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Information | Call for Papers

Journal of Media Watch

Call for Papers: January 2016
Media Conglomeration and Technological Monoliths

The giant media corporations of the world are initiating aggressive merging and acquisition strategies to tighten their ownership control and retain their customer base. Takeovers and buy outs in the media industries are becoming the everyday catch phrases in the global stock markets. Along with business strategies and associations, these acquisitions and mergers bring forward technological innovations to tighten the ownership control, increase profit and widen the user experiences for brand loyalties.

Facebook with its new internet.org and its acquisition of LiveRail, a San Francisco/ California-based online video advertising company, gate crashed into the blue chip 10 most valued stock club among the Standard & Poor's 500 index listing, whereas Google launched its news data center which is labelled as the power plant for the Internet in Alabama to tap the scribes and monitor the news media under their radar. Along with establishing a 'news lab' that collaborates with journalist and entrepreneurs in providing quality news and information to the world, Google is also on its way to an innovative project - Project Loon - a balloon powered internet (wireless) facility to connect rural and remote areas of the world. NBC is undergoing radical shift and remodeling whereas New York Times' collaboration with Microsoft and Apple for their mobile presence is proving successful with its popularity reaching even the Russian readers. Data and value utilization forms the main target for all of these corporations.

It is at this juncture that the Journal of Media Watch designed its next issue on the broad spectrum of media, mergers and innovations.

We welcome empirical and authentic research papers on the following topics:

• Media corporatization
• Technological innovations
• Media ownership and control
• Media merging and acquisition
• Media apps and tagging
• Geo-location and media positioning
• Market trends
• Marketing media products
• Innovative customer drives
• Changing social media spectrum
• Media consumer retention
• Organization makeshifts
• Social media world
• Social media developments

Final date for submission : September 30, 2015

For detail information and submission guidelines, please visit the journal website:

http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/
http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/media-watch-issues/forthcoming-issue/

Current Issue: May 2015
http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/media-watch-issues/current-issue-abstract/

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Tribute to Professor KM Shrivastava

Rest in Peace, Sir

Dr. Mrinal Chatterjee

Prof. K.M.Shrivastava, the senior most professor of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) and an erudite media scholar passed away on 28th August. He suffered a cardiac arrest at Nizammudin Railway Station. He was going to Bhopal for Rakhi. His four sisters and mother were waiting for him. His mortal remains reached Bhopal next day.
It was sudden. It was tragic. But in a way it was so Shrivastava Sir - like. He never liked the idea of being dependant on anybody. That probably was the reason he never married. He was too independent minded even to have waited for death at a riper age.
His foray into media academics was interesting. From being a Botany lecturer, he joined mainstream media almost on an impulse. Then suddenly he joined media academics in Punjabi University, Patiala. He joined IIMC in 1993. As a media academician he was well known globally. He was plenary speaker at the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Glasgow (1998) on the subject of Constraints in Communication. He was an IAMCR delegate to the UN World Summit on Information Society (Geneva, December 2003 and Tunis 2005). He participated in IAMCR Conferences held in New Delhi (1986) Yugoslavia (1990), Brazil (1992), Ireland(1993), South Korea(1994), Australia (1996), Mexico (1997), United Kingdom (1998)., Singapore (2000), Hungary (2001), Spain (2002), Egypt (2006) and Sweden (2008). Besides he spoke at conferences organised by Moscow State University (1995, 2002), Canberra University (1996, 1999), University of Leicester (2000), British Film Institute (2001), University of Tempere, Finland (2002), International Institute of Sociology (1997, 2001) and Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore (1994, 2000). Chaired a session at AMIC conference in Manila (2001) He spoke and chaired a session at the Dialogue on Cultural Diversity at Forum Barcelona (2004). He also participated in International Press Institute Conferences in Vienna (2002), Warsaw (2004), Istanbul (2007) and Helsinki (2009) His books include News Reporting and Editing (1987), Radio and TV Journalism (1989), Media Issues (1992), Media Towards 21st Century(1998), Broadcast Journalism in the 21st Century (2005), Media Ethics: Veda to Gandhi and Beyond (2005), News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet (2007), Public Relations in the Digital Era (2007), The Right to Information: A Global Perspective (2009) Korean Edition ofNews Agencies from Pigeon to Internet (2009) and Social Media (2013).
I met him in 2002, when he came to IIMC, Dhenkanal as its Head and I was there as Associate Professor. From day one we got along well, probably because like him I was also a journalist-turned journalism teacher. He was in IIMC, Dhenkanal as its Head till 2005. I never realized when the professional relationship turned into personal. Now that he is no more, I am missing KM Shrivastava like I miss my father, who left us for his heavenly abode ten years ago. Both were quiet, soft spoken but had very strong backbones. Both were hard working and were not scared of taking responsibilities. Both had a keen sense of history and a stronger sense of values and ethics. Both had honesty wired into their brains and they were upfront about it. Both were never scared to do or say what was not politically correct. Both had a reassuring presence for me like the cool shadow of a large Bakul tree.
With the demise of KM Shrivastava Sir, I am feeling like I have lost my father again.
Rest in peace Sir.

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1.9.2015