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Dear Colleagues, I am please to announce the UK release of the latest Special Issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 6(3): Euro Visions: Culture, Identity and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest Featuring the following contributions • ‘Why is the Eurovision Song Contest Ridiculous? Exploring a Spectacle of Embarrassment, Irony and Identity’ by Stephen Coleman • ‘“In the End, Germany will Always Resort to Hot Pants”: Watching Europe Singing, Constructing the Stereotype’ by Myria Georgiou • ‘The After-Life of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries and Ephemeral Communicative Space’ by Miyase Christensen and Christian Christensen • ‘Wild Dances and Dying Wolves: Simulation, Essentialization, and National Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest’ by Catherine Baker • ‘On the Couch with Europe: The Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcast Union and Belonging on the Old Continent’ by Cornel Sandvoss Electronic access to Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture is free to all members of the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). To join ICA, visit www.icahdq.org. Existing ICA Members can join the division by adding to their division memberships at “My ICA” Single copies of the Special Issue are available through Taylor and Francis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture provides a forum for the scholarly investigation, analysis, and dialogue on communication symbols, forms, phenomena, and strategic systems of symbols within the context of contemporary popular culture across the globe. The journal welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives within the tradition of media, communication, and cultural studies as well as interdisciplinary research. Submission of Manuscripts The journal welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives within the tradition of media, communication, and cultural studies. A manuscript may not be sent out for review if it is deemed inappropriate for the journal. Submitted papers should be 5,000-8,500 words in length (inclusive of all elements). Submissions should be e-mailed (as attachments) to Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington, and Jonathan Gray, at [log in to unmask] Only original manuscripts submitted to Popular Communication will be considered for publication. The cover letter should include a statement that the manuscript is not currently under consideration elsewhere, is not being submitted elsewhere, and has not been published elsewhere, in whole or in part. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Double space all material, including title page, abstract, text, quotations, acknowledgments, references, appendixes tables, figure captions, and footnotes. The title page should include the title of the manuscript; names and affiliations of all authors; contact information including address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address of the corresponding author; and a running head of not more than 48 letters and spaces. Only the title page should contain identifying information. The second page should include the manuscript title, an abstract of 100 to 150 words, and a list of key words for use in indexing. Submitted articles undergo masked peer review. Authors should take care that the manuscript contains no clues as to identity. The normal review period is three months. Authors are responsible for the content of their work and for obtaining permission from copyright owners to use a lengthy quotation (500 words or more), to reprint or adapt a table or figure published elsewhere, or to reprint photographs or other copyrighted or trademarked images. Authors should provide documentation from the copyright/trademark holder granting nonexclusive world rights in all languages for use in the article and in future editions. All text files should be saved in Microsoft Word, and any visuals should be saved as separate files. For further Information visit: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/hppc