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: >