Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:49:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Ralph Beliveau <rbelivea-AT-blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: JCI cfp


journal of communication inquiry
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
205 Communications Center - The University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA 52242
(319) 335-5821
jci-editor-AT-uiowa.edu

call for papers

JCI has presented the scholarly community with interdisciplinary inquiry
into communication and mass communication phenomena within critical,
cultural, and historical perspectives for 23 years.  We are announcing a
special issue:

	after cultural studies: 
	crossroads of materials & rhetorics...or, 
	what do we do when cultural studies has failed?

Have the possibilities for cultural studies been taken as far as they can
be taken?  
Has it been taken places it doesnt belong, loosing theoretical coherence
at each new context?
Does the institutionalization of Cultural Studies limit its ability to
achieve its own ends?
How is radical contextualization represented?
What is implied by the globalization of cultural studies?
Where does cultural studies put Political Economy? Ideology? Discourse?
Rhetoric?
Does the success of cultural studies indicate its failure, co-optation,
and ultimate demise?
 
For this special issue, we seek a discussion of the theoretical condition
of cultural studies as a force in (mass) communication scholarship and
teaching.  Some theoretical lines would be expected to explore contingent
situations, reflective practices, and methodological problematics.  The
issue is particularly concerned with questioning the relationship between
material explanations of culture and discursive/rhetorical understandings
of culture.  We are also interested in how these issues relate between
research and teaching.
 
We hope to see pieces that represent multiple positions on these
questions..  In order to offer the greatest range of these possibilities,
we are looking for position papers of a generally shorter lengtharound
4000 to 5000 words.  All submissions will be peer reviewed.
 
Inquiries are welcome.  The deadline for receiving the articles is
TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1997.  Questions, proposals, and inquiries should be
addressed (email encouraged) to:
Ralph Beliveau
Editor, Journal of Communication Inquiry
Iowa Center for Communication Study - 205 CCUniv. of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
52242
phone: (319) 335-5821
fax: (319) 335-5210
email: jci-editor-AT-uiowa.edu
or: beliveau-AT-uiowa.edu
 
To find out more about JCI, go to:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~journal/





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