[ecrea] CFP Media and Passion for European Journal of Cultural Studies

Call for Papers
(with apologies for cross-posting)

Media and Passion, special issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies

Passion is at the heart of an emotional economy within media, culture and
society. Marketing trends such as The Experience Economy (Pine and Gilmore
2011), or affective economics, signal a growth in passion as a revenue
source. Political economists are showing us that the value of networks and
brands depend on the intensity of relations they spark. Emotional engagement
with a product or service, such as sports, is used as a driver in the
selling of media and culture. The trouble with passion, as Hall (2005)
notes, is that for too long it has been dismissed as subjective experience
outside the remit of scientific inquiry. Viviana Zelizer (2005) calls the
space where reason and emotion come together hostile worlds. But, we think
and feel with our head and hearts and to separate rationality from passion
is to ignore the power of passion in society. How people feel about
politics, the press, the internet or indeed about specific texts or media
practices is vital to understanding media today.

This special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies focuses on
media and passion as multidimensional, working across industry and
economics, politics, society and popular culture. We call for scholarly
research on passion and media that follows these areas of inquiry:

1 Political culture and passion
2 Affect and civic practices
3 Emotional, or affective economy in media industries
3 Theories and research methods for passion, emotion and the media
4 Subjectivity and media industry and academic research
5 Race, gender, and class
6 Radical politics and extremism
7 Fans and anti-fans

The aim of this special issue is to highlight how people’s passionate
engagement with politics, sports, social media, or television, for example,
is a complex and multifaceted area of theoretical and empirical enquiry for
media and cultural studies. Such enquiries need to tie in to case study
examples as the European Journal of Cultural Studies favours well-theorized
empirical research.

Deadline for abstract submissions November 29th 2013. Final submission of
journal articles of 6000 words for April 2014. Please submit abstracts of
300 words, with one paragraph author biography, to Annette Hill and Joke
Hermes. Email:(annette.hill /at/ kom.lu.se)<mailto:(annette.hill /at/ kom.lu.se)>  and
(joke.hermes /at/ inholland.nl)



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