[ecrea] Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication - call for [further] contributors

Dear colleague – we recently circulated an invitation to contribute to a 
brilliant new project which a small team of us are working with Wiley 
Blackwell to deliver, which is the first ever Encyclopaedia of Gender, 
Media and Communication: this constitutes the latest project in the ICA 
series of Sub-Disciplinary Encyclopaedias of Communication. We hope you 
agree that this will be an exciting and important contribution to the 
field. While there are several handbooks and edited collections which 
focus on many of the gendered aspects of media, culture and 
communication, an encyclopaedia which maps the broader landscape is 
currently missing: our project intends to remedy that lack.

The project is obviously ambitious and we will not be able to please 
everyone or include everything, but we have identified a potential topic 
list and so far, the response from the academic community to this first 
invitation has been brilliant and we have now identified authors for 
around 200 entries.  However, there are number of topics for which we 
have yet to find authors, so we are sending out a follow-up invitation 
in relation to this particular list of topics which we set out below. We 
are keen that the Encyclopaedia is as inclusive and broad-based as 
possible and we are therefore seeking a mix of established and less 
experienced contributors, from all parts of the global research community.

We are also including a list of all the topics which have so far been 
commissioned.  If you believe there is a topic missing from this list 
that you would like to write about, please let us have your 
suggestion/s. Also, if there is a particular personality, or film or TV 
show who/which you believe has been significant in shaping/driving 
forward the gender-media-communication agenda in some way who is not 
featured in the list and about whom you would like to write then again, 
we are ready to hear about that as well.

As an editorial team, with our various experiences of researching and 
writing on aspects of the gender-media relationship, we are mindful of 
issues such as intersectionality, fluid sexual identities and 
stereotypes. You will see that in the list, we continue to use certain 
terms (e.g., women, men, disability, age, race, LGBTQi, trans) in order 
to mark out the parameters for the topics to be discussed and in this 
way, hope to make the Encyclopaedia a useful and useable resource. We 
encourage you to develop a critical approach to the use of these terms 
in the entries which (we hope!) you will write. The Encyclopaedia is 
focused on gender (albeit itself a rather contested category) so all 
contributions must engage with this central theme, either privileging 
one ‘identity’ category or else adopting a comparative or intersectional 
approach.

If the broad ambitions of the project sound appealing, please read on.

* Timescale – we expect the three-volume Encyclopaedia to be published 
in early 2020 so working backwards, we would expect to receive first 
drafts of entries by Friday 29 March 2019.

* Style – an encyclopaedic entry is a summary of the research on a 
particular topic: it is not an opportunity to talk about your original 
research although you can obviously do this in a modest way.

* Length – entries are of different lengths, from very short ones 
(1-2,000 words), to longer ones (between 6,000-10,000 words), so please 
let us know how long your entry will be if you are suggesting a 
completely new one.

* Payment – contributors will be paid in books and given online access 
to the Encyclopaedia for a specified length of time, currently 24 months 
from publication and for as long thereafter as you are prepared to 
provide updates: for long essays (10,000 words) = $350 worth of 
Wiley-Blackwell books; mid-length essays (4,000 - 8,000 words) = $250; 
short essays (2,000 - 4,000 words) = $150; and very short essays (1,000 
- 2,000 words) = $100.

* Next steps – if you are interested in writing an entry, please 
provide: 1) a <200-word synopsis of what you intend to cover including 
key authors (4-6), key themes, etc; and 2) a <150-word biographical 
statement to include current affiliation and your job title.

* Deadline – please forgive tight turnaround, but it would be great if 
you could send your synopsis and bio by 9 November to: 
(karen.ross /at/ newcastle.ac.uk) <mailto:(karen.ross /at/ newcastle.ac.uk)>

Thanks very much for getting to the end of this email and we hope to 
hear from you soon.

Best wishes,

Karen Ross for the Editorial Team/Encyclopaedia for Gender, Culture and 
Communication Ingrid Bachmann (Associate Editor) Valentina Cardo 
(Associate Editor) Sujata Moorti (Associate Editor) Marco Scarcelli 
(Associate Editor)

LIST OF TOPICS SEEKING AUTHORS (the number after each topic indicates 
the approximate word count range we imagine)

- Big data – 2-4k

- Comic book heroes and villains – 2k

- Community/local media – 4k

- Digital bodies – 4k

- Ethnic minority characters on TV /film – 4-6k

- Fashionable masculinity [men in fashion advertising] – 2k

- Female action heroes – 4k

- Gender and political journalism – 24k

- Lesbians on film – 4k (or could be a combined ‘lesbians on screen’ to 
include TV and film)

- Lesbians on TV – 4k (ditto)

- Male action heroes – 4k

- Mediated intimacies (eg online dating, sex online, sex-based websites, 
  but not hook-up or dating apps) – 2-4k

- News presenters/anchors – 2k

- Pick-up artists – 2k

- Radio shows for women [eg Woman’s Hour]- 2-4k

- Romcoms – 2k

- Real crime shows – 2k

- Reality TV genres – 2k

- Sexual identities on screen – 2-4k

- Stereotyping race on screen – 2-4k

- Women / men / as radio professionals / producers – 2k

TOPICS ALREADY COMMISSIONED

- Advertising in cross-cultural comparison

- Advertising masculinities

- Affect

- Ageing bodies on television

- Ageing, media and communication

- Apps and the quantified self

- Archives of women's media

- Audiences, gender and horror

- Black women and television: a short history

- Body image

- Bromance

- Cam-girls

- Camp and queer cinema

- Camp TV

- Celebrity

- Celebrity bloggers and vloggers

- Censorship

- Children and online sexual content

- Childrens' television

- Children's TV presenters

- Commodification

- Contemporary women's films

- Crime drama

- Cultural resistance in the Middle East

- Cyberfeminist art

- Dating apps

- Digital divide

- Digital labour

- Disability and masculinity

- Disability, gender and desire

- Disabled characters in film and television

- Diva magazine

- Domestic labor in popular media

- Doxxing

- Election campaigns, general

- Election campaigns, leaders

- European women filmmakers

- Fan girls

- Fans and fan cultures

- Fashion media

- Fathers in the media

- Fat-shaming online

- Female friendships on film

- Femininity and food

- Feminism in the news

- Feminist camp cinema

- Feminist data studies

- Feminist film and video production

- Feminist film theory

- Feminist media activism

- Feminist media studies as a field

- Feminist moving image practices

- Feminist press

- Feminist websites

- Feminist/activist responses to online abuse

- Food and lifestyle shows

- Gamergate

- Games and players

- Gay male characters

- Gay men and television

- Gay porn

- Gender and advertising

- Gender and celebrity politics

- Gender and crime news

- Gender and Iranian cinema

- Gender and media

- Gender and media policy

- Gender and news

- Gender and political cartoons

- Gender and political speech

- Gender and representation in Nigerian media

- Gender and style in political communication

- Gender and technology

- Gender in Islamic media

- Gender in postcolonial India

- Gender in the films of Rituparno Ghosh

- Gender on Bulgarian television

- Gender representation on Turkish television

- Gender, ICTs, development and labor

- Gender, media and political economy

- Gender, politics and news in Nigeria

- Gender, race and news

- Gendered hate online

- Gendered identities online

- Gendered representations of war

- Gendering music in popular culture

- Gender-positive advertising

- Girl child in popular culture

- Girls and Japanese popular culture

- Girls and microcelebrity

- Girls' bedroom cultures

- Girls' media cultures

- Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG)

- Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)

- Globalization, gender and media

- Helen Clark

- History of women in journalism

- Hook-up apps

- Images of women in conflict zones

- Infertility and the barren woman

- Intersectionality and sports media

- Intersectionality in sports reporting

- Japanese manga and anime

- Japanese women in popular media

- Journalism and gendered mediation

- Julia Gillard

- Lads' films

- Latina bodies

- Leeds Animation Workshop

- LGBTQi in reality television

- LGBTQi online

- Male characters on television

- Margaret Thatcher

- Marketing women political leaders

- Masculinities and men's magazines

- Masculinities on television

- Mean girls

- Media and gendered victims

- Mediatization

- Men's Rights Movement/Activists

- Minority women politicians

- Mobile cultures

- Moral panics and gender

- Mothers in the media

- Muslim women, sport and social media

- New racisms in the news

- News reporting on women, war and conflict

- Newsroom cultures

- Non-normative characters with disabilities

- Nordic women journalists

- Older women and cinema: audiences, stories and stars

- Online abuse and harassment

- Online dating

- Online identities and intersectionality

- Online women's networks

- Organisational responses to cyber-bullying

- Orientalism

- Participatory cultures

- Personalization in politics

- Pink press

- Podcasting

- Political recruitment

- Political spouses

- Pornography

- Pornography as education

- Postcolonialism

- Postfeminist media cultures

- Pro-ana and thinspiration

- Programming for women

- Queer digital cultures in India

- Queer early cinema

- Queer Globalization and the Media

- Queer TV

- Queering horror genres

- Rape fantasy sexblogs

- Rape porn

- Religion, gender and digital media

- Reporting football in Brazil

- Representing rape

- Researching women's film and TV history

- Revenge porn on trial

- Romcoms in indie cinema

- Sarah Palin

- Selfies and sexual identities

- Self-representation and social media

- Sex and culture

- Sex and gender on film

- Sex as entertainment

- Sex, gender and the law

- Sexbots and post-human love

- Sexism and misogyny

- Sexting

- Sexual violence

- Sexual violence in popular media

- Sexualising the father figure

- Slash

- Social media influencers

- Social networks

- Stereotyping in advertising

- Superhumans

- Supernatural gender

- Surveiillance

- Surveillance apps

- Teens, tweens and in-betweens

- Telenovelas

- Television for women

- The Disney Princess

- The L-Word

- The women's page

- Trans characters

- Trans cultures online

- Trans identity in the media

- Transparents and queer politics

- Uses of social media

- Visual representations and the feminist challenge

- Vloggers

- Waves of feminism

- Women and comedy

- Women and games

- Women and images of war

- Women and sitcoms

- Women and television in Asia

- Women cinematographers

- Women filmmakers in the United Arab Emirates

- Women filmmakers, Ann Hui

- Women filmmakers, Catherine Breillet

- Women filmmakers, Dorothy Arzner

- Women filmmakers, Isobel Lennart

- Women filmmakers, Jill Soloway

- Women filmmakers, Nora Ephron

- Women filmmakers, Sally Potter

- Women filmmakers, Stephanie Rothman

- Women gamers

- Women in African cinema

- Women in film and TV history

- Women in the advertising industry

- Women in the films of Ingmar Bergmann

- Women war reporters

- Women, men and elite sport

- Women, sport and film

- Women, sport and media

- Women, technology and the gender gap

- Women's activism, general

- Women's alternative news sites

- Women's blogs

- Women's community newspapers in India

- Women's lifestyle magazines

- Women's periodicals

- Women's pornography cultures

- Women's radio production

- Yaoi/Boys’ Love/Danmei

- Zine culture

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