Glad to see I've kicked off a debate - anyone fancy writing a proposal on
any of these topics?
Brett Mills,
Film and TV Studies
University of East Anglia
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> Idents? Repeats? Afternoon soaps on British TV? Trailers?
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> All the best and good luck finding it out (will you reveal it eventually,
> Maire?),
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> Elke Weissmann
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> Edge Hill University
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> Media Department
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>> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:11:09 +0100
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Call for Papers: 'Invisible Television'
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> Good game!
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>> Maybe it's advertising - pays for nearly everything and yet it seems not
>> to count for much
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>> Sonia Livingstone
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>> Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Media and
>> Communications
>> Project Director, EUKidsOnline, www.eukidsonline.net
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>> Address: LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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>> New book: The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture
>> (edited with Kirsten Drotner, Sage, 2008).
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>> ________________________________
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>> From: Aspects of academic research & teaching within Media on behalf of
>> Patricia Holland
>> Sent: Wed 08/04/2009 13:04
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Call for Papers: 'Invisible Television'
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>> Hi Maire,
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>> is this a guessing game? Shopping channels? Channel No 846 on the
>> on-screen guide (whatever that is, no-one will find it)? trailers?
>> the weather? disappearing programmes fro 8-14 year olds? late night
>> signing for the deaf? give up!
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>> Pat
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>> On 7 Apr 2009, at 18:04, M Messenger Davies wrote:
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>> > Dear Brett - and Meccsa colleagues
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>> > What an intriguing idea.
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>> > I received your message as I was writing about the most invisible
>> > (to media academics) TV genre of all, not mentioned in your list,
>> > not mentioned in standard collections of essays about television
>> > and its drama, or its news, or its entertainment shows, not
>> > mentioned in standard collections about media generally, and just
>> > generally not mentioned.
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>> > And I'm not going to mention it either. Back to work
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>> > best wishes
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>> > Máire MD
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>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Brett Mills <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:57:16 +0100
>> > Subject: Call for Papers: 'Invisible Television'
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>> > Apologies for Cross-Posting
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>> > Proposals for papers are invited for a forthcoming special edition of
>> > Critical Studies in Television (http:// <http:///>
>> > www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/)
>> > to be published in Spring 2010.
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>> > Invisible Television
>> > Certain television programmes get watched by lots of people (Top
>> > Gear, New
>> > Tricks, Antiques Roadshow, Emmerdale): certain programmes get
>> > written about
>> > a lot (The Office, Big Brother, The Wire). This means that some
>> > television
>> > programmes are far more visible to the academic and critical
>> > community than
>> > others. This special edition aims to offer space for such invisible
>> > programmes to be explored, offering new models for the critical
>> > enquiry of
>> > television, as well as examining why it is that there so often
>> > seems to be a
>> > disparity between what mass audiences watch and what the academy
>> > chooses to
>> > write about. While this topic may be of concern to global studies of
>> > television, this issue aims to focus on television in the UK as an
>> > initial
>> > case study for these debates.
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>> > Proposals are invited that explore: specific programmes conventionally
>> > invisible to academic writing; particular genres conventionally
>> > invisible to
>> > academic writing; debates concerning the misfit between academic
>> > consumption
>> > of television and that of mass audiences; methodological debates
>> > relevant to
>> > visibility and invisibility; consequences of visibility and
>> > invisibility;
>> > other relevant approaches and issues. The editors are particularly
>> > keen to
>> > receive proposals on Antiques Roadshow; New Tricks; wildlife
>> > documentaries;
>> > My Family; The One Show.
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>> > Note: submissions have already been commissioned on soap operas;
>> > Top Gear;
>> > The Bill; issues of access via DVD; issues of 'quality' in
>> > television drama;
>> > and the relationships between teaching and invisibility.
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>> > Please forward 200-word proposals by 4 May 2009 to Brett Mills
>> > ([log in to unmask]); any enquiries to this address also.
>> > Completed articles of 5-6,000 words will have a submission deadline
>> > of 5
>> > October 2009, for publication in Spring 2010.
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>> >
>> > Professor Máire Messenger Davies
>> > Director, Centre for Media Research
>> > http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html
>> > Director, Media Studies Research Institute, http:// <http:///>
>> > www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/research/media_studies/index.htm
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>> > School of Media, Film & Journalism
>> > University of Ulster at Coleraine
>> > Cromore Rd
>> > Coleraine BT52 1SA
>> > Northern Ireland
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>> > Telephone: + 44(0)28 70324069
>> > Fax: +44(0)28 70324964
>> > email: [log in to unmask]
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