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EDITED BY REBECCA ANN LIND UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Race/Gender/Class/Media 4.0: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers Thank you for your interest in contributing to the 4th edition of this book. We're moving from Pearson to Routledge, but we're looking for the same wide range of content. You can find the table of contents for the 3rd edition here. The priority deadline for proposals (http://go.uic.edu/rgcm) is June 1, 2017; decisions will be announced by July 1, 2017. Completed readings are due January 5, 2018, with editing and revision through May 2018. Additional copyediting should take place in fall, 2018. We expect to publish in early 2019. Manuscripts will examine the consequences, implications, or opportunities associated with issues of diversity (socially constructed differences such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, and so forth) in media.* There are three main sections: Text, Audience, and Production. The reader is designed primarily to introduce undergraduates to considerations of race, class, and gender in the media, although this text has been used in graduate courses and in high schools. Most accepted pieces will present original scholarship. If the piece has been published elsewhere, you must have reprint permission. *Of particular interest are Latino/a/x media; native media; studies of whiteness; studies of production and the media industry *Of less interest, because there will be much written about this by the time this book is published, is the 2016 presidential election and Trump presidency. Final manuscripts will be about 3500-4000 words, including pedagogical activities, and must be written in an accessible fashion. Contributors who meet the deadline will receive a payment of $100 upon publication. More details, and sample readings, will be made available as time goes on. You must respond to all of the questions to submit your proposal. There is no "redo" option once you have submitted, so please be sure your responses are as you wish before hitting submit. You may submit more than one proposal, although it is unlikely that anyone will have more than one piece in the book. Below are the questions asked in the proposal submission form. I recommend working on the responses in a word processor then copying them into the text boxes in the form.

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1. What is the working title of your contribution? (It's okay if this changes later.) 2. Please describe the project, including the research question, method, and justification (even if you wouldn’t use those labels in your finished work). This should be no more than a few paragraphs -up to about a page or so. 3. PARADIGM. We want to include as broad a range of work as possible, so we'd like you to help us categorize your submission. Please indicate which of the following best describes your proposed project. You may select more than one, but if you do, please use the text box to indicate which would be the best primary descriptor. social science humanities critical/cultural studies rhetorical studies combination other 3a. If you'd like to describe anything about your "paradigm" response above, you may. 4. FOCAL POINT. (content, audience, production). Content focuses most closely on texts created by media organizations. Audiences includes media usage, effects of media, audience interpretations of media content, and studies of user-generated content. Production includes studies of media organizations and the creation of content, as well as media activism, access, policy, and regulation. If your work reflects more than one focal point, please select the one you see as primary. You may explain in the text box below if you like. (Please note that we explicitly seek more production pieces.) Content Audience Production 4a. If you'd like to explain your "focal point" response, you may. If it is clear enough on its own, no explanation is necessary. 5. EMPHASIS. (race, gender, ethnicity, class, intersection). Please indicate which groups you'd focus on (Latinas, trans men, etc.) If your work reflects more than one focal point, please select the main one. (Please recall that we explicitly seek more pieces addressing Latina/o/x media, native media, and whiteness.) race (provide details in text box below) ethnicity (provide details in text box below) gender (provide details in text box below) class (provide details in text box below) intersection of any of these (provide details in text box below) 5a. Please provide details regarding your "emphasis" response above. This can be very brief. RGCM4 proposal info

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6. MEDIUM. Please indicate which type of media content you'll be studying. These categories can be confining, so you may select multiple options if you wish. If you think you need to explain further, you may do so in the next text box. Print Legacy Audio media -- Music, Broadcast & Satellite Radio Legacy Video media -- Film, Broadcast and Satellite TV New Audio or Video Media -- focus on digital distribution and/or web 2.0 functions Twitter, microblogging, blogging User-generated content Social media 6a. You may provide details regarding your "medium" response above if you wish. (optional) 7. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR NAME: Please type your name as you would like it to appear on correspondence. (I will ask about co-authors later) CORRESPONDING AUTHOR AFFILIATION: What is your current position, department, and academic affiliation? (e.g., Associate Professor, American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; PhD candidate, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR EMAIL: Please type your preferred email address, and doublecheck for accuracy. All correspondence related to the proposal submission process will be made using this address. ADDITIONAL AUTHORS: If you have any co-authors, please type their name, current position, department, and academic affiliation.. If you have more than one co-author, please enter each on a new line. 8. Is there anything else you'd like to add to your proposal? If not, you're ready to submit! Thank you for your interest! We'll make notifications by July 1, 2017.

Submit proposals online: http://go.uic.edu/rgcm Questions? [email protected]

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