Transnational Protests and the Media - Call for Chapters
Editors: Simon Cottle, Cardiff School of
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and Libby Lester,
School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania
Deadline for submission of chapter
proposals/abstracts: Monday 2 November 2009
Transnational Protests and the Media will
explore and theorize the rise of transnational protests
and their transactions within and through
todayâ??s fast-changing communications environment. In
keeping with the Global Crises and the Media
series, published by Peter Lang, this contracted book
sets out to examine how different global issues
and crises war and conflict, economy and trade,
ecology and climate change, human rights and
humanitarian emergencies - become focused and
mobilized through mediated protests and
demonstrations internationally and transnationally.
Providing an up-to-date, theoretically informed
and substantively focused collection, Transnational
Protests and the Media seeks to address
todayâ??s changing communications environment and how this now
facilitates, shapes and becomes deployed within
diverse areas of global contention and concern.
We seek to include contributions from authors
and researchers working on different global issues and
protests including war and peace, economy and
trade, ecology and climate change, and human rights
and humanitarian crises, and how these have
variously become enacted in and through todayâ??s complex
of communication flows and media formations
and with what possible impacts, variously conceived.
Indicative Topics:
? Protesting war and peace
? Protesting economy and trade
? Protesting ecology and climate change
? Protesting human rights and humanitarian emergency
? The changing repertoires of contention
? The diverse ways in which ICTs and new
social media have become infused in the wider
enactment and diffusion of mediated protests
? The rise of celebrity and spectacle in
demonstrations about global issues
? The performative and dramaturgical
staging and media framing of global protest events
? Mediated protests, global citizenship,
global civil society and the global public sphere
Submission Details:
The language of the book is English. The book
will be part of the Global Crises and the Media
series, published by Peter Lang. All submissions
should be original, unpublished and not under
review for publication elsewhere. Chapter length: 6,000 words.
Key Dates:
Chapter proposals/abstracts: Monday 2 November 2009
Full draft chapters: 18 January 2010
Initial decisions and feedback: 8 February 2010
Final chapter revisions submitted: 8 March 2010
In the first instance please email chapter
proposals/abstracts (150-300 words) to:
(Libby.Lester /at/ utas.edu.au)
Professor Simon Cottle,
Deputy Head of School,
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies,
Bute Building (Room 1.28),
Cardiff University,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff CF10 3NB
Wales, U.K.
Tel: 02920 874506
email: (CottleS /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
web: www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/
Latest book: Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age
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