Submit to Our March Issue: Watching
We’d like to announce a change to the structure of LitPop. This semester, we’re going to try an “issue” model, rather than pushing out new articles whenever we have them. Thanks for bearing with us as we continue to grow and to learn about where we fit into the ever-changing digital media landscape.
This semester, we’ll publish two issues, one on about March 1 and one on about April 30. Don’t worry — we’ll let you know on social media (Facebook, Instagram) and through our English Department newsletter when we roll out each of these issues.
The deadline to submit for our next issue is February 14. Instructions on how to submit can be found here, or you’re always welcome to email us at litpop@pnw.edu. We’d love to hear from you, and we promise that we can hep you solve any technical difficulties you may run into with our medium, Medium.
For our next issue, we invite submissions on the theme “Watching.” Possible topics include:
- anything you’re watching now;
- watching in tv, movies, books, video games, comics, history, culture…;
- tv/movie viewing habits (how has binge watching affected your life?);
- the relationship between watching and playing and reading (tv vs. video games, perhaps);
- the changing role of advertising in our tv and movie watching;
- watching as a practice (voyeurism, social media as watching, the ethics of watching).
This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we invite any and all interpretations of this theme. We want to hear what you think and to learn about your interests.
Now, to tease two articles that will form part of this special issue: you can look forward to an exposition on the sexual and racial politics of the movie 48 Hours, by our own Interim Department Chair, Paul J Hecht. We’ve also got an article on blindness and the genre of the sitcom, focused on the German film My Blind Date with Life, by student Mariya Schkola.
We invite your submissions, questions, ideas, and thoughts — in comments below, on social media, in person at the PNW campuses, or by email.
— from the LitPop team (Jessica Elzinga, Heather Fielding, and Amy Lynn)
