This may be of interest to some of you: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 Apr. 2017 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'depict' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'depict' Edited by Marj Kibby Inspired by reflections on John Berger's Ways of Seeing on the occasion of his recent death, the M/C Journal 'depict' issue looks at the other side of the communication event - ways of representing, portraying, illustrating, rendering. While articles could include the depiction of social groupings in the media, it would also cover a wider range of topics such as: * Visual representation of data * Self-representation and branding * Visual depiction and power relations * Pictograms and public communication * Internet memes and other forms of visual rhetoric * Visual communication in social media * Digital images and everyday aesthetics * Professional journalism and amateur news content Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to depict@journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 16 June 2017 Issue release date: 16 Aug. 2017 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2017: 'build': article deadline 26 Feb. 2017, release date 26 Apr. 2017 'caption': article deadline 21 Apr. 2017, release date 21 June 2017 'depict': article deadline 16 June 2017, release date 16 Aug. 2017 'history' article deadline 11 Aug. 2017, release date 11 Oct. 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor@media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/