This piece of good news got me up from my bed(rest) today.
I must say that I'm still a bit baffled by the whole academic publishing exercise. This is a piece that I submitted to them way back in December. They gave me their review last May. And I submitted my revision two weeks ago. And now it's bound to be published for either end 2008 or early 2009. No wonder academics get a bad rap for being dinosaurs. And here I remember my friend Nenita commenting how in the three years that I'm supposed to finish ONE book for my PhD, she would have finished an equivalent of 300 projects. Anyway, I consider this paper of mine very special. It's the first written piece that I accomplished at Cambridge. I think it's my best written piece ever (especially because I plagiarized the SilverstoneTM staccato sentences). And, if all goes well, this should serve as my chapter 2 in my PhD book. While it's not the piece that's dearest to me (that would be the awesomely titled 'Children Watching Children', currently being revised for Journal of Children and the Media), I think this is the one where I stretched myself most, as I had to survey the concept of cosmopolitanism in media and cultural studies as well as in anthropology, sociology, and moral philosophy. So without further ado, HERE for download is the pre-publication version of 'The Cosmopolitan Continuum: Locating Cosmopolitanism in Media and Cultural Studies'.
I am legally bound to say: “This paper has been accepted for publication in Media, Culture and Society and the final (edited, revised and typeset) version of this paper will be published by Sage Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © Sage Publications Ltd, 2008.”
Anyway, I hope that this piece of news energizes me to get back up and running for this coming week. The past week, I've blown through two seasons of Popular, the Star Wars prequels, two seasons of 30 Rock, and one season of MTV's awesomely cool school paper reality drama The Paper.
While this week has served as somewhat of a breather from my insane sked this term, I can't wait to start being productive again. And throw that long-awaited wine and cheese party! This Gossip Geek is ready for his comeback.
