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Mass Communication is primarily concerned with the differential impact
of messages transmitted by various mass media, including international
exchanges through mass media.
The division members promote systematic study of communication presented
through the electronic, cinematic and print media. Members participate
in developing theory, examination of the processes and effects of mass
communication and development and evaluation of policy relevant to mass
communication.
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Call for Responses
FLOW Conference 2010
September 30-October 2, 2010
The University of Texas at Austin
*www.FlowTV.org* http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 11, 2010
Flow Conference 2010 is the 3rd biannual conference for FlowTV.org, a University of Texas at Austin graduate student-run, online academic journal focusing on television and media culture.
Flow Conference 2010 will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: There will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions.
Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a compelling question. Respondents are asked to submit a 150-word abstract addressing one of the roundtable questions as listed on our conference Website: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=4850
Some roundtable topics include:
Global Television Flows
Virtual World Building
Postfeminist Media Culture
Race and Representation
Twitter and Celebrity
The State of the American Sitcom
TV and the Question of a "Mass Audience"
HBO & History
Comics Across Media
Serialization and Viewership
Media Policy and Scholarship
Online Publishing and Criticism
Song, Sound, and Remix
Visit the conference Web site for a complete list of roundtable questions in full detail.
We especially encourage responses that address issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability, as well as international perspectives.
Please e-mail: flowconference2008@gmail.com with a 150-word abstract and the title of the roundtable you are responding to in the subject of the email by June 11, 2010. Please respond to only one roundtable topic. Include your full name, e-mail address, and affiliation in your e-mail.
We will inform participants of acceptance via e-mail by June 28, 2010.
Upon acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper, due by August 20, 2010.
In an effort to include a wide range of participants (i.e., scholars, fans, critics, activists, policymakers, industry professionals, etc.), we encourage wide distribution of this call.
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at *
flowconference2010@gmail.com*
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Welcome to Audiovisual Thinking
We are happy to announce the launch and Call for Videos of the online journal Audiovisual Thinking ( www.audiovisualthinking.org), the world's first journal of academic videos.
Audiovisual Thinking is a pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video.
International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, the purpose of Audiovisual Thinking is to develop and promote academic thinking in and about all aspects of audiovisuality and audiovisual culture.
Advised by a board of leading academics and thinkers in the fields of audiovisuality, communication and the media and hosted by Copenhagen University, the journal seeks to set the standard for academic audiovisual essays now and in the future.
Why is Audiovisual Thinking important?
We study, teach and research the moving image, media and audiovisuality, yet we rarely mediate in these same forms and media. Audiovisual Thinking is a forum where academics and researches can articulate their thoughts and research about audiovisual culture and media in audiovisual ways.
Society has changed radically due technological changes in audiovisual mediation and new digital tools/platforms. Video is becoming a central part of our everyday life and communication, as well as a valuable tool for researchers to share their results, insights and engage with the academic and other communities. Academics have many different forms of media for expressing ourselves, for example text, audio and images. These different media have different strengths and weaknesses. Traditionally, academic dissemination and debate have relied very much on the written text. But now, audio and images should be embraced by the academic world, not because it is better than the written word, but because video can say things differently.
Please visit us on www.audiovisualthinking.org to watch academic videos and submit your own.
Video submissions are welcome from all fields of study and, as one would expect, the main criteria for submissions are that the discussion and thinking are conveyed through audiovisual means.
The call for videos is now open!
For more information, please visit the website www.audiovisualthinking.com or contact the editors: Inge (on behalf of the editorial board) inges@hum.ku.dk
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Invitation: Major New Study on Children's Media Use
RSVP Required
To RSVP, please send your name and affiliation to tboston@kff.org
Contact:
Rakesh Singh
(650) 854-9400
rsingh@kff.org
On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 the Kaiser Family Foundation will release Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds, one of the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information on the amount and nature of media use by American youth. The survey is the third wave of the Foundation's studies of children's media use, providing a detailed look at current media use patterns among young people and documenting changes in children's media habits from five (2004) and ten (1999) years ago.
The study covers television, video games, the Internet, cell phones, movies, music, and print; explores the media environment in young people's homes and bedrooms; documents differences by age, gender and race; and looks at popular activities such as social networking, multitasking, and mobile media use.
The event will include a presentation of the study findings by Vicky Rideout, Vice President and Director of the Foundation's Program for the Study of Media and Health
* Michael Rich, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Director, Center on
Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital Boston
* Stephen Friedman, JD, Executive Vice President, MTV Networks
and General Manager, MTV
* Richard Taylor, Senior Vice President for Communications and
Research, Entertainment Software Association
* Donald Roberts, PhD, Thomas More Storke Professor Emeritus,
Stanford University
The panel will discuss issues such as:
* How do current levels of media use and multitasking affect
children's healthy development?
* What do these data tell us about parenting in today's media age?
* What do these trends mean for policymakers, children's
advocates and media companies?
WHEN:
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Breakfast and registration at 9:00 a.m.
Presentations begin at 9:30 a.m.
[http://www.kff.org/outlook/calendaricon.gif]Add this Event to your Outlook Calendar(Note: Event times are E.S.T.)
WHERE:
Barbara Jordan Conference Center (Kaiser Family Foundation Office) 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, DC (one block west of Metro Center)
RSVP Required:
To RSVP, please send your name and affiliation to tboston@kff.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, California, dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues.
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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS, MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY
Deadline: January 12, 2010
“The Facebook Election: New Media and the 2008 Presidential Campaign”
Special Symposium
Tom Johnson & Dave Perlmutter, Guest Editors
Some political observers dubbed the 2008 presidential campaign as the Facebook election. Barack Obama, in particular, employed Online Social-Interactive Media (OSIM) such as blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to run a grassroots style campaign. Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul similarly campaigned using OSIM technology in their organizing efforts. The Obama campaign was keenly aware that voters, particularly the young, are not simply consumers of information, but conduits of information as well. They often replaced the professional filter of traditional media with a social one. OSIMs allowed candidates to do electronically what previously had to be done through shoe leather and phone banks: contact volunteers and donors, and schedule and promote events.
OSIMs changed the way candidates campaigned, how the media covered the election and how voters received information. In this special issue of Mass Communication & Society, we seek theoretically driven and empirically grounded manuscripts on the role of OSIMs in the 2008 election campaign. In particular, we seek submissions that explore the subject in one or several of the following ways:
• Candidates’ use of OSIMs: How did presidential candidates use OSIMs as a tool to present their message, recruit volunteers and to raise money? What effect did the OSIMs have on the way they ran campaigns?
• Voters’ use of OSIMs: How did voters use OSIMS to get information on the 2008 campaign? How credible and useful did they judge political information from OSIMs? What effect did OSIMs have on their political attitudes, cognitions and behaviors?
• Traditional Media and OSIMs: How did legacy media and their online counterparts cover the OSIM phenomenon? How did they employ OSIMs in their election coverage?
This special issue of Mass Communication and Society will appear at the end of 2010. Submitted papers should follow the standard submission procedures outlined in the inside back cover of the journal. Authors should specify in their submission letter that they wish their submission to be considered for the 2008 Campaign New Media Symposium and must be received by January 12, 2010.
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