mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication of Larry Gross’s undergraduate thesis: Creativity: Process and Personality.

Before arriving in the field of communication, Larry Gross was a psychology student at Brandeis University; Creativity: Process and Personality was Gross’s undergraduate thesis at Brandeis, completed in 1964. This mediastudies.press edition is the initial publication of that undergraduate thesis, with a new preface by Gross himself. Creativity: Process and Personality finds Gross exploring the nature of creativity by interviewing some of the era’s most noteworthy experts in psychology, including Herbert Simon, Milton Rokeach, Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, Jerome Bruner, and B. F. Skinner. The result of Gross’s interviews is a nuanced and multi-perspectival set of interlocking chapters, each of which probes the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of creativity. Creativity: Process and Personality remains a provocative consideration of how creativity takes form, while also operating as a revealing snapshot of mid-twentieth century psychological thought.

The book is available online and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A paperback version is also available.

Creativity: Process and Personality appears in the Public Domain series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged to reach out with a query.

Award Call: Covert Award in Mass Communication History for Articles, Essays, or Book Chapters Published in 2022

AEJMC’S History Division announces the annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History for entries published in 2022.

The Covert Award recognizes the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in the previous year. Book chapters in edited collections published in the previous year are also eligible. The AEJMC History Division has presented the award annually since 1985.

The $400 award memorializes the esteemed Dr. Catherine L. Covert, professor of journalism at Syracuse University (d.1983). Cathy Covert was the first woman professor in Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Journalism and the first woman to head the History Division, in 1975. Prof. Covert received the AEJMC Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Education Award in 1983.

It is our great pleasure to share with you an ICA pre-conference dedicated to the consideration and discussion of Elihu Katz’s ideas.

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, registration for this pre-conference is free. To register for the pre-conference, please navigate to the registration page

Questions about the pre-conference should be directed to any one of the pre-conference organizers listed below.

The Legacies of Elihu Katz

XVIII Congress of AsHisCom: Debate History, Communication and Memory

September 14-15, 2023

Almada Negreiros College - ICNOVA Lisbon

Deadline: February 28, 2023

Jinx C. Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History

This award is presented to the winners of the division’s teaching competition. Members may submit an innovative teaching strategy to the contest, which is judged by a committee each spring. 

Teaching ideas should be original, tested, and transformative pedagogies that have been used by the author in teaching media and journalism history and could be used by other instructors or institutions. Teaching ideas should help professors address one or more of these pedagogies: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice. The competition welcomes a variety of teaching ideas, including those taught across a quarter/semester or taught as a module within an individual course. The 2022 deadline for submissions is February 15.

The applications should be submitted as one document saved in a PDF format to aejmchistory@gmail.com using the subject line “Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History” and should include:

Reminder CFP: Eighth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS) (10 February deadline)

CFP: Eighth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)

Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

9–10 June 2023

Periodicals and Belonging: CfP: European Society for Periodical Research conference

27-29 June 2023, Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Deadline 31 January 2023

Dear colleagues, 

Call for Papers

Information & Culture is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press. It publishes original, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor. In keeping with the spirit of information studies, we seek papers emphasizing a human-centered focus that address the role and reciprocal relationship of information and culture, regardless of time and place.

The journal welcomes submissions from an array of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to historical, sociological, psychological, political and educational research that address the interaction of information and culture.

Articles published with Information & Culture will go through a rigorous peer review process conducted by subject experts and members of the journal’s Editorial Advisory Board, will be included in online and hard copy versions of the journal, and will bepromoted on social media and relevant listservs to diverse audiences.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2023 JOINT JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION HISTORY CONFERENCE

The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for its 2023 conference, to be held virtually via Zoom.

This free, one-day, interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars researching the history of journalism and mass communication. Topics from all geographic areas and time periods are welcome, as are all methodological approaches. This conference offers a welcoming environment in which participants can explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and mass communication history.

When: Saturday, April 15, 2023, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern (U.S.) time

Call for papers

ECREA Communication History Section Workshop 2023

“War, Communication, and Media Resilience in Europe”

*Lund University, Sweden, 23–25 August, 2023 *

CfP: Histories of technology acceptance in the 20th century

The Division of History of Technology at TU Berlin invites proposals for a two-day historical workshop taking place on 5–6 October 2023. The workshop will feature a keynote by Ortwin Renn, Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.

Deadline: 10 February 2023

The public acceptance of technological innovation is seen as a decisive factor in current technology-related issues and debates, be it around the transition to renewable energies or the reshaping of mobility and food systems. In short, it’s integral to a number of fields linked to the grand challenges that our contemporary societies face. The concept of “technology acceptance” has frequently been critiqued on several grounds: 1) It naively assumes acceptance of technological innovation as the norm. 2) It thus renders critique, resistance, or even reluctance as deviant and thereby only worthy of attention because of said deviance. 3) It conceptualizes the public as well as local stakeholders as passive, giving the term a technocratic tinge. Despite these critiques, “technology acceptance” served and still serves as a pivotal concept in public debates, policy advice, and in social science research on issues such as infrastructure projects, NIMBY-ism, participatory planning processes, the role of prosumers in socio-technological transitions, or in more general assessments of public attitudes towards innovation.

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication of Erving Goffman’s remarkable 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community.

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.

The book is available online, and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A paperback version is also available.

Communication Conduct in an Island Community appears in the Public Domain series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged to reach out with a query. You can learn more about mediastudies.press, including our operations and OA principles, on our site. The press is a member of the Open Book Collective and the ScholarLed consortium, and also publishes the History of Media Studies journal. Please contact us at press@mediastudies.press.

Call for papers: FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES

International Association for Media and History Conference 2023

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 20-22 June

Link IAMHIST-website: Call for Papers: IAMHIST Conference 2023

Call for Papers: “Book: Re-imagined and Re-born”, Bibliographic Society of Canada, 29-30 May 2023, Toronto

On 29 -30 May 2023, Canada’s bibliographical and book studies community will gather for the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences for our first in-person conference since 2019. 

The third decade of the twenty-first century has ushered in unprecedented and challenging events. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Black Lives Matters movement, alongside escalating climate emergencies, have brought home the urgent need for collective action in support of racial and climate justice. Against this backdrop, our conference theme invites you to explore and reflect critically on the past, present, and future of the book. We invite submissions that pertain, but are not limited, to: 

• Revisions in bibliography and book history as reflections of decoloniality, anti-racism, and social justice 
• Traditions, innovations, and responses to societal challenges in the practice of bibliography, book history, and special collections curation 
• Books and print media as vehicles for inclusion, participation, and belonging 
• Material and digital cultures of the book in relation to climate change, sustainability, and post-industrial technology-driven society 
• Book creation, production, consumption, and collecting in personal, social, and institutional contexts 
• Human interactions with books and print media and their diversity
• Partnering and collaboration beyond the book: galleries, libraries, archives and museums in partnership with custodians of aural, visual and other forms of knowledge 

CFP ICA PRECONFERENCE: HISTORY OF DIGITAL METAPHORS

May 25, 2023

Toronto, Canada

Deadline: January 15, 2023

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS. “POPULAR SONG IN EUROPE IN THE 1920S”

June 8-9, 2023

University of Rouen-Normandie, France

Deadline: December 15, 2022

American Printing History Association Offers Fellowship

The American Printing History Association (APHA) is now accepting applications for the 2023 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. An award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms.

The Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship supports the study of printing history, in any time period or geographic region. The topic may be biographical, analytical, technical, or bibliographical in nature. Studio work or study with a recognized printer, if focused on printing history, may be supported. APHA fellowships are open to individuals of any nationality. Applicants need not be academics, and an advanced degree is not required. Previous applicants are invited to re-apply. The fellowship can be used to pay for travel, living, and other expenses, including internet access, dependent care during the period of research, or fees for image reproduction.

Applications and supporting materials are due by Sunday, January 8, 2023. The fellowship will be formally awarded at the annual meeting of the American Printing History Association on Saturday, January 28, 2023. The annual meeting will be virtual. Full information, the application form, a sample budget, and contact information for those with specific queries about the award may be found on the APHA Fellowship page at https://printinghistory.org/programs/fellowship/.

CfP - ICOHTEC conference: INTERDEPENDENCIES: FROM LOCAL MICROSTORIES TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

The ICOHTEC 50th conference

INTERDEPENDENCIES. FROM LOCAL MICROSTORIES TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia

CFP: ICA Preconference on the Legacies of Elihu Katz

Preconference date & location: 25 May 2023, as part of the International Communication ‘Association annual conference at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Submission deadline: 20 December 2022. (there is no registration fee for this preconference)

Elihu Katz (1926–2021) was a peerless scholar, colleague, mentor, administrator, and friend to many in the field of communication. His passing has left the field with an absence that calls out for remembrance and for scholarly consideration. This one-day, all-plenary preconference will create a space for scholarly exchange on Katz’s life, works, and themes—a forum, in other words, for active, critical engagement with his legacy for the field. The preconference invites presenters to explore, critique, and extend Katz’s contributions to communication scholarship. Some will situate Katz’s legacies in pertinent historical contexts; others will use his work to imagine media futures; still others will consider Katz’s many roles (teacher, institution-builder, broadcast pioneer, mentor).

Some lines of inquiry presenters may wish to explore include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

* considerations of journalism and the public that draw upon Katz’s configurations of Gabriel Tarde’s ideas

* explorations of the promise and limitations of the idea of the media ritual

* elaborations upon the idea of the two-step flow of media effects

* diffusion processes in varied media and networks

* the evolution and contemporary significance of the concept of media events

* perspectives on Katz’s ideas that come from disparate subfields in communication, including but not limited to: interpersonal communication, organizational communication, and intercultural communication

* philosophical interrogations of Katz’s ideas and research

* empirical studies that draw explicitly on Katz’s ideas, for instance cross-cultural readings of American television inspired by the Export of Meaning* (his co-authored book with Tamar-Liebes)

* Shifts of emphasis in media studies between content providers and audiences

* Katz’s place in the canon of media studies

* new ideas concerning the Katzian intersection of mass communication and interpersonal communication

* transpositions of Katz’s ideas into new arenas, like human-machine communication and virtual reality

* historical scholarship addressing:

* Katz’s involvement in broadcasting and mass media, including his role as a creator of Israeli Television

* the export of Katz’s ideas to communication and media studies departments around the world

* the impact of Katz’s ideas on academic fields and areas of practice outside of communication

Abstracts of 400 words (maximum), in Spanish or English, should be submitted no later than 20 December 2022. Draft papers will be pre-circulated in advance of the preconference, with all participants expected to read in advance. Send abstracts to the pre-conference organizers at: legaciesofkatz@gmail.com<mailto:legaciesofkatz@gmail.com>

Presenters will work within a timeline established to ensure that full papers are available for password-protected precirculation a month or more before the preconference, on the expectation that presented and non-presenters attendees read the papers in advance. The benefit of pre-circulation is that the bulk of time devoted to each panel can be given over to discussion among presenters and other attendees.

Authors will be informed regarding acceptance/rejection no later than 10 January 2023. The preconference will take place on 25 May, 2023, and will be free to all participants, thanks to generous support from the Department of Communication and the Smart Family Institute of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dear colleagues,

Please see below a Call for Papers for a conference happening in June next year at Northumbria University, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council: Rethinking Histories of Popular British Film and Television.

Please direct queries to me: johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk

Best wishes,

IAMHIST Masterclass on Media and History

IAMHIST Masterclass on Media and History

Thursday 12 January 2023

To be hosted online via Zoom, between 3-5pm CET/2-4pm GMT/9-11am EST

Dear Reader,

We are currently accepting proposals for the upcoming #Issue 25 “The Changing Newsroom: Disinformation & Multimedia Journalism”. This new issue is presented by MediaNumeric and co-edited by guest editors Joke Hermes (InHolland University of Applied Sciences, MediaNumeric partner), Kuba Piwowar (SWPS, MediaNumeric partner) & Julia Conemans (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, MediaNumeric partner & BENEDMO). This special issue seeks to bring together scholars, archivists, and other interested parties to investigate how the new technologies and data-driven innovation have transformed the media landscape. 

Could you please help by sharing the CfP in your network and forwarding it to people that might be interested in submitting something?

The full call for papers can be found here: https://www.viewjournal.eu/announcement/#cfp25 

IAMHIST MASTERCLASS ON MEDIA AND HISTORY

Thursday 12 January 2023

To be hosted online via Zoom, between 3-5pm CET/2-4pm GMT/9-11am EST

CALL FOR MASTERCLASS PARTICIPANTS:

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 21 NOVEMBER

CFP: Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age

It is a pleasure to announce the launch of the call for contributions for the RESAW 2023 Conference, whose title is Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age.

Eight years after the first RESAW conference, which provided for ground-breaking debates on technical, scientific and archival aspects, the conference proposes to appraise Web archives studies in relation to the research carried out on the Internet, social media, the Web archives and reborn digital heritage. It will examine the development of Web archiving while highlighting the way in which technical, cultural, geopolitical, societal and environmental transformations impact the conception, study and dissemination of this reborn digital heritage. The conference will subsequently focus on the methods and practices implemented by those who have explored and continue to explore the archived Web while opening up perspectives for the years to come. Located on the Mediterranean shores, the conference in Marseille will be an opportunity to stimulate discussions based on the approaches used in different cultural areas on different levels in order to reflect on Web archiving in the Mediterranean and its surrounding areas.

AEJMC’s History Division is soliciting entries for its annual award for the best journalism and mass communication history book. The winning author will receive a plaque and a $500 prize at the August 2023 AEJMC conference in Washington, D.C. Attendance at the conference is encouraged as the author will be invited to be a guest for a live taping of the Journalism History podcast during the History Division awards event.

The competition is open to any author of a media history book regardless of whether they belong to AEJMC or the History Division. Only first editions with a 2022 copyright date will be accepted. Entries must be received by February 1, 2023. Submit four hard copies of each book or an electronic copy (must be an e-Book or pdf manuscript in page-proof format) along with the author’s mailing address, telephone number, and email address to:

Gwyneth Mellinger, AEJMC History Book Award Chair

James Madison University

Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. Projects may include (but are not limited to) historical research and documentation projects resulting in publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products. 

Our programs provide access to the expertise of the Institution’s research staff and the vast invention and technology collections of the National Museum of American History (NMAH). The NMAH Archives Center documents both individuals and firms across a range of time periods and subject areas. Representative collections include the Western Union Telegraph Company Records, ca. 1840-1994 and the Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records, 1886-1997. In addition, the NMAH Library offers long runs of historical technology serials like Scientific American_and _American Machinist, and the American Trade Literature collection, which includes 300,000 catalogs, technical manuals, and advertising brochures for some 30,000 firms, primarily from 1880-1945. For a comprehensive catalog of objects, manuscripts, images and research materials available at the NMAH (and other Smithsonian units), see http://www.collections.si.edu/.

Topics: The Lemelson Center invites all applications covering the broad spectrum of research topics in the history of technology, invention, and innovation. However, the Center especially encourages proposals that align with one (or more) of its strategic research and programmatic areas, including 1) projects that illuminate inventors from diverse backgrounds or any inventions and technologies associated with under-represented groups, such as women, minorities, LGBTQ, and the disabled; (2) projects exploring innovation in sports and sports technology; or (3) projects that explore the broader ecosystem of individuals and institutions that support inventors, including inventors’ professional organizations; angel investors, venture capitalists, and financiers; incubators and entrepreneurial coaches; patent agents and IP attorneys; product designers, manufacturers, and marketers; and bankruptcy-liquidation specialists. 

The Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship supports the work of an experienced author or senior scholar (associate/full/emeritus professor level or equivalent) from the history of technology, science and technology studies, business history, museum studies, STEAM education, or an allied field. The specific arrangement is flexible: the Molella Fellow may use the funds as a sabbatical supplement; for several short-duration visits; for a virtual appointment focused on research and writing; or for a series of lectures leading to a major publication. The stipend is $35,000. Funds may be used flexibly to support teaching buyouts, travel for several short-term visits, living expenses for longer residences up to six months, and related research expenses. Dates are flexible. Applications are due 1 November 2022. For application procedures and additional information, see http://invention.si.edu/arthur-molella-distinguished-fellowship.

CFP: ICA Preconference on the Legacies of Elihu Katz

Elihu Katz (1926–2021) was a peerless scholar, colleague, mentor, administrator, and friend to many in the field of communication. His passing has left the field with an absence that calls out for remembrance and for scholarly consideration. This one-day, all-plenary preconference will create a space for scholarly exchange on Katz’s life, works, and themes—a forum, in other words, for active, critical engagement with his legacy for the field. The preconference invites presenters to explore, critique, and extend Katz’s contributions to communication scholarship. Some will situate Katz’s legacies in pertinent historical contexts; others will use his work to imagine media futures; still others will consider Katz’s many roles (teacher, institution-builder, broadcast pioneer, mentor).

Some lines of inquiry presenters may wish to explore include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

* considerations of journalism and the public that draw upon Katz’s configurations of Gabriel Tarde’s ideas

FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES

International Association for Media and History Conference 2023

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 20-22 June (in-person)

Deadline for submissions (20-minute presentations, panels of three 20-minute papers, or practice-based research/workshops): 16 January 2023

CFP: Eight Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)

Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

9–10 June 2023

This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), at Uppsala University in Sweden, will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields like area studies, communication studies, history, international relations, law, and linguistics. The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the social sciences.

Historiography in Mass Communication Available Online

A new issue of the journal Historiography in Mass Communication will go online next week. We will let you know when it goes live.

In the meantime, our current issue is still available. It does not require a subscription — it is free! You can access it at http://history-jmc.com. You may either read it online or download a pdf.

Here’s a list of the contents:

CFP: Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age

It is a pleasure to announce the launch of the call for contributions for the RESAW 2023 Conference, whose title is Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age.

Eight years after the first RESAW conference, which provided for ground-breaking debates on technical, scientific and archival aspects, the conference proposes to appraise Web archives studies in relation to the research carried out on the Internet, social media, the Web archives and reborn digital heritage. It will examine the development of Web archiving while highlighting the way in which technical, cultural, geopolitical, societal and environmental transformations impact the conception, study and dissemination of this reborn digital heritage. The conference will subsequently focus on the methods and practices implemented by those who have explored and continue to explore the archived Web while opening up perspectives for the years to come. Located on the Mediterranean shores, the conference in Marseille will be an opportunity to stimulate discussions based on the approaches used in different cultural areas on different levels in order to reflect on Web archiving in the Mediterranean and its surrounding areas.

The RESAW 2023 Conference will take place on 5 and 6 June 2023 in Marseille (France) at the MUCEM (Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean).

Call for Essays: Broadcast Media History

The website for AEJMC History Division’s scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays on the history and importance of television over the last 60 years.

The impetus for this essay series is the 60th anniversary of CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite informing the nation of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination (Nov. 22, 1963). We welcome all topics exploring broadcasting or television since that iconic moment, including essays focused on TV and intersectionality, children, political or public broadcasting, cable news, and advertising.

One installment in the website’s fifth essay series will be posted on the Journalism History website each month throughout the year 2023. Three essays will be published in Journalism History. The winning essay will receive a $100 prize.

Call for Applications: Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History (EDITH) Conference Support Award 2022

Lisa Ruth Rand’s picture Discussion published by Lisa Ruth Rand on Sunday, September 11, 2022 0 Replies The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Interest Group Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History (EDITH) announces its conference grant program for 2022. The EDITH Conference Support Awards are designed to defray costs associated with participating in the SHOT annual meeting, which may include travel, lodging, meals, and other incidental expenses. Eligibility is open to individuals giving a paper at the 2022 SHOT annual meeting in New Orleans.

EDITH was founded in 2012 with the dual aims of supporting scholars and scholarship currently underrepresented in the history of technology and at SHOT. EDITH works toward incorporating insights from the fields of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability studies – and growing attention to the intersectionality of such categories – into the scholarship of the history of technology and providing an intellectual home within SHOT to a broad range of scholars.

The EDITH Conference Support Award prioritizes promoting the participation of: presenters with incomplete funding from other sources, presenters who are new to SHOT, graduate students, presenters belonging to any group underrepresented in SHOT, and scholars whose paper seeks to provoke analysis of difference, diversity, power, alterity, intersectionalities, etc. in the history of technology. Preference will be given to those who have not received funding from EDITH in recent years.

CFP: Media Identitopias: The Long History of Pleasure and Injury in (Social) Media

Guest Editors: Rebecca Wanzo & Reem Hilu

In 2020, the news media reported that Facebook’s internal studies had revealed what numerous scholars had already argued—adolescent girls have experienced depression and other mental health challenges because of extensive exposure to Instagram and other social media. At the same time, other scholars have explored how social media has been a positive force in people’s lives as a means of finding community, identity formation, and building social movements (Moya Bailey, Jillian M. Baez, Catherine Steele, Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Laura Horak).

But social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not the first examples of communities and identities organized around mediated texts and technologies. Young women connected over novel reading and the fantasies in their pages were considered “infectious” and dangerous, from Charlotte Temple to the rise of Harlequin and historical romance novels in the late twentieth-century (Cathy Davidson, Janice Radway). Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham fretted over the raced and gendered harms of comic books, even as the content and the communities that can form around comics often model new just worlds and offer a sense of belonging to the socially marginalized (Qiana Whitted, Ramzi Fawaz). The fan cultures from comics and other “geek cultures” like gaming and science fiction have notoriously been marked by misogyny, racism, and homophobia (Suzanne Scott, Rukmini Pande), even as the same groups marginalized by white supremacy and toxic masculinity have built their own affirming and pleasurable communities. How do we place the current conversation about social media in historical context to think about a longer history of social interaction through media? Can we learn from scholarship about the ways that prior communities organized through media interaction and consumption balanced or failed to balance affinities and difference amongst their members?

The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online.

This is a special double issue “Dead and Dying Platforms” by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel.

Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time.

The double issue may be accessed here:

Women in Technological History (WITH) 2022 Conference Grant

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Interest Group (SIG) for Women in Technological History (WITH) announces its conference grant for 2022. Designed to defray some costs associated with attending the SHOT Annual Meeting (such as lodging, meals, childcare, and other incidental expenses), the grant is open to individuals giving a paper at the 2022 conference in New Orleans. The reviewing committee prioritizes both work by female-identified scholars and feminist scholarship that addresses the presence, actions, activism, and analysis of women and gender in the History of Technology. Scholars who are new to SHOT and graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply.

Awardees typically receive a check for $250 with the possibility of additional funds depending on stated need and WITH’s resources. Winners will be recognized in New Orleans at the WITH meeting.

WITH also invites all applicants to be our guests at the WITH meeting; please indicate in your cover letter whether or not you will join us. Please do NOT register or pay for the WITH lunch in advance.

Dear all,

This is a kind reminder that the deadline to submit an abstract for the conference Time and Machines, 1700-1850: Economy, Productivity, Discipline (co-org. Gianenrico Bernasconi, University of Neuchâtel, 19-20 January 2023) is set on 30 September 2022.

We welcome abstracts (in either English or French) of no more than 500 words, to be sent to the address < mailto:marco.storni@unine.ch > or < mailto:marco.storni@gmail.com >. Submissions from early career researchers are very welcome. Funding will be available to cover accommodation expenses and meals.

Call for papers:

American Society for the History of Rhetoric Interest Group Call

The American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR) Interest Group invites paper and panel proposals for competitive selection. We especially welcome works that address the convention theme, “Communicating Our Future.”

In addition to the broad range of approaches that continually seek to understand and critique rhetorics of and by history, further distinguishing ASHR as a site of scholarly creativity and rigor, SSCA’s 2023 Conference Theme of “Communicating Our Future” presents our scholars a unique opportunity to address the ways in which the past simultaneously influences the present as well as the future.

We especially encourage the submission of works that address how these rhetorics of and by history play a crucial role in the development of current and future rhetorical discourse, particularly at the discursive intersection(s) of politics, power, ideology, oppression, and resistance.

Call for Papers

Conference: #History on Social Media - Sources, Methods and Ethics

The #SocialMediaHistory project (www.socialmediahistory.de) is organising an online conference on 11 and 12 November.

We want to have a look at the significance of social media for historical research as well as research pragmatic approaches. We therefore welcome proposals for empirical case studies as well as theoretical or methodological contributions and problem outlines on various social media. Interdisciplinary approaches to history-related subjects, e.g. from (historical) communication research, media studies and digital humanities are explicitly encouraged.

BBC Radio 1922-2022 - Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM) - Call for papers

Call for Papers –   Journal of Radio & Audio Media Symposium Edition

Editors on behalf of the MeCCSA Radio Studies Network: Janey Gordon, Josephine Coleman, Lawrie Hallett, Emma Heywood, Richard Berry, Deborah Wilson David.

Deadline for submission: February 1, 2023

Women’s Film Heritage: Expanding the World’s Film Archives

This is a call for short and diverse pieces of creative and academic work for an online open access publication of the RSE-funded project Women’s Film Heritage: Expanding the World’s Film Archives.  

Abstracts / proposals are invited from international scholars and practitioners with a specialism in the history of global film cultures, for a publication that will map out the neglect of women’s film heritage throughout the world, and beyond the usual focus on the Western archives. We are looking for short (maximum 4,000 words) pieces, including essays, self-reflexive pieces, poems or other creative work, interviews, video essays, photographic essays, etc… We encourage submissions in your mother tongue, and we will provide English translations or subtitles of these pieces. It is hoped this will result in an inclusive, multi-lingual and imaginative publication that reflects the wide selection of approaches to the topic of global women’s film heritage. 

You could also consider the abstract submission as a proposal for the international conference in January 2023 in Cluj, Romania. Please indicate in your abstract if this is of interest. 

Dear members,

I am Isah Nasidi from University of Nigeria, and the Secretary of the Communication History Division. I am young media and communication researcher.

I wrote a book titled Political communication in the era of fake news: concepts, laws and strategies.

The manuscript is ready, but I want to get a  scholar outside my country to write a forward for the book, at least to INTERNATIONALISED the book.

2nd International Symposium on Media History and Theory

Call for Papers English - Llamado a Ponencias Español Arriba

Presentation

The International Symposium on Media History and Theory is a trading zone where scholars from communications, design, humanities, arts and science can present current research, creative pieces, reflections and critical positions in areas such as software studies, media archaeology and history, speculative and critical design, media art, multimedia, and visual studies. The aim is to extend media analyses to physical media, technical operations, techno-scientific principles and the design of the infrastructures behind texts, images and sounds.

The BBC at 100 symposium, National Science and Media Museum and online, 13-15 Sept 2022

Everyone is welcome to register for free for The BBC at 100 Symposium, which will be held at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online from 13-15 Sept 2022. It is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council with the support of the National Science and Media Museum, the University of Bradford and Media History.The symposium is interdisciplinary, inclusive and free to attend in-person or online. It aims

• to act as a gathering of the tribes, encompassing everyone from established scholars to postgraduates
• to take stock of research about the past century of British broadcasting by scholars in history, media and cultural studies, literary criticism, music, technology and related fields
• to explore what conceptual and logistical changes are needed to foster new directions in research and teaching
• to bring together archivists and researchers to discuss how to expand access to BBC archival resources, especially audiovisual ones.

One hundred and fifty academics and archivists from every continent save Antarctica participate in thirty roundtables on aesthetics, Africa and the Middle East, audiences, children, digital broadcasting, digitised archives, diversity, documentary and features, domestic and international literary programming, education, entertainment, ethnicity and sexuality, global broadcasting, the interwar period, classical, jazz and popular music, local and regional radio, mainland Europe, Northern Ireland and ‘The Troubles’, oral and transnational histories of BBC women, politics and current affairs, popular culture and the overseas services, popular music, public service broadcasting, radio drama, realism, religion and television studies. The programme is rounded out by plenary roundtables about archives and the history of broadcasting history, a tour of the NSMM’s special exhibition on a century of broadcasting, a joint book launch for twenty volumes on broadcasting history published since Covid, a gala screening of This Is The BBC (1960) and a symposium dinner followed by Paul Kerensa’s one-man play The First Broadcast.

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal Internet Histories “Museums on the Web: Exploring the past for the future”

This Special Issue will shed light on the history of museums on the Web. The advent of online technologies has changed the way museums manage collections and access them, shape exhibitions, and build communities and participation. However, scant attention has been given to how museums’ online presence has developed over time, from the mid-1990s to the present. Research has been undertaken for histories about museums and digital technologies (see for example Parry 2007, 2009; Cameron 2003; Cameron and Kenderdine 2010; Bowen 2010; Gartner 2016; Legene 2016). However, this Special Issue invites scholars and museum practitioners to discuss specifically the histories of museums on the Web. How have online collections been built, circulated, and exhibited? How have (information) architecture and museum websites developed over time? And how have museums built and engaged with (online) communities? We are interested in the foundational work by the early Internet pioneers, as well as the ruptures and continuities throughout the history of museums on the Web.

Please follow the link to the full description of the special issue and the forms to submit an abstract.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers: Information & Culture

Information & Culture is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press. It publishes original, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor. In keeping with the spirit of information studies, we seek papers emphasizing a human-centered focus that address the role and reciprocal relationship of information and culture, regardless of time and place.

The journal welcomes submissions from an array of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to historical, sociological, psychological, political and educational research that address the interaction of information and culture.

To learn more about our submission standards or submit an article for publication in Information & Culture, visit our submissions page.

We are pleased to announce an open access Special Section on “Exclusions in the History of Media Studies”. The seven articles, published in English or Spanish, are introduced by the editors in English and in Spanish translation. History of Media Studies is a new, peer-reviewed, scholar-run, diamond OA journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication.

• “Exclusions/Exclusiones: The Role for History in the Field’s Reckoning” - Peter Simonson, David W. Park, and Jefferson Pooley

• “Exclusiones/Exclusions: El papel de la historia en saldar la deuda histórica del campo” - Peter Simonson, David W. Park, and Jefferson Pooley

• “Antonio Pasquali. Una práctica intelectual entre América Latina y Europa (1979–1989)” - Emiliano Sánchez Narvarte

• “Constituted and Constituting Exclusions in Communication Studies” - Sarah Cordonnier

• “El imaginario textil: una interpretación alternativa en los estudios de la comunicación” - Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri

• “Inequality: The Blind Spot of Western Communication Studies” - Boris Mance and Sašo Slaček Brlek

• “Journalism via Systems Cybernetics: The Birth of the Chinese Communication Discipline and Post-Mao Press Reforms” - Angela Xiao Wu

• “Matrices y vertientes de pensamiento sobre los medios indígenas en América Latina” - Maria Magdalena Doyle

• “West Berlin’s Critical Communication Studies and the Cold War: A Study on Symbolic Power from 1948 to 1989” - Maria Löblich, Niklas Venema, and Elisa Pollack

History of Media Studies is published by mediastudies.press, a non-profit, scholar-led OA publisher. The journal is affiliated with (1) the Working Group on the History of Media Studies and (2) the History of Media Studies Newsletter, which contains updates on the journal, among other relevant news.

Questions? Contact us at hms@mediastudies.press

Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting. The CFP below has been updated and the deadline extended. They are looking for chapters with an historical focus on queer animators, creators, imagineers, and musicians in relation to the Walt Disney Company. They are also seeking chapters that discuss the ‘Gay Days’ at Disney’s theme parks. 

Queering Disney: History of The Walt Disney Company and the Queer Community

deadline for submissions: 

Call for papers: “Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code: Criticism and History”, a special issue of The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Schedule: 300-500 word proposals/abstracts, along with a short bio, to tom.brown@kcl.ac.uk by 01/08/2022.

10,000 word draft chapters will be due in June 2023 for publication in the journal in early-2024.

Almost 30 years since the Quarterly Review of Film and Video published a special issue on the Production Code edited by Lea Jacobs and Richard Maltby (1995; 15:4), the time is ripe for a re-consideration of the Code’s aesthetic impact on Hollywood. Facing head-on the vexed question of the interaction of industry regulation with the tone and style of films themselves, the essays in the collection look closely at the detail of film form while closely considering broader and more specific histories of Production Code Administration (PCA) regulation and the self-censorship it encouraged.

Call for Submissions

The Journal of 20th Century Media History, a new peer reviewed online academic journal, is soliciting original scholarly article manuscripts for its first issue. The journal is designed to be broadly interdisciplinary and address current scholarship across a wide range of subject areas. As the title suggests, we are looking to publish historical work about topics that, in the main, focus on people, events, ideas, and practices from the 20th century. Article submissions that make use of innovative research techniques and methodologies are highly encouraged, as is research that draws attention to previously marginalized or under-represented groups or forms of media practice.  The journal can be found at https://mds.marshall.edu/j20thcenturymediahistory/

Journal of 20th Century Media History | Marshall University

Possible subject areas for articles include: