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 PalatinoCall for Papers PalatinoAcademic 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 Palatino Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication The University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019-2051 Palatino Tel. 405-325- 5227 Tel. 405-325-3999 e-mail: e-mail: Times