Limassol, Cyprus 14 - 16 October, 2009

http://sections.ecrea.eu/RR/index.html

The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section invite the submission of abstracts for their forthcoming conference, “Radio Content in the Digital Age”. Over the past decade, developments in technology have dramatically broadened the range of options for programming audio. The revolution began in the mid-1990s with a newfound ability to listen to audio being streamed over the Internet. Since then, digital radio has continued to expand with the advent of podcasting, offering radio programming on demand, and the rollout of different digital transmission systems, which provide superior sound quality and additional stations on and outside the traditional FM and AM wavebands.

What are the main characteristics of today’s radio content? How does radio programming differ around Europe and in other countries? How is radio content, both programming and genre, changing through new and emerging technology?"

PRINCIPAL THEMES

• Radio content in Europe and in other countries
  • Characteristics
  • Formats (music, speech, community, commercial, public service radio)
  • Genre
  • Main and Specific programmes (Radio drama, experimental radio programme, broadcast journalism etc).
• University and alternative – community radio content
  • Characteristics
  • Genre
  • Educational Mission
  • Broadcasting goals in the digital age
• Radio content and new communication technology environment
  • New technologies
  • Web – radios specific formats
  • Sound art
  • Techniques and methodologies for digitization
  • Podcasts
  • Other audio media
• Radio Audiences in the digital era
  • The radio network society
  • Blogging
  • Web radio audiences
  • University radio audiences

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Guy Starkey – University of Sunderland, UK
• Stanislaw Jedrzejewski – Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Poland
• Angeliki Gazi – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Rosamary Day – Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
• J.J. Cheval – Université de Bordeaux, France
• Caroline Mitchell - University of Sunderland, UK
• Stelios Papathanasopoulos - University of Athens, Greece
• Stephen Lax - University of Leeds, UK
• Paula Cordeiro - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
• Eirini Giannara – Univeristy of Athens, Greece
• Joan Francesc Fondevila i Gascón - Centre d'Estudis sobre el Cable, Spain
• Peter Lewis – London Metropolitan University, UK
• Salvatore Scifo - Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Ciaran Kissane – Head of Broadcasting Commission, Ireland
• Jo Taachi -Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Marko Ala-Fossi - University of Tampere, Finland

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

• Angeliki Gazi - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Nicolas Tsapatsoulis - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Christopher Kyriakides - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Dionysis Panos - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Guy Starkey - University of Sunderland, England
• Stanislaw Jedrzejewski – Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Poland
• Rosamary Day – Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Eirini Giannara – Univeristy of Athens, Greece
• Salvatore Scifo - Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Practical Details

• Papers should be submitted in English.
• Papers may be submitted for oral presentations.
• All papers accepted will be published in the proceedings of the conference.

Important deadlines

• Deadline for submissions: April, 15
• Final answers: May, 15
• Deadline for the registration: June, 15
• Deadline for the submission of the full papers: September, 5
• To submit abstracts: rrscon_lim_09@hotmail.com

Contact person: Angeliki Gazi, Vice Chair Radio Research Section, ECREA, angeliki.gazi@cut.ac.cy

Feel free to circulate this call to colleagues or any other research networks that may be interested in submitting a proposal. We are looking forward to welcome you to this event!