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CALL FOR PAPERS
Announcement for the American Edition of
Global Media Journal
Special Fall 2009 issue on
Intersections between Performance Studies, Media, Gender, Leadership, and Peace Studies
Deadline for Submissions: May 15, 2009
Global Media Journal invites the submission of essays and research reports that focus on intersections between performance studies, media, gender, leadership, and peace studies for the Fall 2009 issue. The guest editors, Drs. Lara Lengel, Faith Wambura Ngunjiri and Ellen Gorsevski, are particularly interested in articles reflecting on issues outside of the United States, and those that offer comparative studies between the US and other countries, particularly those in the Global South. Interdisciplinary work is particularly encouraged. Articles co-authored with women outside North America are also encouraged. Articles might address, but not be limited to, such topics as:
• Women’s activism in peace building
• Peace building in performance studies and/or performance art, theatre, and other arts
• Challenges and opportunities relevant to women in specific contexts of leadership including, but not limited to, the academy/education, politics, civil society
• Description of women’s change leadership and communication strategies including the gains made and opportunities for further leadership in areas related to peace building
• Challenges and opportunities available to younger women and girls in leadership
• Autoethnographic and/or biographical writings of researchers/scholars engagement in issues of social justice and peace building
Graduate student research: In keeping with the mission of the journal to provide opportunities for graduate student publication, this special issue of Global Media Journal will have a graduate research section.
For submission guidelines, please go to http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/gmj_submission_guidelines.htm. All papers must be submitted via electronic attachment.
Please direct all inquires to Dr. Lara Lengel, Bowling Green State University, School of Communication Studies, lengell@bgsu.edu or Dr. Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Eastern University, fngunjir@eastern.edu. Graduate student submissions and queries should be directed to Dr. Ellen Gorsevski, Bowling Green State University, School of Communication Studies, elleng@bgsu.edu.
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Call for Papers
Announcement for the
Global Media Journal-American Edition
Fall 2010 Issue
Topic: Mass media Structure and Information Deprivation: Implications for Social Control
Deadline for Submissions: April 1, 2010
Global Media Journal-American Edition invites the submission of essays and research reports that focus on conceptual, theoretical, and empirical examination of relationships between gatekeeping and agenda setting in media content development globally, taking into account artifactual influences exerted by political, economic, social, and structural differences.
The guest editors, Dr. Gregg A. Payne (gpayne@chapman.edu), and Dr. Wenshan Jia (jia@chapman.edu). of Chapman University are especially interested in international perspectives offering critical examinations of media structure, information deprivation, and social control. Articles might address such topics as:
- Relationships among media structure, gatekeeping, and information quality and quantity
- Relationships between media and public agendas, and implications for information dissemination
- Relationships between media structure, gatekeeping, agenda setting, media content homogenization, and maintenance of the status quo
- Relationships among media structure, gatekeeping, agenda setting, framing and priming
- Relationships involving media content as reflections of dominate ideology and hegemony
- Shifts in any or all of the above, observed or anticipated, with the continuing evolution of electronic technology, blogs or similar phenomena, and presumptive impacts on democratization. Of particular interest would be:
- Conceptual, theoretical, or empirical examinations of currently popular assumptions of positive effects
- The theoretical, conceptual, and empirical utility of traditional gatekeeping and agenda setting perspectives in relation to emerging, non-traditional media
Graduate student research: In keeping with the mission of the journal to provide opportunities for graduate student publication, this special issue of Global Media Journal will have a graduate research section. All graduate student submissions should be directed to Dr. Wenshan Jia at jia@chapman.edu. All other submissions should be directed to gpayne@chapman.edu.
For submission guidelines, please go to
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj_submission_guidelines.htm
All papers must be submitted via electronic attachment