Call For Papers: Aether: the journal of media geography
"The Geographies of Journalsim"
“The Geographies of Journalism”
A special issue of Aether: the journal of media geography (http://130.166.124.2/~aether/index.html)
Guest editor: Mike Gasher, Concordia University
Journalists are not simply innocent bystanders or detached witnesses preparing objective, mirror images of society. Rather, they are active participants in the construction of our realities. What does this mean for our understanding of how journalism produces space, demarcates community, divides the world into “us” and “them,” of how news circulates to audiences? We are seeking submissions for a special theme issue on “The Geographies of Journalism,” devoted to addressing these and related questions. We welcome a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the theme, investigating a broad spectrum of media and journalism forms.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- horizons and boundaries of news coverage
- locations of journalistic practice
- journalism as cartography
- communities of journalism
- news consumption
- constructions of space, place and identity
- affective geographies of news
- circulation of news and media
- audiences as communities
- on-line news spaces
- journalism as representational practice
- mediating globalization
- hyper-local news coverage
Submissions must be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length, with a minimum of special formatting. Electronic submission is preferred, as a PDF or Word document. All articles must include: a title page without the author’s name (to ensure blind review), an abstract of no more than 250 words, and separate pages for notes and references. The Chicago Manual of Style should be consulted for all style questions and, if in doubt, a glance at a recent issue of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers should resolve any issues.
Images and information graphics may be included in the body of your text or may be the basis of the article itself. However, to facilitate online reproduction and layout please also supply these as separate digital files. For further information, contact the Aether editor (Chris Lukinbeal, lukinbeal@asu.edu).
Submissions should be sent no later than March 1, 2008 to Mike Gasher at gashmj8590@yahoo.ca