[ecrea] Series Vol 5 No 1 - Call for papers "Making Models of Contemporary Serial Media Products"

    SERIES Vol 5 No 1 – Call for papers (special section + open call)


    Making Models of Contemporary Serial Media Products


      Full paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2019

This special section of SERIES — part of Vol 5 No 1 (2019) — aims to 
develop, and promote discussion of, qualitative and quantitative methods 
for studying television series. We are looking for contributors to 
explore under-utilized tools for building both qualitative and 
quantitative models of serial television. One of the challenges of 
studying long-running television dramas can be to capture a clear 
“picture” of textual trends, production issues and audience response 
over time. Like studying an extended corpus of fiction, such as the body 
of work that comprises a national literature, long-running television 
series provide much more material than a close-up view can incorporate.

Qualitative and quantitative models are a potentially fruitful way to 
answer this challenge. By making models of textual form, audience 
response, production practices, commercial conditions, and networks of 
creative personnel — among other possible lines of inquiry — we might 
reveal aspects of the contemporary serial television that have 
previously been invisible or overlooked.

We welcome any contributions that employ the use of qualitative and 
quantitative models to study textual and/or contextual aspects of 
contemporary serial television. Essays might focus on adoption of 
modelling approaches to the study of individual programs, or particular 
sites of production, consumption, and reception or audience response. 
Essays might consider how such models might help to identify textual and 
contextual features that correlate with the persistence of particular 
programs over time; the ability of particular shows to adjust their form 
or market appeal in response to changing contextual conditions; and the 
ways in which different production, distribution, or exhibition contexts 
influence textual form and/or audience response.

SERIES suggests some possible methodological lines to discover patterns, 
trends, or characteristics of serial television that would otherwise not 
be apparent, but other tools are also welcome:

·processing textual objects through the use of automated software;

·analysis of social discursivity among communities of spectators and 
fans by using digital tools – such as large data sets obtained online 
and from social media and analyzed through automated software;

·evaluation of production and consumption processes through social 
network analysis;

·studies about television series through the use of qualitative and 
quantitative models.

Articles should range between 5,000-8,000 words (including abstract, 
notes and references). Full guidelines can be found on our website 
<https://series.unibo.it/about/submissions#authorGuidelines>. In order 
to be included in the issue, full manuscripts must be sent by *January 
31st, 2019*. Expected publication date: *June 2019*.

For more information and specific questions about the special section, 
please contact Marta Rocchi at (marta.rocchi5 /at/ unibo.it) 
<mailto:(marta.rocchi5 /at/ unibo.it)>.

If you have any questions, please contact the journal at (seriestv /at/ upv.es) 
<mailto:(seriestv /at/ upv.es)>.


    Open Call


      Full paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2019

“SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” 
(https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, 
with ISSN and indexed in major international databases. It publishes 2 
issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality. It is a 
joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica 
Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.

We are pleased to invite submissions for the ninth issue of the journal 
(Vol 5 No 1), which will be out in *June 2019*. The main focus of the 
journal is to promote a global discussion forum and an interdisciplinary 
exchange among scholars engaged in research into TV serial narratives. 
We encourage methodological innovations and contributions concerning the 
narrative, technological, economic, social and cultural impact of 
television dramas and comedies, webseries, telenovelas and other serial 
forms.

SERIES encourages submissions that cover a large variety of topics, 
including:

·theoretical and methodological explorations on the nature and value of 
television seriality;

·taxonomies and analysis of specific formats, styles, linguistic 
features, genres;

·cognitive perspectives on narrative structures, characters, viewer 
engagement;

·investigations of creative, production, distribution and marketing issues;

·empirical research on audiences, fandoms, digital communities;

·social network analysis, big data analysis, and other possible 
frameworks and models;

·comparative studies on a transnational and/or transmedial basis;

·investigations of stylistic elements, temporality, narrative and 
character design;

·historical approaches to seriality across different media;

·peculiar case histories (authors, subgenres, countries, production 
companies, etc.).

Articles should range between 5,000-8,000 words (including abstract, 
notes and references). Full guidelines can be found on our website 
<https://series.unibo.it/about/submissions#authorGuidelines>. In order 
to be included in the issue, full manuscripts must be sent by *January 
31st, 2019*. Expected publication date: *June 2019*.

If you have any questions, please contact the journal at (seriestv /at/ upv.es) 
<mailto:(seriestv /at/ upv.es)>.

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