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[ecrea] MEI 35: ?Screens and Media?

Fri Feb 11 20:58:42 GMT 2011



Call for papers
MEI 35: ?Screens and Media?
Edited by Thierry Lancien , the MEI review number 35 will be entitled: ?SCREENS and MEDIA?.

The proliferation of screens and media relations
As the number of digital screens and their formats increase, this special issue will analyse how such change influences our relations with media content. It specifically seeks to examine the hypothesis that new media ? such as websites, interactive multimedia devices, video games, mobile phone platforms and content ? have a direct influence on the use of traditional media.
Historical and comparative perspective
Contributors may choose to adopt an historical and comparative perspective given how previous studies on our relations with screens, from cinema to television screens (a dynamic screen for Manovich) to computer screens (a virtual screen for Manovich) have adopted a cross-media perspective. Such an approach should therefore illuminate our understanding of viewers? relations with digital screens.
Screen identities
Beyond the notions of a « société des écrans » (Asselin, Mongin), « nouveau continuum écranique » (Chambat), and « écran total » (Serroy), contributors to this issue should seek to define the unique specificities of these different screens.
Notions and concepts

Studies on digital devices have emphasised several notions and concepts that this special issue will examine: notions of interaction (images agies, images actées, images en procès), notions of participation (co-énonciation, co-construction), concepts such as periodisation (neo-spectateur) or changes and hybridations (spectateur hybride, pratiques cross ou transmédiatiques).

Different relations and transformations

This issue will raise several fundamental questions about how digital screens redefine the role of the viewer. Do digital screens change our semiotic relations with the media (from reading or viewing practices to intervention on texts and images; enonciative shifts)? Do they create new forms of cognitive behaviour? Do they presuppose intermedial uses (such as preferences for viewing certain content in certain media)? Viewers? relations to these different screens could also be analysed with due consideration for contextual, social and cultural parameters (relations to screens in a private or public context, the place of screens in the imaginary of communication, perceptions, relation to time, space and body).

Organisation of the publication
1- The title and abstract (500 words) of your paper in French or English must be sent by e-mail to (thierry.lancien /at/ u-bordeaux3.fr)
2-      The closing date to receive titles and abstracts is 1st March, 2011.
3-      The results of the reading panel will be published on 1st April.
4- The final papers in French or English must reach the review no later than 1st June in order to be sent to the peer-review panel members.
5-      Feedback from the reviewer will be made available on 1st  September.
6-      The journal will be published in French and English in December 2011.

MEI ?Mediation and Information?
The MEI ?Mediation and Information? review which was established in 1993, is a peer-reviewed journal of communication which publishes two editions of about 200 pages annually.
-       MEI is a scientific review supported by Centre National du Livre (CNL)
-       It is a qualifying review recognized by:
o the Conseil National des Universités (CNU de Sciences de l?Information et de la Communication) (The National Universities Council, Information science and Communication) o the Agence d?Evaluation de la Recherche et de l?Enseignement Supérieur AERES. (Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education, AERES).


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