The International Journal of Transmedia Literacy has launched a new Call for Papers
for its next issue 5 (2019), guest-edited by Dr Stefano Calzati (Tallinn University of Technology and Politecnico of Milan) and Prof. Asun López-Varela
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
The issue's
focus is on "Transmedia as a Strategy: Critical and Technical Expertise
for Today’s Media Galaxy" and it aims to highlight the heterogeneity of
the transmedia galaxy: How to critically approach the communicative phenomena
that are part of the transmedia galaxy? What are the skills and competences needed
to create transmedia outputs?
The
intersection of these questions characterises the middle-ground between theory
and practice, which can be best explored by highlighting the operativity of
transmediality as not much a descriptive term, but a strategy for better
understanding (and teaching) transmedia phenomena.
Specifically,
such strategy can be seen as the compound of critical and technical expertise
needed to deal with today’s transmedia galaxy. On the one hand, this means to
put theory “to effective use”, thus stressing how the concepts in the field can
work productively to provide new insights into the relationship between users
and media. On the other hand, the attention is turned towards the conception of
transmedia outputs (as case-studies), given their ever-increasing
“prosumerability” and global circulation, which demand a clear systematization
of transmedia adaptation as a practice.
The issue
welcomes interdisciplinary contributions coming from fields as diverse as media
studies, cultural studies, literary studies, socio-anthropological studies and
design research. Topics may include, but they are not limited to:
- Audiences and prosumerism
- Art forms, performances and coding
- Intercultural and critical approaches to the transmedia galaxy
- Space(s), temporalities and identities
- Rhetoric and politics of communication
- Teaching of new media literacies
- Transformation in design strategies
Deadline
for abstracts to be sent to the email issue5@transmedialiteracy.net (max 300
words): April, 15. Abstracts should outline the theoretical ground for the
analysis and discuss concrete case studies, including methodology and results.
Notification
of acceptance: no later than April, 28.
Deadline
for full accepted papers (around 6000 words, including bibliography): June, 30.
For all
infos & guidelines you can either write to the editors
(issue5@transmedialiteracy.net) or check the journal's website.
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