Coisas e Coisas
Special issue: Transformative Works and Fan Activism (March 2012). Edited by Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova, University of Southern California.
"How might research on fandom and participatory culture inform our understanding of citizenship and activism? Cultural theorists have long speculated about how our fantasy lives and cultural engagements might inspire broader forms of public participation. In his book Understanding Popular Culture, for example, John Fiske describes one potential route which might lead a young woman from fannish interest in Madonna towards the resources, skills, and identities she needs to contribute to social change. Fan studies have long located localized resistances within the cultural productions and practices associated with fandom, looking at how fan fiction, say, might lead to new understandings of gender, sexuality, and race. Yet there has been less work that examines how these imaginative practices, at times facilitated by digital media, might lead to an enhanced sense of agency or a new vision of social change, or how the skills developed through fandom might be mobilized for getting people out to vote, protesting public policies, or encouraging contributions and volunteerism around emergency situations. [...] Contributions for blind peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by April 1, 2011. Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by May 1, 2011". Read more.
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4-6 September 2013, Lisbon, Catholic University of Portugal Convergence and digitalization have become buzz-words employed to demonstrate how technological change has impacted on the media and is reconfiguring today’s media systems. Accordingly, media...
- Fans And Fandom
Dr. Eoin Devereux is "planning to organise a series of panels on Fandom and Popular Culture (with a focus on Rock Music) at the 2012 CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES CONFERENCE in Paris. If you are interested in taking part send a 150 word abstract to [email protected]...
- The Projector: Film & Media Journal Cfp
The Projector is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of the intersections between media and culture. We are currently seeking essays for our Spring 2011 and Fall 2011 issues. We are particularly interested in scholarship that engages...
- Popular Fictions: Selling Culture?
Call for papers Popular Fictions: Selling Culture? (Association for Research in Popular Fictions, Liverpool John Moores University), Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st November 2010. We welcome papers considering popular narratives or cultural practices across...
- Call For Papers
Studies in Communication Review The first number of Studies in Communication (Estudos em Comunicação), will be published in March 2007 by Labcom (Online Communication Lab of the University of Beira Interior, Portugal). The review will be mainly focused...
Coisas e Coisas
TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS AND FAN ACTIVISM
Special issue: Transformative Works and Fan Activism (March 2012). Edited by Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova, University of Southern California.
"How might research on fandom and participatory culture inform our understanding of citizenship and activism? Cultural theorists have long speculated about how our fantasy lives and cultural engagements might inspire broader forms of public participation. In his book Understanding Popular Culture, for example, John Fiske describes one potential route which might lead a young woman from fannish interest in Madonna towards the resources, skills, and identities she needs to contribute to social change. Fan studies have long located localized resistances within the cultural productions and practices associated with fandom, looking at how fan fiction, say, might lead to new understandings of gender, sexuality, and race. Yet there has been less work that examines how these imaginative practices, at times facilitated by digital media, might lead to an enhanced sense of agency or a new vision of social change, or how the skills developed through fandom might be mobilized for getting people out to vote, protesting public policies, or encouraging contributions and volunteerism around emergency situations. [...] Contributions for blind peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by April 1, 2011. Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by May 1, 2011". Read more.
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- Call For Papers: “history Of The Media In Transition Periods”
4-6 September 2013, Lisbon, Catholic University of Portugal Convergence and digitalization have become buzz-words employed to demonstrate how technological change has impacted on the media and is reconfiguring today’s media systems. Accordingly, media...
- Fans And Fandom
Dr. Eoin Devereux is "planning to organise a series of panels on Fandom and Popular Culture (with a focus on Rock Music) at the 2012 CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES CONFERENCE in Paris. If you are interested in taking part send a 150 word abstract to [email protected]...
- The Projector: Film & Media Journal Cfp
The Projector is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of the intersections between media and culture. We are currently seeking essays for our Spring 2011 and Fall 2011 issues. We are particularly interested in scholarship that engages...
- Popular Fictions: Selling Culture?
Call for papers Popular Fictions: Selling Culture? (Association for Research in Popular Fictions, Liverpool John Moores University), Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st November 2010. We welcome papers considering popular narratives or cultural practices across...
- Call For Papers
Studies in Communication Review The first number of Studies in Communication (Estudos em Comunicação), will be published in March 2007 by Labcom (Online Communication Lab of the University of Beira Interior, Portugal). The review will be mainly focused...