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VLT is published semiannually by the University of Texas Press. Twitter:
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VLT is collectively edited by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and The University of Texas at Austin, with the support of media scholars at those institutions and throughout the country. Each issue provokes debate about critical, theoretical, and historical topics relating to a particular theme.

08/07/2025

New Call for Papers!

Issue 98 Theme: MEDIA FUTURES
Deadline: September 21, 2025

30/04/2025

NOW AVAILABLE: The spring 2025 issue No. 95, on the theme of Media Values.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-velvet-light-trap/

18/03/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Velvet Light Trap issue 97, "Media Affection and Collection"

08/11/2024

The new issue is now available, No. 94 "Creative Labor and Precarity". Order your copy today! https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-velvet-light-trap/

08/10/2024

CFP: The Velvet Light Trap 96 "Continuity and Change in Media Representation"

In addition, VLT accepts open call submissions

Submissions due October 18th, 2024

CFP: Continuity and Change in Media Representation The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 96 (to be published Fall 2025) Special Issue Theme Representation matters has become a popular idiom conveying the transformative power of media representation to reframe cultural narratives and material conditions...

12/09/2024

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨

Call For Papers: The Velvet Light Trap 96: "Continuity and Change in Media Representation" 📽️🪞💻

See CFP below for more details. Now accepting open call submissions as well!

Submissions due October 18th, 2024

https://shorturl.at/EDV3S

23/07/2024

NEW CALL FOR PAPERS: Velvet Light Trap Issue 96
Theme: Continuity and Change in Media Representation
Deadline: September 20th, 2024

20/03/2024

The Velvet Light Trap #93 on "Reconsidering Mass Media" is now available!

Visit https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-velvet-light-trap/ to order your copy.

12/10/2023

NEW CALL FOR PAPERS: Media Values
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025)

Deadline- January 28th, 2024

06/09/2023

Issue 92 on "Genres and Disruption" is now available! Here's a look at the Table of Contents, and visit https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-velvet-light-trap/ for subscription information.

05/09/2023

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨
Call for Papers: The Velvet Light Trap 94: "Creative Labor and Precarity."

See CFP below for more details. Now accepting open call submissions as well!

Submissions due October 1st, 2023

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XoUNV_aL4RlUqZJgTu9Q_B2YBKDz_FkiOudislq0Y8Y/edit?usp=sharing

14/07/2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Velvet Light Trap 94 — Labor and Precarity.

Now accepting open call submissions as well!

See CFP below for more details.

Submissions due by September 15, 2023.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XoUNV_aL4RlUqZJgTu9Q_B2YBKDz_FkiOudislq0Y8Y/edit?pli=1

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