Ethics and Cinema–Dilemmas of a New Millennium, Frame by Frame Submission period for this issue 1 June, 2006 – 1 November, 2006
Ethika.org is an independent, non-profit, international development created by faculty members and doctoral students from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Ethica.org provides an informative and stimulating interdisciplinary forum for people wishing to share their knowledge and insights with a broad, diversified audience. This site publishes an online, multilingual journal twice a year. Its name, Aesthethika C, is a neologism that combines the expressions "ethics" and "aesthetics". We understand these terms in a broad sense. Our concern is to articulate a variety of perspectives and methodologies to understand and question the complex interplay of culture, subjectivity, discourses and politics, and their expression in all forms of human life. Ethika.org is also a site with information for researchers,
professors, graduate students and performers.
Style Requirements
Manuscript should be submitted to our Chief Editors, who will deliver them to the Editorial Board for blind assessment by two outside reviewers, (1) a faculty member and (2) an advanced Ph.D. student. The Editorial Board members are drawn from a diverse array of universities in different countries whose work and interests reflect the scholarship Aesthethika © focuses on.
Please submit 2 electronic copies of your manuscript, one to each Chief Editor. Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (double-spaced) or 7,000 words (including notes and references) and can be prepared following MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Manuscripts should include an abstract of no more than 200 words and have a detached title page listing your name, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, and email address. If your manuscript is accepted for publication (with suggested revisions or not), you will be asked to resubmit an electronic version of your manuscript (with necessary revisions, if applicable).
Manuscripts must be submitted as an attachment in an electronic file format in Microsoft Word. No author identifying material is to be contained in the manuscript, including the abstract and references. Author identification marks within the text will automatically invalidate its revision. The covering email message should contain a short description of the manuscript (topic, methodology, number of pages, tables, figures, and graphics).
Graduate students’ manuscripts should be identified in the body of the email: GRADUATE STUDENT. You are supposed to provide authorization for photographs, images (or similar material) attached to the document.
Authors are responsible for reviewing page proofs to correct errors and answer editors' queries. Prompt return of page proofs is mandatory. Reprints may be ordered at the time page proofs are returned.
Please send manuscripts electronically to:
Juan J. Fariña
jjmf@psi.uba.ar
Miguel Malagreca
malagrec@gmail.com
Please expect 3-4 weeks to receive review notification.
Communication Yearbook 32 will feature state-of-the-discipline
literature reviews of communication research. In particular, the volume
will highlight reviews of research exploring communication concepts that
span traditional "division" divides, issues of central importance to the
accomplishment of communication in a variety of contexts and for diverse
communicators throughout the world. The volume will also feature
literature reviews that detail how bodies of research can and should
inform and enhance other scholarly areas in the broader communication
discipline as well as enlighten various stakeholders as they wrestle
with interpersonal, health, organizational, inter/intracultural,
international, mediated, technological, political, rhetorical, and/or
societal communication challenges.
Potential contributors may submit a narrative analysis or a
meta-analysis; however, they should carefully integrate comprehensive
and thoughtful synthesis and critique of core research findings as well
as reflections on future directions for this area of scholarship in
terms of theory and application. Potential contributors may certainly
review relevant literature published in any language, but submissions
must be written in English. Submissions must adhere to APA, 5th edition.
Potential contributors must submit extended abstracts (e.g., 10-15
pages) or complete manuscripts (maximum of 70 pages, including all
references and
tables) by no later than November 15, 2006. Early submissions are highly
encouraged. If authors opt to submit an extended abstract, they must
include (a) a compelling rationale for the value of the particular
literature review for a global community of diverse communication
scholars and stakeholders, (b) a persuasive description of (and argument
for) the bodies of scholarship that will be reviewed, and (c) a specific
outline for the more developed chapter. Notably, the extended abstract
does not need to reference all of the particular articles and/or books
that may be reviewed, but it should provide clear explanation of how the
literature review will be conducted and how relevant bodies of work will
be selected.
Please submit documents electronically via Word attachment to Dr.
Christina S. Beck, Editor, Communication Yearbook 32, at BECK@ohio.edu.
All documents must be prepared in advance for blind review, with all
identifying aspects removed. Authors must mask references to their own
works within the text. The title page must be submitted as a separate
word document, and it should include all contact information (i.e.,
mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number) for
all authors as well as a list of keywords for the submission.
For more information about Communication Yearbook 32 or this call for
submissions, please contact Dr. Beck at (740) 593-9167 or via e-mail at
BECK@ohio.edu. Although electronic submissions are required, other
correspondence may be sent, if desired, to: Dr. Christina S. Beck,
Editor, Communication Yearbook 32, Ohio University, School of
Communication Studies, 210 Lasher Hall, Athens, OH 45701.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies Vol 13 no 4
Special Issue: Playing with convergence – digital games
The field of Game Studies is maturing beyond the boisterous binary
positioning that characterised its early development, with even those
in attendance during the early ‘theory wars’ attempting
rapprochements of one kind or another (e.g. Juul 2005, Jenkins
2003). The process of disciplinary development has shown that the
most vociferously held early positions are simply inadequate to the
task of accounting for the complex and diverse pleasures of gameplay,
and the jostling to define games in general may even have distracted
from a proper critical focus on the games themselves.
We no longer need to describe our object of study as though to the
uninitiated, nor do we need to persuade a resistant audience that
games are cultural objects worthy of detailed critical analysis.
This special issue is particularly interested in work which
demonstrates a familiarity with the debates that have shaped the
emergent field but which show the confidence to develop those earlier
debates through detailed, sustained analysis of individual games.
For this special issue of Convergence: The International Journal of
Research into New Media Technologies we are seeking original Research
into videogames, and we are particularly interested in the following
areas: consideration of the work of particular designers or design
teams, reflections on the status of authorship in games, and
reflections on the relationship between visual design and gameplay in
particular games and considerations of the relationship between
particular games and broader visual traditions.
We seek a variety of approaches that represent the diversity of work
in game studies, from textual analysis through to ethnographic
studies of players and historical investigations.
Authors should submit expressions of interest or papers to
helen.kennedy@uwe.ac.uk or jason.wilson@luton.ac.uk
Deadline: 30th November 2006
www.luton.ac.uk/convergence
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201774
Jason Wilson
Reviews Editor - Convergence
School of Media, Art and Design
University of Luton
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)1582 489114
F +44 (0)1582 489212
M 07886508141
jason.wilson@luton.ac.uk
The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA aims to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in Humanities and Social Sciences, to provide an outlet for scholars, writers, and others interested in the popular culture, to share ideas in a professional atmosphere, and to have papers presented at meetings.
The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 15
December 2006.
Enquiries: kdvorak@houston.rr.com
Web address: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
Sponsored by: Southwest Texas PCA/ACA
This is a call for short essays on the relationship between citizenship and media for the commentary section of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP). We invite essays that address any of the following questions or others not covered here. Do the media in our spectacle-laden, consumerist society trigger an evaporation of politics,or do they reinforce new forms of mediated citizenship? Can, and to what extent, particular media forms encourage a sense of political or social agency? Are we dealing with the inevitability of political atrophy (on a
mega-level), or are we faced in our post-9/11 era with a different
understanding of citizenship? Is this the way towards a global civil
society?
Essays should be no longer than 2.000 words.
MCP addresses cultural politics in their local, international and global
dimensions, and promotes critical, in-depth, engaged research on the
intersections of sociology, politics, cultural studies and media studies.
MCP aims to provide a forum for debate arising from findings as well as
theory and methodologies, so a range of research approaches and methods is
encouraged.
Deadline : 20 December 2006
For more information on the journals style guidelines please visit:
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/mcp
http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals/mcp/index.htm
Commentaries Editor
Liza Tsaliki
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dept of Communication and Mass Media
etsaliki@media.uoa.gr
CFP: łCarnal Knowledge[s]: Desire, Consumption and the Visual˛
March 29, 2007
Images of the body have long been used to sell things, including the body
itself, and sexualized representations of the body are ubiquitous in our
culture. This one-day symposium seeks to foster discussions of the
intersection of the body, desire, and commodification. Rather than simply
decrying this intersection as exploitative or celebrating it as liberatory,
we want to explore the complications of sexualized imagery. How do
pornographic, or pornographically inspired, images create expectations?
łCarnal Knowledges˛ will be the fourth annual visual culture symposium at
George Mason University and following in the tradition of the preceding
symposia will be an interdisciplinary, multimedia inquiry into issues
relevant to the theme, and to visual culture in general, from multiple
perspectives to include faculty, graduate and undergraduate work. In past
years our co-sponsors have included a diverse group of departments and
programs at the University, including programs in Cultural Studies, Film and
Media Studies and Honors, and the Departments of Art and Visual Technology,
English, Art History and History, Sociology and Anthropology, Philosophy,
the New Century College, and the Womenąs Studies Center.
As in previous years, the symposium will be presented concurrently with a
juried student exhibition of work created in relation to a parallel theme,
łCarnal Visions.˛ For more information, please refer to:
http://www.avt.gmu.edu.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due January 10, 2007, and should be
submitted to elgorman@msn.com. All paper presentations will be no longer
than 15 minutes, including accompanying visual images, and each panel will
conclude with questions from and dialogue with the audience.
Keynote Speaker:
Peter Lehman is Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at
Arizona State University, and teaches film history and theory. His newest
book is Pornography:Film and Culture from Rutgers University Press. He has
also written: Blake Edwards, Running Scared: Masculinity and the
Representation of the Male Body and Thinking about Movies: Introduction to
Film Studies, and edited Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism
and Defining Cinema.
Possible Panel ideas/themes include, but are not limited to:
Violence and desire
Images of war and terror
Desire and Dissection
DIY: the Internet and łamateur˛ photography
Selling with the body: advertising and the pornography aesthetic
Feminisms and the commodified body
Erotica: can you draw a line between art and porn?
Class and sexualized desire
Lynne Constantine
Associate Chair, Art and Visual Technology
Assistant Professor, Art and Visual Technology
Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies
George Mason University
lconstan@gmu.edu
Ellen Gorman
Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies, George Mason University
Lecturer, Georgetown University and Corcoran College of Art + Design
elgorman@msn.com
Tracy McLoone
Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies
Instructor, New Century College and Honors Program
George Mason University
tmcloone@gmu.edu
Papers are sought for the inaugural volume of a new peer-reviewed journal, "After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies." The first issue is planned for release in September 2006, and thereafter will be published semiannually (in March and September) and made available free through the internet (URL forthcoming).
We are currently seeking article manuscripts which focus on the interactions between nature, culture and society, or are in the general thematic areas of science and technology studies or critical studies of medical knowledge and practice. Contributors are encouraged to employ any form of rigorous theoretical and methodological approach, not limited to ethnography, historiography and textual analysis.
Manuscripts should range between 8,000-10,000 words in length, be paginated, and bear the title and author's name and affiliation on a cover page. Please also include a 200-250 word abstract, a list of keywords, and word count on the first page of the manuscript.
In addition to research articles and book reviews, we would like to include within our first volume short essays in response to the title of the journal. For example, what might it mean to live "after culture," or to produce academic work without culture as an explanatory tool? Or, how is culture still relevant? Alternatively, responses to ideas of "emergence" and "anthropology" in its broadest sense are also welcome. These essays should range between 3,000-5,000 words.
All submissions may be sent to after.culture@gmail.com. For the purposes of citation, please employ AAA citation practices, which are available at http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm.
Send all inquiries to Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Managing Editor, at
after.culture@gmail.com.
Further information can be found at
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~wolf0358/afterculture.htm.
Learning Inquiry
A new journal from Springer
Editors: Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinger
email: editors@learning-inquiry.info
Learning Inquiry is a refereed scholarly journal, devoted to
establishing the area of "learning" as a focus for transdisciplinary
study. The journal is a forum centered on learning that remains open
to varied objects of inquiry, including machine, human, plant and
animal learning as well as the processes of learning in business,
government, and the professions, both in formal and informal
environments. This journal is of importance to those interested in
learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future.
The journal will also present special issues that identify the
central areas of learning inquiry to provide focus for future
research. Learning Inquiry strikes a balance between presenting
innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster a
scholarly dialogue on learning that is independent of domain and
methodological restrictions.
Editorial Board of Learning Inquiry
David Berliner, Arizona State University, USA
Megan Boler, University of Toronto, Canada
Erik De Corte, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Kattie Embree, Columbia University, USA
Charles Ess, Drury University, USA & Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, Norway
Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech, USA
Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Canada
Mimi Ito, University of Southern California, USA & Keio University,
Japan
Cushla Kapitzke, University of Queensland, Australia
Heinz Mandl, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Penina Mlama, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nuria Oliver, Microsoft, USA
Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, USA
Ingvar Sigurgeirsson, Iceland University of Education, Iceland
Joel Weiss, University of Toronto, Canada
Submit Your Research to Learning Inquiry
http://submit.learning-inquiry.info
Learning Inquiry is currently accepting manuscripts through our fully
web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system.
Manuscripts should be submitted at http://submit.learning-
inquiry.info . Manuscripts should be written for an audience that is
general in scope, and submissions can include essays, research
articles, forums, and review articles that document the state of
knowledge and recent developments in the field. Visit http://
springer.com/journal/11519 for further information and to sign up for
information alerts about upcoming issues of Learning Inquiry.
ISSN 1558-2973 (print version) I ISSN 1558-2981 (electronic version)
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers
http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki
Black/African TransRacial Adoptees
I'm lookin for you! I'm editing a volume of creative and critical work to
represent the voices/experiences of African, African American and mixed-race
transracial adoptees. Poetry, short stories, fantastical imaginaries,
critical thought, truth and dreams welcome!
If you are or if you know someone who is a TRA, a writer or willing to try
to write about their experiences - please have them email me at
lrollins@berkeley.edu
THE BIRTH PROJECT
http://birthproject.blogspot.com
Solidarity,
Lisa Marie Rollins
Ph.D. Candidate
African Diaspora Program
African American Studies
University of California
660 Barrows Hall #2572
Berkeley, CA 94720
The editors also invite focused review articles on any aspect of culture and theory for publication in the Culture Machine Reviews section which publishes reviews of books, conferences, and other items of interest on a rolling, all year round basis (rather than annually, as is the case with the e-journal).
Finally, the editors are seeking original unpublished submissions for our newest section: the Culture Machine InterZone. Like the Reviews section, the InterZone publishes research in culture and theory all year round. It is also unthemed, thus enabling Culture Machine to promote and support a far greater diversity of work. Other than that, all the main features of the Culture Machine journal remain: the InterZone is peer-reviewed; is open to both established figures and newer writers; and accepts commissioned and unsolicited material from both academics and non-academics.
Anyone with material they would like to submit to the Culture Machine journal, Reviews section or InterZone for publication is invited to contact the editors. (We reply to all serious mail.)
Please note: all contributions to Culture Machine, including the Culture Machine journal, InterZone and Reviews section, will be refereed anonymously.
Culture Machine welcomes material from Britain, Australia and the United States, and is particularly interested in acquiring contributions from those working outside the usual Anglo/Australian/American nexus that currently seems to dominate so much of Cultural Studies. Culture Machine also welcomes contributions from readers/participants of so-called ‘inter-active’ texts, or any other forms that take advantage of and explore the uses and limitations of new technology.
Anyone who has material they would like to submit for publication is invited to contact Culture Machine's editors Dave Boothroyd or Gary Hall. (We reply to all serious mail.)
D.Boothroyd@ukc.ac.uk
G.Hall@mdx.ac.uk
August 31, 2006-September 4, 2006
American Political Science Association
(San Francisco, CA)
http://www.apsanet.org/
September 4-6, 2006
Engaging Baudrillard
(Swansea, UK, Swansea University)
http://www.swan.ac.uk/mediastudies/staff.html
September 6-8
Media Change and Social Theory
(Oxford, UK, St Hugh's College)
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/sept06/confsept06main.htm
September 14-15, 2006
Authenticity
(Manchester, UK, Salford University)
http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/seminars/forthcoming/index.shtml
September 14-19, 2006
Race and Pedagogy
(Tacoma, WA, University of Puget Sound)
http://www.ups.edu/raceandpedagogy/
September 15-19, 2006
Internationalising Media Studies
(London, UK, University of Westminster)
email: winstonmano@yahoo.com or winstonmano@yahoo.com
September 18-20, 2006
2nd Global Conference: Hope - Probing the Boundaries
(Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom)
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/h2/cfp.htm
September 18-21, 2006
4th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
(Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom)
http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/M4/cfp.html
September 27-29, 2006
AEMA THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conferences.html
September 27-29, 2006
9th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning
(Villach, Austria)
http://www.icl-conference.org
September 28-30, 2006
Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies Conference
(Wenham, MA, Gordon College)
email: Christ-in-Cultures@gordon.edu
url: http://www.christ-in-cultures.com/
September 29-30, 2006
Innovative Approaches to Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines
(Binghamton, NY, Binghamton University)
email: mrosenwa@binghamton.edu
September 29-30, 2006
Identity and Identification in a Networked World
(New York, New York University)
email: michael.zimmer@nyu.edu
September 29-October 1st, 2006
6th Annual Global Fusion Conference
(Chicago, Illinois)
www.global-fusion.org
October 5-7, 2006
The 67th Annual Pennsylvania Communication Association Conference
(Monaca, PA, Pennsylvania State University-Beaver)
http://www.pca.duq.edu
October 5-7, 2006
International Conference on Communication, Mass Media and Culture
(Istanbul, Turkey)
http://iletisim.bahcesehir.edu.tr/freedom
October 5-8, 2006
10th Biennial Public Address Conference
(Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University)
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/comm/2006PublicAddressConference
October 12-13, 2006
MANAGING DESTINATIONS IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD: Culture, Heritage and Tourism
(Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
http://www.tourism-culture.com
October 13-14, 2006
Translation as Commentary
(Paris, France, Universite Paris Institut du Monde Anglophone)
E-mail: c.raguet@univ-paris3.fr
October 12-14, 2006
Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts
(Alberta, CA, University of Alberta)
www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/waving
October 12-15, 2006
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender 29th
Annual Meeting
(Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO)
www.osclg.org
October 12-16, 2006
2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology
(Las Vegas, NV)
http://www.shot.jhu.edu/Annual_Meeting/Annual_Meeting_Main_Page.htm
October 25-29, 2006
ESF Research Conference
(Linköping University, Vadstena, Sweden)
www.esf.org/conferences/sc06217
October 26-29, 2006
Flow Conference 2006
(Austin, TX, University of Texas)
www.flowconference.org
October 27-29, 2006
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA
Wyndham Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD
http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/
November 8-12, 2006
2006 Film and History League Conference
Dolce Convention Center, Dallas, TX
www.filmandhistory.org
November 9-11, 2006
Attending to Early Modern Women-- and Men
(College Park, MD, University of Maryland)
http://www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw6
November 9-12. 2006
20th Annual Conference Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
(New York, NY)
http://www.dactyl.org/SLSA.htm
November 10-12, 2006
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
(Charlotte, NC)
http://www.samla.org/convention/convention.htm
November 14-19, 2006
National Communication Association Annual Convention
(San Antonio, TX)
http://www.natcom.org/Convention/default.htm
November 15, 2006
Communications and Economy (Preconference for NCA)
(San Antonio, TX)
mhayward@email.unc.edu
November 15-17, 2006
2nd International Media & Environment Conference
(Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia)
website: http://www.newsworldnature.com/home.php
November 17-18, 2006
First National Conference on Writing as Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines
(Hamden, CT, Quinnipiac University)
email: Timothy.Dansdill@quinnipiac.edu
November 19-23, 2006
LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND ENDANGERMENT
(Owerri, Nigeria, Imo State University)
http://www.apnilac.4t.com, www.callycussons.com
November 24-26, 2006
International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment
(Koper, Slovenia, Faculty of Humanities)
http://debate.uvm.edu/betterworld.htm
January 4-7, 2007
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(Atlanta, GA)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
January 12-15, 2007
5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
(Honolulu, HI)
http://www.hichumanities.org
February 1-4, 2007
The 32nd Annual FSU Conference on Literature and Film
(Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)
http://english.fsu.edu/filmlit/
February 14-17, 2007
Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association
(Albuquerque, New Mexico)
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
March 8-10, 2007
16th annual Cultural Studies Conference at Kansas State University
(Manhattan, KS, Kansas State University)
email: mjanette@ksu.edu
Dates TBA, 2007
Western States Communication Association Conference
(Seattle, WA)
http://www.westcomm.org/conventions/index.html
April, 2007 (specific dates to be determined)
National PCA/ACA Conference
(Boston, MA)
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/
April 2007
Broadcast Education Association Convention
(Las Vegas, NV)
http://www.beaweb.org/
May 24-28, 2007
International Communication Association Annual Conference
(San Francisco, CA)
http://www.icahdq.org/
August 9-12, 2007
Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication
(Washington, DC)
http://www.aejmc.org/
August 16-19, 2007
American Psychological Association Conference
(San Francisco, CA)
http://www.apa.org/conf.html
August 30, 2007-September 2, 2007
American Political Science Association
(Chicago, IL)
http://www.apsanet.org/
November 8-12, 2006
Film and History Conference: The Documentary Tradition
(Dallas, TX, Dolce Conference Center)
email: RollinsPC@aol.com
url: http://www.filmandhistory.org
December 2, 2006
Subversive Re/Viewing: Readings, Communities, Practices
(Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom)
email: rgriffiths@glos.ac.uk
April 20, 2007
Telling Stories: Theories and Criticism
(Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/Research/staff%20groups/arts.htm
November 8-11, 2007
National Communication Association Annual Convention
(Chicago, IL)
http://www.natcom.org/Convention/default.htm
January 3-6, 2008
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(Washington, DC)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
May 22-26, 2008
International Communication Association Annual Conference
(Montreal, QC, Canada)
http://www.icahdq.org/
August 6-9, 2008
Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication
(Chicago, IL)
http://www.aejmc.org/
August 14-17, 2008
American Psychological Association Conference
(Boston, MA)
http://www.apa.org/conf.html
August 28-31, 2008
American Political Science Association
(Boston, MA)
http://www.apsanet.org/
Dates TBA, 2008
National Communication Association Annual Convention
(San Diego, CA)
http://www.natcom.org/Convention/default.htm
January 2-5, 2009
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(New York, NY)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
May 21-25, 2009
International Communication Association Annual Conference
(Chicago, IL)
http://www.icahdq.org/
August 13-16, 2009
American Psychological Association Conference
(Toronto, ON, Canada)
http://www.apa.org/conf.html
January 7-10, 2010
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(San Diego, CA)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
August 12-15, 2010
American Psychological Association Conference
(San Diego, CA)
http://www.apa.org/conf.html
January 6-9, 2011
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(Boston, MA)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
August 11-14, 2011
American Psychological Association Conference
(Washington, DC)
http://www.apa.org/conf.html
January 5-8, 2012
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(Chicago, IL)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
August 9-12, 2012
American Psychological Association Conference
(Chicago, IL)
http://www.apa.org/conf.html
January 3-6, 2013
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(New Orleans, LA)
http://www.historians.org/annual/index.cfm
March 29, 2007
George Mason University
For more information, please refer to:
http://www.avt.gmu.edu
Call for Submissions
Special Issue on Amateur Music and Television
The tradition of amateur musicians and talent contests in the mass media
precedes the advent of popular television, yet in recent years,
particularly in the form of the various national Idol programs, amateur
music-making on television has seen staggering growth in popularity and
profitability. This issue of Popular Music and Society seeks
contributions that consider this boom from a range of perspectives.
Along with a host of other social types and narrative contexts familiar
to pre-WWII radio audiences, the amateur musician and the talent contest
migrated to television in the new medium's earliest days. In recent
decades the amateur genre has been one of undistinguished ratings and
negligible impact on the entertainment industry, despite the role of US
shows like Ed McMahon's Star Search in boosting the occasional singer or
model into the industry. In the last five years, however, the worldwide
media phenomenon initiated by Great Britain's Pop Idol television show
has brought the amateur into the lives of TV viewers in unprecedented
ways, forcefully suggesting the extraordinary contemporary relevance of
amateur music contests on television. Additionally, the Eurovision Song
Contest is beginning to receive academic attention as international
popular music and cultural studies conferences increasingly feature
panels on national identity and nationalism in this competition.
In the United States, the synergistic multimedia success of American
Idol has been unprecedented. The Fox network show has generated
staggering ratings across audiences of all age groups. First American
Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's debut single rose faster in the pop charts
than any other song in chart history--outpacing the previous record
holder, the Beatles'
1964 hit "Can't Buy Me Love," by a wide margin. The popularity of the
"democratic" principle of audience telephone voting was such that
network programmers considered spinoff shows along the lines of American
Presidential Candidate-Idol.
These and other issues within the amateur musician/television nexus
warrant further analysis. Is this merely the discovery, as American
Idol/Pop Idol judge and executive producer Simon Cowell would argue, of
a radically effective new cross-platform marketing strategy? Or is there
more to understanding the contemporary success of this form? The Guest
Editor of this Special Issue seeks submissions that will help scholars
understand the phenomenal international success of amateur music on
television today. The following topics are exemplary but are by no means
the limit of the kinds of submissions that would be welcomed:
* International and non-anglophone programming and perspectives
* Performance of nationalism and national identity
* Local amateur music programming
* The political economy of amateur music on television
* The aesthetics of amateur music on television
* The relation of amateur music on television to the music industry
* Historical accounts of amateur music on television
* Amateur music and globalization, neoliberalism or neoconservatism
* Relation of amateur music on television to social, political,
cultural,
or economic change
* Amateur music on television and the public sphere and/or cultural
policy
* The meaning of the contestant and/or judge and/or voting demos in
musical talent contests
The issue is tentatively scheduled for publication in May 2008.
Deadline for receipt of submissions is July 31, 2007.
Please e-mail submissions to Matt Stahl at mastahl@weber.ucsd.edu or
mail them to:
Matt Stahl
Department of Communication, 0503
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla CA 92093
USA
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