[KS] Kyoto Journal: Sampla Issue and Call for Submissions

[Lauren Deutsch]

In an effort to expand its distribution and to broaden the base of 
submissions for publication consideration, the award-winning "Kyoto Journal:
Perspectives on Asia" would be very pleased to send you a sample copy (It's
published in English in Kyoto). If you would like, please send me your
street address and I'll forward it on to them. Their website is
www.kampo.co.jp/kyoto-journal.

Lauren Deutsch
Contributing Editor, Kyoto Journal

Invitation for Submissions: Kyoto Journal 'Special Issue' 2000
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> > Kyoto Journal is an award-winning, non-profit, volunteer-based
> > international quarterly established in 1986, seeking fresh,
> > thought-provoking "Perspectives on Asia". Every year a special issue
> > explores a specific theme - most recently, "Time". We are now inviting
> > submissions for Special Issue 2000. Deadline September 1, 2000
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> > Our Theme: Media in Asia - The Inside Story
> >
> >
> > Relevant, informative Internet access to Asia is accelerating
> > exponentially, and our special issue on Media in Asia will deliver a wealth
> > of detail about present-day Asia online - both mainstream and alternative -
> > but we're also aiming for inside scoops on Asian cinema, TV, radio,
> > newspapers, magazines, books, CD-ROMS, advertising - in short, the works.
> > We're seeking tightly-focused stories with informed, critical insights into
> > how Japanese, Korean, Burmese, Chinese, Thai, Malaysian or other Asian
> > media differ from their Western counterparts, and how the Western media
> > fare in covering the Asian beat.
> >
> > We're looking for essays or narratives that scrutinize how the media
> > operate, influence, and are themselves influenced - whether by corporate
> > owners, governments, or others with an agenda, or by historical, social or
> > cultural circumstance. What roles do the media play, and how well do they
> > really serve public interest?
> >
> > Stories may weigh the present, forsee the future, or reflect historically
> > on the past. One sample: a major feature (now in progress) on how and why
> > Japan's newspapers deny their readers the skeptical inquiry needed for
> > shaping social change. A related story takes us behind-the-scenes for a
> > day-to-day narrative of the business of putting out the Daily Yomiuri, the
> > English version of Japan's largest-selling newspaper.
> >
> > Meanwhile, a former TV producer/camerawoman in Beijing for Associated Press
> > Television News, America's only TV news agency, shows how boldly the
> > Chinese seek to gag foreign journalists, and worse, how Western media
> > sometimes stifle sensitive stories to safeguard their burgeoning business
> > interests in China.
> >
> > This special issue will also explore the changing, diverse frontiers of
> > popular culture, from movies (including a new piece by Donald Ritchie) all
> > the way out to 'i-mode' cell phones, which are changing forever the ways in
> > which people relate and do business. We hope to delve into non-Western
> > conceptions of celebrity, to stimulate searching interviews with media
> > figures, and to uncover thought-provoking stories readers will not find
> > anywhere else.
> >
> > Please join us!
> >
> > Writers, interviewers, media fans and critics, photographers and artists
> > are invited to participate in this project. Submissions will be received
> > through September 1st, 2000. (If you're interested in contributing, please
> > contact us ASAP to outline your interest. . .) Sorry, we can't pay for
> > articles, but anyone whose work is included will receive a free year's
> > subscription.
> >
> > Contacts:
> >
> > Stewart Wachs, KJ Associate Editor <wachs at gol.com>
> > 077-527-5380
> >
> > Ken Rodgers, KJ Managing Editor <rodgers at kyoto-seika.ac.jp>
> > 075-712-7129
> >
> > Fax: 075-751-1196
> > Mail: 35 Minamigoshomachi, Okazaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8334 Japan
> > Website: www.kampo.co.jp/kyoto-journal
> >
> > SPECIAL ALERT: we'd like to request anyone travelling in Asia this summer
> > to watch out for and collect arresting examples of local media graphics -
> > magazines, handbills, advertising, graffiti - images that could be
> > incorporated in this issue's design. What exists out there as counterpoint
> > to the contemporary perception of media as internationalized corporate
> > satellitefeedfiberopticdigitized hi-tech? Please help!
> >
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