CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS ***Please distribute widely - apologies for cross-posting*** Public Service Broadcasting Online This edited collection of work by international scholars analyses how broadcasters have used the world wide web to further their public service goals. How did broadcasters such as the BBC, ABC, ARD, DR, NRK and even the US Public Broadcasting Service translate their public service remits for this global digital platform? What were the differences and similarities between different broadcasters? What can these histories tell us about a future for public service in broadcasting? These questions are highly significant for those who value public service in broadcasting, and who hope that it will continue in a globalised digitalised communications environment. A number of public service broadcasters implemented web services amid dire predictions about the death, not only of public service broadcasting, but of broadcasting itself. Despite these circumstances, the websites were (and are) often extremely successful. In July 2008 BBC Online was the 27th most popular English Language website in the world, the ABC is consistently among the top ten websites in Australia, and DR Online has for a number of years been among the top three in Denmark. Perhaps these histories of success can take public service broadcasting more optimistically into the future. Each chapter of this book will focus on a broadcaster from a different country. Comparative chapters are also welcome. We welcome chapters that focus on: • policy and strategy; • regulation, media organisation; • web content; • users; • cross-media technology; • local and global relations. We are inviting you to submit via email to Maureen Burns (m.burns2@uq.edu.au ) or Niels Brugger (nb@imv.au.dk) by 17 April 2009: • a 500 word abstract of a proposed chapter; and • a preliminary outline of the proposed chapter. The successful abstracts will form part of a book proposal to be offered to academic publishers. Niels Brugger, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Maureen Burns, University of Queensland, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS February 2009 Forstå Facebook [in Danish]. www.kommunikationsforum.dk. Copenhagen: 5 pages, 2009 [ read the article: http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/artikler/forstaa-facebook ] November 2008 The Archived Website and Website Philology. A new Type of Historical Document?, Nordicom Review, 29/2, Göteborg 2008: 155-175 [ get an electronic copy at: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/269_brugger.pdf ] Strukturalismus (with O. Vigsø), Hans Fink Verlag, München: 104 pages, 2008 [ read about the publication: http://www.utb.de/katalog_suchen_detailseite.jsp?buchid=1942 ] INTERESTED IN WEB HISTORY? You may want to join the mailing list webhistory@imv.au.dk at http://mail.imv.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/webhistory INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF DR.DK? You may want to join the Facebook group "dr.dk's historie" [in Danish] at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61000607153 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Institute of Information and Media Studies University of Aarhus Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.imv.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk