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MedieKultur: Call for papers
Challenging Genre – Genre Challenges. New media, new boundaries, new formations
Special theme. Editors: Anne Jerslev (guest), Mette Mortensen, Line Nybro Petersen
Submission deadline: February 1, 2011
Publication date: Fall 2011
Today’s intensified blurring of boundaries between media, and between media and their audiences is challenging our traditional understanding of genre. New genres surface at the same rapid pace as old ones are contested or simply deemed out of date. Even though terms such as genre hybridity and cross genres have pointed to generic instabilities and experiments for a couple of decades now, the altered modes of media production and distribution raise a number of topical questions: How might we understand genre today? In which ways might genre be a productive term for conceptualising and comprehending the new digital media landscape? And not least, do we need to change our notions of traditional genre expressions, for example in film and television?
While the scholarly literature on genre is substantial in film studies, television studies and literary studies, the concept of genre remains largely underdeveloped theoretically as well as methodologically in our present era of digital transformation. Genre has traditionally been defined as a horizon of expectations and a contractual relationship between audiences and media formats. However, this definition hardly seems adequate in relation to contemporary media characterised, on the one hand, by new genres constantly emerging and evolving, and, on the other hand, by persistent renegotiations of the relationship between author, audience and media product.
This special issue of MedieKultur consequently sets out to rethink genre across a wide range of media offerings, including, but not limited to, online social media, television entertainment and news, film and film culture and video games. We thus invite contributions on:
• Media convergence and genre
• Genre, interaction, participatory practices and aesthetics
• Genre and digitalisation
• Genre and media production
• Genre and audiences
• Conceptualising genre – now and then
Journalistica: Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Today, status updates, tweets and wall postings are all messengers of news. For journalism this change implies new ways of working with sources, new ways to find inspiration for stories and new ways to collaborate with readers, listeners, viewers and users.
How do social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter influence our understanding of the ’public sphere’? Given that transparency and dataveillance is one of the main characteristics of today’s digital living, this question is of central importance to our understand of “the public”.
How are journalists to cope with the cacophony of digital voices on social networking sites, where network participants no longer have reverence for journalistic products? These products are no longer as unchallenged as they once were when they are published and remixed in a social media environment.
We welcome submissions that address how social media is changing journalism, the practice of journalism, the role of the news media in society and the ways that news is being consumed.
We encourage submissions from a broad range of perspectives and disciplines.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2010.
Publication date: February 2011.
Journalistica accepts articles written Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and English. Scandinavian contributors are kindly asked to submit in their native language.
For submitting online, please go to:
http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/journalistica/login
In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact Lars Holmgaard Christensen (lhc@journalisthojskolen.dk), editor of this issue of Journalistica.
Husk SMID konference – deadline 1. september
Husk call for panelforslag, posterpræsentation og indsendelse af abstracts til full paper-artikler og work-in-progress senest 1. september.
Sted: Hotel Koldingfjord/Trapholt Museum 2.-3.december 2010
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Call for papers: Short film studies
We invite all students of the short film – including researchers, teachers and
film-makers – to contribute to the second issue of Short Film Studies. Each
article should focus on any one of the three works mentioned above and should
not exceed 1,500 words. Any aspect of the selected work may be chosen for
study, including interpretive issues, dramaturgy, camera work, editing style,
sound, closure, etc. Potential contributors should begin by sending a 50- word
abstract to the editor, Richard Raskin at raskin@imv.au.dk. A prompt response
will follow, regarding the suitability of the proposed contribution. The deadline
for submitting completed articles for peer-review is 1st November 2010
Editor Richard Raskin
raskin@imv.au.dk
SMID Konference 2010
Så er programmet klar til SMID konference, 2.-3. december 2010
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