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Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture*

Call for papers for a thematic issue on *Student and University Radio*

Guest Editor: Salvatore Scifo


University radios, also called student, college and campus radios, 
depending on the local cultural and social contexts were they have 
developed, have been a tier of broadcasting and/or narrowcasting 
stations that have become a regular feature in campuses across the 
Americas, Northern Europe and Australia. In some cases they are also 
local community radio stations that serve the communities that live in 
the surrounding areas and playing a role in training future 
broadcasters, widening the access to the media and a space for activism 
and social movements.
In the last decade, these media have been developing at a fast pace also 
in Southern Europe, Asia and Africa and adapted dynamically, often with 
scarce resources, in the convergent media landscape where they have 
experimented the integration with web-based forms of radio broadcasting 
and podcasting.

Student Radio and radio stations based in universities have been already 
around for almost 50 years, with some early experiences tracing this 
even back to the early days of radio and the experimental broadcast of 
the 1920s. Even though those stations are, and  have always been, placed 
in the same premises where media studies are taught and researched, this 
is a under-developed area of research and there are limited research 
resources available in this area.

Interactions is looking for original, research-based papers that will 
contribute to broaden the theoretical and empirical perspectives on 
media led by students, or where students are the main volunteer basis 
and target audience, by calling for contributions from a broad range of 
approaches including Radio Studies, Media Practice, Media History, 
Community and Alternative Media and Cultural Studies.

Interactions welcomes analyses of local, regional and national case 
studies, and international comparative research, as well as 
contributions on media practice, audience studies and ethnographic 
studies of these media.

Topics addressed in the papers could include, but are not limited to,
.    Country or regional student radio histories
.    Student radio practice
.    Student radio as a community and alternative radio
.    Ethnographic studies of student/university radio
.    Student radio and social movements
.    Student radio, culture and society
.    Student media in the context of digital and web-based media
.    Student media audience and reception studies

Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to the Issue's 
Guest Editor Salvatore Scifo at [log in to unmask]
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is *Thursday 30 September 
2010*. Submission of full papers will be by *Monday 28 February 2011*.

Further information on submission and on previous issues of Interactions 
can also be obtained by visiting journal's webpage on Intellect's 
website at:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=165/

Interactions recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the fields of 
media, communication and cultural studies and we therefore encourage 
diverse themes, subjects, contexts and approaches; empirical, 
theoretical and historical. Our objective is to engage readers and 
contributors from different parts of the world in a critical debate on 
the myriad interconnections and interactions between communication, 
culture and society at the outset of the twenty first century.

It is our intention to encourage the development of the widest possible 
scholarly community, both in terms of geographical location and 
intellectual scope and we will publish leading articles from both 
established scholars and those at the beginning of their careers.

Particular interests include, but are not limited to, work related to 
Popular Culture, Media Audiences, Political Economy, Political 
Communication, Media Institutions and Practices, Promotional Culture, 
New Media, Migration and Diasporic Studies.

Principal Editor
Anthony McNicholas
University of Westminster
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Associate Editor
Tarik Sabry
University of Westminster
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