CMCS 7th International Conference Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture? Lisbon, Portugal July 1 – 3, 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS The fashion modeling industry has occupied a significant area in celebrity culture. For the past forty decades, popular models, actors, authors, and athletes among many public figures have participated in photo shoots and…
CMCS Director Dr Samita Nandy was covered in Sun Media’s 24 Hours on April 6, 2016. Read “Annoying Much? Why do these celebs attract so much trolling?” at http://www.pressreader.com/canada/24-hours-toronto/20160406/281668254125570. Dr Nandy was covered again on April 19, 2016. The full story is given in “Worst. Celeb. Advice. Ever!”: http://www.toronto24hours.ca/2016/04/19/worst-celeb-advice-ever. Special thanks to reporter Brad Hunter…
Call for Chapters — Mysterious Ways: U2 and Religion — Bloomsbury Press Call for Chapters Mysterious Ways: U2 and Religion Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music Edited by Scott Calhoun I invite proposals for chapters in an edited collection with an interdisciplinary focus on U2 and religion for Bloomsbury’s series on Religion and Popular…
Bridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society Call for Papers: In higher education, media studies bring critical awareness of representations and reproductions of popular personas, artefacts, processes, and practices in social, economic, and political contexts. From the perspective of cultural studies, critical discourse analysis of media productions enables scholars to go beyond observing aesthetic aspects and…
