[csaa-forum] Fwd: [BBC-HISTORY] WPCC Call for Papers - Media History

[Liz Jacka]

Media historians might be interested in this.

Liz Jacka



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Daniel Day <dayd at WMIN.AC.UK>
> Date: 27 September 2006 10:52:32 PM
> To: BBC-HISTORY at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] WPCC Call for Papers - Media History
> Reply-To: The History of the BBC <BBC-HISTORY at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Please find below the latest call for papers from Westminster  
> Papers in
> Communication and Culutre.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Daniel Day
>
>
> Call for Papers: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
>
> What is Media History?
> (Volume 4, Issue 3) Autumn, 2007
>
>
> Over the past three decades the study of media history has emerged  
> from the
> academic shadows into an interdisciplinary limelight. No longer the  
> sole
> preserve of subaltern scholars in the fields of history, literary  
> or media
> studies, the subject has grown in importance and in scope  
> encompassing a
> wide range of genres across a variety of media forms.  As the  
> discipline of
> media studies increasingly discovers its historical hinterland, so too
> historians have come to view the media as much more than simply useful
> primary sources, but rather as fundamental actors in the historical  
> process
> and thus worthy of study in their own right.
>
> The rise of new media technologies has led to claims of an  
> unprecedented
> democratisation of the study and recording of the past, while the
> relationship between the mass media and historical representations,  
> whether
> fictionalised or factual, is one that often engenders controversial  
> debate
> in both the film and broadcasting industries. Moreover, in an era  
> of media
> globalisation there are questions to be asked about how academics  
> approach
> the study of the historical development of communications that  
> moves beyond
> national boundaries to engage with global and comparative accounts.
>
> As a consequence Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture  
> invites
> submissions from a wide range of backgrounds that operate in or  
> seek to
> problematise the study of media history and the numerous ways in  
> which it
> is approached.  In addition to theoretical reflections we especially
> encourage original empirical research that highlights
> epistemological/methodological issues whilst engaging with actual
> historical experience.
>
> Possible topics include but are not limited to:
>
> ­	Global Media Histories;
> ­	Comparative Media Histories;
> ­	History, Media and Memory;
> ­	Time, Place and the Media;
> ­	Newspaper History;
> ­	Broadcasting History;
> ­	Film History;
> ­	History and New Media.
>
> Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Daniel  
> Day at
> dayd at wmin.ac.uk The deadline for the submission of abstracts is  
> Friday 22nd
> December 2006. For accepted articles the deadline for submission is  
> Monday
> 30th April 2007. Further details of WPCC are available at
> http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-880

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