EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
SPECIAL ISSUE : LIFESTYLE AND THE MEDIA
CALL FOR PAPERS
The European Journal of Communication will be publishing a special issue on
Lifestyle and the Media. The aim of this issue will be to address the role
of media in expressing, foregrounding and defining a number of contemporary
social-cultural phenomena that we believe may be inter-related, and fall
broadly under the concept of "Lifestyle".
These include: the growth of leisure pursuits such as gardening, home
improvements, foreign travel, cooking, food and wine generally, hobby
finance; related patterns of consumption and media use. We are interested
in the widening attentiveness to such areas in the media; personal and
collective identity formation based on symbolic goods and practices, e.g.
in relation to fashion and the arts; uses of new communication technology,
especially mobile phones, PCs and Internet as accessories to lifestyle as
well as functional utilities.
We invite papers on any aspect of these topics. Papers should aim to
connect such phenomena in one way or another to the media, empirically,
theoretically or both. The EJC especially welcomes work from scholars in
Europe or of particular interest to European researchers, but will also
publish work from or about other regions.
In the first instance we invite submission of abstracts. These should be
no longer than 300 words and must give a clear outline of the contents of
the proposed paper, together with full contact details for the authors.
Authors of papers selected for the special issue will then be notified and
invited to submit full drafts for refereeing. Others may, of course, submit
papers in the normal manner for publication in other issues of the EJC.
The initial timetable for submission is as follows.
„h Abstracts must be received by: October 31st. 2001
„h Final drafts must be submitted by: June 30th. 2002
„h Publication will be: December 2002
All correspondence (preferably by email) should be to:
The Editors, European Journal of Communication,
c/o EJC Office
Department of Communication
Universiteit Gent,
Universiteitstraat 8,
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
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EJC: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0050.htm
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