Call for papers

callOne of the greatest challenges for radio studies today is to redirect the attention to sound production. Over recent years debates have been focused on technology and new business models. While adapting to internet, radio is however risking its sound nature. Net Station International Conference is meant to be an opportunity to re-centre the discussion on the relevance of sound within contemporary societies, usually reduced to the visual culture perspective.

Following this main concern, the organisation committee of Net Station International Conference welcomes papers on the general scope of radio studies, with a particular focus on sound and internet approaches, such as:

– audiences
– radio studies epistemology
– radio journalism and narratives
– radio and advertisement
– radio and social media
– radio regulation
– community radio and identity
– radio and young generations
– radio genres and new business models
– migration of traditional/FM Radio to online/web radio
– sound aesthetics
– the creative power of sound
– sounding places, radio as the soundtrack of our public life

Deadline for abstract submissions: November 30, 2014

Each participant may submit a maximum of two proposals (as author or coauthor).

Authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts in English, but Portuguese and Spanish are also accepted languages.

To submit a proposal, please use the appropriate form.