershus
University College of Applied Sciences, Norway; Lucy Küng, University of
Jönköping, Sweden; Rich Ling, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Stine
Lomborg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Jérémie Nicey, Université
François-Rabelais de Tours, France; Daniel J. Paré, University of Ottawa,
Canada; Jo Pierson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Philippe Ross,
University of Ottawa, Canada; Eli Skogerbø, University of Oslo, Norway;
Tanja Storsul, University of Oslo, Norway; Wendy Van den Broeck, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel; Oscar Westlund, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Many thanks in advance for distribution and potential interest.

- charles ess
Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication

Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/>

University of Oslo 
P.O. Box 1093 Blindern
NO-0317 
Oslo Norway
email: c.m.ess at media.uio.no