[ecrea] Teaching Media Quarterly CFLR - Media Industries

Teaching Media Quarterly Call for Lesson Plans: “Critical Lessons on 
Media Industries”

Submission deadline: February 20, 2017

Helping students think critically about media industries is crucial for 
developing their media literacy skills and preparing them to understand 
the way in which ownership structures, regulatory policies, and 
profoundly unequal relations of economic power shape our media 
environment. From the early 20th century, when a handful of firms 
controlled the US movie industry, to the large-scale conglomeration and 
consolidation of media firms that followed the 1996 Telecommunications 
Act, to contemporary struggles over net neutrality and media 
convergence, to the liberalization of broadcast markets around the 
world, developments in media industry have had an extraordinary impact 
on content, access, labor, resource use, and more.

Much has been written on media industries. Contemporary scholars such as 
Robert McChesney, Susan Crawford, Eileen Meehan, Janet Wasko, Vincent 
Mosco, for example, have written extensively on the political economy of 
media. The proliferation of fake news during the 2016 U.S. Presidential 
Election, has once again raised questions about how to regulate in a 
radically deregulated media environment. Moreover, with new concerns 
about the fate of net neutrality under a new U.S. presidential 
administration, it remains as important as ever that media educators 
develop and share effective strategies for approaching the subject of 
media industries with undergraduates.

This issue of Teaching Media Quarterly seeks lesson plans that 
critically engage the structures, theories, and histories of media 
industry. We are particularly interested in lessons that bring political 
economy, critical theory, and/or the history of capitalism to bear on 
the teaching of media industries. We welcome activities that engage 
students in understanding, researching, writing about, and making media. 
Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Media industries in convergence media culture
Media industries and globalization
Financialization and media industries
Ownership and entertainment and/or news content
Media ownership and social media
The media-military-entertainment nexus
Democracy, capitalism, and media conglomerates
Histories of media conglomeration and consolidation
Ethnographic approaches to media industries
Media consolidation and advertisers
Consumers-as-producers-as-commodities
Distribution patterns
Above-the-line and below-the-line labor
Approaches towards a free press and independent media
Ratings, big data, data mining, and surveillance

Teaching Media Quarterly Submission Guidelines

All submissions must include: 1) a title, 2) an overview (word limit: 
500 words) 3) comprehensive rationale (using accessible language explain 
the purpose of the assignment(s), define key terms, and situate in 
relevant literature) (word limit: 500), 4) a general timeline, 5) a 
detailed lesson plan and assignment instructions, 6) teaching materials 
(handouts, rubrics, discussion prompts, viewing guides, etc.), 7) a full 
bibliography of readings, links, and/or media examples, and 8) a short 
biography (100-150 words). All citations must be in  Chicago Author-Date 
style.

Please email all submissions using the TMQ Submission Template (.docx) 
in ONE Microsoft Word document to (teachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(teachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com)>.

Review Policy
Submissions will be reviewed by each member of the editorial board. 
Editors will make acceptance decisions based on their vision for the 
issue and an assessment of contributions. It is the goal of Teaching 
Media Quarterly to notify submitters of the editors’ decisions within 
two weeks of submission receipt.Teaching Media Quarterly is dedicated to 
circulating practical and timely approaches to media concepts and topics 
from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Our goal 
is to promote collaborative exchange of undergraduate teaching resources 
between media educators at higher education institutions. As we hope for 
continuing discussions and exchange as well as contributions to Teaching 
Media Quarterly we encourage you to visit our website at 
http://www.teachingmedia.org/


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