>
>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
>[log in to unmask] 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

Michele Hilmes
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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821 University Ave.
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