[Discussion] Media and Globalization

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Call for Papers: Media and Globalization
2004 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

To be held in conjunction with the National Popular Culture/American
Culture Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas, April 7-10, 2004.
Further details (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.)

available at http://www.swtexaspca.org.

Seeking papers or pre-constituted panels addressing the relationship
between electronic media and globalization.  Given the centrality of
communications technologies to the processes of global interconnection
that have been transforming our world of late, this area seeks to
understand the electronic media's specific modes of participation in
these
processes. Papers might address:

*The Global Information Infrastructure
*Satellite television and the imagination of a global audience
*Global news coverage (non-US treatments of 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Israel/Palestine, etc.)
*The impact of technological convergence on the global culture
industries
*Post-Fordist practices in production, management, or distribution
*Cognitive mappings of the global order in TV, Film, or Computer Media
*Changes in the composition of the audience/market for cultural content
*The formation of a global "creative class" (or other effects on labor)
*Historical treatments that complicate arguments about the newness of
globalization
*Cross-cultural studies of globalization's processes and effects as
illustrated in the media
*Etc.

Essays may focus on textual analysis, analysis of a single medium or its

industrial relations (producers, receivers, technology), or analysis of
cross-media relations. Send proposals of 100-200 words via email to
Stacy
Takacs (takacs@okstate.edu) by Nov. 7, 2003.

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Stacy Takacs
Assistant Professor of American Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
2221 Main Hall
Oklahoma State University
Tulsa, OK 74106
(918)594-8331