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Journal of Global Mass Communication
Special Issue: Media, Globalization and the Postcolony
Guest Editor: Herman Wasserman, Newcastle University, UK
hwasserman@imasa.org
Submission deadline: 1 January 2009
The accelerated globalization of media, especially as a result of technological advances during recent decades, has impacted greatly on the way media and journalism is being understood in the developed world. Media have become pervasive in everyday life, and new media technologies have blurred the distinction between producers and consumers. Distant regions of the world have been brought in close proximity due to the global reach of media, and global media organisations have aggressively penetrated new markets around the globe.
Several critics have argued that the global flow of informational and cultural content is not only a one-way street — in the era of global media, contraflows and hybridities have emerged that challenge binary perceptions of global informational flows. Yet media and communication scholarship is still dominated by perspectives from the global North, due in part to the political economy of research and publishing. The result is that experiences based on the interaction between media and society in the developed world are given the status of theory, only rarely to be challenged by counter-perspectives from other regions of the world.
It would be too crude and simplistic to equate the imbalance in media flows with a new type of colonialism, yet it cannot be denied that current global asymmetries of power map onto the history of colonial domination and subjection. Although globalization does not equal imperialism, the process of globalization cannot be fully understood without understanding the history of colonialism and its persistent legacies.
To understand the way media constructs and impacts upon global society today, it is therefore necessary to link our view of contemporary global media architectures, markets and flows with the history of colonialism and decolonization; the persistent patterns of domination and exclusion with colonial and postcolonial discourse; and refuse an ahistorical approach to the challenge for equitable and ethical global media.
This themed issue invites submissions dealing with research questions related to the above approach to global media. Critical contributions, particularly those focusing on the impact of media globalization on the global South or analyze global media from the perspective of postcolonial theory, are especially invited.
Submissions should be between 6000 and 8000 words, following APA style. Manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed.
Further information about the journal is available at http://www.marquettejournals.org/globalmasscommunication.html
Send submissions to Herman Wasserman, hwasserman@imasa.org
Information About the Journal
The Journal of Global Mass Communication is a new journal devoted to the analysis of mass communication in a global context. Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original works which have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in other journals. Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, taking cognizance of the special issue’s focus. All submissions should follow the APA style and be submitted in MS Word. US English is to be used. Send all submissions to the guest Editor Thomas Hanitzsch at th.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch The journal aims for a turn-around review time of six weeks.
http://www.marquettejournals.org/globalmasscommunication.html
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Special Issue
American Journal of Media Psychology
"Measuring Individuals' Cognitive Structures in a Mediated Context"
Researchers with interests in such areas as cognitive processing, social cognition, social perception, schema research, and framing within the context of media, are invited to submit papers to the American Journal of Media Psychology for a special issue that focuses on methodological approaches that detail the procedures by which cognitive components and structures are identified and measured in such fields as advertising, marketing, political communications, and related areas. A manuscript submission is expected to detail a theoretically-based methodological approach for the measurement of cognitive components and structures and provide empirical data that tests the approach used by the author(s).
The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2008.
The American Journal of Media Psychology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical papers and essays and book reviews that advance an understanding of media effects and processes on individuals in society. Submissions should have a psychological focus, which means the level of analysis should focus on individuals and their interaction with or relationship to mass media content and institutions. All theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcomed. For instructions on submitting a manuscript, please visit:
http://www.marquettejournals.org/submissionguidlines.html Researchers who intend on making a submission to this special issue are encouraged to contact Dr. Michael Elasmar, editor, American Journal of Media Psychology at elasmar@bu.edu and discuss their anticipated approach to this topic. |
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Call for Book Review Submissions
The Journal of Communication Studies is seeking book reviewers and books to review in all subfields of communication studies. Of particular interest are those books that are forthcoming (or recently released) that explore issues surrounding interpersonal, organizational, and intercultural communication and have potential to make important contributions to the field of communication studies.
Publishers and authors are encouraged to send new books and to inquire about reviews for forthcoming titles to the book review editor at the address below.
The review should include a statement about the significance of the book in question, information about the publisher and publication date (ISBN is required), list price, a brief summary of the review author’s background in communication studies, the review author’s interest in the book (and subject), and a critical review of the book’s central themes (the later of which should comprise the bulk of the review). Reviews should be no longer than 1500 words.
Reviews received on or before September 17, 2007 will be considered for publication in the premier issue in early 2008. There are no deadlines for book review submissions. Each submission will be considered as received and subject to blind peer reviews (book reviews are considered on a rolling basis for future issues).
Authors should submit book reviews by e-mail to Adam Earnheardt, Book Review Editor, at acearnheardt@ysu.edu .
Adam Earnheardt, Ph.D.
Youngstown State University
Book Review Editor
Journal of Communication Studies
330-941-1845
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