CFP: Media Values: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025) Media industries utilize a number of different strategies to assign value to their commodities. Box office receipts have long been a benchmark of success for theatrical film releases, despite proliferating ancillary revenue streams. Audience ratings determined advertising dollars as the dominant form of evaluation in linear commercial television.

CALL FOR PAPERS  Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal  Special Issue on Gender, Media, and Developmentalism Guest Editors: Dalila Missero & Masha Salazkina With this special issue of Feminist Media Histories we invite contributions that explore the historical role of gender within media production explicitly engaged in developmentalist projects.

Queries about this call for papers should be directed to Rebecca Williams (rebeca.williams@southwales.ac.uk) or Christine Geraghty (christine.geraghty@glasgow.ac.uk) In February 2025, the soap opera EastEnders will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Launching in 1985, the BBC series has long been a staple on British television and remains one of the BBC’s flagship productions.

Abstracts due 22 Sept 2023 Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Dr Maura Edmond, Dr Olivia Khoo, Dr Claire Perkins and Dr Verity Trott, from @Gender&MediaLab in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.

Guest editors: Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University), Georgia Aitaki (Karlstad University) Given recent technological advancements, media scholars have been discussing a digital, computational, algorithmic turn in television (Berry, 2011; Hansen & Paul, 2017;

Editor(s): Valerio Coladonato (Sapienza University of Rome) Dom Holdaway (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) Elena Pilipets (University of Siegen) Lidia Valera-Ordaz (University of Valencia) In the last couple of decades, the European political landscape has been shaped by the reinvigorated centrality of populisms.

Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller (millert@fau.edu) Abstracts of 500 words due by July 1, with indicative bibliography Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15, with complete drafts of 6000 words due by November 1 We invite essay submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal Science Fiction Film and Television

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

VIEWJournal issue #25: The Changing Newsroom: Disinformation & Multimedia Journalism: The availability of technology and data as an opportunity and as a threat. Presented by: MediaNumeric Guest editors: Joke Hermes (InHolland University of Applied Sciences, MediaNumeric partner), Kuba Piwowar (SWPS, MediaNumeric partner) & Julia Conemans (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, MediaNumeric partner &

Call for papers for a special issue of the TMG Journal for Media History In 2021, the Netherlands celebrated 70 years of television. To commemorate this anniversary, a team of Dutch television scholars organised the Television Histories in Development conference, hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This event included the book launch of De televisie. Een cultuurgeschiedenis ( Television.