[ecrea] Call for Papers: ‘Media and Consumption’, special issue of Animus

Call for Papers: ‘Media and Consumption’, special issue of Animus, 
volume 11, Issue 22, 2012



Guest editor: Sandra Rubia Silva (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)

Editor-in-chief: Ada Cristina Machado da Silveira (Federal University of 
Santa Maria, Brazil)

Managing editor: Claudia Regina Zillioto Bomfá (Federal University of 
Santa Maria, Brazil)





Animus – Inter-American Journal of Mediatic Communication 
(http://cascavel.ufsm.br/revistas/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/animus, Portuguese 
only), the scientific journal of the Graduate Program in Communication 
at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, seeks articles for a 
special issue on media and consumption, focusing on – but not 
exclusively - research carried out in the Global South, to be published 
in December 2012.



This special issue seeks culturally informed critiques of different 
forms of media consumption. Contributions grounded in empirical research 
(especially qualitative) are particularly welcome. We are especially 
interested in papers that analyze the diverse genres of cultural 
consumption as influenced by the media.



Essays that reveal earlier precedents for this phenomenon, or works that 
reveal how theories developed in the past should be re-evaluated in the 
light of the dynamics of media consumption in the Global South are also 
welcome.



The following list indicates, but is not limited to the range of 
potential topics:

·        The role of media consumption in its intersection with 
contemporary consumer culture;

·        Genres of media consumption such as magazines, television, and 
information and communication technologies;

·        Media consumption and the construction of identities.



The editors kindly request authors to send papers (30,000 – 50,000 
characters in length) together with an abstract of no more than 150 
words and three keywords, to the following address: 
(sandraxrubia /at/ gmail.com), with a copy to (reivstaanimus /at/ ufsm.br), until 
October 31st, 2012. Animus accepts papers written in English, Spanish or 
Portuguese. Authors will be notified by e-mail. Any queries should be 
directed to the guest editor, Sandra Rubia Silva at (sandraxrubia /at/ gmail.com)



General guidelines to authors

The work submitted must be original and should not be under parallel 
evaluation by other journals.

Animus accepts papers written in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

Articles should be between 30 and 50 thousand characters, including spaces.

All information that may identify the author should be removed for blind 
refereeing purposes. All texts must be accompanied by a separate page 
containing the following information: a) title and subtitle (if any), b) 
identification of the authors (full name, mini-biography including 
training and institutional affiliation), c) authors’ contact information 
(email address and phone number).



The texts referred for evaluation must be written in Times New Roman, 
font size 12, 1.5 line spacing. Quotations of more than three lines 
should be indented  (4 cm from margin), single spacing and font 11, 
without the use of inverted commas. For quotations within the text 
please make sure to use double inverted commas on all occasions, except 
for a quotation within a quotation which should be placed within single 
inverted commas.

 Footnotes should be kept at minimum and be formatted in Times New 
Roman, single spaced, font size 10. Citations should follow the 
author-date model (AUTHOR, YEAR, page as in BURKE, 1999, p. 74) and 
references should, as far as possible, follow the guidelines of the 
Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) as generally stated 
below:

Book, single author

AGAR, Jon. Constant Touch: a global history of the mobile phone. 
Cambridge: Icon Books, 2003.

Book, multiple authors

BOLTER, Jay; GRUSIN, Richard. Remediation. Understanding New Media. 
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Edited Volume

FORTUNATI; Leopoldina; VINCENT, Jane (Eds). Electronic Emotion: the 
mediation of emotion via information and communication technologies. 
Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.

Book chapter

BARENDREGT, Bart; PERTIERRA, Raul. Supernatural mobile communication in 
the Phillipines and Indonesia. In: KATZ, James E. (Ed). Handbook of 
Mobile Communication Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, 377-388.

Journal article, single author

POLLAK, Michael. Memória, esquecimento, silêncio. Estudos Históricos, 
Rio de Janeiro, v. 2, n. 3, p. 3-15, Jan.1989.

Journal article, multiple authors

ELIAS, Henry; HENNING, Albert; SCHWARTZ, David. Sterology: aplications 
to biomedical research. Physiology Review, Bethesda, v.51, n.1, 
p.158-200, Jan. 1971.

Website

MOSES, Alfred. Friendster relocates to Australia. Sydney Morning Herald, 
03 fev. 2009. Available at: 
<http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/friendster-relocates-to-australia-20090615-cbhs.html>. 
Access: 05 mar. 2010.
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Associate Professor Tania Lewis
Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School of Media & Communication
RMIT University
Building 36.3.7 City Campus
GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia

ph: +61 3 9925 2406
fax: +61 3 9639 1685
email: (tania.lewis /at/ rmit.edu.au)

web: www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis

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