June 10, 2022

History of Media Studies Newsletter June 2022

History of Media Studies Newsletter June 2022

Welcome to the 18th 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.

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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.

Tuesday, June 14

THIS Tuesday, June 14, 2pm-3:30pm UTC (10am-11:30am EDT)

Readings for discussion:

• Gabriella Szabó, “Communication and Media Studies in Hungary (1990–2020)” (2021)
• Márton Demeter, Dina Vozab, and Francisco José Segado Boj, “Research Collaboration of Communication Scholars from Central and Eastern Europe: A Longitudinal Network Analysis”

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

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2. Conferences, Calls & Announcements

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

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1. John C. Burnham Early Career Award
   • The Forum for History of Human Science (FHHS) and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Science (JHBS) encourage researchers in their early careers to submit unpublished manuscripts for the annual John C. Burnham Early Career Award, named in honor of this prominent historian of the human sciences and past-editor of JHBS. The publisher provides the author of the paper an honorarium of US $500 at the time the manuscript is accepted for publication by JHBS.
   • Deadline: 15 June 2022
   • More details
2. FHHS Dissertation Prize
   • The Forum for History of Human Science awards a biennial prize of US $250 for the best recent doctoral dissertation on some aspect of the history of the human sciences.The competition takes place during even-numbered years. The winner of the prize is announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting. Entries are encouraged from authors in any discipline, as long as the work is related to the history of the human sciences, broadly construed. To be eligible, the dissertation must be in English and have been formally filed within the three years previous to the year of the award. A dissertation may be submitted more than once, as long as it meets the submission requirements.
   • Deadline: 15 June 2022
   • More details
3. 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
4. CFP: Power and Knowledge from the 18th Century to Today
   • Dating back to the beginnings of Greek democracy and the Platonic conception of the philosopher king, the relations between power and knowledge have recently come back to the fore with the rise of populism or the sanitary crisis. With an interdisciplinary approach, the conference will welcome proposals dealing with the relations between knowledge and power from the 18th century to today: papers can address the history of political and/or economic ideas, intellectual, cultural and political history or political science and sociology. In-person presentations, in English or in French, will be encouraged but arrangements for remote delivery may be made. A selected number of papers may be published.
   • Deadline: 24 June 2022
   • [More details](https://www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-events/power-and-knowledge-from-the-18th-century-to-today/

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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.

1. OACIP Funding Secured for Five Years: History of Media Studies was one of three journals included in the second round of LYRASIS’s Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP), designed to connect no-fee (“diamond”) journals with libraries and other funders. With a recent investment from the Big Ten Academic Alliance, History of Media Studies has met our pledge goal of $12,500 per year for five years. Among other things, the consistent funding will help support our commitment to challenging the hegemony of English in the historiography of media studies.

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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. Erba, Joseph, Bobkowski, Piotr, Ternes, Brock, Liu, Yuchen and Logan, Tara. “Who Are the “Masses” in Mass Communication Research? Exploring Participants’ Demographic Characteristics Between 2000 and 2014.” Howard Journal of Communications 33, no. 3 (2022): 233-249.
2. Daros, Otávio. “A Decolonial Approach to the Discipline of Journalism Theory in Brazil.” Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 77, no. 2 (2022): 237-250.
3. Nelson, Jacob L. and Edgerly, Stephanie. “The (Ir)Relevance of Audience Studies in Journalism Education.” Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 77, no. 2 (2022): 177-189.
4. Keating, David M., Richards, Adam S., Palomares, Nicholas A., Banas, John A., Joyce, Nick and Rains, Stephen A.. “Titling Practices and Their Implications in Communication Research 1970-2010: Cutesy Cues Carry Citation Consequences.” Communication Research 49, no. 5 (2022): 627-648.
5. hong Chan, Chung and Grill, Christiane. “The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals.” Communication Research 49, no. 5 (2022): 599-626.
6. LeFebvre, Luke. “Speech Communication at Iowa State University: A Departmental History and Aftermath.” Journal of the Association for Communication Administration 39, no. 2 (2022): 50-71.
7. de Laat, Kim and Stokes, Allyson. “Cultural Sociology and the Politics of Canonization: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective.” Cultural Sociology 16, no. 2 (2022): 274-298.
8. Ripatti-Torniainen, Leena. “The Transformative Public of Jane Addams.” Journalism 23, no. 6 (2022): 1285-1300.
9. Peters, John Durham and Wickberg, Adam. “Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain.” Critical Inquiry 48, no. 4 (2022): 676-696.
10. Suárez-Monsalve, Ana-María. “Evolution of the Public Relations Profession in Latin America: A Brief Review of the Development of Public Relations in Latin American Countries.” Public Relations Inquiry 11, no. 2 (2022): 257-274.
11. Waymer, Damion. “Empowering and Examining Voice: Marking the 10th Year of Public Relations Inquiry and Contextualizing the Latin American PR Special Issue.” Public Relations Inquiry 11, no. 2 (2022): 159-166.
12. Splichal, Slavko. “In Data We (Don’t) Trust: The Public Adrift in Data-Driven Public Opinion Models.” Big Data & Society 9, no. 1 (2022): 20539517221097319.
13. Vaccari, Cristian. “The International and Post-disciplinary Journey of Political Communication: Reflections on “Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Political Communication and the International Journal of Press/Politics”.” Political Communication 39, no. 2 (2022): 286-290.
14. Bucy, Erik P. and Evans, Heather K. “Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Political Communication and the International Journal of Press/Politics.” Political Communication 39, no. 2 (2022): 254-265.
15. Robert, Everett M. and Story, J. Douglas. “Communication Campaigns.” In _ Handbook of Communication Science_, edited by Charles R. Berger and Steven H. Chaffee, 817-846. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987.
16. Gondwe, Gregory. “Can African Scholars Speak? Situating African Voices in International Communication Scholarship.” Media, Culture & Society 44, no. 4 (2022): 848-859.
17. Letak, Abigail M.. “The Promise of Sociology of Television: Investigating the Potential of Phenomenological Approaches.” Sociological Forum 37, no. 2 (2022): 581-602.
18. Fairfax, Daniel. _ The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume I, Ideology and Politics_. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
19. Simonson, Peter Richard McKeon in the Pragmatist Tradition. Danisch, Robert, eds. _ Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication: Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric_, Springer International Publishing, Cham (2019), 23–51 .
20. Danisch, Robert On the Uses and On-going Relevance of Pragmatism for Communication Studies. Danisch, Robert, eds. _ Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication: Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric_, Springer International Publishing, Cham (2019), 1–22 .
21. Coates, Rebecca Leigh. “1992: The First Issue of Public Understanding of Science.” Public Understanding of Science 31, no. 3 (2022): 340-345.
22. Massarani, Luisa. “30  Years of PUS: Reflections From Latin America on the Academic Field of Science Communication.” Public Understanding of Science 31, no. 3 (2022): 323-330.
23. Scheufele, Dietram A. “Thirty Years of Science–society Interfaces: What’s Next?.” Public Understanding of Science 31, no. 3 (2022): 297-304.