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ISSN: 1329-878X |
Forthcoming Issues in 2009 and 2010
Calls for papersGeneral Articles In addition to its quarterly themed sections, each issue of MIA also contains several peer-reviewed general articles, dealing with issues relevant to the journal’s constituency. The journal’s editor, Gerard Goggin, is now calling for general articles on a diverse range of areas, including:
Please contact Gerard Goggin at: or email submissions to: Susan Jarvis, Production Editor, Media International Australia, at: 'Too Much Too Young': Children, Young People, Sexuality and the Media Theme Editors: Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby
In recent years, the representation of children and young people in the media and popular culture has been the subject of intense popular debate, reflecting justifiable public concern in regard to young people's safety. Historically, both popular commentary and academic research have tended to focus on sexuality as a source of danger and risk to children and young people. In public debate, the term 'sexualisation' collapses a number of distinct
concerns: that children are being depicted in ways that suggest they have
an adult understanding of self and sexuality; that they are being encouraged
to behave in an adult sexual manner; that popular images of children are
fuelling child sexual abuse; and that children are being exposed to adult From the 2008 Senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children, to the outcry over teenage models, to anxieties over trans-gendered adolescents. young people's sexuality is variously represented as something to be protected, scrutinised, regulated and restricted. Articles are invited that address the following topics:
Please send abstracts and/or proposals to k.albury@unsw.edu.au by 31 January 2009. The editors are particularly interested in developing new work by ECRs and post-graduates. The Globalisation of Advertising in Asia: The Impact on Media Theme Editor: John Sinclair
Close examination shows that globalisation is mediated by regional realities. From the point of view of the advertising industry, Asia has some very interesting characteristics. Taken as a region, Asia is home to the world's biggest advertising agency (Dentsu of Japan), as well as two of the world's biggest national markets after the USA (Japan and China), and another of huge potential (India). China and India are both undergoing rapid economic growth, and seeing the emergence of new categories of consumers, even beyond the much-vaunted 'middle class' of those societies. This growth is attracting global advertisers and agencies, at the same time as Chinese and Indian brands begin to venture on to the world market. Yet Asia is defined more by its geographical unity than anything else, presenting advertisers and their agencies with complex cultural barriers - not only between nations, but within them. How is advertising dealing with these? The immense growth of television in Asia has been strongly supported by advertising revenue in recent decades, but the use of internet and other new media is rapidly gaining ground. This poses intriguing questions for future media development in the region, both in terms of how the new media are comrnercialised and who has access to them. This call for papers is made in conjunction with an international symposium of specialists to be held at the University of Melbourne on 8 December 2008. The themed issue hopes to publish some of the work presented there, as well as further papers from other researchers and practitioners working on or in the advertising and media industries of Asia. Submissions in the following areas are particularly welcome:
Abstracts of 300 words, together with a biographical note, should be sent to j.sinclair@unimelb.edu.au by 31 January 2009 Full papers, of 4000-5000 words, would then be due by 31 May 2009. For further information please contact Professor John Sinclair, j.sinclair@unimelb.edu.au, tel. 613 8344 3462 Television Comedy and Light Entertainment Theme Editors: Felicity Collins, Sue Turnbull, and Susan Bye
When writing his 1973 monograph on ‘light entertainment’, Richard Dyer quoted from an ITV communication in which an unnamed writer decried the tendency for comedy and light entertainment ‘to be lumped together as though they belonged in some rather disreputable bargain-basement of broadcasting’. Although it continues to be cited as the poor cousin of other more serious TV forms, comedy (with the support of its more upmarket cousin, satire) has begun to emerge from the bargain basement. Indeed, John Corner sees television as the creator of ‘a culture of public comedy’ that engages with and transforms collective systems of value. Light entertainment, however, is still stuck in the bargain basement, largely because it refers to both a type of ‘undemanding’ television show that people enjoy watching, and to a style of TV not sufficiently serious to merit a generic description of its own. Here, we retain the category because of its capacity to link together a diverse range of television styles, and also because of its longstanding investment in comedy. This themed issue will provide an opportunity for the serious consideration of the various ways in which light entertainment and comedy intersect with the social and broadcast contexts within which they are produced. Comedy and light entertainment are also part of a longstanding TV tradition inflected by the inclusiveness of their address, as well as a particular promise of ‘time out’ in which the light-hearted quip, silly mistake or funny anecdote form a continuum with more sustained comedy performances. Abstracts are invited that deal with:
Abstracts (300 words) with biographical note due: 15 May 2009 Full Papers (4,000–5,000) words due: 1 July 2009 Please send abstracts to s.bye@latrobe.edu.au
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