07/27/2018

CSCA 2019 Convention - Media Studies Interest Group (MSIG) Call for Papers

MEDIA STUDIES INTEREST GROUP
Call for Papers and Panels 

2019 Central States Communication Association (CSCA)
Annual Convention in Omaha, Nebraska
April 3-6, 2019
Dialogue 

The Media Studies Interest Group (MSIG) invites submissions of competitive papers and thematic panels on all aspects of media studies for the 2019 CSCA Convention in Omaha, NE. We seek to promote provocative scholarship on all forms of mass, social, and interpersonal media. Possible areas of examination include media and culture, media effects, media technology, audience studies, producer studies, textual analyses and other studies of mediated communication. The MSIG also accepts submissions of original media. Please see the separate MSIG Original Media call for details.

This year’s theme of Dialogue asks how we might create spaces of dialogue about research, teaching, and service and creative collaboration between members, conference attendees, and communities. Participants are encouraged to think outside the parameters and structures that often limit our interactions at conferences – such as interest groups, methodologies, sub-disciplinary silos, teaching interests, and professional foci. As you consider your submissions, think about ways that we can construct authentic dialogue in communication situations where we talk with rather than to each other.

The Media Studies Interest Group specifically seeks papers, panels or discussion sessions dealing with the conference theme of Dialogue. Thus, we welcome submissions that, for example, explore dialogue between creators and audiences of media; dialogue among media scholars and practitioners; dialogue between researchers about different methodological ways to examine media; dialogue among educators about media pedagogies; or dialogue between interest groups the role of media in different communication contexts. Original research, multimedia work, discussions, themed panels, and debates are all encouraged.

Awards: The Media Studies Interest Group presents four awards. The Samuel L. Becker Award is given for the top student paper. The Becker Award includes an individual certificate and a $150 cash award. At the annual business meeting, the Media Studies Interest Group will also present awards for the top paper, top panel and top original media submission (details for original media are found in a separate call).

Papers: The Media Studies Interest Group is seeking cutting-edge research papers from scholars of all paradigms and methodologies who examine all forms of media with regard to audiences, texts, technologies, effects, producers, communities, and culture. Considering the theme of the conference, papers examining dialogue in the paradigms, theories, production, methodologies, audiences, discourse communities, and pedagogies are especially welcome.

Please submit your work via the new CSCA submission system for the Media Studies Interest Group. Papers may follow the current editions of APA, MLA, or Chicago styles. All submitted papers must be the original work of the author(s). For the sake of timely and thorough review, papers must be no longer than 25 pages of actual text written within accepted publishing guidelines (not including appendices, references/bibliographies, etc.). Papers not meeting these submission guidelines may not be distributed for review.

Graduate and undergraduate students should type “STUDENT” on the upper right-hand corner of the title page. If the paper will be a student debut, please type “DEBUT STUDENT” on the upper right- hand corner of the title page. To be considered a student debut paper, (1) the author must be a graduate or undergraduate student, (2) the paper must have single authorship, and (3) the paper must be the author’s first paper to be presented at CSCA. Indicate if author(s) are CSCA members. All author-identifiers should be removed from the document (excluding previous scholarly works cited in the paper and listed in the references section).

Panels: The Media Studies Interest Group welcomes submissions of proposals for paper panels, roundtable discussions, spotlight panels, and debate panels exploring media studies and the conference theme of dialogue.

Due to budget and access, the only technology that can be made available for your projects will be a multimedia projector and speakers that you can connect your laptop computers (or other equipment) to. There should be cables available for this, but there may not be Internet access readily available. Any technology requests must be made at the time of submission.

CSCA will have a new online submission system. Details will be available on the CSCA website closer to the submission deadline. Submissions for all categories must be complete and submitted by October 10, 2018 at midnight (CST). Questions and other communication about the Media Studies Interest Group may be directed to the Chair and Program Planner, Jennifer C. Dunn (Dominican University).