Call for Book Chapters New TV: An Emerging and Evolving Terrain

Call for Book Chapters

New TV: An Emerging and Evolving Terrain

With Netflix, Amazon and others creating award winning television programming, there has been a profusion of places viewers can find televisual content. No longer is television simply a box in the living room, but rather on our computers, phones and soon to be our watches.  Meanwhile, in venues ranging from The Atlantic to the New York Times and Hollywood Reporter, today’s TV landscape has been described as a new Golden – or even “Platinum” – Age.

In the same way that personal computers transformed the way we think about information processing, we have entered an era of personal television. No longer are a few channels catering to large audiences, but rather many channels are looking for dedicated and passionate audiences. While this shift began with the advent of cable and the proliferation of new stations, the emergence of new producers entering the market pushes this phenomenon even further. But what difference does this make for the actual programs?  What difference does this make for the way we engage these programs?

For this collection, the editors seek original submissions from scholars working to map the emerging and evolving terrain of New TV.

Possible methodological perspectives include (but are not limited to):

- Critical media studies

- Media ecology

- Media autoethnography

Examples of relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- Marathon viewing (binge watching)

- Temporal relationships to new TV

- Political economy of new TV (Netflix, Amazon, etc.)

- New kinds of programming

- Innovations in storytelling

- After shows, social media and other emerging intertextualities

- Changing media representations of identity

Deadlines:

Chapter Proposals: July 1, 2016

Notification of Acceptance: August 5, 2016

Completed Chapters: January 15, 2016

Submission Guidelines:

- Send proposals to: sschoen@rollins.edu

- Chapter proposals (300-500 words), including working titles, should be submitted as an email attachment in MS Word with “YourLastName – New TV” in the subject line.

- Please also include a short biography and a condensed version of your CV with the proposal.

- Receipt of all submissions will be confirmed within 48 hours.

- Submissions should be in APA format

- Final page length and style will vary depending on author and approach; we encourage inventive/imaginative forms of analysis.

Thank you in advance for your interest. Please don’t hesitate to contact either Steve (sschoen@rollins.edu) or Rachel (rachelesilverman@gmail.com) if you have questions. We will do our best to answer them.

Editors:

Steven W. Schoen, PhD  Rachel E. Silverman, PhD

Rollins College  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


Winter Park, FL  Daytona Beach, FL

sschoen@rollins.edu

rachelesilverman@gmail.com

(407) 691-1798 215-518-3367