[ecrea] CFP: Sports-Media-Military Nexus

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
"Sports - Media - Military Nexus," /Teaching Media/ 1(2): 2012.

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dialogue between media studies scholars about contemporary approaches to 
teaching and critically engaging with multi-modal media.

Call for Proposals:
Since September 11, 2001 sports has become increasingly "complicit" in 
an increasing militarization of U.S. society and popular culture. 
Butterworth and Moskal (2009), for example, argue that American identity 
is constituted in and by a culture of militarism, "wherein Americans are 
implicated in a structural relationship between government, the 
military, and entertainment industries to the extent that it has become 
functionally impossible to live outside the rhetorical production of 
war" (p. 413). The "seizing" of the NFL, Major League Baseball, or 
NASCAR by the military can be witnessed frequently through the spreading 
of militaristic messages from sponsors, advertisers, and broadcasters 
who appear eager to use these sporting events to garner support for war, 
especially during a time of great unpopularity among the American 
public, and to reassert national identity through excessive displays of 
patriotism.

/Teaching Media/ seeks teaching materials and models for understanding 
the relations between sports, media, and the military. Approaches to 
teaching the sports-media-military nexus can include, but are not 
limited to:

   * the role of the media in mediating militaristic sporting events
   * the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality and the
     military-sport-media nexus
   * the links between the (in)visibility of women and queer subjects
     in mediated sports to the military as a traditionally
     hetero-patriarchal institution
   * socio-political issues raised concerning the militarization and
     securitization of the 2012 London Olympics
   * the entanglements between the neoliberal state and the
     military-sports-media nexus
   * the effects of globalization on professional sports and the military


/Teaching Media/ seeks 250-word summaries of teaching materials and 
models from a variety of pedagogical perspectives. The summary should 
include your general framework, a list of teaching materials and/or 
assignments in the unit, and a short explanation of why your approach is 
innovative. Please email all submissions, either as a word or PDF 
document, to (teachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(teachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com)>. The Teaching Media editorial 
board will choose three summaries and ask the submitters to expand upon 
their abstract as part of a curated space on our site. Those not chosen 
are encouraged to submit their materials to our common space.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday November 18, 2012

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Best,
Teaching Media editorial board

Jacquelyn Arcy
Mia Fischer
Melody Hoffmann
Kate Ranachan