CFP Media and Passion, special issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies Passion is at the heart of an emotional economy within media, culture and society. Marketing trends such as The Experience Economy (Pine and Gilmore 2011), or affective economics, signal a growth in passion as a revenue source. Political economists are showing us that the value of networks and brands depend on the intensity of relations they spark. Emotional engagement with a product or service, such as sports, is used as a driver in the selling of media and culture. The trouble with passion, as Hall (2005) notes, is that for too long it has been dismissed as subjective experience outside the remit of scientific enquiry. Viviana Zelizer (2005) calls the space where reason and emotion come together hostile worlds. But, we think and feel with our head and hearts and to separate rationality from passion is to ignore the power of passion in society. How people feel about politics, the press, the internet or indeed about specific texts or media practices is vital to understanding! media today. This special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies focuses on media and passion as multidimensional, working across industry and economics, politics, society and popular culture. We call for scholarly research on passion and media that follows these areas of enquiry: 1 Political culture and passion 2 Affect and civic practices 3 Emotional, or affective economy in media industries 3 Theories and research methods for passion, emotion and the media 4 Subjectivity and media industry and academic research 5 Race, gender, and class 6 Radical politics and extremism 7 Fans and anti-fans The aim of this special issue is to highlight how people’s passionate engagement with politics, sports, social media, or television, for example, is a complex and multifaceted area of theoretical and empirical enquiry for media and cultural studies. Such enquiries need to tie in to case study examples as the European Journal of Cultural Studies favours well-theorized empirical research. Deadline for abstract submissions November 29th 2013. Final submission of journal articles of 6000 words for April 2014. Please submit abstracts of 300 words, with one paragraph author biography, to Annette Hill and Joke Hermes. Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
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