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.


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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 
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