[csaa-forum] CFP: Australia in the Field of Trans-Asia Media Flows

[Fran Martin]

Dear CSAA-ers,

Hope this is of interest, please help to share widely:

Call for additional papers:
Special issue of Media International Australia on
'Australia in the field of Trans-Asian Media Flows'
Co-edited by Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue
for publication in May 2020

Although it has long been considered a non-Asian country located in Asia, Australia is increasingly linked into Asian media circuits, and the rise of the Asian media industries is changing Australian media culture. At the level of consumption, Asian media content––from Bollywood film to Japanese TV to Chinese online video to Korean social media and K-pop––is now more readily accessible than ever to media users in Australia due to broadband connectivity and mobile media technologies, as well as (more unevenly) via mainstream commercial distribution. This increased access is not only helping Australia’s Asian migrant populations maintain cultural ties; it is also creating new media tastes for the general Australian audience. Meanwhile, at the level of production, Australian governments, keen to harness the potential for the country’s involvement in the region’s expanding media industries, are exploring new ways to support Australia’s screen media industries by establishing regional partnerships. To what extent are these intensifying media flows transforming the cultural identities of Australian audiences and media products? And how does such consideration in and from Australia enrich the study of trans-Asian media and cultural flows? This special issue, building on a symposium held at Monash University in 2018, will explore these and related questions.

The editors currently have a core group of papers committed from presenters at the 2018 symposium. We now have a publication agreement with MIA, and seek additional papers on this theme that may have been developed since our previous CFP.

Possible topics:
•             Transnational Asian media engagements by audiences in Australia and the possibility of cross-border dialogues
•             Transnational cultural politics of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity
•             Asian-Australian media cultures
•             The role of transnational media in migrant and diasporic public spheres
•             Debates over media-based “soft power” in Australia, especially from China and Korea
•             Media’s role in diplomatic relations between Australia and Asian nations
•             Collaborations between Australian and Asian media producers
•             Emerging forms of media mobility between Australia and Asia
•             The distribution and reception of Australian media and Australia-related media content in Asia
•             Media and cultural policy perspectives on media flows between Asia and Australia
•             Representations of aspects of “Asian-ness” in Australian media

Submission date and procedure:
Full papers of between 6,000 – 8,000 words are due by July 31 2019. Please email papers, and any enquiries, to Dr Winnie Salamon (winnie.salamon at unimelb.edu.au
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