Aus allen Einreichungen werden bis spätestens 31. Januar 2012 die zwölf interessant erscheinendsten ausgewählt. Die Endversion der Paper (ca. 15-30 Seiten) soll dann bis 2. Mai 2012 an die oben angegebene E-Mail-Adresse gesandt werden. Die Paper werden dann in einer Workshop-Atmosphäre am 29. Juni 2012 an der Universität für Musik und darstellender Kunst Wien (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien) präsentiert und diskutiert werden.

Es sind alle Arbeiten, die sich mit musikwirtschaftlichen Fragen – unabhänigig von der wissenschaftlichen Disziplin – im weitesten Sinn beschäftigen, willkommen. Weitere Informationen können aus dem Call-for-Papers entnommen werden.

via Peter Tschmuck

Ein spannender Fokus, den man in unserer Forschungsdisziplin m.E. zu selten einnimmt. Die alte Frage nach der Relevanz wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens für die (gesellschaftliche, politische, wirtschaftliche usw.) „Praxis“ spielt dabei ja auch in der Betriebswirtschafslehre in Form der „Rigor versus Relevance“-Debatte eine wichtige Rolle. Der Diskurs ist hier weiter als in den Kommunikationswissenschaften: Spannende Antwortmöglichkeiten liefert zum Beispiel Ortmann (2009), der unter Rekurs auf Helmut Wiesenthal BWL als „Kontingenzwissenschaft“ (S. 162) bzw. „Optionenheuristik“ (Wiesenthal, 2002) beschreibt, die den Blick auf Alternativen eröffnet. Eine systemtheoretische Perspektive eröffnen Rasche und Behnam (2009) in „As If it Were Relevant“. Sie halten — durchaus heterodox — fest:

„Strictly speaking we cannot achieve relevance—if we refer to relevance as the direct application of scientific knowledge—because the application of this knowledge requires a modification by the system of practice“ (S. 249)

Auch sie kommen zu dem Fazit, dass Forschung relevant ist, wenn Wissenschaft Managern Alternativen anbietet, die gemeinsam diskutieren werde, ohne dass sie direkt präskriptiv wären (vgl. S. 252).

Schon diese beiden Ansätze zeigen, wie divers die angebotenen Perspektiven sind. Mich interessiert vor allem, wie sich Medienmanagement und -ökonomie dazu positionieren werden. Schön, dass die Dortmunder diese Fragen nun auch „bei uns“ auf die Agenda setzen — und damit, so ist zu hoffen, für die Zukunft auch einen stärkeren Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis anregen können.

Paper können ab 01.09. bis 15.10.2010 eingereicht werden.

Call: DGPuK-Jahrestagung in Dortmund

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Quellen

Ortmann, G. (2009). Management in der Hypermoderne. Wiesbaden: VS.

Rasche, A. & Behnam, M. (2009). As If it Were Relevant. A Systems Theoretical Perspective on the Relation Between Science and Practice. Journal of Management Inquiry, 18(3), 243-255.

Wiesenthal, H. (2002). Soziologie als Optionenheuristik? Mittagsvorlesung auf dem 31. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie„Entstaatlichung und soziale Sicherheit“, 7.-11. Oktober 2002 in Leipzig. Verfügbar unter: http://www.hwiesenthal.de/downloads/optionenx.pdf.

Call for papers

The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but neither are they at all times acting as fully self-determined producers of fully formed new works; rather, they occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content.

Produsage processes are now evident across a wide range of activities – mainly online, but increasingly also extending to the offline world – from citizen journalism and communal knowledge management through to collaborative artistic activities, from learner-led education models to citizen engagement in political processes. As such models establish themselves, what does an examination through the lens of the produsage framework reveal about their internal operations? How do they affect the existing institutional, industrial, social, and cultural environments within which they operate? How may they be guarded against cooptation and exploitation by corporate interests? What possible futures do they foreshadow?

Potential contributions to this special issue could include, but are not limited to, areas such as:

• Conceptualising produsage: theoretical frameworks for examining produsage activities, practical examples of produsage projects, …
• Historical and comparative perspectives: produsage and other forms of collaborative and commons-based work, precedents of produsage, …
• Technologies and practices of produsage: collaborative dynamics of leading produsage spaces, impact of the technological foundations of produsage, …
• Empirical perspectives on produsage: case studies of produsage and its effects, ethnographic research into produsage communities, …
• Methodology: research approaches to the study of produsage, tracking and evaluating produser activitities, …
• Critical perspectives: economic, legal, pedagogic, sociological perspectives on produsage, …

For this special issue of NRHM, we invite contributions on these and other topics related to produsage. Full papers should be around 7,000 words; shorter papers (around 3,000 words) for technical notes, industry perspectives or opinion pieces are also welcome. More detailed instructions for authors can be found online: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm. Queries should be directed to the Guest Editors.

Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham

Important dates

• 16 July 2010 – paper submission deadline
• 24 September 2010 – author notification
• 15 October 2010 – final copy due
• Northern Spring 2011 – publication

Guest Editors

Axel Bruns, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (Brisbane), a.bruns@qut.edu.au

Jan Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (Hamburg), j.schmidt@hans-bredow-institut.de

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The rationale for this Conference is to highlight the interdependences between telecommunications and social sciences. Scientists, professionals and senior students (Master & PhD), present their R&D results. Industrial key figures and lobby group leaders give their views on the evolution of telecommunications. Post-graduate students are very much invited to present their projects in so called poster sessions. This will be supplemented by panel sessions with discussions between the participants (senior speakers and post-graduates) and the audience.

For more information, please see the Call for Papers (PDF) and the Flyer (PDF).