Calls for Papers
Special Forum Call for Submissions: Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
Out of Bounds? Queer Intercultural Communication
Special Forum Guest Editor: Karma R. Chávez
Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2012
Communication Studies - 2012 Special Issue: New Directions in Critical Television Studies
Michaela D.E. Meyer, Guest Editor
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011
Over the past decade, scholars have coined the term "post-television," signifying a decline in traditional broadcast models through a rise in content choices across niche markets and the expanding influence of digital technologies. Despite claims that we are experiencing a "death of television" (Penenburg, 2005) or that "television is not 'television' anymore" (McRae, 2006), communication scholars still turn to television as a means of understanding how popular culture influences society and identity. If television is not "dead," how does it still function as a central part of our communicative landscape? Broadly speaking, television scholarship in our discipline interrogates issues of ownership and control (political economy), content (textual analysis), and reception (audience studies). This scholarship, however, is characterized by "contests over meanings and approaches" (Miller, 2008, p. xi) because scholars often "speak different languages, use different methods" and pursue "different questions" (Hartley, 1999, p. 18). As a result, television scholarship has become as fragmented as television itself. This special issue of Communication Studies will highlight critical approaches to the study of television with an eye toward defining and theorizing new directions in television studies. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts exploring television from a critical perspective, regardless of topic.
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Text and Performance Quarterly - Special Issue on Oral Interpretation and Ethnography in Performance: Examining the Dangerous Shores 2011
Guest Editors: Heather Carver, University of Missouri, and Bryant Keith Alexander, California State University Los Angeles.
In his three installations--"The Dangerous Shores: From Elocution to Interpretation," "The Dangerous Shores a Decade Later," and "The Dangerous Shores-One Last Time"-- Wallace Bacon, one of the pioneers in the area of the oral interpretation of literature and notably (if not hesitantly) the foundations of what is now considered performance studies, offered his great lament on the shift from elocution to interpretation and from interpretation to performance studies. In particular he writes in his first monograph of the dangerous shores metaphor from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "The poles here are, of course, text on the one hand and delivery on the other. These are, in elocution and in interpretation, the two 'dangerous shores' between which, or on which, any ship can founder".
This special issue of TPQ is designed to stand in relation to Bacon's use of the dangerous shores metaphor as both tribute and lament, as enabling and generative, as both a glance backward and a signal forward. And while Bacon ends his final lament in "The Dangerous Shores--One Last Time" by saying, "The dangerous shores between Scylla and Charybdis may be avoided by remaining on land; and much is to be done on land, though some of us miss the voyage" (358), this special issue is also interested as much in the directionality of our travels on land in performance studies as it is interested in the ways in which performance studies scholars might look at the on-going connections that tie us to our roots in elocution and the performance of literature, simultaneously sailing and exploring new (and familiar) shores. Professor Bacon wrote that while new interests beyond a literary text/performer relationship expand boundaries, they create a less "united discipline". He suggested that the "field's center requires a hard look by those who wish it well". What is the "field's center" and how might this issue help us to take "a hard look"?
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Call for Special Issue Proposals
We intend to publish one special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) over the next two years and, here, invite proposals for this.
Topics relating to any dimension of critical studies in media communication are welcome, but preference will be given to proposals that focus on theoretical, critical, social, and or methodological issues that are of pressing concern.
CSMC especially welcomes cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the critical and cultural dimensions of media communication.
Journal of Applied Communication- Special issue Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Communication: Examining the Linkages between Religion, Spirituality and Communication for Individual and Social Change.
Overview: This special issue is devoted to research articles and essays that focus on the role and impact of religion and spirituality (R/S) on the design, impact and practice of communication via the media and between individuals. Papers that address practical implications and linkages between R/S and communication in areas such as health, well-being, personal relationships, instruction, policy, public understanding or social discourse will be ideal for this special issue.
Journal of Children and Media - Call for Papers
Special Issue, Volume 4 issue 4, December 2010:
Media policy for children: International perspectives
Guest Editor: Amy Jordan, The Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania;
ajordan@asc.upenn.edu
The central presence of media in the lives of children and adolescents has led many societies to seek strategies to encourage access to potentially beneficial content (such as educational television programs) and technologies (such as broadband internet access). At the same time, governments often put in place policies to restrict access to content they fear might be harmful to youth development (such as pornography or unhealthy food advertising).
This special issue of the Journal of Children and Media is designed to offer a cross-cultural perspective on children's media policy. How do different countries discuss and treat the regulation of media to "protect" or "enrich" children?
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research - Call for Papers
The Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (JICR), a publication of the World Communication, focuses on quantitative and qualitative research related to intercultural communication. JICR publishes manuscripts that report on the interrelations between culture and communication within a single nation/culture or across nations/cultures. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by hard copy or electronic attachment to be considered for publication in volumes 37-39 (2008-2010). Three copies of hard copy submissions should be sent to Jerry L. Allen, Editor, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Department of Communication, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT 06516 USA.
Electronic attachments in Word format may be sent to jlallen@newhaven.edu.