[Commlist] 'Visual Studies': Call for Proposals for NMRs and Translations

The /Visual Studies/ Editorial Board is happy to announce the 
development of two unique sections in the journal: 'New Media Reviews' 
and 'Translations'.


*New Media Review*


A New Media Review is a short essay (2000 - 5000 words) or an interview 
(3000 - 6000 words) that focuses on some aspect of the visual in social 
and political life, which the author believes deserves more attention 
than it has generally received. These reviews should explore what is 
going on in the world of new media, whether on or off the web. These can 
include television serials; fiction or non-fiction films; exhibitions of 
fine and popular arts; installations; graphic novels of one kind or 
another; books that explore various aspects of applied visual reasoning 
and communication; new technologies of visual representation, and so on: 
anything for which an author can make a compelling case that it 
communicates information that an informed public should take seriously.


An NMR provides an opportunity to directly address a general audience; 
to develop an accessible personal voice, and to explore issues in 
contemporary society and culture, as well as explore aspects of our 
pasts that may have been ignored or neglected. It is also an opportunity 
to describe – and analyse – emerging trends bubbling up in our 
contemporary world.


Examples of New Media Reviews that have been previously published in 
Visual Studiesinclude Elizabeth Chaplin’s essay on ‘Bruno Latour’s Paris 
Invisible/Invisible Paris’ 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725860701507339>(2007); 
Karen McCormick’s ‘Revisiting The Wire 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2015.996412>’ 
(2015); and Jon Wagner’s reviews of Michael Apted's UPfilmmaking 
project(2007 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725860701657191>and2016 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2014.941609>) – 
to name but a few. You can also find the latest NMR published here 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2NRSVQE8KHDGXSWKJJRH/full?target=10.1080/1472586X.2021.1887675>.


If you have a proposal in mind, please feel free to contact John Grady 
at (jgrady /at/ wheatonma.edu) <mailto:(jgrady /at/ wheatonma.edu)>, with a one-page 
proposal including a description of the materials to be considered; an 
argument for their social and cultural significance; and why they might, 
or should, appeal, and be of value to, an educated citizenry.


*Translation*

While /Visual Studies/ aims to set the standard for visually-oriented 
scholarly research around the globe, there is a need to expand the 
journal’s content beyond the Anglophone world. The journal also aims to 
be an inclusive platform for the circulation of visually engaged 
research. By translating foreign essays that deeply marked the field in 
non-English-speaking countries we aim to further expand the spaces of 
knowledge conveyed within the journal, by making important 
non-Anglophone publications available to its readers. We are looking for 
untranslated essays published in a language other than English and from 
a wide range of disciplines, that could relevantly reflect the scope 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rvst20> 
of /Visual Studies /and feed the debates in which the journal is 
involved. These articles should be pathbreakingor paradigm-shifting; 
they should be well reasoned and have a strong takeaway that could 
illuminate the journal’s aims, whether their primary focus is empirical 
or theoretical, historical or present day, examining the visual in 
general or images in particular. They should be significant 
contributions that make other readers think ‘why haven’t I encountered 
this piece before?’.

You can find the first translation published in /Visual Studies/ here 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1850063>.

If you have a proposal in mind, please feel free to contact Julie 
Patarin-Jossec at *(patarinjossec.julie /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(patarinjossec.julie /at/ gmail.com)>*, with a one-page proposal 
following these submission guidelines 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rvst20#translations>. 



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