August 30, 2022

History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2022

History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2022

Welcome to the 20th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave Park, Jeff Pooley, and Pete Simonson, maintains a loose affiliation with the new History of Media Studies journal and the Working Group on the History of Media Studies. Please contact us with any questions, suggestions, or items.

1. Working Group on the History of Media Studies

Join us for the next remote session devoted to discussing published works and members' working papers. Hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Open to anyone interested in the history of the media studies fields. Instructions to join are here.

Wednesday, September 21

Wednesday, September 21, 14-15:30 UTC (10:00am to 11:30am EDT)

Readings for discussion:

• Silvio Waisbord, Communication: A Post-Discipline [excerpt] (2019)
• Christian Pentzold, Anna Seikel, Erik Koenen, & Jakob Jünger, “Talking the Talk but Not Walking the Walk: A Study of ICA Presidential Addresses”

For the Zoom link and reading downloads, visit the Working Group page. Instructions for joining the group are here. Questions? Contact us

2. Conferences, Calls & Announcements

If you have a call or announcement relevant to the history of media studies, please contact us.

1. CFP: 50th Anniversary Tribute to Dallas Smythe in China
   • The aim of this special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication (CJC) is to bring forth Dallas Smythe’s intellectual legacy so as to link critical inquiry of the unfolding contestations with social struggles of the 20th century. While critical scholars often evoke Smythe’s concept of audience commodity and his treatment of “work” when examining immaterial labour and the new modes of exploitation in digital capitalism, Smythe has much more to offer. His critique of the “dependency road” and his consistent support for national sovereignties to extend democratic participation in development and governance, exemplifies the kind of critical praxis aimed at contesting global power structures. After all, one should remember that Smythe blazed a path of challenging Cold War-enforced sinological orientalism and engaging China’s self-proclaimed socialist theories and practices of development.
   • Deadline: 31 August 2022
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2. 2022 Osiris Call for Proposals
   • The Editorial Board of Osiris solicits proposals for Volume 41 which will appear in 2025 or 2026.. Osiris aims to connect the history of science with other areas of historical scholarship. Volumes of the journal are designed to explore how, where, and why science draws upon and contributes to society, culture, and politics. The journal’s editors and board members strongly encourage proposals that engage with and examine broad themes while aiming for diversity across time and space. The journal is also very interested in receiving proposals that assess the state of the history of science as a field, broadly construed, in both established and emerging areas of scholarship. Forthcoming volumes are concerned with medicine in/and translation; the history of algorithms and ‘algorithmic rationality’; disability and the history of science and animal mobilities
   • Deadline: 15 October 2022
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3. Call for Applications: Associate Editors, History of Anthropology Review (HAR)
   • The History of Anthropology Review (HAR) seeks applications from graduate students, early career scholars, or other interested parties to join its editorial team as Associate Editors. HAR has remained a critical venue for conversations and publications on the histories of the practice and impact of anthropology since 1973. We aim to continue this legacy by providing a platform for innovative and reflexive interdisciplinary dialogue on the discipline of anthropology, and the many ways of narrating its past, present, and future. We seek new members interested in expanding the boundaries of the history of anthropology and challenging normative interpretations of the field and its purview.
   • Deadline: 2 September 2022
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3. The Journal

History of Media Studies has welcomed two new Editorial Board members:

• Márton Demeter, Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem (Hungary)
• Nova Gordon-Bell, University of the West Indies (Jamaica)

HMS encourages submissions on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication—as expressed through academic institutions; through commercial, governmental, and non-governmental organizations; and through “alter-traditions” of thought and practice often excluded from the academic mainstream.

4. New Publications

Works listed here are (1) newly published, (2) new to the bibliography, and/or (3) newly available in an open access (OA) format.

The History of Communication Research Bibliography is a project of the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives (ASCLA) at the University of Pennsylvania.

1. Towns, Armond R.. "Black Studies and the Case of/for the Howard Journal of Communications." Howard Journal of Communications 33, no. 4 (2022): 351-364.
2. Bergstrom, Kelly. "Ignoring the Blood on the Tracks: Exits and Departures From Game Studies." Critical Studies in Media Communication 39, no. 3 (2022): 173-180.
3. Schiffrin, Anya. "Fighting Disinformation in the 1930s: Clyde Miller and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis." International Journal of Communication 16 (2022).
4. Bates, Stephen. "From Blue Book to White Book: The Hutchins Commission and Llewellyn White’s The American Radio." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 42, no. 3 (2022): 520-538.
5. Woodall, Richard. "Telematic Society." Real Life (2022).
6. Kang, Jaeho, Gilloch, Graeme and Abromeit, John. "General Introduction." In Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kraucauer, edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch and John Abromeit, 1-36. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
7. Abromeit, John. "Siegfried Kracauer and the Early Frankfurt School's Analysis of Fascism as Right-Wing Populism." In Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kraucauer, edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch and John Abromeit, 395-421. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
8. Kang, Jaeho, Gilloch, Graeme and Abromeit, John. "Cold War Tensions (1952–1958)." In Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kraucauer, edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch and John Abromeit, 267-274. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
9. Kang, Jaeho, Gilloch, Graeme and Abromeit, John. "Postwar Publics (1948–1950)." In Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kraucauer, edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch and John Abromeit, 212-216. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
10. Kang, Jaeho, Gilloch, Graeme and Abromeit, John. "The Caligari Complex (1943–1947)." In Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kraucauer, edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch and John Abromeit, 127-133. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
11. Kang, Jaeho, Gilloch, Graeme and Abromeit, John. "Studies of Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and the Masses (1936–1940)." In Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kraucauer, edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch and John Abromeit, 37-48. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
12. Kotišová, Johana and Deuze, Mark. "Decolonizing Conflict Journalism Studies: A Critical Review of Research on Fixers." Journalism Studies 23, no. 10 (2022): 1160-1177.
13. Wilder, Carol. "Introduction to the Transaction Edition." In Communication and Social Order, edited by Hugh Dalziel Duncan, vii--xxvii. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1985.
14. Outzen, Christopher P and Cronn-Mills, Daniel. "What’s in a Name? Defending Forensics: A Response to Kimble’s “By Any Other Name”." Speaker & Gavel 49, no. 2 (2012): 81-87.
15. Feezel, Jerry D. "The Evolution of Communication Pedagogy." Journal of Communication Pedagogy 1, no. 1 (2018): 3-8.
16. Cole, Michael. "Culture and Cognitive Development: From Cross-Cultural Research to Creating Systems of Cultural Mediation." Culture & Psychology 1, no. 1 (1995): 25--54.