[Air-L] Call for Papers: Velvet Light Trap 96, Continuity and Change in Media Representation

[CLARE O'GARA]

Hello all!

We hope you will consider submitting to issue 96 of the Velvet Light Trap, which calls for scholarship that explores continuity and change in media representation. We very much welcome work that considers digital/internet media and culture, including (but not limited to):

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Methods for researching representational shifts and continuities (close readings, reception studies, archival methods, platform and digital methods, etc.)
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How increased attention to media representation has grown as a cultural, economic, and political value
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How representative changes within transmedia properties, franchises, adaptations, or remakes been received and/or initiated by shifting media industry logics
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How fans and audiences resisted, advocated for, and responded to media representation shifts, discourses, or ideologies
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Critical perspectives on misrepresentations, queering, and analysis beyond “positive” or “negative” representation binaries
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How time, place, region, and other geo-temporal sites are represented in media (including depictions of the past, future, or atemporal locations)
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How media circulation practices and paratexts influence the production and reception of media representations

We are also accepting open call submissions.

The Velvet Light Trap is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by University of Texas Press and collectively edited by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison And University of Texas - Austin. More information on the press can be found here: https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-velvet-light-trap/

Extended deadline: October 18, 2024

Link to full CFP:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pWZgpsyo7GiVghdfifQGr9gNBN6g8ZM73gYO1AMzuAI/edit?usp=sharing

We look forward to your submissions!


Clare O'Gara

(he/she/they)
PhD Student, University of Wisconsin — Madison
UT Press Liason, Velvet Light Trap Issue 96
Department of Communication Arts, Media and Cultural Studies