[ecrea] CfP - Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture (issue 7.3), 'Chinese Media Histories'

Call for Papers

Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture

Volume 7, Issue 3 (7.3), Fall 2016:
Chinese Media Histories, from the telegraph to the Internet.


Guest Editors:
- Gabriele BALBI, USI-Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
- Changfeng CHEN, Tsinghua University (China)
- Jing WU, Peking University (China)


Media history has largely focused on North American and single 
European countries’ media and, among them, especially on the history 
of broadcasting. This special issue aims to enlarge media history under 
two perspectives. Geographically, it aims to enlarge “classic” 
borders focusing on China and it would like to reconstruct the 
development, the role, and the controversies of Chinese media over time. 
Temporally, starting from the 19th century, this issue adopts a longue 
durée approach and, besides broadcasting, aims to integrate 
communication technologies such as printing press, telegraphy, 
telephony, photography, movie industry, digital media, and other media. 
This would help to enlarge classic media history into plural media 
histories and to bring attention to complex interrelationships between 
media and modernization process in China since the 19th century.

Articles for this special issue ‘Chinese Media History’ could, for 
example, address the following ideas:
- Which are the “constitutive choices” (Star 2004) that built 
Chinese media systems?
- Which was the impact of Western technologies and polices over the 
development of Chinese media system?
- How did new media technologies, institutions and practices influence 
the process of modernization in China’s social, cultural and political 
life?
- Which is the role of Chinese media history in the international media 
history? To what extent the history of Chinese media system differs from 
Western ones?
- How can history help in better understanding the media in China today?


Contributors can come from a wide range of disciplines: media and 
communication studies, telecommunications, political economy, political 
sciences, cultural studies, social history, geography of communication, 
and others. The three editors would like to collect papers broad in 
theoretical analysis and even informative in empirical case studies, in 
order to provide to European readership a comprehensive and maybe 
didactical issue on the development of the media in China in the last 
two centuries. Papers will be also selected with this scope in mind.


Submissions of no more than 7.000 words in length are to be original, 
scholarly manuscripts formatted according to Intellect House Style 
guidelines ( 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/Intellect%20style%20guide.pdf 
).


Notes should appear as endnotes and cited works listed in alphabetical, 
then chronological, order in a separate ‘References’ section at the 
end of the article. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word .doc/.docx 
format ONLY and sent as e-mail attachments to the guest editors, at 
(gabriele.balbi /at/ usi.ch)
All inquiries should also be addressed to Professor Balbi at 
(gabriele.balbi /at/ usi.ch)


Deadlines:
- abstracts of 250 words can be submitted until 15 December 2015
- accepted authors will have to submit the full papers by 15 April 2016
- the issue is scheduled for publication in Autumn 2016.


About the journal
'Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture' recognises the 
interdisciplinary nature of the fields of media, communication and 
cultural studies. We therefore encourage diverse themes, subjects, 
contexts and approaches: empirical, theoretical and historical. Our 
objective is to engage readers and contributors from different parts of 
the world in a critical debate on the myriad interconnections and 
interactions between communication, culture and society at the outset of 
the twenty first century.

'Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture' is a double-blind 
peer-reviewed journal that aims to encourage the development of the 
widest possible scholarly community, both in terms of geographical 
location and intellectual scope in the fields of media, communication 
and cultural studies. We publish leading articles from both established 
scholars and those at the beginning of their academic careers.


'Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture' is online at 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=165/

Editor
: Salvatore Scifo, Maltepe University, Istanbul



Associate Editor
: Alessandro D'Arma, University of Westminster



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