Free theme and “College radios in times of attacks on science” monograph call for papers
Radiofonias - Revista de Estudos em Mídia Sonora receives free themes articles in continuous flow for the third edition of 2020 and is also with the open call for the monograph “College radios in times of attacks on science”.
Recommendations to authors can be found here: https://periodicos.ufop.br:8082/pp/index.php/radiofonias/about/submissions
2021.1 - Monograph "College radios in times of attacks on science"
College radios operate in Brazil since the 1950s, even before the regulation of educational broadcasting, in 1962. Cartography in progress (Kischinhevsky, Mustafa, Pieranti and Hang, 2018) indicates the existence of 100 stations belonging to 87 institutions of higher education in the country. Of this total, 71 are in operation on AM and FM channels with internet-transmitted replication, while the remaining 29 have programming broadcast exclusively online. More than half began to transmit in the 21st century, evidencing not only the growth of the field of public and educational communication, but also the strategic interest in scientific, technological and innovation dissemination.
Despite this rapid expansion, college radios face numerous obstacles, such as: poor infrastructure, lack of personnel, uncertain financing and institutional instability. To these were added the challenge posed by the political attacks of organized groups against the university, defamed as a space for the construction of knowledge and social and cultural inclusion. The post-truth of the disinformation campaigns sponsored by the social networks establishes a new level of barriers for the field of college radio that, still, fights for its legal recognition and for greater support for its formative role, not only in Brazil but also in many other countries.
In this context, Radiofonias encourage submission of articles that propose theoretical discussions, case studies and/or constitute developments of research projects that include various aspects of college broadcasting, such as:
- College radios, regulation and public and educational communication policies
- Institutional challenges, financing alternatives and the role of cultural support
- University radio stations as a space for experimentation and professional training
- Looking for the public: the importance of speaking beyond the walls of the university
- Ethnic and gender representation in college radios
- Experiences of networks and joint coverage and content exchange
- Radio journalism on college radios
- Interfaces between college radios and independent local and regional music circuits
>> Deadline for submission: February 02, 2021
