Dear AOIR, thought this might mesh with some members' current research. NB: no relation to the splendid-looking event publicised in David Silver's post today. [apologies for any cross-posting] Call For Papers: 'Media International Australia' Issue no. 126, Feb 2008 'Beyond Broadcasting: TV for the Twenty-First Century' Theme Editors: Graham Meikle and Sherman Young The broadcast era is over. The twentieth-century broadcast model of centralised, one-way transmission of pre-packaged content to large, simultaneous audiences is increasingly challenged and complemented by newer approaches. Content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are changing as the new media technologies empower users in unexpected ways and increasingly recast TV as something that audiences create as well as watch. Cheap hardware and software allow anyone to produce original or Œmashed-up¹ videos. The ubiquity of camera-phones and CCTV redefines reality television. Higher-quality resources bring near-broadcast quality to video blogs and citizen journalism. Affordable editing resources allow creative re-mixes of low-brow soap-operas. And sites such as You Tube demonstrate the online demand for such non-traditional video productions. Such media forms are unlikely to replace television as we know it. But they will displace it. This issue of 'Media International Australia' invites contributions that are able to push forward our thinking about television. The following gives some indication of the range of possible topics, but is not intended to rule out other questions. * What is television in the twenty-first century? Should our definition of television change? If television is considered a cultural habit, what new habits are emerging? * Does television require an industry? How are audiences reinventing themselves as producers? * What are the relationships between free to air, pay TV, public broadcasting and emerging new formats? * What are the impacts of new distribution models, both legal and illegal? * What impacts do the new technologies and habits have on traditional institutions, policies and regulatory frameworks? Papers should be approximately 4-5000 words and comply with the MIA style guide, available at <http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html>. Further information is available from Dr Graham Meikle <graham.meikle@mq.edu.au> or Dr Sherman Young <sherman.young@mq.edu.au>. Abstracts should be sent to the theme editors by 1 May 2007. Following proposal assessments, papers for refereeing will be required by 1 August 2007, with any revisions to be completed by 15 November 2007 for publication in February 2008. About the journal: Media International Australia (MIA) publishes new scholarly and applied research on the media, telecommunications, and the cultural industries, and the policy regimes within which they operate (http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html). MIA was founded by Professor Henry Mayer in 1976. It was published by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School until 1997, when it moved to the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University. At that time, it was merged with the Centre's journal, Culture and Policy. From 2004, it became a publication of the School of EMSAH and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, at The University of Queensland. In 2005 the Henry Mayer Lecture was established in memory of the journal's founder. Broadly inclusive and inter-disciplinary, the journal welcomes the writing of history, theory and analysis, commentary and debate. While its primary focus is Australia, the journal also aims to provide an international perspective. Dr Graham Meikle ------------------------- Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia. tel: (61 2) 9850-6899 fax: (61 2) 9850-6776 email: <graham.meikle@mq.edu.au>