July 6, 2022

History of Media Studies Newsletter July 2022

History of Media Studies Newsletter July 2022

Welcome to the 19th 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, July 20

Wednesday, July 20, 14:00-15:30 UTC (10am-11:30am EDT)

Readings for discussion:

• Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski, “What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism” (2021)
• Brian Ekdale, Kathryn Biddle, Manfred Asuman, Melissa Tully, and Abby Rinaldi, “Global Disparities in Knowledge Production within Journalism Studies: Are Special Issues the Answer?”

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

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
   • More details
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
   • More details

3. The Journal

History of Media Studies, the new open access journal affiliated with this newsletter, recently published 16 essays, authored by members of the Editorial Board, to mark the journal’s formal launch. This section of the newsletter will highlight the journal’s special section calls, newly published articles, and other updates.

Special Section on Exclusions in the History of Media Studies: History of Media Studies just published a Special Section on “Exclusions in the History of Media Studies,” based on papers presented at a 2021 preconference. The seven articles, published in English or Spanish, are introduced by the editors in English and in Spanish translation.

• “Exclusions/Exclusiones: The Role for History in the Field’s Reckoning” - Peter Simonson, David W. Park, and Jefferson Pooley
• “Exclusiones/Exclusions: El papel de la historia en saldar la deuda histórica del campo” - Peter Simonson, David W. Park, and Jefferson Pooley
• “Antonio Pasquali. Una práctica intelectual entre América Latina y Europa (1979–1989)” - Emiliano Sánchez Narvarte
• “Constituted and Constituting Exclusions in Communication Studies” - Sarah Cordonnier
• “El imaginario textil: una interpretación alternativa en los estudios de la comunicación” - Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri
• “Inequality: The Blind Spot of Western Communication Studies” - Boris Mance and Sašo Slaček Brlek
• “Journalism via Systems Cybernetics: The Birth of the Chinese Communication Discipline and Post-Mao Press Reforms” - Angela Xiao Wu
• “Matrices y vertientes de pensamiento sobre los medios indígenas en América Latina” - Maria Magdalena Doyle
• “West Berlin’s Critical Communication Studies and the Cold War: A Study on Symbolic Power from 1948 to 1989” - Maria Löblich, Niklas Venema, and Elisa Pollack

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. Balasubramanian, Savina Jewel. “Communicating Contraception: Social Science and the Politics of Population Control in Cold War India.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 2018.
2. Cohen, Meghan Sobel. “Africa Rising? A Meta-Analysis of Published Communication Scholarship.” International Journal of Communication 16 (2022).
3. Chaffee, Steven H., Gomez-Palacio, Dr. Carlos and Rogers, Dr. Everett M. “Mass Communication Research in Latin America: Views from Here and There.” Journalism Quarterly 67, no. 4 (1990): 1015-1024.
4. Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. “From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus.” Critical Inquiry 38, no. 1 (2011): 96-126.
5. Abbott, Don Paul. “Jerry Murphy (1923–2021).” Rhetorica 40, no. 2 (2022): 109-110.
6. Demeter, Marton, Goyanes, Manuel, Navarro, Federico, Mihalik, Judit and Mellado, Claudia. “Rethinking De-Westernization in Communication Studies: The Ibero-American Movement in International Publishing.” International Journal of Communication 16 (2022): 3027-3046.
7. Simonds, Cheri J. and Hunt, Stephen K. “Healing the Disciplinary Divide Between Communication and English to Secure the Future of Communication Education: A Response to Forum Essays.” Communication Education 71, no. 3 (2022): 262-266.
8. Segal, Howard P. Technological Utopianism in American Culture. Syracuse, NY:, 2005.
9. Brevini, Benedetta. “The Value of Environmental Communication Research.” International Communication Gazette 78, no. 7 (2016): 684-687.
10. Altamirano, Ana Fernández-Aballí. “Where is Paulo Freire?.” International Communication Gazette 78, no. 7 (2016): 677-683.
11. Lee, Chin-Chuan. “Involution and Vacuum: Comments on Mainstream U.S. Media Studies.” International Communication Gazette 78, no. 7 (2016): 657-662.
12. Murthy, CSHN. “Unbearable Lightness? Maybe Because of the Irrelevance/incommensurability of Western Theories? an Enigma of Indian Media Research.” International Communication Gazette 78, no. 7 (2016): 636-642.
13. Pooley, Jefferson D. “The Field, Fermented: Prestige and the Vocational Bind in Communication Research.” International Communication Gazette 78, no. 7 (2016): 621-626.
14. Crick, Nathan. “The Search for a Purveyor of News: The Dewey/Lippmann Debate in an Internet Age.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 26, no. 5 (2009): 480-497.
15. Baer, Hester. “Process-Based Activism and Feminist Politics in the Neoliberal Age.” Feminist Media Studies 21, no. 8 (2021): 1382-1386.
16. Dietrich, Timo, Hurley, Erin, Kassirer, Jay, Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn, Palmatier, Robert W, Merritt, Rowena, Weaven, Scott K and Lee, Nancy. “50 Years of Social Marketing: Seeding Solutions for the Future.” European Journal of Marketing 56, no. 5 (2022): 1434–1463.
17. Danisch, R. Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism..Lexington Books, 2015.
18. Wagner, Jon. “Looking into Visual Studies.” Visual Studies 36, no. 3 (2021): 239-242.
19. Ayish, Mohammad I. “Communication Studies in the Arab World .” In The International History of Communication Study, edited by Peter Simonson and David W Park, 474-493. New York: Routledge, 2016.
20. Park, David W. and Grosse, Meghan. “International Vectors in U.S. Graduate Education in Communication.” In The International History of Communication Study, edited by Peter Simonson and David W Park, 302-322. New York: Routledge, 2016.
21. Cordonnier, Sarah. “Constituted and Constituting Exclusions in Communication Studies.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
22. Wu, Angela Xiao. “Journalism via Systems Cybernetics: The Birth of the Chinese Communication Discipline and Post-Mao Press Reforms.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
23. Sánchez Narvarte, Emiliano. “Antonio Pasquali. Una práctica intelectual entre América Latina y Europa (1979–1989).” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
24. Cabrera Altieri, Daniel H. “El imaginario textil: una interpretación alternativa en los estudios de la comunicación.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
25. Mance, Boris and Slaček Brlek, Sašo. “Inequality: The Blind Spot of Western Communication Studies.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
26. Doyle, Maria Magdalena. “Matrices y vertientes de pensamiento sobre los medios indígenas en América Latina.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
27. Löblich, Maria, Venema, Niklas and Pollack, Elisa. “West Berlin’s Critical Communication Studies and the Cold War: A Study on Symbolic Power from 1948 to 1989.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).
28. Simonson, Peter, Park, David W. and Pooley, Jefferson. “Exclusions/Exclusiones: The Role for History in the Field’s Reckoning.” History of Media Studies 2 (2022).

Thanks for reading! The History of Media Studies Newsletter, a monthly email assembled by Dave Park, Jeff Pooley, and Pete Simonson, maintains a loose affiliation with the History of Media Studies journal and the Working Group on the History of Media Studies. Please contact us with any questions, suggestions, or items.