The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics (MCP) is a new print journal launching with a special Double Edition in January 2005.
MCP is committed to analyzing the politics of communication(s) and cultural processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, international and global dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of issues defined by their specific cultural geography and those which traverse cultures and nations. MCP promotes critical, in-depth, engaged research on the intersections of sociology, politics, cultural studies and media studies. MCP aims to keep academic analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture and politics.
MCP welcomes full-length research articles of up to eight thousand words and occasional short commentaries.
Inaugural double edition January 2005 with sixteen specially commissioned short essays three full-length research articles:
Yasmin Jiwani on War Talk
Vincent Mosco on Ground Zero
Martyn Lee on The Death of Radical Thought
Kwela Hermanns on IPR and Traditional Knowledge
Lena Layyusi on Power and Performativity
Mike Cormack on Gaelic Language and the Media
Eileen R Meehan on Transindustrialism and Synergy
Chinyere Stella Okunna on Invisible Women
11 further special articles plus book reviews
Submissions of papers to mcp@leeds.ac.uk
MCP published by Intellect Books: MCP website is www.intellectbooks.com/journals/mcp/index.htm
Editors: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Leeds; Karen Ross, Coventry
University; Neil Blain, University of Paisley
Dr. Katharine Sarikakis
Lecturer in Communications Policy and
Course Director MA in Communications Studies
Institute of Communications Studies
University of Leeds
Houldsworth Building
Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: +44.113.3437603
Email: K.Sarikakis@leeds.ac.uk
Managing Editor
Media and Cultural Politics
“Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde
