Dear All,
Please find below the latest call for papers from Westminster Papers in
Communication and Culutre.
Best Wishes
Daniel Day
Call for Papers: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
What is Media History?
(Volume 4, Issue 3) Autumn, 2007
Over the past three decades the study of media history has emerged from the
academic shadows into an interdisciplinary limelight. No longer the sole
preserve of subaltern scholars in the fields of history, literary or media
studies, the subject has grown in importance and in scope encompassing a
wide range of genres across a variety of media forms. As the discipline of
media studies increasingly discovers its historical hinterland, so too
historians have come to view the media as much more than simply useful
primary sources, but rather as fundamental actors in the historical process
and thus worthy of study in their own right.
The rise of new media technologies has led to claims of an unprecedented
democratisation of the study and recording of the past, while the
relationship between the mass media and historical representations, whether
fictionalised or factual, is one that often engenders controversial debate
in both the film and broadcasting industries. Moreover, in an era of media
globalisation there are questions to be asked about how academics approach
the study of the historical development of communications that moves beyond
national boundaries to engage with global and comparative accounts.
As a consequence Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture invites
submissions from a wide range of backgrounds that operate in or seek to
problematise the study of media history and the numerous ways in which it
is approached. In addition to theoretical reflections we especially
encourage original empirical research that highlights
epistemological/methodological issues whilst engaging with actual
historical experience.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Global Media Histories;
Comparative Media Histories;
History, Media and Memory;
Time, Place and the Media;
Newspaper History;
Broadcasting History;
Film History;
History and New Media.
Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Daniel Day at
[log in to unmask] The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Friday 22nd
December 2006. For accepted articles the deadline for submission is Monday
30th April 2007. Further details of WPCC are available at
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-880
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