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The International Journal of Community Music has teamed with Dafu Lai, from the China University of Petroleum in Beijing, and translated three articles from English to Chinese. These articles, from our first issue published in 2008, represents an overarching perspective of community music as a field of practice. It is a great pleasure to be able to introduce IJCM to a Chinese audience.
Aims & Scope
Book 2.0 is a new, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish articles and reviews on developments in book creation and design, including the latest advances in technology and software affecting illustration, design and book production.
It will also explore innovations in distribution, marketing and sales, and book consumption, and in the research, analysis and conservation of book-related professional practices. Book 2.0 aims to provide a forum for promoting and sharing the most original and progressive practice in the teaching of writing, illustration, book design, book production and publishing across all educational sectors.
The Journal of Arts and Communities Special Edition is dedicated to critical examination of Arts and Human Rights to be published September 2011.
This is in partnership with Amnesty International as part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of Amnesty International.
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema soon enters its fifth year of publication. It has established itself as a scholarly journal of high ranking, with a rigid, anonymous double peer review system. The journal is abstracted and indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, International Index to Film Periodicals, British Humanities Index and Film & Television Literature Index and the already sound number of electronic library subscriptions is rising.
We have just launched the second issue for 2010 at the Locarno International Film Festival, marking the Open Doors focus on Central Asian cinema with a special feature on the cinematographies of Central Asia in issue 4.2. The third issue 4.3 is already full, and we now welcome submissions of individual papers or clusters for publication in 2011.
Potential contributors should send a 200 word abstract to the editor: Birgit Beumers (Birgit.Beumers@bris.ac.uk). For information relating to forthcoming submission deadlines please contact the editor.
A style sheet – and a free issue for download – can be found on Intellect’s website
"As if living one life isn’t work enough, people are doubling up in virtual worlds. But don’t call Second Life and other online worlds make-believe. Users take them more seriously than that. Some develop novel approaches to teaching there; some make art, or dance. (Others, it is rumored, philander in ways that defy gravity.)
Those are all activities that interest Elif Ayiter and Yacov Sharir, the co-editors of Metaverse Creativity, a new journal that Intellect Books plans to launch online and in print in early October."
Follow the link to read the article: http://bit.ly/cGWtT9
Take a look at these two fantastic events organised by The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice:
Media Education Summit 2010 (7 and 8 September 2010) This national summit will provide valuable insights into the opportunities and challenges facing media education both now and in the future. The summit builds on previous successful meetings, both of which attracted over 150 delegates from more than 65 Higher Education Institutions, as well as government representatives.
Playful Learning September 2010 - Arranged by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Futurelab (14 September 2010)
Since the earliest days of Space Invaders the desire to engage children in learning as fully as they are engaged in their game play has been a significant part of ICT but the debate has become a lot more complex. Our increased understanding of cognitive development illustrates how the problem solving of games can aid other learning tasks; children playing games at the beginning of the school day can start a cultural change whereby "being smart is cool"; children as games’ designers learn to deconstruct and critique new media; and the design of hardware, software and new learning environments embraces the need for playfulness too. We really do know that Playful Learning is highly effective.
For further information please visit the website or contact Carly Moxey,
Administrator for The Centre for Excellence.
Following the success of our first training day for new journals editors on 17 May (with Susan Hayward, who has edited Studies in French Cinema for ten years, as guest speaker), we held two more events on 23 and 26 July. Below you can find links to the slides of the presentations and some of audio recordings of the talks.
Special Issue on “From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas”
Guest Editors: Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo
From the critical and popular acclaim of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) to the Asian Australian success of Tony Ayres’s The Home Song Stories (2007), diasporic Chinese cinemas have created new filmic sites and visual practices that engage the complex relations between the constructs of ‘China’, ‘Chinese’ and ‘Chineseness’. While the notion of diaspora has broadened these concepts to new areas and new objects of inquiry, Chineseness remains largely a question of ethnicity, bound to nationality.
This special issue, edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo, focuses on the new cinemas emanating from the Sinophone network, and is scheduled for publication in early 2012. The editors of the special issue now invite abstract submissions of 250-300 words on any of the following aspects...
