Bridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society
Call for Papers In higher education, media studies bring critical awareness of representations and reproductions of popular personas, artefacts, processes, and practices in social, economic, and political contexts. From the perspective of cultural studies, critical discourse analysis of media productions enables scholars to go beyond observing aesthetic aspects and to understand social underpinnings of cultural productions. In a similar fashion, journalism can use investigation to educate and inform the public on the limits and potentials of social systems. Journalistic publications can...
Read MoreCentre for Media and Celebrity Studies – Vol.3 2014
On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), I am pleased to released the Fall edition of the newsletter ‘Celebrity Culture & Social Inquiry’ Vol. 4. Highlights include: • Dr Mira Moshe’s anthology The Emotions Industry featured on Nova Publishers home page under the “What’s Special for September” section. Relations between fame and emotions theorized in Chapter 12. • Dr Nandana Bose’s latest contributions in celebrity studies and Bollywood stardom • Dr Anita Krajnc raises $36,000 in 3 weeks for mass education and activism • Critical and...
Read MoreStardom and Fandom Panel
Stardom and Fandom Panel Cross posted: http://cmc-centre.com/stardom-and-fandom-panel/ From Amanda Blake Join us for the 36th Annual Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, February 11 – 14, 2015 at the beautiful Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference theme this year is “Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture.” The Area Chair for Stardom and Fandom invites paper or panel proposals on any aspect of stardom or fandom. Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2014. (Please see below) Any and all topics...
Read MoreCall for Chapters: The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism
Call for Chapters: The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism From Dr Nathan Farrell (NFarrell@bournemouth.ac.uk) In early 2014, Hollywood actor Scarlet Johansson provoked a critical response from the UK charity Oxfam, for whom she functioned as an ambassador. The star had recently signed a promotional deal with SodaStream, the manufacturer of a carbonated drinks machine, with headquarters in Israel and a factory situated in a controversial settlement in the West Bank. Such settlements, Oxfam asserted, have been linked to the ongoing poverty of the location’s Palestinian inhabitants....
Read MoreMoving Forward in May
Dear Readers, Hope May is going well for all! If you are in Canada, where I am based, you must be loving the warmer weather now! On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), I have been excited in organizing the second part of our public seminar series Moving Forward: An Intimate Evening on Media, Diversity and Social Justice. While the first seminar on March 29 focussed on individual change, the second one looks at social change, particularly cultural diversity and social justice movements in media and celebrity culture on May 30. Here, celebrity activism will be...
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