[Air-L] REVISED CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now

[Nancy Thumim]

Dear all, resending this as there was an error in the previous version.


Dear colleagues, please see below call for papers. Apologies for cross posting.
Best wishes, Nancy



Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture

Special Issue: Self-(Re)presentation Now

Guest Editor: Nancy Thumim

Call for Papers
The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and
Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic of Self-(Re)presentation.
We welcome critical approaches in new media, film, television and cultural studies; media and communication studies; museum studies and allied fields. We seek manuscripts that examine the politics, practices and aesthetics of self-(re)presentation and that engage critically with questions of conceptualization and methodology.

>From a time when self-(re)presentation was arguably a marginal, often political, practice at the edges of media culture, we are at a moment in media and cultural spaces in diverse local and national contexts where we are seeing:
1) An explosion of individual and group self-(re)presentations;
2) an explosion of popular and media discussion about the practice, possibilities and promise for presenting and representing the self and others;
3) a corresponding explosion of academic research tackling different kinds of presentations, performances and representations of individual selves and communities.

This special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture aims to showcase intersecting, contradictory, complementary and critical approaches to self-(re)presentation. We are aiming for a multi-disciplinary issue that will showcase excellent scholarship on self-(re)presentation with the aim of highlighting key areas of debate and contention in research that invokes the concept of self-(re)presentation.

We welcome proposals for articles addressing topics including  (but not limited to) the following:


·       Questions of methodology and conceptualisation of self-(re)presentation

·       Historical approaches to self-(re)presentation

·       Visual studies of self-(re)presentations

·       Audiences for self-(re)presentations

·       Practices and uses of self-(re)presentation by particular individuals, groups and communities

·       The relationship of audio visual and digital self-(re)presentation to political representation and questions of citizenship

·       Self-(re)presentation and Big Data

·       Self-(re)presentation, surveillance and sousveillance

·       Selfies

·       Self-(re)presentational photography and film making as political practice for groups and communities

·       Community Media and self-(re)presentation

·       Self-(re)presentation and documentary

·       Self-(re)presentation and photography

·       Invited, facilitated and co-produced self-(re)presentation

·       Digital storytelling

Submitted papers should be 6,000 -7,000 words in length (inclusive of all elements). The
deadline for submission is 30th December 2015. Peer review and author responses to peer review will then be completed by 30th December 2016, with anticipated publication of the special issue in early 2017. Nancy Thumim n.thumim at leeds.ac.uk<mailto:n.thumim at leeds.ac.uk> welcomes email queries before this date. Instructions for submitting your article can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/current Some manuscripts may not be sent out for review if deemed inappropriate for the journal.

Popular Communication provides a forum for scholarly investigation, analysis, and
dialogue on communication symbols, forms, phenomena and systems within the context
of popular culture across the globe. Popular Communication publishes articles on all
aspects of popular communication, examining different media such as television, film,
new media, games, print media, radio, music, and dance; the study of texts, events,
artifacts, spectacles, audiences, technologies, and industries; and phenomena and
practices, including, but not limited to, fan, youth and subcultures, questions of
representation, digitalization, cultural globalization, spectator sports, sexuality,
advertising, and consumer culture.

Yours sincerely

Patrick C Burkart, Miyase Christensen, Mehdi Semati, Nabeel Zuberi
and Nancy Thumim


Dr Nancy Thumim
Programme Leader of the MA in Communication Studies
Lecturer in Media and Communication
School of Media and Communication
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

http://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/nancy-thumim/