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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Mapping the Magazine 4 (MtM4) Conference, December 12 – 14 2016</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Department of Media and Communications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">University of Sydney
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><span style=""> </span>‘Mapping the Magazine’ is a series of conferences established by Tim Holmes of the Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC). Three conferences
have run so far - in 2011, 2007 and 2005. </span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The fourth Mapping the Magazine conference will be held at the University of Sydney, Department of Media and Communications, from December 12 – 14, 2016.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">As in the past, the conference aims to create an intimate meeting of magazine scholars from many disciplines (Media and Communications, Journalism, Gender and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Linguistics,
English, History, Visual Communications…) who are interested in exploring the current state of magazine research and possibly developing collaborative research projects.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The conference is open to all scholars working in the broad field of magazine research. Contributors could, however, consider the following topics:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*the place of print in the ecology of magazine publishing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*the concept of ‘magazine media’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*business models and distribution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">* ‘wrappering’ (using Snapchat/Facebook Instant Articles/Medium etc. to wrap around original material)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*temporality and magazines</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*alternative magazines</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*the future of magazine publishing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*the ‘field’ of magazine studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*magazine journalism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*magazine education</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">*gender in magazines – and beyond gender</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Abstracts of 400 words for 20-minute papers are due by
<b style="">May 27</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Please email to the conference organisers at: meco.MtM4@sydney.edu.au
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Successful applicants will be contacted within a month after this date.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">As in the past, papers will be delivered sequentially over the three days, not concurrently in separate streams. Conference delegates are asked to commit to attending all papers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">There will be no registration fees.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The organisers are planning to edit a special issue of a journal based on selected papers from the conference.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The dates of the conference immediately precede the 2016 Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference being held at the University of Sydney, December 14 – 17.<span style="">
</span>Delegates could consider coming to Sydney for a week of gorgeous summer weather and presenting papers at both conferences.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">A website will be developed in the coming weeks. Any enquiries should be directed to Megan Le Masurier:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:meco.MtM4@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">meco.MtM4@sydney.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">or</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">megan.lemasurier@sydney.edu.au</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Organising committee:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Megan Le Masurier (University of Sydney)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Fiona Giles (University of Sydney)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Rebecca Johinke (University of Sydney)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Tim Holmes (Cardiff University)</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"></span></p>
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