31 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "AVANT-GARDE AND POPULAR FORMS BETWEEN MUSIC AND VISUAL MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE Nº 33, CINÉMA&CIE INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL


In 1987, Simon Frith and Howard Horne’s "Art into Pop" questioned the rise of British Post-War popular music within the context of art schools, employing cross-terms such as “rock bohemians” and “pop situationists”. The authors focused on the 1970s and the aftermath of punk, finding a close relation between popular music forms and art forms in the contexts of several British cities as well as in New York City. More recently, Simon Reynolds traced the genealogy of an “artistic bias” in popular music back to the post-punk period of the late 1970s, when “art ideas affected actual musical practices” (2009: 365) due to the influence of not musically trained artists coming from the NYC experimental scene such as Yoko Ono and Brian Eno.

So far, scholarly investigations on the intersections between popular music and culture and avant-garde arts have been mostly limited to the social cultural milieu of only two decades (1960s/1970s) and two countries (U.S.A./U.K.). Essay such as Bernard Gendron’s "Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club" (2002) and Sytze Seenstra’s "We are the noise between the stations" (2003) constitute two notable exceptions through their reframing of the American punk scene and of David Byrne’s work through a diachronical comparison with French modernism and conceptual romanticism, respectively. They do not only reassess the collapse of hierarchical distinction between the social function played by high arts and mass culture with the advent of late modernity/postmodernity, but also take into serious consideration the relationships between different media domains.

*CPF* "CANNED TELEVISION GOING GLOBAL?", VIEW JOURNAL

The Transnational Circulation of Ready-Made Content in Television. The issue of audio-visual content international distribution and circulation is one of the most relevant in recent debates in Media and Television Studies: in the “age of plenty” (Ellis: 2000) distribution presents innovative features relating to both the introduction of new digital platforms and the diverse strategies developed by traditional and innovative players (including public service broadcasters, commercial, pay broadcasters and OTT services).

This area has been the subject of much previous scholarship, particularly in terms of the relevance of TV formats, their centrality for the medium and its economy, and the different practices of adaptation and “localization” (Moran: 2009; Chalaby: 2016). However, much less attention has been devoted to ready-made content and its circulation among different countries and markets. “Canned programming” is typically the output of a specific national TV and media system, but it spills across borders when licensed into different territories.

30 de julio de 2018

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL "ACADEMICUS"


The International Scientific Journal, “Academicus”, a scientific publication in English language. Academicus ISJ is a non for profit journal, open access publication, leaded by an International Editorial Board, brings scientific researches and academicians in a wide arena of discussion as only few other publications of this kind are actually doing.

Conceived as a scientific journal which gives a notable space to research results, including a wide variety of fields and sciences with direct impact on the economic, social, political, legal field and communication as well, indexed in the field 1XX.XX and 3XX.XX of the UDC, Universal Decimal Classification, this journal will collect works and researches developed on the point of view and disciplinary structuring of social and applied sciences as well. They all will have a direct impact in the improvement of socio-economic indicators of the region, enlarging step by step the definition of what is regional, starting from Western Balkan, Mediterranean and furthermore, following up the integrating processes.

27 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "INTERWAR MYSTERIES: THE GOLDEN AGE AND BEYOND", CLUES: A JOURNAL OF DETECTION


Interwar Mysteries: The Golden Age and Beyond (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection) Guest editor: Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)

“These things never happened before the War.” 
—Mr. Wetheridge, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers

Although the period between the World Wars is known as the Golden Age of traditional mystery fiction, other new forms such as the hard-boiled subgenre, true crime, and noir also emerged, often reflecting a grimmer reality. This theme issue of Clues will feature articles that examine this important crossroads in mystery, detective, and crime fiction.

26 de julio de 2018

*CFP* ISSUE 4.1, MISE-EN-SCÈNE: THE JOURNAL OF FILM & VISUAL NARRATION, SPRING 2019


Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) is the first of its kind: an international, peer-reviewed journal focused exclusively on the artistry of frame composition as a storytelling technique. With its open-access, open-review publishing model, MSJ strives to be a synergistic, community-building hub for discourse that begins at the level of the frame. Scholarly analysis of lighting, set design, costuming, camera angles, camera proximities, depth of field, and character placement are just some of the topics that the journal covers. While primarily concerned with discourse in and around the film frame, MSJ also includes narratological analysis at the scene and sequence level of related media (television and online) within its scope. Particularly welcome are articles that dovetail current debates, research, and theories as they deepen the understanding of filmic storytelling. The journal's contributing writers are an interdisciplinary mixture of graduate students, academics, filmmakers, film scholars, and cineastes, a demographic that also reflects the journal's readership. Published twice a year by Simon Fraser University, Mise-en-scène is the official film studies journal of the Department of English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. It appears in EBSCO's Film and Television Literature Index.

25 de julio de 2018

*CFP* “DECOLONISING CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES”, CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES JOURNAL, TAYLOR & FRANCIS ONLINE


Regarding an already consolidated tradition in discourse studies in the Global South, with featured importance in graduate programs and a busy calendar of annual events in the field, it is possible to say that there is considerable amount of imported knowledge being applied and very little creativity in local theoretical or methodological production. This issue of Critical Discourse Studies seeks to address this particular problem, relating coloniality of knowledge, power and being to research and teaching in the field of discourse analysis. Themes to be addresses in candidate papers could be related to:

24 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "MISOGYNY, TOXIC MASCULINITY, AND HETERONORMATIVITY IN POST-2000 POPULAR MUSIC", CHAPTER BOOK


Popular music has been a well-studied area during the 20th century, but this focus waned during the early part of the 21st Century, moving instead to music on the fringes. With recent academic and press interest in gender and sexuality in contemporary popular music, we aim to bring together a collection of works related to the notions of misogyny, toxic masculinity and heteronormativity in post-2000 popular music. 

Specifically, the purposes of this book are to:

  • Address the themes of heteronormativity and gender stereotyping 
  • Explore misogyny, female exploitation, and the sexualisation of female artists 
  • Discuss the concept of toxic masculinity 
  • Examine the notion of Gender fluidity 
  • Analyse the different elements involved with popular music, including lyrics, video, appearances in the media (both mass and social), and stage presence and the roles they play in the book’s core themes

*CFP* "REFOCUS: THE FILMS OF RACHID BOUCHAREB, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS RECOFUS SERIES


Rachid Bouchareb was born in Paris in 1953 to Algerian parents and became one of France’s first French filmmakers of North African descent. While his career now spans over thirty years and his diverse films have garnered both mainstream and critical success, including three Oscar nominations, there exists no book-length study (in French or English) on Bouchareb’s body of work. The director’s films are remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements, and narrative settings, from Senegal, England, Vietnam, and Algeria, to France, Belgium, Turkey, and the United States. While diverse in many ways, Bouchareb’s films are also linked by certain key concerns: the mixing of cultures, engagement with contemporary political issues and debates, immigration, and identity, among others. The director achieved national and international recognition for Indigènes/Days of Glory (2006) and Hors-la-loi/Outside the Law (2010), which both examine France’s colonial ties to North Africa, yet Bouchareb’s cinematic corpus extends well beyond this framework, and the full range of it has not been considered at length. In addition, Bouchareb’s work as a producer is an important yet often overlooked part of his career that merits critical attention.

23 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "DIGITAL MEDIA AND TECHONOLOGIES: NEW ART FORMS AND NEW MEDIA SPECTACLES", VOL.3 SPRINGER BOOK SERIES


This volume will be part of the Springer series, Digital Culture and Humanities: Challenges and Developments in a Globalized Asia (Series Editor: Tam, Kwok-kan). The aim of this series is to examine how digitization changes current cultural practices as well as the modes of thought in humanities subjects, such as art, literature, drama, music and popular culture (which includes comics, films, pop songs, television, animation, games, and mobile apps). It will also address the opportunities and challenges for scholarly research, industrial practices and education arising from the wide application of digital technologies in cultural production and consumption.

The wide use of digital technology facilitates the birth of new art forms and social media, which in turn have produced far-reaching implications for changing media ownership and its role in the political economy. Digital Media and Technologies: New Art Forms and New Media Spectacles aims to investigate the digitization of art and media within the dynamics of participatory culture, and how these changes affect the power relations between production and consumption of the new forms.

*CFP* "CREATIVE WRITING ONLINE IN ASIA", BOOK PROJECT


Creative writing is a solitary affair insofar as it involves putting words on the page. On the other hand, with the proliferation of online literary journals, it is also a social affair, subject to the dynamics of social media interaction. What are the implications of digital culture for creative writers? How are national, diasporic, ethnic and regional/local affiliations made manifest in creative writing online? How are our ideas to do with literary canons shaped by creative writing online? As creative writers and teachers, what do we tell our students who constitute the next generation of writers so as to better prepare them for the shifting terrain in creative writing brought about by the rapid growth of social media and creative writing journals online?

We thus propose a volume of essays focusing on the phenomenon of creative writing online in Asia. This collection will initiate the overdue process of engaging with the intersections of digital culture and creative writing in the region. We seek contributions from scholars, creative writers and educators so as to begin to understand the implications of the Internet for creative writing. This book would be of interest to scholars of creative writing, creative writers, and publishing professionals who are interested in the intersections of digital culture and literature. Palgrave has expressed an initial interest in this book project.

20 de julio de 2018

*CFP* NEW VOLUMEN, THE SOUNDTRACK JOURNAL


The Soundtrack is seeking proposals for guest-edited volumes, contributions to themed issues and article submissions for upcoming issues.

The Soundtrack is a cross-disciplinary journal which brings together research in the area of sound and music studies in relation to film and other moving image media. Drawing on a range of critical traditions such as film studies, media studies, musicology and cultural studies, as well as interactive and emerging media, the journal welcomes articles that address a diversity of topics and which contribute to the development of this increasingly important field of study.

*CFP* "DIAGNOSING HISTORY: MEDICINE IN TELEVISION COSTUME DRAMA", EDITED COLLECTION


There has been a long relationship between television and medicine: some of the small screen’s most popular shows, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been medical in focus, from hospital-set dramas like ER to reality TV shows and docudramas like One Born Every Minute. This fascination with doctors, hospitals and bodies is also shared by period drama television, but scholarship has paid little attention to this intersection/relationship. Recent period dramas including The Knick, Mercy Street, and Charite, for example, use the hospital setting familiar from older shows like Bramwell, to address larger themes about the professionalization of medicine, medical innovations and failures, and the gender politics that surround the profession. Dramas like Call the Midwife document the progress of the NHS and female reproductive health while also engaging in contemporary debates about contraception, abortion, and disability. In addition, medical-driven narratives abound in almost every period drama on our screens today: war-induced mental and physical trauma in Peaky Blinders; Spanish ‘flu in The Village; gay conversion plotlines in A Place to Call Home; bodily and facial disfigurement in Home Fires; medical experimentation and monstrosity in Penny Dreadful and Frankenstein Chronicles; nursing as a vehicle of female emancipation in The Crimson Field and Morocco: Love in Times of War; and all of the above and many more in Downton Abbey, whose most famous plotlines are medical in nature.

19 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "MEDIA LITERACY AS INTERGENERATIONAL PROJECT: SKILLS, NORMS, AND MEDIATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIA EDUCATION: JOURNAL FOR THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDIA EDUCATION


Today's information society is characterized by its permeation of multifunctional and ubiquitous media. Since a diverse set of media is most often habitually integrated in daily routines, media literacy is an «important prerequisite» to deal with media risks and opportunities (UNESCO 2016). Even more, media literacy has become a key competence for societal, political, and civic engagement and participation in the 21st century (Hobbs 2011; Erstad and Amdam 2013). Its acquirement is most often discussed as a long-term process during life cycle (Potter 2010), since individuals need to adjust their media literacy to media changes and also to the main challenges of the developmental tasks during the different stages of their lives (Pfaff-Rüdiger, Riesmeyer, and Kümpel 2012) and the turning points of their biographies. Furthermore, the socialization regarding media literacy is shaped by diverse socialization agents, i.e. parents, teachers, peers, and the individual itself (Hobbs 2011).

However, research on media generations demonstrates that living in different media environments and corresponding socializing environment leads to diverse media experiences (Naab and Schwarzenegger 2017) and therefore highly individual sets of media literacy with «differing levels and uses of literacy competencies according to [...] environments, needs, and available resources» (UNESCO 2016). The idea of an entanglement of media changes, lifelong acquirement of media literacy, and exchange processes between media generations is at the core of our preconference.

*CFP* JAMES JOYCE / RICHARD LINKLATER, ESSAY COLLECTION


From the earliest reviews to the most recent monographs, commentators have noted the Austin-based director Richard Linklater’s overt references to James Joyce. We invite scholars of literature and film to submit 500-word proposals for essays exploring Joyce's fiction in relation to specific Linklater films.

The list of relevant Linklater projects includes (but is not restricted to): It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Slacker (1991), Dazed and Confused (1993), the Before Trilogy (1994-2013), SubUrbia (1996), The Newton Boys (1998), Tape (2001), Waking Life (2001), School of Rock (2003), A Scanner Darkly (2006), Fast Food Nation (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Bernie (2011), Boyhood (2014), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), and Last Flag Flying (2017).

18 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "DIGITAL CULTURE MEETS DATA: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES", CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES


Algorithms and big data shape our sociocultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Considerations of data, algorithms and infrastructure are now central to our critical perspectives on, and approaches to digital culture. The ‘data logical turn’ has been talked about as a necessary critical consideration for digital culture, not least because communication, media infrastructures, practices and social environments become increasingly ‘datafied'. But what does this turn to data mean for our research, scholarship and pedagogic practice? What does it mean for broader epistemological and ontological frameworks? Has the data paradigm arrived as an unquestionable unifying concept for studies of digital culture and digital media, communication, technology? It may be that a shift of focus on algorithms and data is fundamentally disruptive to the ways in which we see our research and disciplines. It may even appear to limit the theoretical and methodological tools through which we increasingly try to understand mediation, the formation of identity, social life, politics and the creative industries. To others, the data logical turn may be plainly repeating the processes of earlier instances of technological innovation. And for some, it may provide an opportunity to frame new theoretical concepts and methodological tools for a whole new set of social, cultural and political phenomena.

*CFP* "AT THE EDGE", ISSUE #14 MEDIA FIELDS JOURNAL


While researching the Hells Angels in the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson wrote “The edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Conceiving of the edge as both a site of orientation and a sharp drop-off, Thompson gestures towards its dual denotations: as “the line where an object begins or ends” and “the cutting side of a blade.” Thus, the edge can act both as a form of speculative orientation that provides boundaries or points of entry, and as a threshold that offers the possibility of “going over.”     

As contemporary media scholarship continues to think through the proliferation of internet and screen cultures, their edges remain crucial to a comprehensive understanding. Scholars such as Adrian Mackenzie, Lisa Parks, and Mel Hogan have explored media technologies at or beyond their edges, asking how edge environments or experiences might alter their ‘typical’ use. Edward S. Casey writes that edges supply “a species of boundaries, that is, porous edges that take in as well as give out—in contrast to borders, which act to delimit institutions and concrete practices in the life-world.” Casey’s provocation suggests that studying media at the fringes or peripheries of society necessitates a discussion of the edges that construct their marginality. Additionally, edges establish relationalities between entities through their capacity to connect the nodes of distributed networks and complex systems. In this way, exploring media technologies and practices ‘at the edge’ can help locate imagined horizons and connections that inform the boundaries of identity, community, and globality.     

17 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "CON LA POSGUERRA EN EL RETROVISOR. LAS REPRESENTACIONES CULTURALES DEL PERIODO FRANQUISTA EN LA DEMOCRACIA (1975-2018)", CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL UNIVERSIDAD DE GANTE


En los últimos años, se puede observar un creciente interés por las representaciones culturales de la guerra civil española. De modo ilustrativo, se pueden citar, entre otras obras, Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice (2002) de Jo Labanyi; Lugares de memoria de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo (2006) de Ulrich Winter o la más reciente El telón de la memoria: La Guerra Civil y el franquismo en el teatro español (2016) escrita por Anabel García Martínez. Estos estudios analizan cómo la producción cultural reivindica la posibilidad de contar el pasado español a pesar de que predominó un tabú parcial sobre el tema de la memoria política durante la Transición y las primeras décadas de la Democracia

Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la época posterior a la Guerra Civil: los años del primer franquismo y la evolución desde la autarquía ideológica al despegue económico del gobierno tecnocrático a partir de 1959. 

*CFP* "THE MARVEL UNIVERSE", EDITED COLLECTION


The editors of a forthcoming volume are seeking concise essays of around 5,000 words related to any aspect of the Marvel Universe. We are seeking pieces that are academically sound, but accessible to the general reader. We want a unique collection of original and interpretive essays about the Marvel Universe that give original insights about all sorts of aspects related to the Universe Marvel has built since the 1930s. We are also doing a companion volume looking at the DC Universe. 

The editors are operating under the premise that the term 'universe' has come to be associated with the vast output of Marvel in terms of their diverse products: films, TV series, comic books, graphic novels, video games, action figures, and numerous other commercial products featuring their characters. In truth, the term is more significant than simply a catch-all as the Marvel Universe does indeed offer a unique, organized, and interlocking element that obeys the rules of a true Solar System. We are looking for individual articles focusing on everything from the distinct quality of action figures, video games, to how specific characters have gradually evolved in film, television, books, comics, graphic novels etc.,

16 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "POPULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICA IN NON-AMERICAN MEDIA", CHAPTER BOOK


Much of what the world knows about America is constructed and spread by global American or Western media, particularly global mass cultures such as Hollywood, VOA, ABC, and CNN among others. This is not unconnected to American media’s ideological and cultural domination of foreign markets in Europe, Asia, South-America and Africa. As noted by Thussu (2000), prominent American media organizations such as CNN and VOA have “power to mould the international public opinion. [Their] version of world events is likely to define the worldviews of millions of viewers around the globe”.

Meanwhile, most of these global American media – which claim to be windows into America – are arguably bias or simply selective, as they have a relatively myopic focus on their country of origin. Some of them, like Hollywood and CNN, deliberately function more like “America’s advertising department” and are thus predestined to perpetually portray America in a positive light. Others often overlook salient negative news that may, to an extent, damage the image of America. A good illustration of this truism is the fact that, issues like poverty – which affects over 15% of the American population – have rarely attracted the attention of the American media – a situation Medina (2013) decries in his online article titled “About 15% of Americans live in poverty, why is no one talking about it?”

*CFP* "THE DC UNIVERSE", EDITED COLLECTION


The editors of a forthcoming volume are seeking concise essays of around 5,000 words related to any aspect of the DC Universe. We are seeking pieces that are academically sound, but accessible to the general reader. We want a unique collection of original and interpretive essays about the DC Universe that give original insights about all sorts of aspects related to the Universe DC has built since the 1930s. We are also doing a companion volume looking at the Marvel Universe.

The editors are operating under the premise that the term 'universe' has come to be associated with the vast output of DC in terms of their diverse products: films, TV series, comic books, graphic novels, video games, action figures, and numerous other commercial products featuring their characters. In truth, the term is more significant than simply a catch-all as the DC Universe does indeed offer a unique, organized, and interlocking element that obeys the rules of a true Solar System. We are looking for individual articles focusing on everything from the distinct quality of action figures and/or video games to how specific characters have gradually evolved in film, television, books, comics, graphic novels etc.,

13 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "NINETIES" ISSUE OF M/C JOURNAL


In 2016, The New York Times published an article entitled "The Return of the '90s". In that article, journalist Alexander Fury wrote: "for those who lived through it, there was a sense of transience, of not only a century but of a millennium drawing to a close. Of both relentlessly looking forward to the promise of the brave and the new and back via an exhaustive sputtering of revivals."

Fury is correct: the 1990s was a transient, eclectic, unpredictable decade. The recent revival of the series "Twin Peaks" (originally screened in 1990-1) suggests that this decade has made a kind of "comeback", at least in the realm of popular culture.

*CFP* "THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NORTH: CANADIAN HORROR MEDIA", EDITED COLLECTION


Horror stories speak of our fears.  In doing so, horror stories also speak of our everyday, our “normal,” as this ordinariness is quickly thrown into disarray.  Things That Go Bump in the North will look at Canadian horror across media – from fiction, film, and television to games, graphic novels, and web series.  This edited collection considers what Canadian horror texts can tell us about Canadian culture, media, history, and politics.  Things That Go Bump in the North aims to see horror stories as stories about nation, as sites for critical reflection on the meanings and uses of “Canada” in this genre – and what we are terrified to lose, or perhaps keep.

This collection deliberately uses “Canadian” and of “horror” loosely in order to more fully explore the cultural work of horror stories.  By “Canadian,” we seek texts that are by, in, and/or about Canada or Canadians; “horror” includes inflections like the gothic and the grotesque, the silly and the supernatural.  We encourage diverse submissions from a range of critical approaches and research methods; we are particularly excited about work that addresses Indigenous, diasporic, and other underrepresented productions and perspectives. 

12 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "BACK TO THE FUTURE: TELLING AND TAMING ANTICIPATORY MEDIA VISIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES", SPECIAL ISSUE OF CONVERGENCE JOURNAL



Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are beacons of the future. These incessantly emerging tools and infrastructures project new ways of communication bring unknown kinds of information and open up untrodden paths of interaction. Yet digital technologies do not only forecast uncharted times or predict what comes next. They are, it seems, both prognostic and progressive media: they don’t await the times to come but realize the utopian as well as dystopian visions which they have always already foreseen. At the same time, all calculation of anticipations has to rely on past data that profoundly shape our ability to manage expectations and minimize uncertainties.

*CFP* CRIME, MEDIA, CULTURE: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, SAGE JOURNALS


Crime, Media, Culture is a fully peer reviewed, international journal providing the primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture.  The journal explores a range of media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style. While CMC embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, CMC encourages especially work that develops cultural, critical, and qualitative understandings of the crime, media, culture nexus.

The crime/media/culture nexus speaks to many whose work is embedded in theories of social relations and social change, and therefore maintains high relevance across the full spectrum of social sciences and humanities. Crime, Media, Culture provides a unique and much needed forum for serious debate underpinned by empirically novel and/or theoretically rigorous research.

11 de julio de 2018

*CFP* DIGITAL AND NEW MEDIA ISSUE, META-SECTION, MEDIASCAPE JOURNAL


Mediascape, UCLA’s graduate journal for Cinema and Media Studies, seeks submissions for the Meta-Section of its upcoming issue on digital and new media.

As Stéfan Tanaka (2009) cautions, we are long past “the utopian fantasies and anti-utopian rants of the digital revolution.” Our upcoming publication aims to investigate the categories of digital and new media shorn of the initial excitement that marked their emergence.  The Meta-Section, specifically, is looking for submissions of critical essays, digital art (recycled, collaged, or originally created), interviews, and other creative forms that feature reflexive inquiries into digital and new media. Academics, critics, artists, and others working within and around the humanities—regardless of identity or profession—are invited to apply. It is our strong hope that we receive proposals for collaborations between artists and scholars aiming to work together to open up the critical terrain of the digital. Whether working separately or together, our collaborators will help us raise new issues and research directions for a rising generation of scholars. Resulting work should be between 1000 and 5000 words; however, we are willing to adjust this guideline for interested authors and artists.

*CFP* "NEW MEDIA, MOBILITY AND PLACE MAKING", HUMAN TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL


Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, multiscientific journal focusing on the human role in our modern technological world. The journal provides a forum for innovative and original research on timely and relevant topics regarding the human dimension of evolving technologies, as well as new ideas and effective solutions for addressing human-technology interaction. Focusing on both everyday and business applications, the journal is equally interested in, for example, the social, psychological, educational, cognitive scientific (e.g., psychological, philosophical, cultural), and communicative facets and applications of human-centered technology. The editors of the journal are especially interested in ICT themes that serve to create a holistic human dimension in the current and future information society.

Human Technology publishes reports of empirical work, theoretical analyses, and reviews. It features guest editors and thematic issues and publishes peer–reviewed research and commentaries. Discussion and debate is encouraged, even on controversial themes. There are no restrictions on the background of authors, and published papers will reflect high scientific standards. The Human Technology journal will be of interest to scientists as well as commercial entities working to create a human-centered technological world. The journal is available online with no subscription fee.

10 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "THE EFFICACY OF POLICIES, THEORIES AND ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE INCLUSION OF REFUGEES", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION


The International Journal of Inclusive Education will be publishing a “special issue” entitled, The efficacy of policies, theories and actions to support the inclusion of refugees. This special issue invites contributions on human flows from a policy, theoretical and practical aspect. It is less concerned with definitional matters; who are we to decide politically, morally and ethically who has the right to flee. The issue looks away from the much-debated causes of massive refugee movements and looks to the efficacy and assessment of actions directed towards inclusion. 

Some suggested topics are:

  • Globally differentiated and shared refugee policies of inclusion,
  • In terms of specific areas, the practice of language, literacy, numeracy and ICT in education, health, employment and well-being are topics of particular interest, 
  • The role of cultural and inter-cultural practices of sensitivity and appropriateness, 
  • The inter-relationship between different professions working with refugees, 
  • Methodologies generating resources to facilitate and support the practice of inclusion.

PRIMERA CONVOCATORIA SEMINARIO DOIMECO 2018-2019


Estimadxs compañerxs del Programa de Doctorado:

Queremos comunicaros que abrimos convocatoria para participar en el seminario DOIMECO 2018-2019. Como ya sabéis, se trata de un espacio en el que compartir experiencias, ideas, herramientas, dudas e, incluso, frustraciones entre doctorandos. Un espacio que podréis aprovechar al máximo en función de vuestros objetivos, ya sea para realizar un simulacro de defensa de tesis, presentar vuestra evolución en la investigación, exponer los obstáculos que os estáis encontrando, entre otras cosas.

Si os interesa participar escribid al correo seminariodoimeco@gmail.com, indicando qué mes del primer cuatrimestre os vendría bien presentarnos vuestra exposición y un pequeño resumen en el que se indique cuál es el tema que deseáis tratar. La convocatoria está abierta hasta el próximo domingo 15 de julio.

Un saludo cordial y esperamos veros después del verano.

Coordinadores del seminario DOIMECO

*CFP* MEDIA, WAR & CONFLICT, SAGE JOURNALS


Media, War & Conflict is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively mediated age. It explores cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, new media, the arts, and their impact on publics, policy, and outcomes of warfare.

Media, War & Conflict is the first journal to be dedicated to this field. It publishes substantial research articles, shorter pieces, book reviews, letters and commentary, and includes an images section devoted to visual aspects of war and conflict. The journal bridges communications, political science, sociology, history, cultural studies and other disciplines. It solicits submissions not just from academics but also professionals and practitioners working in areas related to this subject matter. The editors are looking for innovative, readable work that raises new issues as well as articles that examine new facets of traditional topics.

9 de julio de 2018

*CFP* VOL. 7, Nº 2 (DICIEMBRE 2018), COMMONS, REVISTA DE COMUNICACIÓN Y CIUDADANÍA DIGITAL


Commons es una revista electrónica especializada del campo de la Comunicación, de periodicidad bianual, abierta a las contribuciones de la comunidad científica internacional y editada por el grupo de investigación Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital de la Universidad de Cádiz.

Commons. Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital tiene como línea editorial principal una concepción de la comunicación que incluya lo común, entendido como lo público y lo político. Desde este punto de vista, la revista Commons estará especialmente atenta a la dimensión tecnopolítica que tienen hoy los procesos comunicativos en sus diversas manifestaciones.

*CFP* "PROSTITUCIÓN Y MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN: DE LA CONTROVERSIA A LA INNOVACIÓN SOCIAL", REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN


Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación / Mediterranean Journal of Communication invita al envío de textos para el monográfico. La prostitución ha sido históricamente objeto de debate público y controversia social, materia de regulaciones gubernamentales, territorio de lucha contra la explotación sexual y de demanda de derechos

En ese marco, los medios de comunicación han sido un actor clave en la puesta en escena de estas disputas y han contribuido a configurar los marcos de inteligibilidad social de los sujetos, prácticas y relaciones involucradas en ella. Tanto el campo periodístico cuanto las producciones audiovisuales que tematizan la prostitución se nutren de los diferentes imaginarios sobre sexo comercial que son producidos en otros campos –jurídico, médico, moral y en las últimas décadas los feminismos- y le imprimen sus propias lógicas narrativas, estéticas, políticas y comerciales. 

6 de julio de 2018

*CFP* "SOCIAL MEDIA CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES", JOURNAL OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES


The Journal of Critical Discourse Studies aims to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change. This special issue is in response to changes in mediation technologies of discourse i.e. the techno-discursive re/deployments in the media industry brought about by the penetration, proliferation and concentration of discursive practices within communicative paradigm of social media (KhosraviNik 2017, 2018). The issue addresses this particular media context against a broadly defined field of Critical Discourse Studies. The special issue aspires to bring together studies which:

*CFP* "THE SPOTIFICATION OF POPULAR COMMUNICATION", THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDIA AND CULTURE


This special issue considers the various meanings of the “Spotification” of music and other media. We are especially interested in Spotification in reference to the changes in media cultures and industries accompanying the transition to streaming media and media services. 

Streaming media services have become part of daily life all over the world, with Spotify, in particular, inheriting and reconfiguring characteristics of older ways of publishing, distributing, and consuming media.

We look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and culture, including changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and television.

5 de julio de 2018

*CFP* DISCOURSE, CONTEXT & MEDIA JOURNAL, ELSEVIER


The mechanisms and contexts of human communication are rapidly changing in the face of new domains of interaction, new technologies, and new global cultures. Contemporary forms of discourse often involve interaction with and through a plethora of technologies. These mechanisms and contexts provide both new artefacts of study and new tools for discourse analysts.

Discourse, Context & Media is an international journal dedicated to exploring the full range of contemporary discourse work. It provides an innovative forum to present research that addresses all forms of discourse theory, data and methods - from detailed linguistic or interactional analyses to wider studies of representation, knowledge and ideology.

4 de julio de 2018

*CFP* THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN'S FILM, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

 
I am seeking proposals for chapters for possible inclusion in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film, under contract with Oxford University Press. Oxford Handbooks are intended to offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area, with essays giving critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates, as well as a foundation for future research.  

In recent years, the study of films for children has emerged as a vibrant and diverse field of critical enquiry. This volume in the Oxford Handbook series will reflect both the plurality of the format and the methodological diversity evident in current and recent scholarship, and serve as an authoritative introduction to children’s film. It will address themes, issues and topics from across the international history of children’s cinema from the early twentieth century to the present, aiming to reveal larger patterns, continuities and changes in the form, and reflect the ways in which children’s film content and reception have been shaped by major socio-historical events.

*CFP* "VULNERABILIDADES DIGITALES", REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN


Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación / Mediterranean Journal of Communication invita al envío de textos para el monográfico. Este monográfico está destinado al estudio de la vulnerabilidad de las personas en sus usos digitales. Esta vulnerabilidad digital puede venir de la mano de los riesgos, que no quiere decir necesariamente daño, a los que se hace frente en el ciberespacio y en los smartphones. A su vez, se puede vincular con personas que, por alguna causa, sufren una situación de marginalidad. Finalmente, la ausencia de determinadas competencias digitales puede colocar a determinados sectores de la población en una posición de desventaja en el plano digital y fuera de él. 

Es posible que el avance tecnológico y su generalización creen nuevas brechas digitales y agudizar las ya existentes. La detección de este tipo de riesgos y el estudio de los grupos más vulnerables es una tarea multidisciplinar pero con un protagonismo fundamental de la Comunicación. La mayoría de los efectos, tanto positivos como negativos, son consecuencia de una mayor y más estrecha relación comunicacional digital en nuestro entorno social. En definitiva, resulta necesario conocer cuáles son los mecanismos que pueden ir cerrando estas fisuras cuyas consecuencias son aún de una naturaleza y trascendencia indeterminada.

3 de julio de 2018

*CFP* MEDIA INDUSTRIES JOURNAL, MICHIGAN PUBLISHING


Media Industries accepts open call submissions on a rolling basis, and we encourage you to submit your research for our next peer-reviewed issue.

Submissions can address the full spectrum of media industries, including film, television, internet, radio, music, publishing, gaming, advertising, and mobile communications, and query a range of industry-related concerns and processes, such as production, distribution, infrastructure, policy, exhibition, and retailing. Contemporary or historical studies may explore industries individually or examine relations between industrial sectors, employing qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodologies.

We expect contributions to adopt a critical, rather than instrumental, perspective and engage with relevant media industries literature. We are especially interested in contributions that draw attention to global and international perspectives, and use innovative methodologies, imaginative theoretical approaches, and new research directions. We encourage authors to employ the online format creatively by incorporating audiovisual materials and hyperlinks within their articles.