[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Survival Strategies and Transformations of the, Global Media Industry: Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Call for Chapters: Survival Strategies and Transformations of the
  Global Media Industry: Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

*Editor*: Floribert Patrick C. Endong Ph.D. (University of Dschang, 
Cameroon)

*Publishers*: Idea Group International (IGI) Hersey PA: USA

*Deadline for Chapter Proposals:*June 19, 2023

Introduction

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted all human 
businesses including the entertainment and media industries. In the 
global cinema and audiovisual media industry in particular, this impact 
has since the year 2020, been very much palpable at all levels: 
production, distribution and consumption. This impact has actually 
ranged from the interruption of new film productions through the delayed 
release of movies to the closure of movie-theatres (which particularly 
led to a global decline in film attendance) and the adoption of 
streaming as an approach par excellence to film release and 
distribution. Thanks to the new normal – which was enabled by the 
COVID-19 pandemic – a good number of films initially made for cinemas 
were, rather released through streaming platforms such as Disney+ and 
Netflix among others. Meanwhile, studios, networks, production companies 
and businesses making television and film productions possible were 
forced to rethink their modus operanda and labour practices in guise of 
survival strategies. Issues such as the remote-work protocols became in 
vogue. And although the gradual amelioration of the global health 
situation has implied a relative return to old traditional production 
approaches, the impact of the pandemic has remained visible in the 
global audiovisual media industry (Shah, Yaqoub & Wu, 2020; Johnson, 
2021). In other words, the COVID pandemic has enabled the birth, 
naturalisation and popularisation of various new cultures in the 
production, distribution and consumption of cinema and audiovisual media 
products. Some of these cultures include the streaming video on demand 
(SVOD) paradigm, remote-work-protocols and the popularity of plague 
narrative or COVID plot among others. The various cultures mentioned 
above have for the most part remained understudied or unstudied.

Actually, only few authors have given a modicum of scholarly attention 
to the impact of the COVID pandemic on global cinema and television 
production (Li, Wilson and Guan 2023; Nulman 2021). The bulk of the 
available literature that addresses the impact of the pandemic on 
audiovisual media production mainly explore the American or European 
experiences leaving other parts of the world visibly untouched 
(Fortmueller 2021; Blazquez et al 2020). Furthermore, interesting issues 
such the screening of the pandemic, the representation of the COVID-19 
pandemic in television and audio-visual media productions and the impact 
the pandemic on narrative/storytelling approaches are grossly overlooked 
in recent scholarly works devoted to the COVID-19 pandemic and 
audiovisual media production. There therefore arises the need to fill 
the gap in knowledge mentioned above through a global perspective on the 
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the audiovisual media industry.

Objective

In line with the observation made above, this book seeks to attain three 
principal objectives: 1) analyse the ongoing COVID-enabled 
transformations in the global audiovisual media and cinema industries at 
the levels of production, distribution and exhibition, 2) examine the 
various survival strategies deployed by global audiovisual media 
practitioners and cineastes during all the stages of the COVID-19 
pandemic, and 3) explore audiovisual media representations of the 
pandemic using a global, national and/or comparative perspectives.

Target Audience

University students, media and cinema scholars, media policy makers, 
filmmakers, media practitioners, global audiovisual media outlets, 
international relation experts and politicians.

Recommended Topics

·The COVID-19 pandemic, media production and survival strategies

·Cinematic and television representations of the COVID-19 pandemic

·The COVID-19 pandemic and film studios

·The COVID-19 pandemic and the streaming video on demand (SVOD)

·Gender, COVID-19 pandemic and TV/Cinema production

·The COVID-19 pandemic and film festivals

·The COVID-19 pandemic and global music

·The COVID-19 and trans-media

·Social media and COVID themed videos

·The COVID-19 pandemic, film production and the law

·The COVID-19, audiovisual media and nation branding

·The COVID-19 pandemic, diplomacy and TV production

·The COVID-19 pandemic and film budgeting

·The COVID-19 pandemic, cinema and fandom

·The COVID-19 pandemic, television advertising and social representations

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *June 
19, 2023*, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining 
the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be 
notified by *June 25, 2023* about the status of their proposals and sent 
chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 
*August 13, 2023*, and all interested authors must consult the 
guidelines for manuscript submissions at 
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ 
<https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/>prior 
to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind 
review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers 
for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts 
submitted to this book publication, Survival Strategies and 
Transformations of the Global Media Industry: Mitigating the Impact of 
the COVID-19 Pandemic. All manuscripts are accepted based on a 
double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery^® 
 online submission manager at: 
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6566 
<https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6566>

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea 
Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information 
Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information 
Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering 
Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing 
reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring 
academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but 
not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, 
business and management, information science and technology, 
engineering, public administration, library and information science, 
media and communication studies, and environmental science. For 
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit 
https://www.igi-global.com <https://www.igi-global.com/>. This 
publication is anticipated to be released in 2024.

Important Dates

*June 19, 2023*: Proposal Submission Deadline
*June 25, 2023*: Notification of Acceptance
*August 13, 2023*: Full Chapter Submission
*September 25, 2023*: Review Results Returned
*November 6, 2023*: Final Acceptance Notification

*November 19, 2023*: Final Chapter Submission


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