July 12, 2019

University of Madrid

Deadline: March 4, 2019

The IAMCR 2019 post-conference aims to bring together specialists to reflect on the performance of digital platforms in the field of information, communication and culture.

Description: This post-conference will highlight insights from scholars all over the world working on online communication and culture platforms. We seek to broaden ideas of what are the main characteristics of online platforms, raising questions about the ways in which this new enterprise form is connected with previous long-term trends and what is really new in its performance. Complementarily, we are interested in thinking about the design and implementation of public policies whose purpose is to regulate the functioning of digital platforms in the field of information, communication and culture.

Location: Puerta de Toledo Campus, Carlos III University of Madrid (Madrid centre)

Date and time: Friday, 12 July, 2019

We are seeking contributions that discuss how operate online platforms? What are the characteristics of "platforming" compared to other forms of organization of the culture and communication industries? Do online platforms contribute to the online diversity of cultural expressions? Do they express a more concentrate cultural and communication worldwide market? How do they challenge existing public policies, especially policies for the cultural and communication industries, or how do they rely on some of these policies to assert themselves?

This IAMCR 2019 post-conference aims to bring together insights from scholars all over the world working on the current presence of the online communication and cultural platforms. We seek to broaden ideas of what are the main characteristics of online platforms, raising questions about the ways in which this new enterprise form is connected with previous long-term trends and what is really new in his performance.

Please send title and abstract of no more than 500 words, and a short bio (150 words), along with a selection of key references no later than MONDAY MARCH 4, 2019.

Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to the following electronic address: mailto:onlineplatforms.IAMCR2019@gmail.com

Timeline:

• Call for Paper launch: November 2018
• Abstracts due: March 4th 2019
• Notification of abstracts accepted: April 1st 2019

Organisers: The post-conference is organized by the research group Diversidad

Audiovisual (Audiovisual Diversity), based at Carlos III University of Madrid together with the LabEx ICCA (France) and the Political Economy Section of IAMCR.