[ecrea] CFP -- communication +1 -- Media:Culture:Policy.

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CFP – Media:Culture:Policy

communication +1 invites submissions for its upcoming issue, 
Media:Culture:Policy.

Edited by Sean Johnson Andrews, Janice Peck, Gilbert B. Rodman, and Fan Yang

The relationship between culture and policy has long been a major topic 
for media and cultural studies, but we hope to broaden what we mean by 
cultural policy – from policies that are explicitly regulating something 
we call the “cultural” – including media or traditional rituals or 
symbols – to include the practice of policy-making and the cultural 
legitimation of law and policy itself, regardless of the object or 
dimension of social life it regulates.  In short, pieces in this 
collection would argue for (or at least accept) an understanding of 
policy as a cultural production, representing a certain ideological 
outlook, and therefore expect cultural policy studies to consider a 
wider range of policies; at the same time, it would be interested in the 
cultural mechanisms through which policies are promulgated and enforced 
– from think tanks to social media flak, from the global circulation of 
ideologies to the local practices of appropriation/resistance. In a 
sense, then, it is an understanding of policy that highlights its mutual 
constitution of and through culture. In the tradition of Policing the 
Crisis, it asks us to think about the dialectical process of cultural 
legitimation that is needed to make a set of policies seem reasonable 
and just, and the way that policies and laws then go on to determine the 
culture of the future. Media and communications are a central channel 
for these processes, making their regulation all the more important. 
Contributions to this collection would try to keep all three of these 
dimensions in mind as they explore a broader array of policy areas.

We welcome submissions that push at the traditional boundaries of 
cultural policy studies.  We are especially interested in exploring key 
areas of contemporary life as locations of that dialectic of culture, 
media, and policy and sites of political and social struggle, for example,

      More conventional areas of cultural policy and media studies, 
such as work on copyright, open access, privacy, data mining, internet 
filtering, neutrality, surveillance, etc. in national and transnational 
contexts
      Education policy, using a cultural legitimation approach (for 
instance Sandra Stein, The Culture of Education Policy).
      Environmental policy, especially the cultural effects of the oil 
industry involvement in U.S. and global debates about climate change and 
the role of media in those debates.
      Law/policing policy and the expansion of the carceral 
state/prison-industrial complex (e.g. Michelle Brown, The Culture of 
Punishment).
      Health (physical & mental) policy, such as looking at the 
dramatic expansion of the pharmaceutical industry and corresponding 
explosion of bio-medical explanations for social & personal distress.
      Transportation policy, especially the privileging of automobility 
in both “developed” and “developing” worlds.
      Food policy as cultural policy – and the cultural representation 
of food from those in the commercial mass media to the role of the food 
industry in health research, as in the recent revelations over sugar 
research in the 1960s.
      The relationship between urban policy and media representations 
in transnational locales, such as in the work of Steve Macek and Mike Davis.
      Policies on other controversial recent policy areas, from tax 
breaks and welfare reform, to (im)migration, drone warfare, torture, and 
the “global war on terror.”
      And the question of who has the power to make policy and how.

Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 
19th, 2016 to (communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com). Review the overall C+1 
submission guidelines for relevant information: 
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/policies.html

Review of submissions will be complete by late January, with invitations 
sent shortly after.

Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 10th, 2017, 
with expected publication in September 2017.

About the Journal

The aim of communication +1 is to promote new approaches to and open new 
horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary 
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that 
seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of 
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both 
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social 
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, 
communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to 
create is a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these 
experiments.

For free access to the issue, and all of communication +1, please visit 
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/ .

communication +1 is an open access journal supported by University of 
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication

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