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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m sending this as a follow up to the “Global South” workshop held in May last year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As part of an ongoing collaboration with colleagues at the ESPM in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I’m pleased to announce that I will be co-editing, With Profa Dra Marcia
Tondato, a special issue of the Brazilian journal, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
(Communication, Media and Consumption), evaluated as level B1 on Qualis-Capes system (range A1-B5) in the Brazilian academy.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The theme is
<b>Communication and Consumer Culture in the South Atlantic</b>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please find the call for papers attached (and also at this link:
<a href="https://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/cfp-special-issue-communication-and-consumer-culture-in-the-south/">
https://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/cfp-special-issue-communication-and-consumer-culture-in-the-south/</a>). It will be out in December, and the closing date for paper submissions is the end of August. Submissions are welcomed in English,
Portuguese and Spanish and will be double-blind peer-reviewed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I do hope that you will consider submitting a paper. Please also help me out by spreading this CfP as far and wide as you can to anyone who might
be working on relevant trans-national material and is keen to publish in Brazil.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All my best
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Mehita
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Dr. Mehita Iqani
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Senior Lecturer in Media Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">School of Literature, Languages and Media (SLLM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">University of the Witwatersrand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Room 3064, Senate House<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">2050 Wits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4123<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Email:
<a href="mailto:mehita.iqani@wits.ac.za"><span style="color:#17365D">mehita.iqani@wits.ac.za</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D"><a href="http://www.mediastudies.co.za"><span style="color:#17365D">www.mediastudies.co.za</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">My book: “<a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=513112"><span style="color:#17365D">Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines
in the Public Eye</span></a>” (2012, Palgrave Macmillan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Critical Research in Consumer Culture Network:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D"><a href="http://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:#17365D">http://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">The Newsstand Project:
<a href="http://www.thenewsstandproject.org/"><span style="color:#17365D">http://www.thenewsstandproject.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">ITCH Magazine:
<u><a href="www.itch.co.za"><span style="color:#17365D">www.itch.co.za</span></a></u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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