> >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 6040 Vilas Hall 821 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706 608-262-2543 608-262-2547 608-262-9953 fax ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]