Media History Graduate Student Essay Prize
The deadline for entries is the 31st December 2012.
We seek to encourage new and innovative scholarship in the field ‘media history’, broadly defined, and have established this prize to highlight the best new work in the field undertaken by current graduate students.
We welcome submissions of 6000-7000 words in length that address questions related to media history in all periods and that cross or challenge disciplinary boundaries, including history, literary and cultural studies, politics, communication studies, economics. We welcome work, written in English, with an international scope.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
• press history since its beginnings
• the history of radio and television broadcasting
• advertising
• periodicals
• the media and industrialization
• the media and social/cultural change
• global media and histories
• illustration, photography, visual culture
• media forms
• the structures and infrastructures of media
• the media and globalization
• the historiography of the media
• theoretical approaches to the study of media history
• class, gender, ethnicity, and the media.
• methodological issues associated with the study of media history.
The winner will receive £750 in addition to publication in the Media History and free access to the journal online for one year. Two runners-up with receive free access to the journal online for one year.
Submissions must come from students currently registered on a graduate programme in any relevant field. Please use MLA style and consult the ‘Instructions for Authors’, published in all issues of Media History.
Please send by email attachment your submission to mehstaff@aber.ac.uk by
31st December 2012.
Notification of winners and runners up will be by the end of March 2013.
Stephanie Jones.
Editorial Assistant Media History
email: mehstaff@aber.ac.uk
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