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Subject: [naradio] Radio Journal Call for Papers
From: MICHELE HILMES <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:45:58 -0500



Hi all -- as the deadline approaches I wanted to recirculate this call -- please consider submitting something to this special North American edition of the Radio Journal!  And do pass this along to other interested folks -- thanks -- Michele

Call for Papers



The Radio Journal:    International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media





Special Issue:    Contemporary Radio in North America

Editor:    Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison





This special issue of the Radio Journal seeks work from scholars investigating radio in North America over the last twenty years.    Such sweeping changes have occurred in the radio field over this period that scholarly work has barely begun to address it.    While the focus here is on radio, that sphere itself has broadened considerably, now comprising not only traditional over the air broadcasting but internet radio, podcasting, satellite radio, and other digital applications.    And broadcasting itself has gone through a shift from a primarily local medium circulating music and news to a cornucopia of nationally and internationally syndicated programming airing on stations increasingly part of  global conglomerates.
Radio now plays a role in the transmedia and transnational circuit of production, providing one platform in an integrated exchange of sound-based texts and experience that touches a host of other media and remains influential across the globe.



We welcome papers that address both the changing and persistent qualities of radio in the contemporary period, within the (broadly defined) boundaries of North America.    Topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:



n        the relationship of broadcast radio to digital and media platforms

n        the rise of syndicated programming

n        National Public Radio, CBC, Radio Canada and other public broadcasters

n        Community radio and the persistence of the local

n        Spanish-language radio

n        Changes in radio formats

n        Music in contemporary radio

n        Radio in politics; radio in sports

n        Radio on the internet, and broadcasters’ use of the internet

n        International circulation of North American radio

n        Transnationalization of North American radio

n        Talk and call-in radio

n        Radio in the age of the iPod



Deadline for submissions is July 15.    The issue will appear in 2008.    Send completed papers of 16-25 pages (4000-6000 words) to  Michele Hilmes:    [log in to unmask] .    See  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.appx.php?issn=14764504  for information on the journal and formatting notes for contributors.



Michele Hilmes
Professor, Media and Cultural Studies
Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and  Theater Research
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2547




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     This, according to John Morely, is England’s experience in bringing peace to suffering humanity in the tropics: “First you push into territories where you have no business to be, and where you had promised not to go; secondly, your intrusion provokes resentment and, in these wild countries, resentment means resistance; thirdly, you instantly cry out that the people are rebellious and that their act is rebellion (this in spite of your own assurance that you have no intention of setting up permanent sovereignty over them); fourthly, you send a force to stamp out the rebellion; and fifthly, having spread bloodshed, confusion and anarchy, you declare, with hands uplifted to the heavens, that moral reasons force you to stay, for if you were to leave, this territory would be left in a condition which no civilized power could contemplate with equanimity or with composure.  These are the five stages in the Forward Rake’s progress.”
—David Starr Jordan, Imperial Democracy, 1899, 50 – 51.