Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP)
#JDMPJournal Special Issue: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’
Guest Editors: Jessica Balanzategui, Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
View the full call here>> https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers
The rise of video-on-demand has provoked transformations in the way screen genres form, are distributed, and are culturally received and understood, transformations which intersect with developments in media policy in ways both intended and unexpected. Both national governments and private platforms have developed policies that have prioritised and/or abandoned certain genres. This has left broadcasters – with their respective commercial interests and public service remits – as the sole advocates and repositories for some genres. We invite contributions that consider how the interface of policy change and video-on-demand affordances have impacted the commissioning and licensing of long-form content (film and television). In tandem, the Special Issue seeks to explore how genres or format priorities have evolved. We also invite analyses of the impact of policy developments on genre formations across social media entertainment and video sharing platforms like YouTube or TikTok.
Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- National case studies of video-on-demand public policy on genre production, distribution and discoverability
- Explorative studies of particular video-on-demand platforms that have responded to the impacts of streaming policy on genre
- How government screen funding schemes infl uence genre trends and relate to policy
- Local content vs genre content: the boundaries and priorities of public streaming policy
- How streaming public policies compare to broadcast public policies
- How streaming public policies align with internal platform policies
- Whether public policy and resultant corporate strategies are resulting in trends within specific genres
- How algorithms and genres interact, and if/how algorithms factor into policy discourse, debate and strategy
- How intersections of journalistic reportage, public advocacy and policy/political debate drive genre emphases in public policy
Submissions:
Submission of abstracts should include name, institutional affiliation, contact information, title and a 400-word abstract.
Email your abstracts to all guest editors:
Jessica Balanzategui (jessica.balanzategui@rmit.edu.au), Andrew Lynch (alynch@ swin.edu.au) and Alexa Scarlata (alexa.scarlata@rmit.edu.au)
Publication deadlines and timeline:
Abstracts due: 9 March 2026
Confirmation of acceptance: 23 March 2026
Full manuscript due: 15 July 2026
Revisions sent out (peer review): 1 September 2026
Final submission: 1 December 2026
Publication: 1 March 2027
