[Commlist] CfP MtM 6 - (Trans)Forming Magazines

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The sixth Mapping the Magazine conference will be held at Lusófona 
University in Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2nd and 3rd, 2020. We are now 
inviting submissions on the theme *(Trans)Forming Magazines*. The 
complete Call for Abstracts/Papers of Mapping the Magazine 6 is online 
here: https://easychair.org/cfp/MtM6

The organizers seek proposals for individual papers on topics related to 
magazine research from many disciplines (Media and Communication, 
Journalism, Critical and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, 
Linguistics, English, History, Visual Communication, and others). The 
MtM 2020 conference seeks to explore questions including but not limited to:

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    Conceptualizing the Magazine: What can be considered a magazine?
    What are the frontiers delimiting magazine types? Are new magazine
    types emerging? What ethical challenges do mixed types face?

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    Magazine analysis: What epistemological trends dominate in magazine
    analysis today? How do scholars build knowledge around magazines?
    What are the main methodological tools and approaches used to better
    understand magazine change and (trans)formation? What emerging and
    innovative research methods are being developed to study this field?

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    History of magazines: What can we learn from the past? What case
    studies informour understanding of magazine media then and now?

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    Discussing business models: The impact of transmedia storytelling.
    How can print magazines survive? What can contribute to the success
    of magazines? What case studies can help us understand the
    possibilities and conditions of successful magazine projects?

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    Designing magazines: What is the relevance of graphical design in
    defining a magazine? Is there a distinctive role of design in the
    field of magazines when compared to other media? What is the role of
    photography and video in a magazine? Are popularity and emotion
    still associated primarily to images and to the magazine as a genre?
    Is the online circulation of material threatening the identity work
    of the magazines’ design?

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    Magazines and journalism: Are journalism studies a dominant paradigm
    in this field? What are the intersections, the problems, the
    convergences and divergences? What role do professional journalists
    play in this field? How do magazines work with different
    professional profiles to create diverse forms of content? How can
    the study of magazines (journalistic or not) help us understand
    journalism?

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    Magazines and organizational communication: What are the roles of
    hyper-focused magazine projects in the development of our
    understanding of magazines? What are the synergies between companies
    and media production? How do processesof internal communication
    impact on the way magazines are conceptualized?

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    Magazines and publics: What role do magazines play in a reader’s
    life? Do magazines still create communities, and how? Are these
    communities becoming increasingly atomized? Do these communities
    have a political impact?

Papers dealing with other topics and themes are equally welcome, and 
Mapping The Magazine encourages a multidisciplinary approach, as well as 
theoretical or empirical perspectives.

*Abstracts of 400 words for 20-minute papers are due by January 6th, 
2020*. Please submit abstracts via EasyChair. For instructions or to 
confirm receipt of your abstract, contact (mappingthemagazine6 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(mappingthemagazine6 /at/ gmail.com)>. Successful applicants will be 
contacted by February 10th, 2020, and full papers will be due to the 
conference organizers by May 11th, 2020. Completed papers should be 
double spaced and 5,000-8,000 words in length. Please use APA style.

As in the past, papers will be delivered sequentially over the two days, 
not concurrently in separate streams. Conference delegates are asked to 
commit to attending all papers.


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