Apologies for cross-posting:

Announcing the re-launch of EastBound, the journal
http://eastbound.eu/

We are very happy to announce the re-launch of EastBound the peer-reviewed
online journal aimed at creating an international platform for Western and
Eastern European researchers engaged in the multidisciplinary field of media
and cultural studies.

The journal features articles, reviews and interviews dealing with the
social and political implications of the rise of entertainment media and
mediated popular culture, the appearance of global media players, and the
spread of new forms of politics and information technologies. These
transformations have presented a new cultural context for people's cultural
practices, from the minor aspects of everyday consumption to the large-scale
reproduction of national identities and cultural heritage. EastBound
addresses recent media and cultural realities, both from regional and
international comparative standpoints.

*EastBound 2010* features the following two issues and articles:

Issue 1: Popular Culture and Citizenship

*Issue 1 edited by Péter Csigó and Peter Dahlgren*
</2010/issue1>

*Joke Bauwens*
Citizens on the Couch: The 'Us People'-Potential of the Television
Experience </2010/bauwens>

*Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Markham*
'Public Connection' and the Uncertain Norms of Media
Consumption</2010/couldry_livingstone_markham>

*Lajos Császi*
Broadening the Concept of Media Rituals: Tabloids as "Low Holidays of
Television" </2010/csaszi>

*Péter Csigó*
Celebratory Politics: Late Modern Promotionalism and Political
Communication</2010/csigo>

*Peter Dahlgren*
Television and Popular Civic Cultures: Public Sphere
Perspectives</2010/dahlgren>

*Václav Štětka*
Globalization, Reality TV and Cultural Inclusion: the Case of the 2005 Czech
Search for a Superstar </2010/stetka>

Issue 2: Media and Democratization - Papers from a CEU summer school

*Issue 2 edited by Arne Hintz*
</2010/issue2>

*Arne Hintz*
Introduction: Media and Democratization - Experiences from Eastern Europe,
Turkey and Pakistan </2010/hintz>

*Nikoleta Daskalova*
The Bulgarian Media System after 1989: Restructuring in Three
Directions</2010/daskalova>

*Altug Akin*
Dirty Seeds of Media Transformation in Turkey: The Vertigo of Communication,
the Young Party and the Democratic Deficit </2010/akin>

*Muhammad Aftab Alam*
Broadcast Regulation in Pakistan: The Need for an Enabling Regulatory
Regime</2010/alam>


MORE ON EASTBOUND

Call for Papers: EastBound 2011 - Themed Issue on Popular Music Studies in
Eastern Europe. The issue will explore the past, present and future of the
place and role of popular music and popular music studies in Eastern Europe.
For further information about the themed issue, or to express interest in
contributing an article, please contact Zoltan Kacsuk
(info-AT-eastbound.eu).


EastBound is published by:
MOKK Media Research
Department of Sociology and Communications,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
and
Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS)
Central European University

http://eastbound.eu/
Contact us at: info-AT-eastbound.eu


Best regards from the editors:
Kate Coyer (CMCS CEU)
Péter Csigó (MOKK BUTE)
Arne Hintz (CMCS CEU)
Zoltán Kacsuk (MOKK BUTE)