[ecrea] CfP-Book Series: The Visual Politics of War Vol. 2.

Book Series: The Visual Politics of Wars

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Deadline: Nov., 1, 2015


Editors:

Ibrahim Saleh, PhD
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Thomas Knieper, Prof.
University of Passau, Germany


This book series focuses on assessing the coverage of wars, so we are
looking for contributors who investigate connections to the daily
practices of journalism in text, images and videos. The book series
considers the growing influence of the ‘visual turn’ in diverse
academic literature on the media representation of conflict. The Visual
Politics of War presents encouraging evidence that the visual- isation
of conflict in news media is finally getting the kind of sustained
theoretical scrutiny and rigorous empirical analysis that it deserves.

The Visual Politics of War follows an interdisciplinary approach that
welcomes contribution from varied disciplinary fields of research, from
security studies to visual culture, are now engaging in a range of
analytical and empirical investiga- tions into the purportedly powerful
roles of mediated visual imagery during wartime, employing conceptual
tools such as ‘mediatisation’ and ‘performativity’.

This book series offers a summation of some of the key approaches: their
inter- sections, distinctions and usefulness; while suggesting
trajectories for further critical research into al journalism and crisis
communication. Ever since the Vietnam War, media globalisation has made
conflict a part of everyone’s life in this modern world. This is where
the war reporters play the crucial role of media- tors to bring us
stories covering the various dimensions of war from some of the most
vulnerable places of the earth.

This book series includes original research papers that explore the
visual culture of conflict, specifically the ‘war on terror grounded
in the conceptual claim that images are central to contemporary
geopolitics. We encounter other people and places though a "field of
perceptible reality" enabled by visual representations.

Manuscripts:

Manuscripts eligible to be published as articles include full length
research with a maximum length of 7,000 words (excluding abstract,
tables, figures, and refer- ences), a total of no more than 5 tables
and/or figures, and no more than 75 ref- erences.

Academic manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including all
quotations and footnotes). Full names of the author(s) should be given,
a full ad- dress for correspondence, and where possible a contact
telephone number. Au- thors should include an abstract of 100 to 150
words, and 5key words under, which the article should be indexed.
Current and recent academic and profes- sional affiliations should be
supplied for inclusion in “Notes on Contributors,” together with a
list of major publications (with dates and name of publisher) and
forthcoming books.

References: Authors should confirm to Cambridge Scholars Publishing
style. Thus authors should use inside reference style rather than
footnotes. Authors will be required to secure permission if they want to
reproduce any type of material, or extract from the text of another
source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as “derivative
reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which
derives substantially from a copyrighted source).

Types of Contributions:Standard Papers - report practical or theoretical
research and typically comprise up to 12 typeset pages. Longer articles
are also considered, provided the content justifies the extent.

Editors:

Ibrahim Saleh, PhD

Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town; Chair of Journalism
Research & Education Section, International Association for Media &
Communication Research (IAMCR) & Editor of the Journal of Transnational
'Worlds of Power’: Proliferation of Journalism & Professional
Standards & the Global Media Journal, African Edition. Saleh is the
linchpin editor f the Book Series “Visual Politics of War."Political
com- munication, in particular in the areas of political journalism and
crisis management; Securitization of the Environment, in particular cli-
mate reporting and representation of disasters; Middle East & North
Africa (MENA), in particular the engagement of citizens with suprana-
tional political processes; media and democratization in transitional
society; the impact of media violence on public opinion; effects of
media representations and framing on policy-making in the areas of
social policy, foreign policy and international relations; digital
inequal- ities in cross-national contexts.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Knieper

Chair of Computer-mediated Communication at the University of Passau.
Knieper was executive director of the IWF Knowledge and Media gGmbH in
Göttingen and full professor for Mass Communication and Media Studies
at the TU Braunschweig. His main research areas are computer-mediated
communication, visual communication, political communication, empirical
social research, and journalism. Further- more, Knieper is member of the
Human Science Centre at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He is
member of the editorial boards of the two journals “Visual
Communication Quarterly” and “International Journal of Communication
and Health”. He also joins the advisory board of “Image: Journal of
Interdisciplinary Science”.Thomas Knieper is the co-editor of the Book
Series “Visual Politics of War."


*Ibrahim Saleh, PhD*

Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town; Chair of Journalism
Research & Education Section, International Association for Media &
Communication Research (IAMCR) & Editor of the Journal of Transnational
'Worlds of Power’: Proliferation of Journalism & Professional
Standards & the Global Media Journal, African Edition. Saleh is also
the editor of the Book Series “Visual Politics of Wars."

Email:Â (Ibrahim.Saleh /at/ uct.ac.za) <mailto:(Ibrahim.Saleh /at/ uct.ac.za)>Â &Â
(jre09is /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(jre09is /at/ gmail.com)>Â
Phone: 4837 (UCT internal), or locally 021 650 4837
Personal website:http://cfms.uct.ac.za/staff/ibrahim-saleh-phd/
Twitter: DrIbrahimSaleh
Skype: IbrahimSaleh112


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