What is Radio?
Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Radio
University of Oregon in Portland, Oregon
April 25-27, 2013

What is radio these days? How are digital technologies changing radio? How are the Internet and other new media changing the radio industry’s model of production, distribution and consumption? What is the future of radio?

Radio content is now produced and distributed using a wide range of digital technologies. Change is everywhere. But even with these alterations, radio remains as significant as ever.The conference will feature a unique coalescing of radio professionals, media scholars and students, government and community officials, as well as interested community groups and the public. The event will feature keynote speakers, roundtables, paper presentations, and screenings, in an attempt to answer questions about the changing nature of radio.

Presentations/papers may include the following topics (as well as others):

• How is radio defined today?
• What is radio in a digital world?
• What is the significance of radio in a global context?
• What are the changing practices of the radio business?
• What is the state of competition in the radio industry?
• How does the Internet function as a radio distribution outlet?
• What new economic models are emerging for the radio industry?
• What legacy radio programming and practices seem likely to survive?
• What is the future of public radio?
• What policies or regulations are appropriate for radio today?
•  How is radio content changing as a result of convergence?
• How are radio audiences changing?
• What can radio history teach us about the future of radio?
• What is the difference between radio and audio?
• What is radio art?

Conference organizers: Michael Huntsberger, Peter Laufer, Janet Wasko

Send 100-150 word abstracts of papers or presentations by November 1, 2012, to: Janet Wasko, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97405, USA
jwasko@uoregon.edu

Call for Papers: Opportunity for fast peer-reviewed publication! 

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) is an international journal which is jointly edited by the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano (USI) and the Swiss Association of Communication an Media Studies (SGKM). The journal is published twice a year. Each issue contains approximately 250 pages and includes a general as well as a special section that focuses on a particular topic prepared with the assistance of a guest editor. The forthcoming special section features “International and Comparative Research in Organizational Communication and Public Relations.” In addition, SComS invites submissions from all other areas* of communication for its general section.

Note: Submit your manuscript for review no later than 15 August 2012 to have it considered  for fast publication in the SComS fall issue!

SComS publishes full papers (up to 7000 words, longer articles may be considered if warranted) and short communications (up to 3000 words) in the form of focal articles, position papers, event reports, etc. Reviews of books or comments on papers may be commissioned.

Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions are thoroughly double-blind peer-reviewed for originality, soundness, significance, and relevance.

Submit your article now at http://ees.elsevier.com/scoms/.

Executive Editors
Prof. Dr. Annegret Hannawa
Prof. Dr. Stephan Russ-Mohl 
Prof. Dr. Diana Ingenhoff
Prof. Dr. Philippe Viallon

Editorial Secretary
Alessandra Filippi

Editorial Coordinator
Philipp Bachmann

*Studies in Communication Sciences is an international journal that publishes original articles of high quality in all areas of communication, e.g. linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, media, interpersonal communication, mass communication, corporate and institutional communication, management of communication, information and communication technology, formal models of communication, communication in educational environment, intercultural communication, sociology and psychology of communication. As a general forum for communication scholarship, the Journal is especially interested in research whose significance crosses disciplinary and subfield boundaries.