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CSCA 2020 Convention - Call for Papers - Media Studies Interest Group

Media Studies Interest Group

Submission DEADLINE:  October 11, 2019 11:59 p.m. CST

Call for Papers and Panels

Central States Communication Association (CSCA)
Annual Convention at Chicago O’Hare, Illinois
April 14-19, 2020

Borders & Breakthroughs

The Media Studies Interest Group (MSIG) invites submissions of competitive papers and thematic panels on all aspects of media studies for the 2019 CSCA Convention in Chicago O’Hare, IL. We seek to promote provocative scholarship on all forms of mass, social, and interpersonal media, including studies that engage political economy, audience reception, textual analysis, new media, social media, critical cultural studies, media technology, producer studies, media effects, and all other media methodologies. The MSIG also accepts submissions of Original Media. Please see the MSIG call for Original Media below.

This year’s theme of Borders & Breakthroughs asks us to reflect on how we set up borders around our research, teaching, and service, and how we might engage in breakthroughs that enable collaboration across disciplines, time, communities, and stakeholders. Participants are encouraged to think outside the parameters and structures that often limit our interactions at conferences – such as interest groups, methodologies, sub-disciplinary silos, teaching interests, and professional foci. Which borders make sense and which borders need to be challenged? As you consider your submissions, think about ways that we can reconstruct borders in our mediated communication practices and our conference behaviors.

The Media Studies Interest Group specifically seeks papers, panels or discussion sessions dealing with the conference theme of Borders & Breakthroughs. Thus, we welcome submissions that, for example, explore how we break down silos around interest groups to show how media studies work is inherently interdisciplinary and applicable in a variety of fields; breakthroughs that approach media as a system—studying text, audience, and production together rather than as fragments; assessing and breaking down borders that prevent understanding between and across diverse communities; eliminating borders between public and media informants in the midst of crisis; breakthroughs in updating canonical Media Studies tests; pushing against the boundaries of “old school media” to study new media phenomena; breakthroughs in publishing; and the like. Original research, multimedia work, discussions, themed panels, and debates are all encouraged. 

Awards: The Media Studies Interest Group presents four awards. The Samuel L. Becker Award is given for the top student paper. The Becker Award includes an individual certificate and a cash award. At the annual business meeting, the Media Studies Interest Group will also present awards for the top paper, top panel and top original media submission (details for original media are below).  

Papers: The Media Studies Interest Group is seeking cutting-edge research papers from scholars of all paradigms and methodologies who examine all forms of media with regard to audiences, texts, technologies, effects, producers, communities, and culture. Considering the theme of the conference, papers examining Borders & Breakthroughs in the paradigms, theories, production, methodologies, audiences, discourse communities, and pedagogies are especially welcome.

Please submit your work via the new CSCA submission system for the Media Studies Interest Group. Papers may follow the current editions of APA, MLA, or Chicago styles. All submitted papers must be the original work of the author(s). For the sake of timely and thorough review, papers must be no longer than 25 pages of actual text written within accepted publishing guidelines (not including appendices, references/bibliographies, etc.). Papers not meeting these submission guidelines may not be distributed for review.

Graduate and undergraduate students should type “STUDENT” on the upper right-hand corner of the title page.  If the paper will be a student debut, please type “DEBUT STUDENT” on the upper right- hand corner of the title page.  To be considered a student debut paper, (1) the author must be a graduate or undergraduate student, (2) the paper must have single authorship, and (3) the paper must be the author’s first paper to be presented at CSCA. Indicate if author(s) are CSCA members. All author-identifiers should be removed from the document (excluding previous scholarly works cited in the paper and listed in the references section).

Panels: The Media Studies Interest Group welcomes submissions of proposals for paper panels, roundtable discussions, spotlight panels, and debate panels exploring media studies and the conference theme of Borders & Breakthroughs.

Due to budget and access, the only technology that can be made available for your projects will be a multimedia projector and speakers that you can connect your laptop computers (or other equipment) to. There should be cables available for this, but there may not be Internet access readily available. Any technology requests must be made at the time of submission.

Submissions for CSCA 2020 will begin August 1, 2019. You will find a link to the AI submission system at: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/callforpapers

Submissions for all categories must be complete and submitted by 11:59 p.m. CST October 11, 2019. Questions and other communication about the Media Studies Interest Group may be directed to the Chair and Program Planner, Dana Schowalter (Western Oregon University) at schowalterd@wou.edu.

The Media Studies Interest Group (MSIG) invites submissions of original media for the 2019 CSCA Convention in Chicago O’Hare, IL. We seek to promote all forms of original media, including film submissions, art, graphic design, digital media, music, advertisements, short stories, digital games, and any and all mixed media combinations. Film submissions can include, but are not limited to documentaries, fictional narratives or non-narratives, public service announcements, new media texts, or other creative works of media.

The Media Studies Interest Group specifically seeks original media dealing with the conference theme of Borders & Breakthroughs. Thus, we welcome Original Media submissions that, for example:

• reflect on how we construct borders in the physical or imagined worlds
• comment on borders around media production, research, teaching, service, and/or academic disciplines
• highlight breakthroughs that enable collaboration across media platforms, disciplines, time, communities, etc.
• ask which borders make sense and which borders need to be challenged
• assess the current political climate dealing with borders and borderlands
• panels that offer competing disciplinary perspectives on the concept of The Border
• original research, multimedia work, discussions, themed panels, educational sessions, and debates are all encouraged.
  

Awards: The Media Studies Interest Group grants an award to the top Original Media submission, which includes an individual certificate and cash award presented at the convention. In addition, we offer awards for top paper, top student paper, and top panel. 

Original Media Submissions: The Media Studies Interest Group welcomes submissions of original media, including any and all mediated forms and mixed media artifacts. Original media submissions can be made using CSCA’s online submission system and should include a rationale statement of at least 2-4 pages discussing the connection between the submission and the conference theme of Borders & Breakthroughs as well as a link to view the original media artifact (the link can be included in the rationale document). Media submissions should not exceed 30 minutes in total length. Longer original pieces should be edited into a representative clip that can be viewed within the time limit. 

Original Media Panels: The Media Studies Interest Group welcomes submissions of proposals for paper panels, roundtable discussions, spotlight panels, and debate panels exploring media studies, original media, and the conference theme of Borders & Breakthroughs.

Due to budget and access, the only technology that can be made available for your projects will be a multimedia projector and speakers that you can connect your laptop computers (or other equipment) to. There should be cables available for this, but there may not be Internet access readily available. Any additional technology requests must be made at the time of submission.CSCA will has an online submission system.

Submit Original Media proposals electronically through the online system via the CSCA website. www.csca-net.org. Submissions for CSCA 2020 will begin August 1, 2019. You will find a link to the AI submission system at: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/callforpapers You must create an account in the submission system; this account is separate from your CSCA account.

Submissions for all categories must be complete and submitted by 11:59 p.m. CST October 11, 2019. Questions and other communication about the Media Studies Interest Group may be directed to the Chair and Program Planner, Dana Schowalter (Western Oregon University) at schowalterd@wou.edu.