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Special Issue of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication
Call for Papers: Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction
Special Issue of Empedocles, guest edited by Pekka Isotalus
(University of Tampere) and Owen Hargie (University of Ulster).
There is growing need for a European publication platform for
interpersonal communication and social interaction research and
theory development. In order to give the European communication
research community an opportunity to assess the scope of such a
platform, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of
Communication will publish a special guest-edited issue on
interpersonal communication and social interaction, which could also
be the starting point for a new journal dedicated to this area of
research: European Journal of Human Communication.
As guest editors for a special edition of Empedocles to be published
in December 2011, we welcome proposals for articles that explore
contacts and bonds between people, whether in private or public
contexts, whether maintained face-to-face or mediated via
communication technologies. The articles can focus on interpersonal
relationships; group and team communication; conversational
organisation; verbal and nonverbal communication; language and
social interaction; intercultural dimensions; public speaking; radio
and television performance; rhetoric; argumentation; persuasion and
mutual influence; communicative competence and interpersonal skills;
ethnography of speaking; and, other related approaches to human
social interaction.
We encourage qualitative approaches to research, while also
encompassing quantitative inquiry. For this special issue,
theoretical, evaluative or interpretative studies are especially welcome.
The journal publishes double-blind peer reviewed articles
(6,000-8,000 words). Submissions should be sent by email before June
15, 2011, to guest editors Pekka Isotalus (pekka.isotalus@uta.fi)
and Owen Hargie (ODW.Hargie@ulster.ac.uk).
Empedocles uses the MHRA referencing system. Please download the
notes for contributors for further information.
Today's post by Christopher Smit is his second offering as Intellect's latest guest blogger. Smit focuses on the relationship between 'new media' and the recent scenes of violence recorded on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia.
Words by Christopher Smit
I just watched Anderson Cooper from CNN and his crew get attacked by rioters in the streets of Cairo, Egypt. It was posted on the CNN website minutes after it happened. The footage, while shaky because of the surrounding chaos of the scene, is high-quality, HD. Like most CNN online videos, it smacks of a professional aesthetic even as its content mirrors that of the pedestrian motif.
In last week’s class, a 200 level course on New Media, I shared with my students a video from YouTube that showed striking scenes from another recent protest in Egypt. This too was posted almost immediately after it happened. And like the CNN video of Cooper getting attacked, this one is also high quality, HD footage sponsored by a news and media organization called RT.
However, it is the handheld, HD but low resolution, 22 second YouTube clip of recent street riots in Tunisia that has made me reflect the most about the relationship between revolution, new media, perspective, and blood.
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Ahead of the print edition being available to purchase online from Magcloud, you can now download issue 12 of The Big Picture to enjoy in its full small screen glory. Ok so it doesn't smell as nice as the print version, but is still rather tasty.
The January/February 2011 issue of The Big Picture Magazine is entitled 'The Big Society' and is themed around ideas of Oppression, Uprising and the Cinema of The Masses.
Along with the usual roundup of classic film posters, features include a look at Ralphy's prized Red Rider BB Gun as an evocative cinematic object, a location focus on Beijing, 1000 words about 'The Everlasting Influence of Night of the Living Dead', and a profile on Lisbon based painter and illustrator Luis Melo.
Tourism & Communication: Place Brands, Identities and New Trends
Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies. Special issue 3.2.
Tourism & Communication: Place Brands, Identities and New Trends
We would like to inform you about the extended deadline for the submission of articles for the special issue of the Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies. The new deadline is 15 February 2011, and the acceptance of works will be confirmed by 15 March 2011. Please note that the journal plans to include articles of around 6-7.000 words, and short research notes and reports of around 2-3.000 words. The contributions will be subjected to anonymous peer-review.
Tourism and Communication: Place Brands, Identities and New Trends:
The concept of place branding has gained a high profile in recent years as different places and tourism destinations compete with each other to gain a foothold in a complex and changing market. In today’s competitive globalised marketplace, branding has been described as ‘the most powerful marketing weapon available to contemporary destination marketers’ (Morgan et al., 2002).
The brand of a territory can be conceived from two different points of view: as a destination brand, which only refers to tourism activity and as a place brand, which has a wider and holistic meaning that includes tourism, investment, commerce, education and quality of life. The aim of a place brand is not only to communicate the main tourist attractions of a region but also to enhance its attractions as a business centre as well as a good and comfortable place to work, live and study.
This broad subject of study includes emergent topics such as place branding, destination marketing and communication. Proposals for papers can include studies of place branding and its relation with the culture and the identity of territories, communication through new technologies, reception of brand image, methodologies of analysis or comparative studies of place branding experiences in different countries.
Catalonia is an important community in terms of tourism development. Since the 1960s, the tourist industry has been consolidated and currently is one of the most important economic sectors of the region. For this reason, studies focusing on communicating destinations, their brands or tourism marketing, and their relation with cultures and territories will be welcomed. Empirical studies and theoretical works with a multidisciplinary focus from the advertising, economic, communication, new technologies and tourism fields will be accepted. Matching with the aims of the CJCS, the issue will include articles coming from Catalonia and from other national contexts in which the relationship among tourism, place brands, culture and identity configure an interesting research case study.
Guest Editors
● Nigel Morgan (University of Wales Institute, Wales, United Kingdom)
Professor at the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales. He has published over 100 papers focusing on the marketing of tourism destinations and the study of tourism as a sociological phenomenon and his work has so far been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean, Spanish and Italian.
● Assumpció Huertas (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia, Spain)
Senior Lecturer of Tourism Communication and Public Relations at the Department of Communication Studies in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain). She is also a lecturer of Advertising at UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). She has a background on sociology, advertising and public relations.
First Special Issue of the CJCS on 'The Communicative Turn in Risk Communication: Theory and Practice' is now available
For more details about the journal guidelines please visit the journal's webpage
We are very pleased to welcome Christopher Smit as Intellect's latest guest blogger. Smit is an exceptional and innovative scholar whose work includes Screening Disability and Reconstructing the King: Death Narratives of Elvis Presley in the 1980s.
Blog 1: Accommodation and the New Media Mind
'The continued success of any institution of higher education has always been tethered to its willingness to be flexible, expandable, and ruthlessly committed to students. As budgets shrink, student demographics shift, and debates about what constitutes “liberal arts education” heat up, this is now, perhaps more than ever, the case. Tried and true formulas are being challenged by new economic, technological, and cultural changes. And when I look around at the faces of my colleagues, I see a bit of panic.
A good deal of our contemporary unease seems to originate from successful books like The Shallows by Nicolas Carr in which it is argued that the digital age is negatively affecting the brain arrangements of our students. Carr’s book claims that the silent generation has been the victim of a cross cultural dumbing down; the vast amounts of surface communication offered by social networking, Google, blogs, etc., has left no room for depth of thought. Bad news for a generation that seems more interested in speed than it is in quality. The new media mind, as it were, is a direct threat to higher educational goals like contemplation, well tendered analysis, or depth of any intellectual kind.'
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Christopher Smit is author of Intellect's forthcoming The Exile of Britney Spears.
Public lecture - no ticket or registration required
Date of event: 7 February 2011. Time: 18:00. Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Five years after 9/11, Cynthia Weber began on-camera interviews with US citizens of various ages, races, religions, sexes, and ethnicities caught up in the security and immigration crossfire of the 'war on terror'. Each US citizen was invited to reflect upon their experiences of citizenship and patriotism after 9/11, to create a pose (often with the US flag) that epitomizes their experiences, and to encapsulate their experiences into a sentence that includes the words, 'I am an American.'
Edited into a collection of short videos, these films present conflicting images, ideas, and experiences of US citizenship that challenge stereotypical understandings of US identity, citizenship, tolerance, and patriotism. The films will form the core of Cynthia's presentation.
Cynthia Weber is Professor of International Relations at Sussex University and Co-Director of the media company Pato Productions. Weber is also the author of Intellect's forthcoming book and multimedia project by the same name 'I am an American': Filming the Fear of Difference.
"Many of the book’s points are well made and well argued. Movie censorship, Smedley notes, flourished under Roosevelt’s liberalism, perhaps deemed necessary to ensure the nation’s solidarity in the fight against poverty and later against the Nazis. Censorship gave ground when dark postwar psychodrama (Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep) took over in Hollywood from sunny, coercive optimism (Frank Capra) or sinew-stiffening patriotism (John Ford)." Nigel Andrews
Find out more about A Divided World: Hollywood Cinema and Emigre Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948 online.
'The final stop on the American Independent Gothic tour is Ozarks, Missouri. You must be back on the bus in two hours. The driver will not come to find you. I repeat…the driver will not come to find you.
The Ozarks Mountains is a vast highland region of the central United States that not only covers the Southern half of Missouri, but also extends into north-central Arkansas, north-eastern Oklahoma and south-eastern Kansas. Most available guides to the region make note of the fact that Ozarks is actually a plateau rather than a mountain range, but it has become known as Ozarks Mountains due to the deep dissections that run through the area, giving it a mountainous appearance. The local tourist board is obviously keen to promote the outdoors activities associated with the region (hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking) in addition to its natural attractions (caves, lakes, rivers), so it would be understandable if they decided against arranging any screenings of Debra Granik’s unsettling thriller Winter’s Bone for first-time visitors to the area. In this superb slice of Southern Gothic – concisely adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 novel – local hospitality is replaced by local hostility, and even those who have lived in the region since birth can be treated as outcasts if they fall out of step with the unwritten rules of a closed society.'
Directory of World Cinema: Belgium
Editors: Jeremi Szaniawski and Marcelline Block
Despite being one of Europe’s smallest countries, divided amongst three linguistic communities and without a genuine film industry of its own, Belgium has, against all the odds, managed to produce some of the most interesting and unheralded films of the second half of the 20th century. After the founding works of precursors Henri Storck and Charles De Keukeleire, filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, André Delvaux, Stijn Coninx, the Dardenne Brothers, Jaco Van Dormael, Gérard Corbiau, Felix Van Groeningen and others, have put Belgium on the map through prestigious film festivals and ignited the imagination of critics and cinephiles around the world. In the meantime, the small but dynamic Flemish film market has produced films such as ‘The Alzheimer Case’ and ‘Loft’ that compete with much bigger budget productions. Belgian cinema has developed in a vibrant cultural atmosphere that includes socialism (Emile Vandervelde), symbolism (Maeterlinck), Art Nouveau architecture (Horta), surrealism (Magritte, Broodthaers), comic strips (‘Tintin’ and the Marcinelle school), as well as cinephilia itself (the Royal Film Archive possesses one of the world’s largest collections) --but also its problematic colonial heritage and complex relationship with its neighbors. The relative lack of unity at the level of government funding and minimal budgets could have proved the expensive medium’s undoing, but instead it often goaded the filmmakers into creative, poetic and experimental approaches.
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