Issue #2011:4
Digital activism - audiovisual strategies in political social mobilizing
This issue of Audiovisual Thinking address the role of new media in politics with specific attention towards social mobilizing and activism. We invite both academic, practice-based, theoretical and empirical, contributions on all aspects of the interaction between audiovisuality, ‘the viral’, p2p and activist politics – top down or bottom up.
Topics could include (but are not limited to):
- The role of digitization in political mobilizing and/or the status of political activism in the digital age
- The political participatory potentials and limitations of the ’digital revolution’
- Digital documentary activism
- Audiovisual digital strategies in political campaigns
- Political crowd sourcing, crowd funding or activist videos gone viral
- Activist mobilizing on social websites
- The politics of websites and social websites with regard to activism – constraints and affordance
- Technological aspects of digital activism
- The interaction between online and offline activism
- The interaction between established political parties and digital activism
- Aesthetics and appeal of the activist viral video
- P2P activist organizing
- New media, audiovisuality and political institutional transformations
THIS ISSUE WILL BE PUBLISHED SPRING 2012
Issue #2012:5
Audiovisual learning 2.0
When the development of digital technology changes the media landscape – with for example social media, Web 2.0, mobile platforms and advanced animation capabilities – the conditions for teaching and learning also change. We invite theoretical and practice-based submissions as well as case studies on all aspects of education, lifelong learning and audiovisuality.
Topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Moving Image Education (MIE) in practice
- Case studies, analysis and theories of MIE platforms and resources
- Audiovisual dissemination of academic research about learning and pedagogy
- Theories of audiovisual learning, learning managements systems (LMS) and virtual learning environment
- Theories of audiovisuality in the classroom and lifelong learning
- Educational sites and programmes on TV and online
- Educational wikis, viral videos & learning clouds
THIS CALL IS NOW OPEN - DEADLINE 1ST JUNE 2012
Issue #2012:6
Emerging practices of media research
This call for videos opens late spring 2012. Deadline 15th November 2012.
Issue #2013:7
The creative economy
This issue of Audiovisual Thinking focuses on ‘the creative economy’, which has become a central focus of government policy in many states. In the belief that cultural production is now central to economic life, and an essential part of global competitiveness, governments have intervened in various ways to try and stimulate cultural production and financial returns. How does this look from the standpoint of those in cultural work?
Topics could include (but are not limited to):
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Case studies of cultural workers at work.
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Reflections on intervention by government bodies and cultural agencies: the exercise of power. How do subsidies, tax breaks, training and other kinds of support impact on the structures and strategies of creative businesses?
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Cultural work and intellectual property – are there connections? Who benefits?
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How is digital technology affecting cultural work and intellectual property?
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How do ideas about the creative economy circulate?
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What links are there between cultural work, philanthropy and other forms of patronage?
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What do we know about the self-organisation of cultural collectives?
Richard E. Caves, Creative Industries, Harvard University Press, 2000.
John Howkins, The Creative Economy, Penguin Books, 2001.
John Hartley (ed.) Creative Industries, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries, Second Edition, Sage 2007.
Philip Schlesinger , 'Creativity: from discourse to doctrine?' Screen 48(3) 2007: 377-387
Philip Schlesinger, ‘Creativity and the experts: New Labour, think tanks and the policy process’, International Journal of Press Politics 14(3) 2009: 3-20.
Guest Editor: Professor Philip Schlesinger.
This call for videos opens Autumn 2012 and closes 15th May 2013.
Issue #2013:8
News and jounalism in an online environment
Since their popular emergence approximately 20 years ago, the internet and the World Wide Web have changed news and journalism as we knew it. More recently, other digital and online technologies such as smartphones have intensified the development. Even though core values and self-understandings of journalism remain the same, working practices, business models, and approaches to news are challenged. The question, then, is how the online environment changes, challenges, and transforms the making, presentation, and use of the news. Or to put it another way: if Michael Wesch's The Machine is Us/ing Us explains digital text, then how can we explain journalism in an online environment?
Topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Changes in the journalist/audience relationship
- Challenges to journalism as a profession
- Transformations of modes of presentation
- News without a deadline
- Convergence of different news media
- Social networks as channels for news dissemination and tools for journalism
- Tensions between personalized news and a coherent public sphere
Guest Editor: Aske Kammer.
This call for videos opens Spring 2013 and closes 15th November 2013.
