Have a look at the programmes on Audi TV then. And it would be interesting to know how many men are watching this...
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From: Aspects of academic research & teaching within Media [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sonia Livingstone [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 April 2009 13:11
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Subject: Re: Call for Papers: 'Invisible Television'
Good game!
Maybe it's advertising - pays for nearly everything and yet it seems not to count for much
Sonia Livingstone
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Media and Communications
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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'
Hi Maire,
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!
Pat
On 7 Apr 2009, at 18:04, M Messenger Davies wrote:
> Dear Brett - and Meccsa colleagues
>
> What an intriguing idea.
>
> 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.
>
> And I'm not going to mention it either. Back to work
>
> best wishes
>
> Máire MD
>
>
>
> -----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'
>
> Apologies for Cross-Posting
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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
>
> School of Media, Film & Journalism
> University of Ulster at Coleraine
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>
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