[ecrea] Call for Northern Lights: Books and Publishing in a Digital Age

Call for papers to Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, 
volume 13 - Themed Issue on:



Books and Publishing in a Digital Age



The book is one of the oldest and still most important media but the 
medium of the book is currently undergoing important transformations 
both in terms of technology, industry structure, cultural policies, and 
aesthetic possibilities. The proliferation of the e-book has changed the 
ways in which books are produced, stored, distributed and read, but 
other forms of new media also come to influence the book as a medium. 
The web and social network media allow readers to publish and share 
their own work, enable book readers to review and criticize literature 
and thereby bypassing traditional cultural gatekeepers like literary 
reviewers.



Global media players like Google, Amazon and Apple have introduced new 
forms of libraries, bookstores and business models and public libraries 
are undergoing significant developments transforming themselves from 
book archives to information service providers. Digital media open for 
new aesthetic possibilities of multi-modal books and allow readers to 
interact with the text.



Traditionally, the book as a medium has been influenced by the literary 
institution (defining the book as an object of art or culture) and the 
educational institution (defining the book as the preferred medium for 
learning), which in both cases have structured the ways in which books 
have been published, distributed and read. With the growing 
technological, institutional and aesthetic convergence between the 
media, the book is now becoming more integrated into a global and 
digital media culture.



In this volume of Northern Lights we will focus on the digital 
revolution of the book and consider how it is transforming the book as a 
medium in terms of technology, industry, aesthetics and culture.


Topics of article proposals may include (but are not restricted to):

    * E-books: developments and influence on production, distribution 
and reading of digital books vis-à-vis print books
    * Changes in the publishing industry: new value chains and 
gatekeepers, the role of digital standards, acquisitions of rights, 
bestsellerism and big books, etc.
    * Convergence between books and other media: cross-media 
storytelling, cross-media promotion, multimodal texts and reading 
experiences, etc.
    * The role of libraries: new practices and cultural obligations for 
public libraries in a context of global media businesses
    * Readers as writers and literary reviewers: how digital media 
allow readers to become producers and cultural intermediaries in a new 
publishing circuit



Send abstracts of 3-400 words to Professor Stig Hjarvard 
((stig /at/ hum.ku.dk); volume editor) and Associate Professor Rasmus Helles 
((rashel /at/ hum.ku.dk); guest editor).

Deadline for abstract submission: May 15 2014.

Notification of authors: 30 May 2014

Final article submission: 1 October 2014.

Publication: Spring 2015.

Additional information about the journal at the website of Intellect 
Press: 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=143/view,page=2



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