In our conference  (Lisbon May 3 to May 4), there will be a session “Regional Media Convergences: Europe, EUA, Latin America and Asia”.

The logic behind that is not technical convergence. We are rather interested in the idea, whether media in a certain region (e.g. Europe or Latin America) converge or diverge.  Even though we always talk about “convergence”, there are evidences for other processes. For example, in the old times, the music channel MTV had only one program in English for whole Europe. Now MTV produces programs for various countries in various languages with different contents. As to newspaper: This business is a local business, in which different countries have different readership behaviours. As we know from the research of consumer behaviour: There is to some degree a divergence in Europe. This leads us to several questions: Where and why do we have media convergence or media divergence? And: How does it look, when we compare e.g. Europe and Latin America.

Please join into the discussion. The deadlines are February 28, 2013 (abstracts) and April 10, 2013 (full Paper).  All your questions and submissions can be sent to the Paulo Faustino as the organizer of that conference (faustino.paulo@gmail.com) or directly to me (scholz@orga.uni-sb.de).

See you in Lisbon!