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A new peer-reviewed journal, called Baltic Screen Media Review, is to be launched in 2013 in cooperation between Tallinn University’s Baltic Film and Media School and Tallinn University Press. The thematic coverage of the journal is quite broad, including film, television, interactive media, video art, video games mobile augmented reality, and more topics alike. The geographical focus is on Baltic region.

Platform: Journal of Media and Communication is pleased to announce that our latest issue has just been published on our website: 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.

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the publication of the special issue of Global Media Journal (DE). It focuses on "Covering the Arab Spring: Middle East in the Media - the Media in the Middle East". Guest editors: Riem Spielhaus and Ehab Galal (University of Copenhagen). You can find the issue here: www.globalmediajournal.de/current-issue
Featured articles include:

This summer the Department of Social & Political Studies of the University of Milan will organize the 3rd edition of the International Summer School of “Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour” (16-20 July 2012).  Confirmed lecturers will be Shanto Iyengar, Barbara Pfetsch, Stephen Coleman, Patricia Moy, Kees Brants, Jacques Tomassen, Russell Dalton, Marco Maraffi, Oddbjoern Knutsen.  The opening lecture will be given by Denis McQuail.
 

This summer, Harvard offers some very interesting paid internship opportunities surely of interest to many young scholars. See here - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer. 
 

The latest edition of the German/English open access and peer-reviewed Global Media Journal (DE) can be found here:
www.globalmediajournal.de
The new issue is focused on a special editon about "Integration discourses in the Media".
 
Kindly, forward the link to other interested (young-) scholars!
 
 

Colleagues on the list may be interested in the recent publication of The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture (edited by Michael Higgins, Clarissa Smith and John Storey). Published by Cambridge University Press and including innovative and readable chapters by key scholars in their fields, the companion enthusiastically embraces the debates, tensions and controversies that characterise Britishness and British cultural life.

1. Becoming British, John Storey;

2. Language developments in British English, David Crystal;