Journal of Digital Media and Policy

Aims & Scope

This peer-reviewed journal explores the digital media landscape, with an emphasis on structures, institutions, markets and governance, publishing content ranging from critical work on technology, industry and regulatory convergence, to emerging wider socio-cultural and political questions such as the application of online networks, the rise of cloud computing and the Internet of Things. We intend to examine critically emerging wider questions such as the role of ‘digital citizens’, the regulatory environment for the new platform industry and the role of state regulation in an increasingly global media industry. The journal is rooted in a belief in the socio-cultural, political and economic importance of digital media and will conceive it as a platform for international and interdisciplinary approaches that open up new avenues for theoretically driven works that occasionally draw on scholarship, adapting case studies and comparative analysis. The journal aims to analyse and explain the socio-cultural, political, economic and technological questions surrounding digital media and address the policy issues facing regulators globally. Digitalization, together with the trends towards globalization, deregulation, technological convergence and the rise of the Internet, has enabled media industries, media services and companies to evolve. Online networks are exploring new business models for producing news and entertainment, thereby enhancing consumer choice. Digital media allow people to promote, create, distribute and share experiences with audiences online and create opportunities for innovation through, for example, the establishment of new revenue streams. The journal brings together and shares the work of academics, policy-makers and practitioners, offering lessons from one another's experience. Content is to be broad and varied, evolving as the focus shifts from switching off analogue TV to the challenge of exploiting digital television's convergence with the internet and telecommunications. National case studies and comparative studies are a feature, accumulating the evidence for authoritative global analysis of the economic, political and cultural factors accounting for common principles and national differences. The journal covers digital television developments all around the world. Although the main focus of policy analysis so far has been on the pioneering countries, we welcome contributions from countries now beginning to consider introducing digital television. The journal includes book reviews, a 'feedback and updates' section with comments or new information arising from articles in previous editions and a feature providing news of government or regulator initiatives, major new service launches and key appointments. Information about major international conferences and events is also welcome.

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