*CFP* "ACTION RESEARCH FOR MEDIA DEVELOPMENT: INTERSECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP", SPECIAL ISSUE, NORDICOM REVIEW

Media development as an academic field focuses on research questions spanning from technical, economic, and political issues to the social and the cultural spheres. Media development has implications for society in many ways. Since all media today are more or less digital, research has approached digital media by exploring “new” methods, like digital methods (Rogers, 2019) but also as action research methods (Deuze & Witschge, 2020; Wagemans & Witschge, 2019). Action research in, as well as for, media development is part of a transformation where media research is more and more considered to solve societal problems. 

Often, action research is practiced in local settings, interacting with stakeholders within a shared place and space and who have a shared concern for issues related to this. Both the local and the digital seem to have stimulated the application and appropriation of more normative projects characterised by the methods and sometimes also ideological foundations that action research utilises. In this realm, several applied projects touch upon research and development and innovation projects, innovation themes in the creative industries, and social innovation and social entrepreneurship. 

*CFP* LLAMADA A CONTRIBUCIONES, VOL. II, Nº 20 (DICIEMBRE 2020), REVISTA SPHERA PUBLICA

Sphera Publica - número 20, volumen II (diciembre 2020). Revista de ciencias sociales y comunicación. Universidad Católica de Murcia, España.

Sphera Publica es una revista multidisciplinar de ciencias sociales y comunicación editada por el departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la UCAM, España. Es una publicación de acceso abierto, con doble revisión ciega y comité científico internacional.

Aunque se trata de un número miscelánea, acoge con especial interés para el próximo número las siguientes temáticas:

• Comunicación política
• Calidad del debate público online
• Periodismo y minorías sociales
• Análisis bibliométricos
• Proyectos de innovación docente

 

DEFENSA DE TESIS "HUMOR, SÁTIRA Y CONTRAPODER EN ESPAÑA DURANTE LA PRIMERA LEGISLATURA DE MARIANO RAJOY (2011-2015)"

 Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis: 


"Humor, sátira y contrapoder en España durante la primera legislatura de Mariano Rajoy (2011-2015)"

Autor/a: JAVIER LÓPEZ MARTÍN

*CFP* "VIRTUOUS VIEWING", SPECIAL ISSUE, FILM CRITICISM NOVEMBER 2020

Over the past few months, numerous streaming services, media conglomerates, film critics and journals, as well as academic departments, have published lists of anti-racist films and television shows to watch, or promoted Black Lives Matter watchlists and viewing queues. This phenomenon has altered what it means to watch, particularly in a time of quarantine, when cinematic spectatorship in the US largely a small group and private affair. Likewise, by connecting spectatorship to a political position, these lists present watching as an explicitly politically-aware act. 

Watching films and television shows has always been political. But because many of these lists also make educative claims (to watch these films is to become informed), such lists assume viewers are well-intentioned but ignorant. Of course, the curation of moving images is not new and presents genuine opportunities for awareness, consciousness raising, and political change. And yet, these practices may also be cynical attempts to capitalize on a specific moment of work from home quarantine and political uprisings on the streets. Moreover, viewers themselves may attempt to signal their political awareness through social media posts and various other public markers in order to claim moral excellence.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEXT ISSUES, POPULAR CULTURE REVIEW

Popular Culture Review seeks to publish compelling, well argued, and well-researched articles on a variety of topics related to popular culture. While film, television, literature, and video games are common popular culture subjects, we wish to broaden the journal’s exploration of popular culture as well. Examples might include regional popular cultures, popular culture and food, popular culture in previous decades or eras, popular culture and social media, popular culture and music, and the like.

Submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process.

Popular Culture Review comes out twice a year – A Summer issue published in July and a Winter issue published in February. We are transitioning to the Winter issue being a general issue open to all topics and the Summer issue being a Special Issue. We also have a website that is currently being updated. Until that is complete, please follow the guidelines presented on the website for submissions and issue information.

*CFP* "ETHICS AND POLITICS OF TV SERIES", SPECIAL ISSUE, OPEN PHILOSOPHY

Open Philosophy invites submissions for the topical issue “Ethics and Politics of TV Series,” edited by Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, ERC DEMOSERIES), prepared in collaboration with the European Research Council project DEMOSERIES.

TV series are increasingly recognised in current research. However, their aesthetic potential for visualising ethical issues and developing a collective inquiry into democratic values has not yet been fully appreciated. Because of their format (weekly/seasonal regularity, home viewing) and the participatory qualities of the Internet (tweeting, chat forums), series allow for a new form of education by expressing complex issues through narrative and characters.

In France, the UK, Germany, the US, Israel, and many other countries, the number of films and television series revealing what happens ‘behind the scenes’ of democratic regimes faced with terrorist threats or other threats (environmental, technological, sanitary) is growing. These works reveal a moral state of the world. They may be analysed as ‘mirrors’ of society, or as ideological tools. But they can also be understood as new resources for the education of their audiences; as the emergence of a form of ‘soft power’ that can serve as a resource for public policies and democratic conversation.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 20TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE ISSUE, SLAYAGE: THE JOURNAL OF WHEDON STUDIES

The editors of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies invite submissions of papers for a special double issue to be published in 2021, celebrating the journal’s twentieth year. The focus will be the School of Whedon. Articles may consider comparisons and influences of Whedon and company’s work in other creations, e.g. elements of Supernatural, Eureka, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, or others; articles may also separately consider the work of what might be called the diaspora of artists who have collaborated with Whedon, such as series creators, e.g. Marti Noxon (Sharp Objects), David Greenwalt (Grimm), Tim Minear (American Horror Story), Jane Espenson (Husbands); actors, e.g. Nathan Fillion (Castle), Amy Acker (Person of Interest); composers, e.g. Christophe Beck (Frozen); production designers, e.g. Carey Meyer (C.S.I. Miami); editors, e.g. Lisa Lassek (The Circle); and more. 

The goal of the issue's “School of Whedon” theme is to encourage analyses that push past a singular focus on Whedon's work to consider texts influenced by Whedon, or produced by Whedon's present and/or former collaborators. These considerations may be comparative, but should feature significant engagement with other creators associated with Whedon.