Category: Publication opportunities

Media & Environment: Teaching in/about the Anthropocene

Teaching Media Quarterly
Call for Lesson Plans: Teaching Media Quarterly Vol. 4, No. 2
“Media and Environment: Teaching in/about the Anthropocene”
Submission deadline: Earth Day, April 22, 2016

Teaching Media Quarterly seeks lesson plans that ask students to critically engage with the complex relationship between media and the environment. We ask for submissions that explicate the role of media discourses and media technologies in light of growing concerns about an array of environmental issues including, but not limited to, climate change, drought, food justice, resource extraction, and migration. We encourage pedagogical perspectives informed by research and activism that examine the natural sciences, journalism, materiality, popular culture, and cultural studies within the context of environmental thought.

We invite submitters to consider the following potential topics as inspiration:
– Media technology and their material consequences
– News media and climate change/justice
– Representations of nature and/or environmentalism in popular culture
– Green and environmentalist media
– Greenwashing and corporate communications
– Advocacy campaigns produced by students and/or social movements

Teaching Media Quarterly Submission Guidelines
All submissions must include: 1) a title, 2) an overview (word limit: 500 words) 3) comprehensive rationale (using accessible language explain the purpose of the assignment(s), define key terms, and situate in relevant literature) (word limit: 500), 4) a general timeline, 5) a detailed lesson plan and assignment instructions, 6) teaching materials (handouts, rubrics, discussion prompts, viewing guides, etc.), 7) a full bibliography of readings, links, and/or media examples, and 8) a short biography (100-150 words).

Please email all submissions using the TMQ.Submission.Template (2) (.docx) in ONE Microsoft Word document.

Review Policy
Submissions will be reviewed by each member of the editorial board. Editors will make acceptance decisions based on their vision for the issue and an assessment of contributions. It is the goal of Teaching Media Quarterly to notify submitters of the editors’ decisions within two weeks of submission receipt. Teaching Media Quarterly is dedicated to circulating practical and timely approaches to media concepts and topics from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Our goal is to promote collaborative exchange of undergraduate teaching resources between media educators at higher education institutions. As we hope for continuing discussions and exchange as well as contributions to Teaching Media Quarterly we encourage you to visit our website.

CFP Seen but not Heard: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants & Refugees

Call for Chapter Abstracts
Seen but not Heard: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants and Refugees (Lexington Books)
Edited by:
Mary Grace Antony, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Schreiner University
Ryan J. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia

Amid unprecedented mass migrations across the globe stemming from civil wars, political unrest, and economic turbulence, the plight of refugees and migrants weighs heavily on policymakers and concerned citizens. Among these displaced individuals, child migrants and refugees represent an especially vulnerable and largely overlooked category of would-be immigrants. As immigration rhetoric and policies become increasingly harsher, child migrants represent a complex immigrant group with the propensity to evoke compassion and concern. This edited collection aims to provide a rich array of interdisciplinary and multi-method perspectives on child migrants.

We seek a variety of contributions that explore child migrants, be they refugees and asylum-seekers or unaccompanied minors pursuing a better life. We especially welcome interdisciplinary contributions that encompass a variety of disciplinary (e.g., psychology, sociology, history, public policy, cultural studies, literature, etc.), theoretical (e.g., rhetorical, semiotic, post-positivist, interpretivist, critical/cultural, etc.) and methodological (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, etc.) perspectives.

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
1. Child refugees
2. Unaccompanied youth migrants
3. Factors contributing to child migration in home countries
4. Reception of child migrants in host countries
5. Challenges faced by child migrants
6. Historical overview of child migrants
7. Legal procedures for child migrants

All abstract submissions must be original work, not under consideration at any other publication. Abstracts must be typed in MS Word, consist of no more than 250 words, and must address: (a) the specific disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspective, (b) the rationale for examining child refugees and migrants, (c) outline the scope of the potential chapter (e.g., case study, survey responses, historical overview, etc.).

Please submit your abstract by email to Mary Grace Antony by April 15, 2016.

Any queries or correspondence may be directed to Mary Grace Antony, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, USA.

CFP Designing Professional Communication Across Cultures

CFP Designing Professional Communication Across Cultures
Special issue of connexions: international professional communication journal

In the last thirty years, two trends have transformed the world of professional communication. On one hand, a global economy has increasingly placed professional communicators in multilingual and multicultural work environments. In such environments, disciplinary borders are blurred, markets are integrated, and ideas are shared across individuals and organizations. On the other hand, advances in technology have revolutionized the ways communication products are designed, shared, and assessed. Professional communicators must thus reach and serve a diverse population of stakeholders.

They do so with multimodal forms of communication that integrate both text, visuals, and audience interactions. Design no longer means “a picture is worth a thousand words.” It is now impacted by a holistic methodology often known as “design thinking.” Design thinking encompasses the entire process of creating professional communication products and services, including websites, social media campaigns, technical documentation, and information-driven user interfaces. Neumeier (2009) wrote that design “has been waiting patiently in the wings for nearly a century, having been relegated to supporting roles and stand-in parts” (p.18). Design thinking is now important to such disparate activities as branding, innovation, and cultivating optimal user experiences. As Vogel (2009) pointed out: “Only one company in a market can be the cheapest; the rest need design” (p.8).

In this way, the practice of designing across cultures has been brought to the forefront of professional communication in order to engage stakeholders in a globalized, multicultural marketplace. From a business perspective, communicators use design thinking to discover user goals, strategize content, structure teams, and create and evaluate prototypes. Design helps distinguish brands and increase value for enterprises. Design can also help bridge linguistic and breaks language and cultural barriers, however. It can create beneficial solutions for users from minoritized, underrepresented, and marginalized populations. Good design is thus culturally-sensitive as it must adapt to and respect cultural groups being served.

This special issue of connexions: international professional communication journal seeks to understand, articulate, and evaluate the role of design in professional communication across cultures. It aims to bring together scholars and practitioners who engage in design activities in a cross-cultural or multi-cultural context. Here culture is broadly defined. We seek articles related to nationality, race, ethnicity, age, gender, disability/accessibility, sexual orientation, as well as any other cultural/professional identities.

Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Design thinking in professional communication projects
Challenges in designing for multi-national and multi-cultural audiences
Affordances for specific genres of information products within specific cultures
The design, writing, and strategy of documentation
New approaches to particular sets of audiences and markets
Design pedagogy, curricula, training, and organizational development
Design project management and team work
Design in internationally-distributed work environments
Information design and its relationship to culture
The relationship between design, users, and professional communication

References
Neumeier, M. (2009). The designful company. In T. Lockwood (Ed.), Design thinking: Integrating innovation, customer experience, and brand value (pp. 15-22). New York, NY: Allworth.
Vogel, C. M. (2009). Notes on the evolution of design thinking: A work in progress. In T. Lockwood (Ed.), Design thinking: Integrating innovation, customer experience, and brand value (pp. 3-14). New York, NY: Allworth.

Schedule
Submission deadline for manuscript abstracts: March 15th, 2016
Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2016
Submission deadline for full manuscripts: September 30th, 2016
Expected date of publication: December 30th, 2016

Submission Procedures
Submit 500-word abstracts for original research articles, review articles, and teaching cases; or 250-word abstracts for focused commentary and industry perspectives.
Prepare a cover page for your abstract with 1.5 line spacing and Georgia, 12-point font.
Save the cover page and abstract in doc, docx, or rtf format.
Include in your cover page author(s) names, institutional affiliations, email addresses, and whether you are submitting a research article, a review article, a teaching case, a focused commentary, or an industry perspective.
Submit your abstract via email to Quan Zhou and Guiseppe Getto.

Upon acceptance of your proposal, you will be invited to submit a full-length manuscript. All manuscripts that meet the journal’s standards and requirements will be, without exception, submitted to double-blind peer review.

Abstracts To Be Developed Into
Original research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words
Review articles of 3,000 to 5,000 words
Teaching cases of 3,000 to 5,000 words
Focused commentary and industry perspectives articles of 500 to 3,000 words

Contact information
Quan Zhou
Metropolitan State University, MN
Guiseppe Getto
East Carolina University

Global—Local Dimensions of Qualitative Communication Research

CfP Extension – Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research is welcoming submissions through March 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM PST.

*Special Call* Global—Local Dimensions of Qualitative Communication Research

In addition to regular 7,000 word submissions and media submissions, this year’s issue will feature a special section devoted to scholarly discussions concerning global—local dimensions of qualitative communication research. Submissions should: (1) Detail the author’s/authors’ approach to global—local research; (2) Offer an example of global—local research in action (e.g., mini analysis); and (3) Describe how this work uniquely contributes to the study of communication. Topics may include (but are not limited to) theoretical and/or methodological extensions of global—local research that intersect with/derive from: neocolonialism; postcolonialism; cosmopolitanisms; critical/cultural approaches; queer theory; transgender studies; queer of color criticism; affect theories; theories of identity, voice, and agency; feminist approaches; transnational and translocal alliance building; coalitional politics; dialectics; transmodernity; globalization; glocalization. Authors should clearly mark in their cover letter that their submission is for the special call. Submissions should be no more than 2,000 words (excluding references) and be prepared using the same citation systems as regular submissions.

Kaleidoscope is a refereed, annually published print and electronic journal devoted to graduate students who develop philosophical, theoretical, and/or practical applications of qualitative, interpretive, and critical/cultural communication research. We welcome scholarship from current graduate students in Communication Studies and related cognate areas/disciplines. We especially encourage contributions that rigorously expand scholars’ understanding of a diverse range of communication phenomena.

In addition to our ongoing commitment to written scholarship, we are interested in ways scholars are exploring the possibilities of new technologies and media to present their research. Kaleidoscope welcomes scholarship forms such as video/audio/photo of staged performance, experimental performance art, or web-based artistic representations of scholarly research. Web-based scholarship should be accompanied by a word-processed artist’s statement of no more than five pages. We invite web-based content that is supplemental to manuscript-based scholarship (e.g., a manuscript discussing a staged performance could be supplemented by video footage from said performance).

Submissions must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published form. Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (double-spaced) or 7,000 words (including notes and references) and can be prepared following MLA, APA, or Chicago style. All submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words and have a detached title page listing the author’s/authors’ name(s), institutional affiliation, and contact information. Authors should remove all identifying references from the manuscript. To be hosted on the Kaleidoscope website, media files should not exceed 220 MB in size. Larger files can be streamed within the Kaleidoscope website but must be hosted externally. Authors must hold rights to any content published in Kaleidoscope, and permission must be granted and documented from all participants in any performance or presentation.

Please direct any questions to the editor, Gregory Sean Hummel.

Rhetorical Perspectives on Chinese Media & Communication

China Media Research Call for Submissions
Theme: Rhetorical Perspectives on Chinese Media and Communication

This special section of China Media Research invites scholars from across disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Rhetorical Perspectives on Chinese Media and Communication.” About four decades have passed since China started economic reform and opening to the West. The rapid development of Chinese economy, diverse media outlets in the country, various official and unofficial voices on the Internet, and increasing exchanges with Western nations have all contributed to new rhetorical discourses that shape and reflect Chinese language, culture, persuasion, and politics. Such changes call for new conceptualizations of Chinese media and communication. This special section aims to examine the continuity and change in Chinese rhetorical practice, criticism, and theory. Over the years, the scope of rhetoric has expanded from public address to a range of artifacts including written texts, media messages, visual images, public exhibitions, and online discourses in the age of new media technologies. Papers which engage in rhetorical criticism and inform theory building are particularly welcome.

This special section is especially interested in the studies that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
–         Rhetorical discourses in Chinese media;
–         Chinese public address and political communication;
–         Chinese epideictic rhetoric;
–         Online rhetoric of Chinese/overseas Chinese communities;
–         The role of rhetoric in the transformation of Chinese culture;
–         Comparative studies of Chinese and Western rhetorics.

Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by March 6, 2016. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by May 22, 2016. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision. Please visit the journal’s website for more information about the quarterly journal of China Media Research, which publishes both print and online versions.

Please direct questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor, Dr. Mei Zhang.

CFP Leadership Communication

SPECIAL ISSUE ON LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION
Special Issue Guest Editors:
Jacqueline Mayfield, Texas A&M International University, A.R. Sanchez Jr. School of Business
Milton Mayfield, Texas A&M International University, A.R. Sanchez Jr. School of Business

The International Journal of Business Communication seeks and encourages the submission of high quality scholarly manuscripts for a special issue on Leadership Communication, scheduled for publication in January, 2017. IJBC is a respected, well established, high impact international journal that disseminates theoretical and practical knowledge from the business communication field. The journal draws contributions from multiple disciplines so as to fully explore all aspects of business communication, and accepts manuscripts from the administrative disciplines, liberal arts, and social sciences.

The general consensus is that leadership communication is vital to organizations. Yet there is much divergence in its conceptualizations – which are further complicated by emergent research streams, due in part to globalization, digitalization, shared leadership, workforce diversity, and demands for greater leadership integrity. Case in point, some scholars employ hierarchical leadership communication models, while others utilize discursive processes wherein leadership is co-created. Equally important, a wide array of methodological strategies have been utilized – embracing a spectrum of quantitative to qualitative approaches – to investigate leadership communication. As for emergent research streams, some of the existing leadership communication research is under scrutiny, not having always incorporated the factors of globalization, demographic diversity, employee empowerment, and information technology into its models.

All of the preceding leadership communication topics need research initiatives and progress. Moreover, the current leadership communication literature reveals a dearth of inquiry which clarifies both leadership communication processes and their rapports with key organizational outcomes, including firm, employee, customer, societal, and other stakeholder welfare.

For all of these reasons, this special issue seeks manuscripts that either reflect these diverse perspectives and/or investigate developing trends in leadership communication. All quality manuscripts that address leadership communication in these contexts are welcomed for submission. Topic categories include but are not limited to:
Team Leadership Communication
Shared Leadership Communication
Strategic Leadership Communication
Leadership Communication Channels
The Context of Leadership Communication
Cross-Cultural Leadership Communication
Non-Traditional Leadership Communication
Leadership Communication and Social Issues
Co-Creation of Leadership Through Discourse
Methodological Issues in Leadership Communication Research

This special issue on leadership communication is being co-edited by Professor Jacqueline Mayfield, PhD, A.R. Sanchez Jr., School of Business, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX and Professor Milton Mayfield, PhD, A.R. Sanchez Jr., School of Business, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. The co-editors will gladly discuss preliminary paper ideas.

All manuscripts will be reviewed following IJBC´s normal double-blind review process. Submissions are open to everyone.

For your submission, please send an initial proposal consisting of approximately a fifteen hundred (1,500) word abstract. This proposal should include your research question, method (quantitative and qualitative), findings, and conclusions. Theory development and simulation proposals will also be considered provided there is a strong fit with the issue´s theme and the work is of especially high quality. Your proposal should be submitted through email no later than January 31, 2016. Contributors will be informed of decisions by March 2016. All accepted proposals must be completed and submitted as full papers by May 15, 2016.

CFP Gendered Violence and Global Documentary

Call for Book Chapters and Book Chapter Proposals
Working Title: Gendered Violence and Global Documentary

Editors Lisa M. Cuklanz, Ph.D., Communication Department, Boston College
Heather McIntosh, Ph.D., Mass Media Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Submission Deadline for Proposals or completed chapters: February 15, 2016

Overview
On December 16, 2012, 23-year-old Jyoti Singh and her male friend Avanindra Pandey boarded a bus home after seeing a movie in South Delhi, India. Several men trapped them on the bus, and after subduing Pandey, they beat and gang-raped Singh. The perpetrators then threw them from the bus. Singh died 12 days later. Protests occurred throughout India after her death, and ultimately, all the perpetrators in the incident were convicted.

Directed by Leslee Udwin, the documentary India’s Daughter attempted to tell the story of Jyoti Singh’s experience. The documentary featured footage of one of the jailed perpetrators, Mukesh Singh, sharing his views: “A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy … A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night … Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes.” Footage of his shocking comments appeared on YouTube before the documentary’s BBC broadcast and went viral. Although the documentary broadcast and YouTube footage were blocked in India, people still showed the documentary in communities throughout India. Ultimately, India’s Daughter drew both praise and criticism within and outside India.

Documentaries about gender-based violence throughout the world perform multiple functions, such as telling stories of people’s experiences, providing witness to traumas, calling attention to cultural and structural issues, and making impacts on policy and practices. India’s Daughter remains one of the most well-known titles and serves as an illustration of some of these important functions. Building on our previous edited collection Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements, Gendered Violence and Global Documentary is an edited collection that will bring together scholarship addressing these issues in diverse contexts.

We seek completed chapters and chapter proposals that address gender-based violence and documentary film and video within global contexts. Gender-based violence includes subjects such as rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, forced sterilization, forced prostitution, human trafficking, genital mutilation, child marriage, child abuse, elder abuse, honor killings, femicide, and gendercide. Documentary refers to non-fiction film, video, and multi-media projects that engage audiences in ways that can include but move beyond entertainment, including awareness and advocacy.

Possible topics include — but are not limited to — the following:
— Representational analyses of gender-based violence within documentaries
— Analyses of productions that engage gender-based violence via transmedia storytelling, cross-platform distribution, crowdsourcing, or other innovations
— Analyses of collectives or programs that support documentary production about gender-based violence
— Analyses of documentaries as part of social or media campaigns raising awareness about gendered violence issues
— Analyses of documentaries’ roles within policies and policy making

Chapters may use any appropriate methodology. Submissions from scholars at all career levels are welcome. Working language for the volume is English.

Submission Guidelines
Chapter submissions must be original works not under review or previously published elsewhere. They should be 6,000-8,000 words, including title, abstract, and references. Along with your submission, please attach a current CV. Use .pdf, .doc, .rtf, or other accessible file format for your attachment. Citation style should be consistent throughout, such as APA, MLA, or Chicago.

While complete chapters are preferred, we also will consider proposals, which should run 1,000 words and include a working bibliography and title. Along with your submission, please attach a current CV.

CFP Chapters on Immigration Rhetoric

Clarke Rountree (University of Alabama in Huntsville) and Jouni Tilli (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) are seeking American and International scholars to contribute to a book project on immigration rhetoric. The book will focus on the rhetoric of immigration (and anti-immigration) surrounding the refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the would-be ISIS Caliphate. We want to authors for chapters that analyze the rhetoric of immigration in Europe and the United States. In particular, we’d like scholars who could write chapters on the United States, Germany, Hungary, France, Great Britain, Turkey, the European Union, and other select countries. A final chapter will offer a comparative analysis that draws upon these individual chapters.

We want each chapter to provide basic background on the political system of the country and its immigration history and policy to frame an analysis of discourse from the government and significant political players on the current immigration crisis. We want to consider how immigrants are constructed (e.g., as victims, as security risks) and what issues are tied to immigration rhetoric, such as economic, cultural, social, political, religious, humanitarian, and security issues.

We hope to recruit authors who can complete 8,000-12,000-word draft essays by the end of summer 2016.

Interested scholars should contact Clarke Rountree.

CFP Feminist Media Histories: Middle Eastern Media

Call for papers
Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal
Special Issue on Middle Eastern Media
Guest Editor: Eylem Atakav

We invite proposals for a special issue of Feminist Media Histories devoted to Middle Eastern Media. Considerations of difference in religion, nationality, race and ethnicity remain crucial to interrogating feminist media histories across diverse social and political contexts. This special issue will explore feminist media histories in the Middle East, through an examination of different media forms, practices, audiences, and institutions. We are interested in articles that are historical in scope and that consider a range of media including film, television, radio, video, playable media, and digital technology.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
* women’s media production and pioneers
* feminist activism and/in the media
* women’s use of media
* gender politics, cultural identity and the media
* women as consumers of media

We are also interested in photo essays, oral history interviews, and reprints of notable original documents.

Interested contributors should contact guest editor Eylem Atakav directly, sending a 300-word proposal no later than February 1, 2016
articles will be due June 1, 2016

Feminist Media Histories is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to feminist histories of film, video, audio, and digital technologies across a range of periods and global contexts. Inter-medial and trans-national in approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagement with these media as audiences and users, creators and executives, critics and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators and activists. Feminist Media Histories is published by the University of California Press.

CFP Chinese Media Histories: From the Telegraph to the Internet

Call for Papers
Special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture
Volume 7, Issue 3, Fall 2016:
Chinese Media Histories, from the telegraph to the Internet

Guest Editors:
– Gabriele BALBI, USI-Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
– Changfeng CHEN, Tsinghua University (China)
– Jing WU, Peking University (China)

Media history has largely focused on North American and single European countries’ media and, among them, especially on the history of broadcasting. This special issue aims to enlarge media history under two perspectives. Geographically, it aims to enlarge “classic” borders focusing on China and it would like to reconstruct the development, the role, and the controversies of Chinese media over time. Temporally, starting from the 19th century, this issue adopts a longue durée approach and, besides broadcasting, aims to integrate communication technologies such as printing press, telegraphy, telephony, photography, movie industry, digital media, and other media. This would help to enlarge classic media history into plural media histories and to bring attention to complex interrelationships between media and modernization process in China since the 19th century.

Articles for this special issue ‘Chinese Media Histories’ could, for example, address the following ideas:
– Which are the “constitutive choices” (Star 2004) that built Chinese media systems?
– Which was the impact of Western technologies and polices over the development of Chinese media system?
– How did new media technologies, institutions and practices influence the process of modernization in China’s social, cultural and political life?
– Which is the role of Chinese media history in the international media history? To what extent the history of Chinese media system differs from Western ones?
– How can history help in better understanding the media in China today?

Contributors can come from a wide range of disciplines: media and communication studies, telecommunications, political economy, political sciences, cultural studies, social history, geography of communication, and others. The three editors would like to collect papers broad in theoretical analysis and even informative in empirical case studies, in order to provide to European readership a comprehensive and maybe didactical issue on the development of the media in China in the last two centuries. Papers will be also selected with this scope in mind.

Submissions of no more than 7.000 words in length are to be original, scholarly manuscripts formatted according to Intellect House Style guidelines.

Notes should appear as endnotes and cited works listed in alphabetical, then chronological, order in a separate ‘References’ section at the end of the article. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word .doc/.docx format ONLY and sent as e-mail attachments to the guest editors.
All inquiries should also be addressed to Professor Gabriele BALBI.

Deadlines:
– abstracts of 250 words can be submitted until 15 December 2015
– accepted authors will have to submit the full papers by 15 April 2016
– the issue is scheduled for publication in Autumn 2016.

About the journal
Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the fields of media, communication and cultural studies. We therefore encourage diverse themes, subjects, contexts and approaches: empirical, theoretical and historical. Our objective is to engage readers and contributors from different parts of the world in a critical debate on the myriad interconnections and interactions between communication, culture and society at the outset of the twenty first century.

Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that aims to encourage the development of the widest possible scholarly community, both in terms of geographical location and intellectual scope in the fields of media, communication and cultural studies. We publish leading articles from both established scholars and those at the beginning of their academic careers.