[ecrea] call for papers - Journal of Media Critiques

‘Media Critiques’ book series is published every year with your 
participation and contribution and has reached now an international 
coverage. This year, the book series will be published online under the 
name of Journal of Media Critiques and will continue as online 
international academic journal 
(http://www.mediacritiques.net/index.php/jmc) . Journal of Media 
Critiques is planned to be published semi-annually and accepted papers 
will be published in a printed version of the Media Critiques Book.

This year, the first volume of the journal will be published in June 
2015 and the theme is determined as “Social, Cultural and Political 
Effects of Mass Media Industry’s Mode of Production and Operation”. The 
deadlines of the publication are below:

-Completed paper submission: April 24, 2015

-Announcement of accepted papers and editing: May 22,2015

-Online publication: June 5,2015

Please register international online journal, Journal of Media Critiques 
for uploading your completed paper at 
http://www.mediacritiques.net/index.php/jmc/user/register by April 
24,2015. If you need any assistance during this processes you can 
contact our colleague Arif Yildirim via email (arify /at/ mediacritiques.net) . 
Peer reviews will be completed until May 22,2015 and after final 
revisions journal will be published by June 5, 2015.

Thank you in advance for your interest and contribution. We hope to 
cooperate with you in our new project.



Editors

Can Bilgili, Prof. Dr., Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey

Arif Yildirim, Assist. Prof. Dr., Gaziantep University, Turkey

Richard Vickers, Principal Lecturer, Lincoln School of Film & Media 
University of Lincoln, United Kingdom



Guest Editors

Isik Özkan, Prof. Dr., Yasar University, Turkey

Semra Atilgan, Prof. Dr., Marmara University, Turkey

Call For Papers

Media Critiques 2015





Social, Cultural and Political Effects of Mass Media Industry’s

Mode of Production and Operation





Mass media industry is created by the media corporations such as radio, 
TV, newspapers, , cinema and also by the mass consumption focused 
communication agencies such as advertisement, public relations, media 
planning agencies. In today’s technologies, industry has structurally 
changed with the internet based mediums, and gained new forms of 
production and distribution. Today, mass media industry is in a new era; 
interactive, more personal, has both mass and individual access power, 
able to cristalize the social structure for global marketing networks, 
and also enables consumer for producing the content .

Mass media corporations has social, cultural and political impacts and 
restructures both mass audiences and societal organization via relations 
of production and practices through organizational structures, 
establishing a way of realization of economy and resulting as a form of 
conscious economy.

For this reason, mass media industry can not be reduced to professional 
practices, production refinement or economical area based on commercial 
profits. Mass media industry has a significant role on influencing the 
socialization by producing content, through internal relations of 
production as well as existing societal relations of production and 
social structure and relations between classes.

Inherently, consisting in the political economy of the social structure, 
these media of the mass media industry, based on “solid store 
discipline” production processes, shape mode of production, develop the 
principles of relations of production and practices, in addition it 
create audiences which consent to ruling social, cultural, political 
structures.

Through media theories framework, content industry that means the 
relations of production such as; “gatekeeper”, “agenda setting”, “role 
model”, organic intellectual”, “hegemonia”, “cultivation”, “hypodermic 
needle” theories and concepts explains how mass communication relations 
of production are significant in terms of the outcomes of these 
productions. To be able to create the sovereign thought and consumption 
market, mass communication and relations of production need to be 
embodied with evolving production disciplines, establishing media 
professionals auditing and production network, creating economical forms 
for mass consumption.

In the last century of the media history and societal revolutions, the 
mode of mass communication production gained significant dimension 
through social, cultural, and political effects of the 
before-intime-after phases of production. In a capitalist political 
economic structure, the modes of production and practices in mass media 
create uniform results, public opinion that consents to social, cultural 
and political structures, and also take part to ease accumulation of 
capital funds and create monopolistic markets.

From production of information to publishing and printing industries, 
media planning and execution, all areas covered by mass media modes of 
production and relations of production not only take place inside of the 
merely industrial practices but also, produce social, cultural and 
political effets.

“Media Critiques 2015”, international academic journal (Journal of Media 
Critiques) is expecting critical papers from different perspectives, as 
indicated above political economy context based on the mass media 
industry’s social, cultural and political affects theme. Possible topics 
include but are not limited to:

- Media Economy

- Advertisement Production and its Effects

- Journalism, Editorial Independency Issues

- Audience Research

- Communication Technologies and Impacts on Production

- Media Globalisation and Impacts

- Radio and TV Broadcasting Market

- Cinema Industry, Relations of Productions and its Impacts

- New Media and Effects

- Media and Democracy

- Media and Culture

- Mass Media Industry and Impacts on NGO’s

- Media Ownership Structures and Impacts on Production and Society







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