[Commlist] Teaching Media Quarterly CFP: Teaching Celebrity

Below is a CFP from /Teaching Media Quarterly/'s upcoming special issue: 
*Teaching Celebrity*
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Teaching Media Quarterly is an open access journal dedicated to sharing 
approaches to teaching media topics and concepts. Please consider 
submitting a lesson plan to our current call: Teaching Celebrity. You 
can access our journal HERE 
<https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/index>, and please note that we 
also have an ongoing open call for lesson plans. Information about the 
latest call is below. Please share with friends, colleagues, and grad 
students who teach media classes!

*Call for Lesson Plans: Teaching Celebrity*

While often dismissed by critics as a shallow or morally corrosive, 
celebrity culture has become a vital site of academic inquiry as its 
practices, priorities, and affective attunements come to bear upon the 
lives of even those who do not aspire to work in the entertainment or 
cultural industries. As scholars trace the celebritization of public 
life, it is necessary that we share these conversations with our 
students, who may be particularly vulnerable to living and practicing 
the logics of celebrity without critical interrogation

As the desire for fame and opportunities for microcelebrity saturate 
contemporary culture through social media platforms and compulsory 
self-branding, teaching celebrity provides media instructors with 
opportunities to make critical interventions into conversations that 
many students are already invested in. Teaching Media Quarterly is 
interested in learning and sharing how, and why, instructors do this work.


We welcome work that engages the following questions:

·How do you teach the migration of celebrity practice and the logics of 
celebrity to the realms of politics, newsrooms, everyday life, and others?
·How do you situate celebrity in the context of neoliberal capitalism?
·How do you attend to the intersections of celebrity and identity?
·How do you consider celebrity in relation to the political economy of 
media?
·How do you provide students with an understanding of celebrity’s 
history and evolution?
·How do you engage celebrity as a phenomenon in non-Western contexts?
·How do you attend to the production of fame or other issues that emerge 
when considering the industries that produce celebrity?
·How do you teach the distinctions and commonalities between macro- and 
micro-celebrity?


These questions are, of course, suggestions and we also welcome lessons 
that explore other issues relevant to the broader topic of celebrity. 
The deadline for submissions is January 1^st .


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