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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><i>Media International Australia </i></b><b>No. 152 (August 2014)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b>Public Spheres and the Media in India<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b>Theme Editors: Sukhmani Khorana, Vibodh Parthasarthi, and Pradip Thomas<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>The concept of the public sphere has travelled widely, and the mediation of the public sphere has attracted much scholarly attention: the concept has been critiqued, and there have been attempts to invest it with meanings inflected by context or to propose understandings shaped by global and local challenges.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>This special issue of <i>MIA </i>will take a variety of approaches to apprehending mediated public spheres in India, which remains a large, imperfect democracy that is home to one of the most diverse media environments anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere there has followed a trajectory very different from its Habermasian views, characterised less by individual participation than by caste groups and vernacular associations, and the acceptance and legitimisation of colonial authorities. Colonial governmentality and the post-independent state have played an important role in shaping the public sphere – although the market increasingly provides opportunities for multiple mediations of public spheres.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>A variety of public spheres have emerges that reflect the diversity of Indian publics, who contribute to and are in turn shaped by a variety of mediations – from televised talk and music shows to news shows, citizen journalism and community radio. There are also opportunities to explore the communicative basis for the development of public spheres nurtured by mass movements such as the Right to Information movement in India, which arguably has spawned a nationwide awakening of the information rights of citizens.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>This issue of<i> MIA</i> will explore the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India. Papers addressing any of the following questions are welcome:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What are some of the features of emerging, mediated public spheres in India?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What is the nature of mediated publics in India?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What is the relationship between mediated publics and social change in India?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Is the ‘argumentative’ Indian, represented by talk show audiences, representative of a public sphere or does this characterisation represent a diluted notion of the public sphere?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>How are public spheres being formed in the context of online media?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What is there to read into pirate public spheres in India?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What is the relationship between communication and information rights movements in India and public spheres?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What role does the state play in forming or inhibiting the growth of public spheres in India?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><o:p> </o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b>Please send a 200-300 word abstract and a brief bio note to Sukhmani Khorana (<a href="mailto:skhorana@uow.edu.au">skhorana@uow.edu.au</a>) by 15 October 2013.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b>Final articles (of no more than 5,000 words) will be due by 30 January 2014.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Dr. Sukhmani Khorana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Lecturer, Media and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>University of Wollongong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>NSW 2522, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>E: <a href="mailto:skhorana@uow.edu.au">skhorana@uow.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>W: +61 2 42213810<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>