YECREA special issue of Platform: journal of media and communication published

We are happy to let you know that the YECREA special issue of Platform: Journal of media and communication has been published.
 
 
The latest issue of Platform: Journal of Media and Communication is now online at http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform. Platform is a fully refereed, open access online journal which publishes work by graduate students and early career researchers in media and communications and related disciplines. It is edited by graduate students at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia.
 
This issue is a special edition of the journal, guest edited by Benjamin de Cleen, Alenka Jelen and Julie Uldam from the Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (YECREA). It is based on the young scholar work presented at the 2010 ECREA European Communication Conference in Hamburg.
The table of contents is as follows:
 
1. Editorial
By Benjamin De Cleen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Alenka Jelen, University of Central Lancashire, U.K.; and Julie Uldam, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
 
2. Electronic Sport: How pro-gaming negotiates territorial belonging and gender
By Janina Maric, University of Erfurt, Germany
 
3. Did we ignore the social commentary? Responding to Borat on YouTube
By Martins Kaprans, University of Latvia
 
4. Public service television’s different ways of dealing with a changed media landscape: A comparison of pre­election program formats on Dutch­speaking and French­speaking Belgian public television.
By Eva De Smedt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; and Anouk Bouckaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)
 
5. Digital Media as Classified and Classifying: The Case of Young Men in Sweden
By Martin Danielsson, Halmstad University, Sweden
 
6. Planning an academic career: A report on a YECREA panel at the Third European Communication Conference, Hamburg, 2010
By Julie Uldam, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; and Ranjana Das, London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
 
You can view the full issue online at http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform. For more information about YECREA, please visithttp:www.yecrea.eu.