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[ecrea] Northern Lights. Volume 9 (2011). Volume editors: Gunhild Agger ((gunhild /at/ hum.aau.dk)) and Anne Marit Waade

Tue Aug 31 15:39:07 GMT 2010



Call for Papers

Northern Lights. Volume 9 (2011). Volume editors: Gunhild Agger ((gunhild /at/ hum.aau.dk)) and Anne Marit Waade
 
Media & Crime – Fiction and Journalism


Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2010 – Full articles to be delivered December 15, 2010

The 2011 volume of Northern Lights will focus on the relationship between media and crime.
Since the modern, urban breakthrough, mediation of crime has been a crucial factor in determining how crime is perceived within the public sphere. It has enabled a dissemination of the discussion on moral and ethical issues from the few enlightened to the many. Crime is the central point of an extensive production of fiction in books, films, TV series, and games. Crime is also one of the most popular subjects of journalism, mediated in newspapers and electronic media, not least the internet. On this background, the concept of mediatization can be considered as a term apt to designate the new relationship between media, crime and society.
The phenomenon we can call ‘crime culture’ today is characterized by the following features:
- The different genres of crime fiction are broadly exposed and debated via several, often interconnected, media. Formerly, crime fiction appealed almost exclusively to a dedicated fan audience. Now, crime fiction tends to form part of the public cultural sphere both via transmedial references and traditional genres formerly neglecting the phenomenon such as reviews.
- Via a similar use of aesthetics, e.g. point of view and style, the mediation of facts has demonstrated an approximation to the devices of fiction and vice versa.
- More generations and both sexes are fascinated by mediation of crime. Thus, traditional barriers of gender and generation are overruled: Crime fiction has a broad appeal and is widely consumed and debated (documented by fan sites, reader response studies, public debate).
- The interest in mediated crime has both a national basis and a transnational impact. Import and export flourish, developing intercultural exchange in the variety of fiction genres as well as the forms of journalism. In a Scandinavian context, national interest in crime fiction may have augmented due to the changing relationship between periphery and production centre.
The exploration of these and related features invites to applying different methods and approaches (media sociology, textual analysis, cultural and criminological orientations, aesthetic analysis, etc.)

In particular the editors will consider articles relating to the following themes:

• The chain of communication and exchange between different media, enhancing the permanent interest of crime in the media.
• Tendencies in present national and transnational crime fiction (including the developments of new subgenres and new aesthetics).
• The relationship between periphery and production centres (e.g. the Scandinavian example).
• Historical studies of the crime fiction genres’ development.
• Historical studies of the development of crime journalism.
• Comparative studies of crime fiction and crime journalism, including studies of journalistic interaction with crime fiction.
• The role of crime fiction and journalism in the light of production (e.g. importance for the development of crime tourism) and consumption (e.g. forms of reader and viewer participation).
• The role of crime fiction in popular culture (e.g. considering the democratic potential of popular culture and the concept of cultural citizenship).

Deadlines:

Abstracts/papers September 15, 2010
Full articles: December 15, 2010
Publication: September 1, 2011

Papers/abstracts should be sent to the volume editor: Professor Gunhild Agger, University of Aalborg, email: (gunhild /at/ hum.aau.dk)

-- 
Gunhild
Agger   
        
        
        
Professor, dr.
phil.    
        
Institut for Sprog og Kultur
(Dep. of Language and Culture)  
Aalborg
Universitet     
        
Kroghstræde
3   
        
        
DK-9220 Aalborg
Øst     
        
Tlf. 9940
9029  
        
        
www.krimiforsk.aau.dk
   
        
www.kultur.aau.dk
       
        

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