[ecrea] CfP_CS_iGen Cinema

** Call for Papers - Deadline for Abstracts DECEMBER 3, 2017 **

CS - Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies

Special issue on:

iGen Cinema. Moving Image Consumption and Production by Post-Millenials

Editors: Mariagrazia Fanchi (Università Cattolica di Milano), Damiano 
Garofalo (Università Cattolica di Milano), Alexandra Schneider 
(University of Mainz), Wanda Strauven (University of Frankfurt)

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CS- Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies

Founded in 1973 and regularly published since 1979, CS was the first 
Italian journal on communication and media. CS adopts the double-blind 
peer review system and it is indexed in SCOPUS 
(http://comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.com/).

CS is edited by the Department of Communication and Performing Arts and 
the Graduate School of Media Communications and Performing Arts (ALMED) 
of Catholic University-Milan.

Compared to the generation of the so-called Millenials, the 
Post-Millennials are the first true digital natives, being exposed to 
smartphones and other mobile media devices from the very first days of 
their lives. Also known as the iGeneration (or iGen), they become at a 
very young age touchscreen players, multiscreen users, early prosumers 
and later social media followers. They show an active attitude towards 
media, both in a personal and heterodox way.

This special issue aims at analyzing Post-Millennials’ cinema 
experiences and practices. Although the youngest generation does not 
seem to go too often to the movie theatre any longer, cinema remains a 
point of reference in their lives. As recent surveys demonstrate, 
youngsters not only consume a lot of films and other moving images on 
multiple devices, but also produce their own audiovisual objects in a 
variety of forms and formats. In other words, Post-Millennials are doing 
what Miriam Hansen predicted: they are reimagining and reinventing 
cinema (Hansen, 2012).

This special issue will devote particular attention to Post-Millennials’ 
cinematic experiences within different media, social, and national 
landscapes, by valorizing new methodological approaches and theoretical 
frameworks.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

- the relocation of the cinematic experience: spaces, devices, experiences;

- Post-Millennials’ creative practices: user-generated contents (UGCs), 
blogging/vlogging, app-based and artistic practices;

- theories and methodological approaches;

- cinema and issues of identity: generation, gender, ethnicity or class;

- iGen and fandom: stars, peers, communities;

- the imagery of Post-Millennials as media consumers in contemporary 
cinema, television, literature.

** Deadlines & Guidelines **

Please send your abstract and a short biographical note to 
(redazione.cs /at/ unicatt.it) <mailto:(redazione.cs /at/ unicatt.it)>and 
(damiano.garofalo /at/ unicatt.it) it 
<mailto:(damiano.garofalo /at/ unicatt.it)%2520it>by December 3, 2017. 
Abstracts should be from 300 to 400 words of length (either in English 
or French). All submissions should include: 5 keywords, name of 
author(s), institutional affiliation, contacts details and a short bio 
for each author. All notifications of acceptance will be emailed no 
later than December 18, 2017.

If the proposal is accepted, the author(s) will be asked to submit the 
full article by February 10, 2018. Contributions will be sent to two 
reviewers in a double-blind procedure prior to publication decision. 
Authors may be requested to improve their articles, following the 
suggestions of the reviewers.

Articles should be between 4,000-5,000 words in length (no more than 
35,000 characters, spaces and notes included), shorter articles will be 
considered as well.


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