Call for Chapters: Survival Strategies and Transformations of the Global Media Industry: Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Introduction
The outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic has profoundly impacted all human businesses including the
entertainment and media industries. In the global cinema and audiovisual media
industry in particular, this impact has since the year 2020, been very much palpable
at all levels: production, distribution and consumption. This impact has
actually ranged from the interruption of new film productions through the
delayed release of movies to the closure of movie-theatres (which particularly
led to a global decline in film attendance) and the adoption of streaming as an
approach par excellence to film release and distribution. Thanks to the new
normal – which was enabled by the COVID-19 pandemic – a good number of films
initially made for cinemas were, rather released through streaming platforms
such as Disney+ and Netflix among others. Meanwhile, studios, networks,
production companies and businesses making television and film productions
possible were forced to rethink their modus operanda and labour practices in guise
of survival strategies. Issues such as the remote-work protocols became in
vogue. And although the gradual amelioration of the global health situation has
implied a relative return to old traditional production approaches, the impact
of the pandemic has remained visible in the global audiovisual media industry
(Shah, Yaqoub & Wu, 2020; Johnson, 2021). In other words, the COVID
pandemic has enabled the birth, naturalisation and popularisation of various
new cultures in the production, distribution and consumption of cinema and
audiovisual media products. Some of these cultures include the streaming video
on demand (SVOD) paradigm, remote-work-protocols and the popularity of plague
narrative or COVID plot among others. The various cultures mentioned above have
for the most part remained understudied or unstudied.
Actually, only few authors have
given a modicum of scholarly attention to the impact of the COVID pandemic on
global cinema and television production (Li, Wilson and Guan 2023; Nulman
2021). The bulk of the available literature that addresses the impact of the
pandemic on audiovisual media production mainly explore the American or
European experiences leaving other parts of the world visibly untouched
(Fortmueller 2021; Blazquez et al 2020). Furthermore, interesting issues such
the screening of the pandemic, the representation of the COVID-19 pandemic in
television and audio-visual media productions and the impact the pandemic on
narrative/storytelling approaches are grossly overlooked in recent scholarly
works devoted to the COVID-19 pandemic and audiovisual media production. There
therefore arises the need to fill the gap in knowledge mentioned above through
a global perspective on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the audiovisual
media industry.
Objective
Target
Audience
Recommended Topics
- The
COVID-19 pandemic, media production and survival strategies
- Cinematic
and television representations of the COVID-19 pandemic
- The
COVID-19 pandemic and film studios
- The
COVID-19 pandemic and the streaming video on demand (SVOD)
- Gender,
COVID-19 pandemic and TV/Cinema production
- The
COVID-19 pandemic and film festivals
- The
COVID-19 pandemic and global music
- The
COVID-19 and trans-media
- Social
media and COVID themed videos
- The
COVID-19 pandemic, film production and the law
- The
COVID-19, audiovisual media and nation branding
- The
COVID-19 pandemic, diplomacy and TV production
- The
COVID-19 pandemic and film budgeting
- The
COVID-19 pandemic, cinema and fandom
- The
COVID-19 pandemic, television advertising and social representations
Submission
Procedure
Researchers and practitioners
are invited to submit on or before June 19, 2023, a chapter
proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of
his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by June 25, 2023 about
the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by August 13, 2023, and all interested
authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All
submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Note: There are no submission
or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Survival
Strategies and Transformations of the Global Media Industry: Mitigating the
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. All manuscripts are accepted based on a
double-blind peer review editorial process.
All proposals should be
submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission
manager at: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6566
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be
published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic
publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group
Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business
Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference"
imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly
journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of
innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social
science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science
and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information
science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is
anticipated to be released in 2024.
Important
Dates
Contact Info:
Floribert Patrick C. Endong PhD, University of Dschang, Cameroon
URL: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6566