[ecrea] CFP: Spectator "Television Connectivity" - Due 11/20/13

Spectator

Call for Papers

“Television Connectivity”

Volume and Date of Issue: 34.2 Fall 2014

Deadline for Submission: November 20, 2013

This issue of Spectator seeks to incorporate papers that explore new 
forms, theories, and practices of television connectivity. There are 
many ways in which television has historically been theorized through 
connectivity. Television was thought to bring people together, whether 
it was members of a family coming together to watch television in the 
living room, a nation coming together to watch the landing on the moon, 
or viewers around the globe coming together to watch the Olympic games. 
Viewers have also been theorized to uniquely connect to or identify with 
television characters and programs as a result of television’s intimate 
placement in the home and the longevity of certain television forms. 
And, Raymond Williams theorized a form of connectivity in his 
foundational concept of flow, when he saw television as comprising 
strategies that transformed diverse programming elements into a seamless 
whole. Since the advent of new digital technologies, however, television 
is more and more frequently being discussed in relation to the 
fragmentation, dispersal, and individualization of audiences, viewing 
practices, and programming. Nevertheless, television producers and 
programmers as well as technologists are devising a variety of 
strategies meant to encourage both old and new forms of television 
viewing practices that change our understanding of television in 
relation to connectivity. Whether it is twitter live-streaming, second 
screen story synch options, or interactive communities around a web 
series on YouTube, new forms of television are offering audiences a way 
to engage with traditional television texts while connected to other 
devices, people, and content.

This issue will focus on papers that draw attention to new forms of 
television that encourage cross-platform connectivity or challenge 
established theoretical understandings of television connectivity. In 
particular it seeks papers that examine products or services that 
supplement or enhance the television experience by integrating Internet 
access, game play, and/or social networking. However, it welcomes papers 
addressing television connectivity through industrial analysis, textual 
analysis, and audience or cultural studies, including theoretical 
investigations of television as an artistic medium or institution.

Papers should interrogate how certain technologies or platforms enable 
specific forms of connectivity around television shows, series, or 
characters? How are newer technologies and platforms transforming the 
relationship of viewers to television content, television producers, and 
access? How do producers or programmers try to bring together disparate 
audiences or niches around a show or network? On what terms and in which 
ways do audiences connect through television? How will changes in the 
industrial landscape (regulatory policies, media ownership, and digital 
innovations) have an impact on television viewing? What are the 
potential implications of these trends for viewers, producers, and 
supporting institutions and what do they indicate about the direction 
the industry is heading?

Deadline for Submission: November 20, 2013

Spectator is a biannual publication and submissions that address the 
relationship between television and connectivity are now invited for 
submission. Potential topics in the fields of media industry studies, 
television studies, cultural studies, new media theory, participatory 
culture, and production studies may include, but are not limited to:

Television Theory
Imagined communities
Intimacy & Immediacy
“Liveness”
Ritual

Second Screen Content
Narrative, Representation, & Audience Address
Apps and Websites
Games and Play
Forms of interactivity

Networked Televisions and Consoles
Technologies & Platforms
Data-mining & Surveillance
Interfaces & Control

Viewer Practices
Live-tweeting
Social Networking
Community Viewing
Fandom

Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:

ATTN: Taylor Nygaard
University of Southern California
School of Cinematic Arts
Critical Studies
900 W 34th St.
SCA, Room 320
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211

Email: (nygaard /at/ usc.edu)
Phone: (240) 888-5081

One copy of manuscript should be submitted as well as a copy on disk. 
Submissions can also be e-mailed directly. Manuscripts should include 
the title of the contribution and the name (s) of authors. As well as 
the postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers for author who 
will work with the editor on any revisions. All pages should be numbered 
consecutively. Contributions should not be more than 5,000 words. They 
should also include a brief abstract for publicity. Authors should also 
include a brief biographic entry. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned.

Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration by 
any other journal.

Book Reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please include 
title of book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review.

Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new 
archival or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant 
works related to the field.

Electronic Submissions and Formatting. Authors should send copies of 
their work via e-mail as electronic attachments. Please keep backup 
files of all disks. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC or Mac format, 
depending on the editor's preference. Endnotes should conform to the 
Chicago Manual of Style.

Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all 
contributors as to image and text requirements.

Current Board for Spectator

Founding Editor
       Marsha Kinder

Managing Editor
       William Whittington

Issue Editor
       Taylor Nygaard

Contributors
       To be determined

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