Teaching Media Quarterly CFP: Teaching Celebrity

Below is a CFP from *Teaching Media Quarterly*'s upcoming special
issue: *Teaching
Celebrity*

Teaching Media Quarterly is an open access journal dedicated to sharing
approaches to teaching media topics and concepts. Please consider
submitting a lesson plan to our current call: Teaching Celebrity. You can
access our journal HERE <https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/index>, and
please note that we also have an ongoing open call for lesson plans.
Information about the latest call is below. Please share with friends,
colleagues, and grad students who teach media classes!

*Call for Lesson Plans: Teaching Celebrity*



While often dismissed by critics as a shallow or morally corrosive,
celebrity culture has become a vital site of academic inquiry as its
practices, priorities, and affective attunements come to bear upon the
lives of even those who do not aspire to work in the entertainment or
cultural industries. As scholars trace the celebritization of public life,
it is necessary that we share these conversations with our students, who
may be particularly vulnerable to living and practicing the logics of
celebrity without critical interrogation



As the desire for fame and opportunities for microcelebrity saturate
contemporary culture through social media platforms and compulsory
self-branding, teaching celebrity provides media instructors with
opportunities to make critical interventions into conversations that many
students are already invested in. Teaching Media Quarterly is interested in
learning and sharing how, and why, instructors do this work.


We welcome work that engages the following questions:



·       How do you teach the migration of celebrity practice and the logics
of celebrity to the realms of politics, newsrooms, everyday life, and
others?
·       How do you situate celebrity in the context of neoliberal
capitalism?
·       How do you attend to the intersections of celebrity and identity?
·       How do you consider celebrity in relation to the political economy
of media?
·       How do you provide students with an understanding of celebrity’s
history and evolution?
·       How do you engage celebrity as a phenomenon in non-Western contexts?
·       How do you attend to the production of fame or other issues that
emerge when considering the industries that produce celebrity?
·       How do you teach the distinctions and commonalities between macro-
and micro-celebrity?


These questions are, of course, suggestions and we also welcome lessons
that explore other issues relevant to the broader topic of celebrity. The
deadline for submissions is January 1st.


Best,

-- 
*Joshua N. Morrison, MA*
Graduate Instructor
Department of Communication Studies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Editor, *Teaching Media Quarterly*

*He/Him/His*

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