Dear all:
Please consider the following project, and/or making recommendations if 
you know of people who should be involved.  Thanks, much...I'm sending 
information as a cut-and-paste and in an attachment.
-Meta

> Call for Papers
> Academic contributions are sought for a book project that seeks to 
> present the academic world and the public at large with a variety of 
> issues that fit into two main themes:
>
>  (a) the Native-American broadcast and print media: their growth, 
> professionalism and the training/education of their staffs, economic 
> wherewithal, audiences, relationship with the mainstream media, 
> problems and promises, and other issues related to this theme;
>
> (b) Native-Americans in the mainstream American media:  cultural, 
> economic, ethnic-relations, political and sociological issues, as well 
> as issues related to Native-American journalists working in mainstream 
> media.
>
> The collection’s editors are Meta Carstarphen and Peter Gross, both 
> professors in the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of 
> Journalism and Mass Communication.  The book will be published by the 
> University of Oklahoma Press and launched in February 2006.
>
> The book project will include contributions from Native-American 
> reporters and editors, AND from academics interested in 
> Native-American issues, specifically those that fit into one of the 
> two main themes.
>
> Academics are requested to write a scholarly paper, 30-35 pages long, 
> including footnotes, on any issue that fits under one of the two main 
> themes of the collection. Abstracts 230-300 words long are to be sent 
> to the editors by November 1, 2004. The editors will choose eight 
> contributions; final drafts are due May 1, 2005.
>
> Questions and comments should be addressed to, and abstracts sent to:
>
> Professor Meta Carstarphen, Ph.D.             Professor Peter Gross, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor                           Gaylord Family Endowed Chair
>
> Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
> The University of Oklahoma
> Norman, OK 73019-2051
>
> Tel. 405-325- 5227                            Tel. 405-325-3999
> e-mail:                       e-mail:
>




Meta G. Carstarphen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Oklahoma
860 Van Vleet Oval--Rm. 101
Norman, OK   73019-2051
PHONE: (405) 325-5227
FAX: (405) 325-7565
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