[Commlist] Special Issue & Virtual Conference: “Television in the Global South."

CONNECTIST: ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES
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2024 DECEMBER PUBLICATION: "TELEVISION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH"

Issue Guest Editors
Yesim Kaptan (Associate Professor, Kent State University, Ohio)
Ece Algan (Professor, California State University, San Bernadino)

e-ISSN 2636-8943 | Period Biannually | Founded: 1992 |
Publisher Istanbul University | 
https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/connectist/home 
<https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/connectist/home>

Special Issue of Connectist
“TELEVISION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH”
Deadline for abstracts: September 1, 2023
Publication Date: December 2024

After the neoliberalization of television in the 1990s, the late 2000s 
proved to be the start of the next important transformative phase for 
world television marked by the widespread use of personal digital media 
devices and increased access to the internet. This contemporary phase 
has witnessed rapid technological developments in television, such as 
the digitalization and platformization of television services and the 
expansion of television consumption via social media. These developments 
have also transformed the ways in which content is created by national 
media industries, is distributed by both local and global media 
companies, and is consumed by audiences worldwide. As a result, the 
experience of television production, distribution, and consumption has 
been redefined not just for the countries of the affluent West, but also 
for those in the global South. This special issue aims to investigate 
the transformations in contemporary television in the global South 
including Turkey and the influence of non-western television production 
and consumption on the global media landscape.

Today, audiences are exposed to a plethora of both global television 
content and local productions due to rapid transnational media flows in 
multidirectional ways across regions and countries. Moreover, social 
media affordances coupled with easier access to satellite and platforms 
offer an opportunity to view and discuss television content everywhere 
in the world including small towns and rural areas. In an era of 
increased permeability of television content, technologies, trends, and 
genres, we believe that any study of global television should take into 
consideration how the global television landscape affects the local, 
national and/or regional contexts of production and consumption and vice 
versa. This also necessitates a questioning of Western-centric theories 
and their applications to various local and national contexts. 
Therefore, one of the aims of this special issue is to globalize, 
dewesternize, and decolonize television studies.

In this special issue, we invite submissions which critically examine 
television in the global South and/or in Turkey from various 
methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives. We encourage 
submissions from underrepresented regions as well as from scholars in 
the global North who study television in the global South. We look 
forward to submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

*The impact of digitalization and/or platformization on local, national 
and/or regional TV cultures and industries
*The rise of non-Western culture industries (e.g., Bollywood, Nollywood, 
Hallyu etc.) and the global popularity of their television exports
*Political economy of television in local, national, regional, 
intra-regional, trans-regional, and global contexts
*Changing dynamics of network and platform television production, 
distribution and consumption
*The politics of TV remakes and formats
*Television labor, precarity and the unionization of television workers
*TV representations, identities and audience reception
*TV consumption and broadcasting via social media (e.g., news outlets on 
the internet and social media, fans sharing and viewing TV series on 
YouTube, short videos of TV content on TikTok)
*Content sharing as resistance to big television and neoliberalization
*Nation-states’ influence on television production, distribution and 
exhibition (e.g., censorship, new laws and regulations, governmental 
control of TV outlets, platforms, TV outlets, platforms, and social 
media broadcasting channels)
*Permeability and exchanges of television trends, content, and genres
*South-to-South comparisons of case studies on television
*Contemporary television advertising and promotional culture in 
trans-local, national, intra-regional, trans-regional, and global contexts

PUBLICATION DETAILS
*Please submit abstracts (400-500 words) and a short bio to: 
(connectist /at/ istanbul.edu.tr) <mailto:(connectist /at/ istanbul.edu.tr)>
*Scholars whose abstracts are accepted for the special issue of 
Connectist are expected to present their papers at the Television in the 
Global South Online Conference before they submit their manuscripts for 
publication. There will not be a registration fee to attend the online 
conference or APC fee to publish in the journal.

The language of the publication is English,
* the papers must not exceed 7.000 words ,
* all manuscripts will be subject to double-blind peer-review.

You can find the author guidelines at the 
https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/connectist/information/author-guidelines 
<https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/connectist/information/author-guidelines>. 


If you have further questions you can contact to issue guest editors:
Yesim Kaptan ((ykaptan /at/ kent.edu) <mailto:(ykaptan /at/ kent.edu)>)
Ece Algan ((ealgan /at/ csusb.edu) <mailto:(ealgan /at/ csusb.edu)>)

Please submit your papers for the journal with the title page. Title 
page should include;
- title of the project  - author(s) name  - author(s) affiliation(s)
- author(s) organization(s)
- author(s) email address(es) and telephone number(s).

Please note that No Article Processing Charges (APCs) required. No 
payment from the authors/conference participants will ever be required.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: September 1, 2023
Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2023
Online Conference: January 18-19, 2024
Final Paper Submission: July 1, 2024

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