[ecrea] CfP - Special Issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture

Call for Papers:

Special Issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture



The Host City: (Re)Locating Media Events in the Network Era



Guest Editor: Robert Moses Peaslee, Texas Tech University

Assistant Guest Editor: Brendan Kredell, University of Calgary



As media events (Couldry, Hepp & Krotz, 2010; Dayan & Katz,1992) of all 
stripe proliferate around the world, a variety of stakeholdersjockey for 
position and advantage in the geographical and cultural contextschosen 
to host them. Media events, as Dayan and Katz famously 
characterizedthem, were defined in part by their liveness, their 
physical remoteness from the majority of their “audience,” their 
interruptive nature, and their status, nonetheless, as pre-planned 
(prominent examples today would include the Olympic games, the annual 
film festival at Cannes, the Super Bowl, and music festivals such as 
Chicago’s Lollapalooza). Many of these events are consistently located, 
well-established and have assumed a defensive position aimed at 
maintainingbrand identity and prestige. Others, such as the Olympics, 
change locations, while others (such as Austin, TX’s Fantastic Fest) are 
ascendant, and still others are nascent at best. Each host community, 
however, has a unique relationship to their event(s), and each of these 
relationships provides fertile ground for investigating the role of 
media events in promoting discourses of community identity, establishing 
infrastructural and externalnetworks, reifying the importance of being 
mediated, utilizing the "local” to speak "globally,” and a variety of 
other processes.



This special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 
seeks research articles engaging the media events literature and 
investigating the relationship between event and location, between 
location-as-text and location-as-infrastructure, between location and 
audience, between location and industry, and other relevant 
relationships, all in the context of networked media structures. Some 
relevant topics areas include, but are by no means limited to:



Host city branding and image management

Networked media events: the impact of social media

Media events and host city governance

Discourses of place in the media event

“Thereness” and virtuality in the media event

Media events as sites of resistance

Community and ritual

Media events, promotion and (g)local media

Fannish practices in/around the media event

The political economy of the media event

The audience experience: affect, memory, place

Media events and mobility
Comparative analyses of host cities in media event contexts



Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 500 words 
no later than January 15, 2013 to (robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu). Abstracts will 
be reviewed by the editors on a rolling basis until then.



Those authors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to submit 
full articles of 6000-7000 words (inclusive of notes, appendices, and 
works cited) no later than March 15, 2013.



Full articles will be subject to a blind peer-review process, meaning 
that acceptance of an abstract does not denote acceptance of the full 
article. We anticipate accepting approximately 12 abstracts in order to 
produce an issue of 6-7 articles.



Any revisions required by the reviewers will be expected by mid-June in 
order to publish the issue in early 2014.



Authors wishing to propose relevant book reviews for the issue should 
also submit an abstract by January 15, 2013.



Questions and abstracts should be directed to (robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu).



Also, anyone interested in serving as a reviewer should send a brief 
letter of interest along with a CV to (bkredell /at/ ucalgary.ca)


Thanks and Happy Holidays!


Rob

Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism & Electronic Media
College of Media & Communication
Texas Tech University


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