[ecrea] MEI 35: ?Screens and Media?

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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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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