[eccr] CFP International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics

international journal of
media & cultural politics


Life with the ultimate conglomerate: a call for short essays on the 
politics of contemporary media content, control and policy

We, the citizens, own the airwaves, yet we don't control them. The 
corporations that control them feed us a steady diet of electronic junk 
food and it is making our democracy sick.
(Ralph Nader)

The first half of the twentieth century produced pessimism about 
ideological control and social and cultural harm as a consequence of media 
expansion. By the end of the second half of the century, a variety of 
theoretical positions had posited the media as a usurpation of reality 
itself. Whatever the status of such claims, the media now claim a 
centrality which has profoundly redefined culture.

To mark the launch of MCP, the Editors are inviting scholarly mini-essays 
of over 1000 and not more than 1500 words on any theme exploring the 
relationship between the contemporary media and the politics of 
representation, or policy, or control, and commenting on recent waves of 
pessimism about the media in culture (Virilio's concept of 'fin de siècle 
infantilization', for example, or Nader's 'electronic junk food'). 
Contributors are invited to address print, broadcast or electronic media as 
they choose, and likewise to adapt the theme to specific forms, genres, 
theories, practices, demographics, localities, audiences, pedagogic and 
research contexts, and topical issues.

All contributions should be submitted to Katharine Sarikakis  
(k.sarikakis /at/ coventry.ac.uk)  by email attachment, by 31 May 2004.

For details on style, please go to: 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals/mcp/>http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals/mcp/

Best wishes

The Editors
MCP


Please note that MCP is also now accepting full length submissions for the 
inaugural volumes to be published in 2005, on general media and cultural 
politics themes.




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