[Commlist] Cfp / Italian Migrant Communities as Audiences

    Please find below the next Cfp of /Schermi. Storie e culture del
    cinema e dei media in Italia. /Italian version and bibliography
    available here: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in
    Italia (unimi.it) <https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/schermi>

    Call for papers (Volume VI, N. 12, II semester 2022)
    *Italian Migrant Communities as Audiences*
    edited by Morena La Barba - Mattia Lento
    Submission of abstracts: 15-05-2022
    Submission of articles: 15-09-2022

    Interest in audiences has always been an integral part of discourses
    relating to analogue (cinema, television and radio) and digital
    media (internet and social media). In fact, from its birth, the mass
    medium has been accompanied by very heterogeneous discursive
    formations devoted to the reception of the medium itself. However,
    within media studies, the study of audiences has only become
    established, consolidated and institutionalised since the 1980s,
    thanks mostly to the turning point that was cultural studies.
    Starting with the works of Stuart Hall, media theory began to
    consider the responses of audiences systematically, considering them
    as an active and central part of the media communication process.
    The shift from the centrality of the text to the centrality of the
    exchange between medium and audience in the realm of media theory
    was further strengthened in the following years thanks to the
    contribution of different and specific methodologies (Staiger 2005).
    In recent years, the study of audiences and reception has become an
    increasingly diverse disciplinary field and has acquired
    considerable importance in academia. It has become an
    institutionalized, interdisciplinary field of research, involving at
    the same time different disciplines such as psychology, sociology,
    anthropology, statistics, semiology, narratology, aesthetics,
    history of consumption and mentality, oral and economic history and
    cultural studies
    (Esquenazi 2006; Gauntlett 2007; Leveratto and Jullier 2010).
    In Italy, too, studies and projects that shed light on the behaviour
    of the audiences in the peninsula during various eras have
    flourished. Much of this research begins with the assumption that
    individual media can no longer be studied as isolated compartments
    and can only be related
    to specific cultural-historical dynamics (Fanchi and Garofalo 2018).
    Most of these works paid attention primarily to audiences
    in Italian territory
    (https://italiancinemaaudiences.org/
    <https://italiancinemaaudiences.org/>). Italian audiences active
    outside the borders of the peninsula have been little considered,
    with a few vital examples that have certainly opened very
    interesting horizons from a historical, theoretical and
    methodological point of view. The same work indicates that
    continuing in this direction can further enrich our knowledge
    about Italian emigration in the world (Bertellini 2009, 1999;
    Montebello 2007; Leveratto 2010; La Barba
    2013, 2016; Sprio 2013; Lento 2018a, 2018b).
    Limiting ourselves, for example, to the relationship between cinema
    and Italian emigration at an international level, which has been
    explored in several directions, the analysis of the representations
    of the migratory experience or of Italianità in film productions in
    different eras and geographical contexts has certainly played a
    leading role (Schrader and Winkler 2013; La
    Barba 2016; Lento 2017; Scaffai and Valsangiacomo 2018). The
    creative contribution of individual emigrants to the cinema of a
    given country has also been investigated (La Barba 2013b). The issue
    of migrant film audiences, on the other hand, is a phenomenon that
    is yet to be explored and deepened. As far as radio and television
    are concerned, research has mainly focused on the experience of
    public broadcasters that have reserved part of their programming
    to people of Italian origins or has paid attention to private
    broadcasters aimed mainly at a diasporic audience (Gaggini-Fontana
    2008; Sala and Massarriello-Merzagora 2010; Valsangiacomo 2015). The
    phenomenon of new Italian migrations has recently produced above
    all studies that have related such experiences to the use of the web
    and new media (Marino
    2017). What is missing is precisely a systematic consideration
    of Italian emigration as an audience and an interdisciplinary and/or
    comparative dialogue between different study orientations. Starting
    with these considerations, we invite scholars to submit proposals
    that historicize migrant audiences of Italian origin, focusing on
    their fruition behaviours, the dynamics of subjectification and
    identity negotiation, as well as the political and cultural
    processes underlying reception practices, through single
    case studies and systematic explorations of
    national or transnational contexts. Theoretical and methodological
    proposals are also welcome, to help focus on the complex
    relationship between migration and media reception. In this regard,
    the 12/2022 issue of the journal Schermi invites case studies and
    study contexts or methodological-theoretical reflections dealing
    with one or more aspects of the relationship
    between Italian emigration and media reception:

    - Histories of the viewing and listening practices
    of Italian emigration.
    - Histories of media consumption and social practices
    of Italian emigration
    - Histories of the private life of Italian emigration in relation to
    media consumption
    - The relationship between media and culture of Italian emigration
    - The stars and divas of Italian emigration
    - Associationism and media consumption
    - Media consumption and migrant subjectivity
    - Media consumption and politics
    - Media and transcultural dynamics
    - Social spaces of media consumption
    - Internal migration and media consumption
    - Minorities and the media
    - Representations of migrant audiences in the press, cinema and
    television
    - Migration literature and media consumption
    - Media consumption and labour history
    - Theories of subaltern audiences
    - New theoretical and historiographical approaches to the history of
    audiences
    - Comparative analyses of Italian audiences abroad
    - Italian migrations and new media
    - Italian migrations and social media
    - Digital ethnographies
    - Transnational networks and media
    - A sociology of audiences

    Proposals (of max. 300 words, in Italian or English, accompanied by
    a limited bibliography)
    must be sent by 15/05/2022 to the following email addresses:
    (mattia.lento /at/ uzh.ch) <mailto:(mattia.lento /at/ uzh.ch)>;
    (morena.labarba /at/ unige.ch) <mailto:(morena.labarba /at/ unige.ch)>
    Results of the selection will be communicated by 31/05/2022, and
    completed articles – between 30,000 and 35,000 characters (spaces
    and notes included, bibliography excluded) – along with an abstract
    of 100 words (in English) and five keywords (in English) must be
    submitted by 15/09/2022.
    They will then undergo a double peer review. The journal Schermi
    does not require any payment from the authors.

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