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 Castaneda, Dept. of Communication University of Massachusetts
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JANUARY 31,2009 (EXTENDED DEADLINE). CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Soap Operas and
Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries, Hybrid Content, and
New Audiences. 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 transdisciplinary, 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 JANUARY 31,2009
(EXTENDED DEADLINE) 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
[log in to unmask]

 

Dr. Mari Castaneda, Dept. of Communication University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 [log in to unmask]

 

 

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Alabama State University, 915 S. Jackson St.

Montgomery, AL 36101-0271 PH:334-229-6885

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