History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2022
History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the 23rd 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, November 16
Wednesday, November 16, 15:00-16:30 UTC (12:00-13:30 in Buenos Aires, 10am-11:30am in Philadelphia)
Readings for discussion:
- Clara Ruvitoso, “Southern Theories in Northern Circulation: Analyzing the Translation of Latin American Dependency Theories into German” (2020)
- Mariano Zarowsky, “Entre la renovación de las ciencias sociales y la intervención intelectual: Eliseo Verón editor en Tiempo Contemporáneo (1969–1974)” (2017)
Both works are translated, using DeepL, following their original language, in the PDFs available for download on the Working Group’s page. We will have simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and English for this meeting.
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.
- ESHHS Early Career Award
- The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, together with the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS) encourages early career researchers to submit their papers for the Early Career Award. The winning paper can be submitted to JHBS. If accepted after additional review, it will be published with a notice indicating that it is the winner of the ESHHS Early Career Award. The Publisher will then provide an honorarium of US $500 to the award recipient. All students are eligible to be considered for the Award, as are all researchers having completed their PhD no more than 5 years previous to the date of submission.
- Deadline: 15 November 2022
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- CFP: ICA Preconference on the Legacies of Elihu Katz
- Elihu Katz (1926–2021) was a peerless scholar, colleague, mentor, administrator, and friend to many in the field of communication. His passing has left the field with an absence that calls out for remembrance and for scholarly consideration. This one-day, all-plenary preconference will create a space for scholarly exchange on Katz’s life, works, and themes—a forum, in other words, for active, critical engagement with his legacy for the field. The preconference invites presenters to explore, critique, and extend Katz’s contributions to communication scholarship. Some will situate Katz’s legacies in pertinent historical contexts; others will use his work to imagine media futures; still others will consider Katz’s many roles (teacher, institution-builder, broadcast pioneer, mentor).
- Deadline: 20 December 2022
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- Call for Papers: Special Issue of Human Communication Research
- Human Communication Research (HCR) historically has been, and remains today, an important outlet for projects that develop, advance, and critique communication theory using social science methods (broadly defined). The purpose of this special issue is to highlight and celebrate that key part of HCR's mission (i.e., innovative theory development) on its 50th birthday both by taking stock and looking forward. Authors are invited to submit proposals for papers that advance our theoretical understanding of communication. Rather than provide literature reviews, these proposals should focus on theory development that will offer a roadmap for scholars to enhance our understanding of communication in ways that are both cognizant of our changing communication landscapes and that are inclusive with regard to issues relevant to our global and diverse societies.
- Deadline: 15 November 2022
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- CFP: Eighth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)
- This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), at Uppsala University in Sweden, will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields like area studies, communication studies, history, international relations, law, and linguistics. The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the social sciences.
- Deadline: 3 February 2023
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- New Journal: History of Social Science**
- History of Social Science is a new journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS). History of Social Science offers an international forum for the examination of the transformations of the social sciences since the early twentieth century. The journal covers a variety of disciplines, from the core social sciences of economics, political science, and sociology, to disciplines with links to natural science, such as anthropology, geography, and psychology, and disciplines closer to the humanities, such as history and philosophy. Related fields, including area studies, business, communication studies, criminology, law, and linguistics, are also included under the journal’s editorial scope. The journal is now accepting submissions. More information can be found on the journal’s website, including Author Guidelines and the Editorial Board.
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3. The Journal
History of Media Studies has appointed Esperanza Herrero (Universidad de Murcia) as Associate Editor for Spanish Language Scholarship, in support of the journal’s commitment to publishing in Spanish and to challenging the hegemony of English in scholarly publishing.
HMS encourages submissions, in either English or Spanish, 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.
- Hallin, Daniel C., Mellado, Claudia and Mancini, Paolo. "The Concept of Hybridity in Journalism Studies." The International Journal of Press/Politics 28, no. 1 (2023): 219-237.
- Trudel, Dominique and De Maeyer, Juliette. "The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline." Communication Theory 32, no. 4 (2022): 439-449.
- Powers, Devon. "The Problem of Popular Culture." Communication Theory 32, no. 4 (2022): 461-470.
- Hirji, Faiza, Jiwani, Yasmin and McAllister, Kirsten. "Out of the Margins? Race, Racism, and Colonialism in Canadian Communication Studies." Canadian Journal of Communication 47, no. 3 (2022): 409-414.
- Thompson, Cheryl. "Black Canadians in the Canadian Journal of Communication: A Critical Reading of Language and Voice in Its Publishing History." Canadian Journal of Communication 47, no. 3 (2022): 440-461.
- Modaff, Abigail R. "To ‘Meet Life Face to Face’: Communication and American Social Reform from Haymarket to the Harlem Renaissance." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2021.
- Jeffries, Stuart. "Human Spanner: Kant Comes Alive." London Review of Books 43, no. 12 (2021).
- Pinter, Andrej. "Thought News: A Quest for Democratic Communication Technology." Javnost - The Public 10, no. 2 (2003): 93-104.
- Gregory, Brian C.. "'Developing Critical Listening': Educational Radio and Early Media Literacy, 1933–1949." Resonance 3, no. 3 (2022): 309-329.