[ecrea] Television & New Media on the future of media studies

> TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
> COMMEMORATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY
> WITH SPECIAL ISSUE AND PODCASTS
> Los Angeles=2C London=2C New Delhi=2C Singapore and Washington DC (January =
> 27=2C 2009) Television & New
> Media (published by SAGE) turns ten this month. To commemorate that milesto=
> ne=2C the journal has
> published a special issue which includes podcasts of three key articles.
>
> The special 10th anniversary issue explores everything from multiculturalis=
> m to environmentalism. Leading
> authors from around the world contribute=2C including David Morley=2C (=93F=
> or a Materialist=2C Non-Media-centric
> Media Studies=94)=2C Robert W. McChesney=2C (=93My Media Studies: Thoughts =
> from Robert W. McChesney=94)=2C and
> Chon A. Noriega (=93My Media Studies: Straddling Good Fences=94).
>
> As a way to stimulate further discussion and add value to the special issue=
> =2C podcasts were produced in Los
> Angeles=2C New Orleans=2C and New York from three of the articles. The podc=
> asts feature debate about the
> ecological impact of media technologies=2C the place of electronic games in=
>  understanding the Columbine
> massacre=2C the mainstreaming of multi-racial television=2C the need to stu=
> dy TV as it occurs in the daily lives of
> people=2C and the question of whether technologies change people or the oth=
> er way around. The featured
> podcasted articles include:
>
> =95 Vicki Mayer=92s =93My Media Studies=2C Fifty Years Later=94
> =95 Rick Maxwell=92s =93My Media Studies: Ecocentric=2C Activist=2C Deeply =
> Pluralistic=2C and Egalitarian=94
> =95 Sarah Banet-Weiser and Herman Gray=92s =93Our Media Studies=94
> =95 Doug Thomas=92 =93In Praise of the Anecdote=94
> =95 Larry Gross=92 =93My Media Studies: Cultivation to Participation=94
>
> =93We're very pleased to mark our tenth volume by inviting more than 50 of =
> the leading figures in media
> studies to reflect on where the field has gone=2C where it is now=2C and wh=
> ere it should be headed=2C=94 said TVNM
> editor Toby Miller. =93We are the only journal that places equal emphasis o=
> n the dominant entertainment and
> information medium of the 20th and 21st centuries =96 television =96 and it=
> s relationship to the newer media.
> Bringing together the writing of the best academics in the field=2C plus th=
> e added bonus of the podcasts=2C
> makes this special anniversary issue one that will be discussed for years t=
> o come.=94
>
> The tenth anniversary=2C January 2009 special issue of TVNM is being made f=
> reely available by SAGE for a
> limited time at http://tvnm.sagepub.com.
> ###
> Television & New Media is an international journal devoted to the most rece=
> nt trends in television and new
> media studies. Focusing on textual analysis=2C political economy=2C cultura=
> l history=2C policy advocacy=2C audience
> ethnography=2C and economic and power issues that have an impact on the med=
> ia=2C TVNM addresses
> questions of how issues of economics and power are enacted in television. h=
> ttp://tvn.sagepub.com/
> SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals=2C books=2C and elect=
> ronic media for academic=2C
> educational=2C and professional markets. Since 1965=2C SAGE has helped info=
> rm and educate a global
> community of scholars=2C practitioners=2C researchers=2C and students spann=
> ing a wide range of subject areas
> including business=2C humanities=2C social sciences=2C and science=2C techn=
> ology=2C and medicine. An independent
> company=2C SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles=2C London=2C New Delhi=
> =2C Singapore and Washington DC.
> www.sagepublications.com
>
> Television & New Media on the future of media studies=2C examining Media St=
> udies 3.0=2C comes complete with podcast (the PDF about the podcast is atta=
> ched). People can look at the journal at tvn.sagepub.com.
>
> Regards
> Toby Miller

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