[ecrea] MCP Journal: The end of the long tail

MCP Journal: The end of the long tail

A new issue of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 
has just been published. Among the topics covered: The false promise of 
the long tail, the new life of political magazines online, and the press 
treatment of the Scottish referendum. Table of contents follows:

Electronic access: 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3238/

ARTICLES:

1.- “Tailoring Nirvana: Appropriating Yoga, Resignification, and 
Instructional Challenges”, by Mary Grace Antony (Schreiner University, USA)

2.- “Elysium as a Critical Dystopia”, by Tanner Mirrlees and Isabel 
Pedersen (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada).

3.- “Beneath the Bias, the Crisis: The Press and the Scottish 
Referendum”, by Michael Wayne (Brunel University).

4.- “Requiem for the Long Tail: Implications for Audiovisual Diversity 
on the Internet”, by Philip M. Napoli (Duke University).

5.- “Prospective journalism redux: The new life of political magazines 
in the digital age”, by Francisco Seoane Pérez (Universidad Carlos III 
de Madrid).
…

COMMENTARIES:

1.- “That’s Politics!” A Critical Commentary on the Mediation of 
Democracy in Orange is the New Black”, by Amy Louise Walker (University 
of Huddersfield).

2.- "Assessing participatory journalism in Poland: Salon24.pl at ten", 
by Leszek Zinkow (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow)
…

BOOK REVIEWS:

1.- Presumed Intimacy: Para-social relationships in media, society and 
celebrity culture, Chris Rojek (Dec 2015), First Edition, Malden, MA: 
Polity (224 pp.). Reviewed by Robert van Krieken (University of Sydney).

2.- Political Communication and Leadership: Mimetisation, Hugo Chavez 
and the construction of power and identity, Elena Block (August 2015), 
First Edition, London: Routledge (284pp.). Reviewed by Adriana Amado 
(Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argentina).

3.- Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community and 
Print Culture, 1741-1860, Heather Haveman (Sept 2015), First Edition, 
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (432 pp.). David Finkelstein 
(University of Edinburgh).


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