MedieKultur: Call for papers: Technology, power and the political economy of new media

Recent developments in digital communication technologies have challenged commonly held notions of media systems and the power and production relations that they involve. The networked, global nature of new media challenges has established regulatory frameworks for mass- and interpersonal communication, and displaces previously well-known markets and business models. For example, the introduction of new platforms (smartphones, tablets) not only makes content available to consumers in new ways. It also undermines existing constellations between actors at different points in the chain from content production to consumption.

The aim of this special issue is to promote critical discussion about the intersections between technology, power and political economy, based on systematic theoretical and empirical analyses.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• new vocabularies of power
• old mass media in new media environments
• new communication technologies and political and regulatory bodies
• social media, democracy and political power

See the full call here. Deadline for submissions: 10 March 2013.

See also other calls, a.o. for “Media and Civic Engagement” with deadline 1 September 2013.