roundtable: CFP Media Information Australia

roundtable: CFP Media Information Australia

CFP Media Information Australia

PETER B. WHITE (pbwhite@latrobe.edu.au)
Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:38:54 +1000 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:38:54 +1000
From: "PETER B. WHITE" <pbwhite@latrobe.edu.au>
Subject: CFP Media Information Australia
To: roundtable@cni.org
Message-Id: <01H8U7I55MKU9D4IMK@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU>

 
                              CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                               SPECIAL ISSUE
 
                        MEDIA INFORMATION AUSTRALIA
 
            ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAYS: SETTING THE PUBLIC AGENDA
 
 MEDIA INFORMATION AUSTRALIA will be publishing a special issue
 devoted to the social, economic and political implications of
 plans to develop electronic superhighways in Australia, the
 United States and elsewhere. Proponents of these initiatives
 see these electronic superhighways as ways of providing new
 entertainment, communications, educational, and information
 services for individuals, schools, government and businesses.
 This issue of MEDIA INFORMATION AUSTRALIA will provide a forum
 for critical analysis of these proposals. 
 
 This special issue seeks contributions dealing with the public
 policy and research implications of these electronic
 superhighway initiatives. Contributors will be encouraged to
 map and define the agenda for research and public policy
 debate.
 
 Proposals dealing with national or cross-national analyses of
 the following issues are invited.
 
 - Critical perspectives on the political and economic
 motivations which underpin the electronic superhighway
 initiatives.
 - What is already known about audiences and home-based
 information and entertainment servicess where there is access
 to a multiplicity of services.
 - The emerging information industries and new structures of
 power roles arising from the mergers of broadcasters, media
 producers and telecommunications service providers.
 - Notions of universal service in an increasingly information-
 based society.
 - The role of regulators and consumer interest groups in
 safeguarding the interests of domestic users.
 - Privacy and surveillance in information-based transactional
 environments.
 - The strategic role of software-based billing and menuing
 systems.
 - The need for public policy to include principles of "common
 carriage" and "open access" in a competitive environment. 
 
 Proposals dealing with other issues raised by the electronic
 superhighway are also invited.
 
 Potential contributors should send abstracts of no more than
 300 words by March 1, 1994. Commissioned papers of 3000-5000
 words will be due by June 1, 1994. Publication will be
 contingent on peer-review of the commissioned paper.
 
 Please send abstracts or queries to the Special Issue Editor :
 
 Dr Peter B. White, 
 Department of Media Studies, 
 La Trobe University, 
 Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia 
 
 or 
 
 EMAIL: PBWHITE@LATROBE.EDU.AU  
 
 FAX:   + 61 3 817 5875. 
 PHONE: + 61 3 479 2785
 
 MEDIA INFORMATION AUSTRALIA, founded by the late Professor
 Henry Mayer, is a peer-reviewed journal with an international
 orientation, in its seventeenth year of publication. It is
 published by the Australian Film Television and Radio School
 and it has an international readership.

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