CFP: Childhood and Celebrity Please see this CFP from John Mercer and Jane O´Connor: Jane O’Connor and John Mercer are editing a collection of essays for an anthology on Childhood and Celebrity. There is a final space in the collection that we are hoping to fill with an essay on the subject of children or…
Public Culture Special Issue “Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era On the occasion of the publication of “Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era,” Public Culture and the Institute for Public Knowledge led a discussion with contributing authors Sharon Marcus, Alice Marwick, Susan Murray, and Dana Polan. The event was moderated by Terri Senft and followed by a reception with the…
Teaching with selfies: new Creative Commons syllabus From Kath Albury, Selfies Research Network Introducing the newest initiative from the Selfies Research Network: an six-week course for university students studying selfies, and/or university instructors who would like to touch on selfie culture in their own classes. The course (which carries a Creative Commons license) includes: A…
After Ghomeshi: Lessons in Media Uses and Abuses A Media@McGill round-table discussion Free and open to the public Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Leacock 232, McGill University On March 24, 2016 former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted of all charges in a highly mediatized sexual assault trial. Apart from its…
Media and Publication Updates Dr Samita Nandy’s review of Professor Sean Redmond’s book Celebrity and Media has been published at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2016.1187867. We are truly proud of Redmond’s exceptional contribution to the field. In other news, CMCS Director Dr Samita Nandy was covered in Vancouver Sun Media’s 24 Hours. Read “Celebrity 101” at eedition.vancouver.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx (May 25, 2016,…
The following CFP might be of interest to media & celebrity studies scholars examining adult films and stardom Porn Studies, special issue, Porn on the Couch: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories In a letter he penned to his friend Wilhelm Fleiss, dated August 1, 1899, Sigmund Freud made an uncanny observation: “I am accustoming myself…
