FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 July 2004

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'fame' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains
all the issues released so far, at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. To
find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://www.media-culture.org.au/submission.html>.

           Call for Papers: 'fame' - edited by P. David Marshall

Fame, by its definition, travels ethereally, beyond the parameters of any
particular person. It transforms the organization of news; it shifts the
focus of political and cultural debate, it defines whether a scandal has
sufficient significance to become a media event. This issue unravels the
contemporary and not so contemporary obsession with fame - in terms of
audiences, publics, individuals, fans, representations, slash-fictions,
persona, infamy, scandal, its negation - and invites you to explore a
particular dimension of fame?s transmogrification of our cultural
landscapes.

For the upcoming 'fame' issue of M/C Journal, we are inviting papers
between 1000 and 2000 words that critically examine the concept of 'fame'
from any perspective.

Guest Editor for 'fame':
P. David Marshall, Chair, Department of Communication, Northeastern
University, Boston

For more information: fame_at_journal.media-culture.org.au

Article deadline: 16 August 2004
Issue release date: 6 October 2004

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998
as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting
of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C
Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for
comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind
peer-reviewed.

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2004 M/C Journal Issue Deadlines

'porn' editors: Jean Burgess & Andrew King
          porn_at_journal.media-culture.org.au
          article submissions closed
          release date: 11 August 2004

'fame' editor: P. David Marshall
          fame_at_journal.media-culture.org.au
          article deadline: 16 August 2004
          release date: 6 October 2004

'order' editor: Liz Ferrier
          order_at_journal.media-culture.org.au
          article deadline: 11 October 2004
          release date: 1 December 2004

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                                                     Dr Axel Bruns

-- General Editor editor_at_media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ =============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP_at_english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin_at_english.upenn.edu ===============================================Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 19:39:26 EDT