From: Elissa Jenkins [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:57 PM
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Subject: M/C Call for papers and reviews


M/C Online, found at http://www.api-network.com/mc, acts as a gateway
to M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture and to M/C Reviews, which
features
an ongoing series of reviews in culture and the media.

Both publications are actively seeking contributers.

1. Call for papers for M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture.

volume four, issue two -- 'mix'
edited by Jason Ensor & Carolyn Hughes

To mix is to transform, combine or blend to create something new. Within
this
transformation process, there is breakdown, renovation, reinvigoration,
novelty and
often strangeness.

'Mix' can be applied to many goings-on in media and culture -- from
visual and
fictional representations of racial and gendered mixtures, to the mixing
of music, the combining of literary genres, and the creating of
multimedia.

'Mix' can also be subject to various desires and political uses, and can
be observed as a deep cultural process guiding interpretations of
change, transformation, components of social movement, and ethnic
mixtures within nations.

Think of a mix you would like to unravel: What kind of mixes challenge
established forms of media and culture? How do ideas of the 'global
melting pot' make their way into media and culture, and what is their
impact? How is the rhetoric of the multicultural mix used and produced?
What beliefs do these uses of 'mix' foster and encourage? Is this
'fusion' or 'hybridity' full of constructive and creative potential, or
can it be destructive and sterile?

This issue will get amongst the mix and look at what is being mixed, and
how, and
what this is doing to boundaries within media and culture.

We invite articles that delve into the mix and write about its methods,
meanings and products. Put together your words and ideas and create
something for the mix...

article deadline: 19 March 2001
issue release date: 18 April 2001


2. M/C Reviews 'Screens' Feature

"Must-See Reality TV"

Editors: Kate Douglas and Kelly McWilliam

M/C Reviews http://www.api-network.com/mc/reviews

'Reality' television ('RTV') - that is, non/un-scripted television - is
widely acknowledged as the largest growth industry in contemporary
television. In its varied forms, such as documentary, 'caught on
camera', and adventure or game show challenges, RTV has been prominent
in television programming for the past decade.

The current wave has seen "Survivor" become the most successful
television program in American television history. Two other programs
that have been widely successful
in Australia and Europe, "Popstars" and "The Mole" have inspired
American versions which are currently in their first season. RTV has
proven to be successful across different countries and age demographics,
to the extent that all television networks in Australia currently
broadcast RTV programs.

M/C Reviews is interested in critical responses to particular issues
surrounding the success and interest in RTV. All papers should focus
upon very recent or current RTV programs or issues. Possible topics
include, though papers should not be confined to:

- discussions of television programs such as 'Survivor', 'The Mole',
'Big Brother', 'Popstars', 'Shipwrecked' or 'Temptation Island'
- the documentary form
- home-improvement style programs (such as 'Backyard Blitz' or 'Changing
Rooms')
- competitive real-life television (winning, losing, success, fame)
- strategy and sabotage ("outwit, outplay, outsmart")
- challenge and humiliation
- fabricated reality & 'authenticity'
- contrived 'societies' (domestic space, relationship building, social
hierarchies, rituals of island life, etc)
- television and testimony (disclosure, confessional, intimacy)
- marketing TV 'reality'
- RTV and 'casting'
- the role of the camera and editor in RTV
- immediacy and RTV (audience engagement, interactive RTV versus passive
viewing)

Articles should be 1000-2000 words in length, should follow the format
of other reviews on the 'Screens' site
http://www.api-network.com/mc/reviews/screens
and should reach the editors no later than Friday April 13th, 2001.

Submissions should be e-mailed to the editors: Kelly McWilliam
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Happy researching, happy viewing, happy writing!!

Elissa.
--
Elissa Jenkins
Co-ordinating Editor
M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
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http://www.api-network.com/mc/

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