FWD: Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS=20

Towards New Media Paradigms:  Content, Producers, Organisations and
Audiences=20

University of Navarre 26-28 June 2003

The Internet is now a part of the daily life of large numbers of people
throughout Europe and the developed world generally.  Now that the period o=
f
Internet euphoria is a distant memory, we are in a clearer position to begi=
n
to analyse the nature of the changes that are taking place as a result of
this new technology. Research shows that for many people, the uses they mak=
e
of the Internet overlap in important ways with the historical functions of
the mass media.=20

The aim of this conference is to consolidate the work that is going on in
Europe and elsewhere in order to analyse in depth the key changes to the
media, and to suggest emerging paradigms for the communication industries.
Abstract are invited for papers that focus on one of the following four mai=
n
themes:=20

Media products: new news formats, new media languages, new forms of
interactive content
Media producers: new professional skills, changes in training and education=
,
new careers patterns
Organisations:  new business models, convergence of media businesses,
changing industrial structures
Audiences:  changing relationships between media and society, the impact of
new media on the public, social uses of the new and old media.
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Abstracts should be submitted by February 15. They will be refereed and
proposers will be notified of decisions by 1 March. Completed papers will b=
e
expected by 30 May. Abstracts should be submitted electronically through th=
e
web page: http://www.unav.es/fcom/newmediaconference/eng/en_abstracts.html =
.
The working language of the Conference will be English.

The conference will take place at the School of Communication of the
University of Navarre, in Pamplona, Spain.  The School is one of the larges=
t
and best known in the Spanish-speaking world.  For further information abou=
t
the conference, the School of Communication and the city of Pamplona, visit
the conference web site http://www.unav.es/fcom/newmediaconference.


The conference is co-organised with the COST Network on the =B3Impact of the
Internet on the Mass Media=B2.  For information about the network, visit the
website: http://cost-a20.iscte.pt <http://cost-a20.iscte.pt/> .

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