[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Mediascape (1/15/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Erin Hill <erin.hill@mindspring.com>

Below please find our updated CFP. There is a new submission date, some 
changes
to the features section call, and a new call for our review section.

Thanks,
Erin Hill
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

UCLA's film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape, is now
accepting submissions for the features and reviews sections of its 
spring issue.
This journal, a place for articles pertaining visual culture, is 
peer-reviewed
and published on a bi-annual table. The deadline for submissions is 
January 15,
2006.


Features:

Taking into account the increasingly blurry line between all of the 
different
components that make up the modern media landscape, the features section has
adopted an inter-disciplinary and inter-media approach to scholarly 
discourse on
the three main facets of contemporary visual culture: film, television and
digital media. As such, the section seeks contributions from all areas 
within
media studies, from film theory to moving image archiving, and welcomes
contributions from other academic fields, such as history, literature, 
music,
economics, political science, etc., as well as from media practitioners 
outside
of academia altogether. The guiding principle uniting these contributions
will be the perspectives, however disparate, that they offer on the 
mediascape
that is common to all of us as media scholars, practitioners and consumers.

Submissions for the features section need not address the larger issues
described above, so long as they offer a unique perspective on film, 
television,
digital media, or any other aspect of moving image culture, preferably
encompassing more than one. Though articles should be of a high level of
scholarly rigor, the journal will not be read exclusively by media scholars.
Writing should therefore be readable enough to be enjoyed by those 
outside of
the field of media studies and indeed outside of the academy altogether.


Reviews:

Mainstream film, television and digital media reviewing tends to be 
constrained
by an industry model that requires writers to gain access to the objects of
their review through publicity agents, press kits and press screenings, 
leading
to a homogeneity of perspectives, and limiting reviews to objects that 
are newly
available for purchase in effect reducing these reviews to simple 
announcements
of the latest releases. This model also limits reviews to the 
film/TV/digital
media text, which essentially gives industrial and business factors a 
free pass.
For these reasons, Mediascape's reviews section calls for reviews written
outside of the industry model described above, and examining not only film,
television and digital media texts, but also the institutions and 
apparatuses
that shape the way we as consumers, fans, and academics make meaning of 
them,
such as festivals, books, award shows, restorations, fan magazines, 
conferences,
DVDs, press kits, movie theaters, peer-to-peer technologies, soundtracks,
televisions, advertising, reviews, websites, retailers, or any 
combination of
the above.

The reviews section also seeks to become a forum for the international 
exchange
of ideas and perspectives, in order to break from the local or national 
centrism
of conventional review journalism. However, there is no pretension of 
possessing
a "global" viewpoint. Instead, contributors should bring to the forum 
their own
cultural locatedness in hopes of contributing to a larger, international
exchange of ideas. In pursuit of a more complete comprehension of global 
film
circulation and reception, Mediascape's review section is also interested in
publishing foreign language reviews in English and vice versa.


Submission guidelines:

Submissions should follow MLA Style guidelines and should employ the
parenthetical, in-text method of source citation. Digital copies of 
accompanying
illustrations should be sent as jpegs or adobe files. Permissions are 
not the
journal's responsibility. Because of the peer review and editorial 
processes of
the journal&#65533;s different sections, it may take as long as eight 
weeks for
decisions on submissions to reach the writers.

To submit a feature article, please email a copy of your manuscript in Word
format to erinhill@ucla.edu. Feature submissions should range from 
between 15
and 25 double-spaced, manuscript pages. Some exceptions will be made 
with regard
to length in either direction; however, it is preferred that the author stay
within the 15-25 page range.

Please direct reviews section questions, proposals, and submissions to
brianhu@ucla.edu.
Reviews should be a minimum of 2,500 words, although exceptions may be 
granted.
There is no maximum word limit, provided work is readable, structured, and
visually appealing in the online format.

General email inquiries can also be sent to erinhill@ucla.edu.

http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/



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