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ISSN: 1329-878X |
Forthcoming Issues in 2010 and 2011
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, Dr Sue Turnbull, is now calling for general articles on a diverse range of areas, including:
Please contact Susan Jarvis, Production Editor, Media International Australia, at: Themed Issues MIA is also calling for proposals for themed issues to be published in 2011 and 2012. We are particularly interested in areas where new and dynamic research is occurring and subjects of contemporary relevance. Please contact MIA’s Editor, Dr Sue Turnbull, to discuss possible proposals at: or email submissions or proposals to: Susan Jarvis, 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 Children, Young People, Sexuality and the Media Theme Editor: Kath Albury 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. The editors are particularly interested in developing new work by ECRs and post-graduates. Theme Editor: Mark David Ryan While the Australian film/screen industry — a cornerstone of domestic
creative industries — has undergone considerable change over the last
decade, and faces even greater change in the future, there have been few
substantive academic debates on the current state of the industry. Moreover,
there has been limited debate about how feature film/screen production
globally is changing, with implications for local screen industries. This
issue of MIA welcomes articles between 4,000 and 5000 words in length
Abstracts (300 words) with biographical note are due: 31 January 2010. Full Papers (4,000–5,000) words are due: 31 March 2010 Please send abstracts to: Mark David Ryan The Victorian Bushfires and Extreme Weather Events: Media Coverage, Crisis and Communication Theme Editors: Louise North and Jason Bainbridge The 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become known as the worst fire event in Australian history. Victoria has been at the centre of two other significant Australian fire disasters — ‘Black Friday’ in 1939 and the 1983 ‘Ash Wednesday’ fires in south-eastern Australia that claimed the lives of 47 people in Victoria. As media scholar and commentator Michael Gawenda has noted, the media not only report an ‘event’ — like the Victorian bushfires or the tsunami in the South Pacific — but in a sense create and define it. Print and electronic media coverage of extreme weather events therefore raises a multitude of issues about the media’s role in serving the community before, during and after a crisis, while also trying to produce the best possible reportage in a competitive industry undergoing dramatic change. This themed issue intends to provide a venue for critical, empirical engagement with media coverage and representation and the role of journalism and journalists in reporting national and international bushfires, tsunamis, hurricanes and other extreme weather events, with a special focus on the 2009 Victorian bushfires. The goal of this issue is to address the ramifications of an industry in flux, indeed some may say crisis, driven by technological advances, staff reductions and media organisations under financial pressure, and explore the ways in which such extreme weather events have impacted media practices and policy. Abstracts are invited that deal with:
Abstracts (300 words) with biographical note due: 26 February 2010. Full papers (4,000–5,000 words) due: 30 April 2010. Please send abstracts to Louise.North@arts.monash.edu.au. Cinema Going, Audiences and Exhibition Theme Editors: Albert Moran and Karina Aveyard Media consumption everywhere is on the increase. Yet watching movies
in cinemas remains very popular despite the development of a range of
new and competing technologies such as DVD, plasma televisions, home
cinema systems and internet downloads. The value of the cinema box
office has grown almost every year since the mid-1980s, both in Australia
and internationally. This has been underpinned by a concurrent boom in
multiplex cinema construction. Exhibitors strive to differentiate the cinema
experience from that which is available in the home or online through
innovations such as digital projection and sound, 3D and the gold-class Possible topics include:
Abstracts due: 15 May 2010 Full papers due: 15 August 2010 Please contact:
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