CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Soap Opera and Telenovelas in the Digital Age:
Global Industries, Hybrid Content, and New Audiences
Diana I. Ríos and Mari Castañeda, Editors
Soap operas continue to be persistent theoretical, socio-cultural, and politico-economic global media. Increased technological innovations (YouTube, web fan sites, DVDs), programming hybridizations, population migrations, and historical tastes are some elements that have fueled the persistence and transformation of these serialized melodramas. This trans-disciplinary, popular mass communication volume will address several overlapping concerns of the melodramatic serial in localized, translocal and global contexts. Major, interconnected areas to be addressed are: media industries, hybrid content, and new audiences
We welcome abstract proposals that address one of the following areas:
Media industry issues include creative writing, visual production, labor, and international-flow patterns in export and import, historical regulatory policies, and political-economy of the industry in different states.
Hybrid Content issues include analysis of television, photo novels/fotonovelas, radio novels/radionovelas, serials used for entertainment-education, and health promotions.
New Audiences issues include cultural uses and gratifications, cultivation, social learning, subversive practices, unique experiences of ethnic and racial minorities, gendered, GLBTQ, working class, religious audiences.
Contributions will be theoretically and methodologically accessible to an interdisciplinary readership interested in the social impact of popular communication, the functions of entertainment media, political economy and international communication flow.
Send a 300-word ABSTRACT by November 15, 2008 to: [log in to unmask]
Complete manuscripts will be solicited after abstracts are fully reviewed. Later, manuscripts will be organized in the book according to fit and cohesiveness.
For more information contact:
Dr. Diana I. Rios, Dept. Communication Sciences, U-85
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
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Dr. Mari Castañeda, Dept. of Communication
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
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Dr. Diana I. Rios
Associate Professor
Communication Sciences and Institute for PRLS
Dept. Communication Sciences, U-1085
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
860-486-3187
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Subject: call for chapters on Latino Communication
FYI...
Call for Contributions to:
>
> Somos de un Voz?: New Directions in Latin@ Communication
> Michelle A. Holling & Bernadette M. Calafell, Editors
>
> We invite original essays operating from critical perspectives that
> illustrate new pathways being charted in Latin@ communication. For
> over thirty years, scholars have examined Latin@s' self-produced
> communicative forms, dominant discourse about or implicating
> Latin@s, as well as produced social scientific and media oriented
> studies that centralize Latin@s' experiences, voices, or
> communication. Extant work has played a pivotal role in
> establishing the vibrancy of Latin@ communication.
>
> We aim to produce an edited collection of essays that theorize,
> exemplify and contribute to the on-going scholarship in the area of
> Latin@ communication. The organizing principle for the book is
> "voz/voces" [voice/voices]. Public discourse often speaks in terms
> of "a Latin@ voice" that occludes the multivocality that in
> actuality informs Latin@s' voices. Examining Latin@ voices allows
> us to ask: Given the heterogeneity composing a Latin@ socius,
> discursively are we of one voice? What implications, issues and/or
> tensions emanate from or arise in response to a singular voz? Have
> Latin@ voices been fully accounted for within the subfields of
> rhetoric, health, performance studies, organizational,
> interpersonal or feminist communication in the field? Furthermore,
> voz implicates and enables scholars to explore language issues
> (English/Spanish or Academic/Non-Academic), theoretical concerns
> carrying material impacts (e.g., gendered, raced, ethnic, sexed,
> classed, and citizens
> hip dimensions of voz), or political campaigns (e.g., ramifications
> from presidential or other campaigns targeting Latin@ votes), to
> name but a few possibilities. Alternatively, we also conceive of
> voz as a trope enabling us to expand the ways Latin@ communication
> may be thought of such as in use(s) of the body that act as a voice
> for Latin@s, the spaces in which Latin@s struggle for rights or
> representation, or the considerations for listening to and acting
> upon Latin@s' experiences or voices in a communicative setting
> (e.g., workplace, healthcare, etc).
>
> Therefore, voz is an opportunity to capture the diversity of voices
> reflecting Latin@ communication. We desire essays that privilege
> U.S. Latin@ perspectives and subjectivities, and welcome those that
> examine Latin American identities. In addition, we operate from a
> central focus on (vernacular) discourses produced by and for
> [log in to unmask] Thus, we seek contributions that elevate Latin@
> communication, cultural productions, discourses, etc. rather than
> representations produced by others about [log in to unmask] Topical areas
> sought, but not limited to: examinations of Latin@ voices,
> representations and/or historical texts, issues regarding im/
> migration or transnationalism, Latin@ queerness, Latin@ organizing
> or organizations, Latin@ political rhetoric and/or campaigns,
> Chicana-Latina feminist perspectives, Latin@ communication
> theories, or ethnically specific memory sites.
>
> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 1st; Forward to Michelle A. Holling,
> PhD, [log in to unmask] with the subject heading "New Directions."
>
> SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: An extended abstract of three-four pages in
> length that describes in as much detail the author's argument,
> description of object of study, and theoretical and/or
> methodological approach utilized. Please save all work in MS Word
> format, Times New Roman font, 12 point, double spaced. Submissions
> should not be under review elsewhere.
>
> If you have additional questions, please contact: Michelle A.
> Holling, [log in to unmask] or Bernadette M. Calafell at
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>
> Bernadette Marie Calafell, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Human Communication Studies
> University of Denver
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> "Refusal to take a moral stand is itself a powerful statement of
> one's moral position" (Dwight Conquergood).
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