34 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021 Profiling Distinguished Professor, Keyan G Tomaselli. Keyan G Tomaselli holds the following honorary positions, a) Research Fellow in the UJ Centre for Africa-China Studies, b) Honorary Professor, Centre for Trans-media and Trans-culture, Capital Normal University, Beijing, and he c) is also a member of the Expert Program, Shanghai University. He was also recently elected as a Laureate Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, inducting him into the top 150 most distinguished communicologists globally. Editing: Critical Arts (6 x annually) is jointly housed at UJ and UKZN. Journal of African Cinemas (x3) is based at UJ. Critical Arts is coordinating via the UJ Faculty of Humanities a NIHSS-sponsored post-doc publication one-year hands-on training project. Managed by a dedicated special projects editor housed in the School of Communication, the Journal’s editors and publisher are tutoring the qualifying 22 authors, primarily from UJ and UKZN, from proposal to final article submission (2022-2022). The original 38 national candidates are participants in a wider set of training webinars also. New Techno-Humanities (NTH) licensed to Elsevier is sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which scores 47 on the QS Rankings. Tomaselli is a member of the founding NTH editorial board. NTH is the English version of the Chinese-language Journal of SJTU (Philosophy and Social Sciences), indexed in CSSCI, the Chinese equivalent of the Web of Science. Keyan and Damien Tomaselli (VIAD), have been invited to co-edit its second number for late 2022 on the topic of spacetime theory, robotics and virtual reality.1 The very first article inaugurating this new journal (as an open access preprint) was their jointly written New media: Ancient Signs of literacy, Modern Signs of Tracking A second new publication on which Tomaselli serves on the founding board is Journal of Chinese Film Studies (CFS, licensed to De Gruyter) (https://www.degruyter. com/journal/key/jcfs/html?lang=en). CFS publishes English-written articles, reviews and interviews as well as translations of non-English research. Funding is provided by the Beijing Film Academy and China Culture Translation and Support Network, of which Tomaselli is an honorary member. Tomaselli remains an active editorial board member of African Journalism Studies, Communicatio, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Annals of the International Communication Association, The Ethnographic Edge (published by the disciplinary society, Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines), Journal of Autoethnography, Media, Culture & Society, Screening the Past, SA Theatre Journal, Journal of Press/Politics, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (National Communication Association, USA) and Visual Anthropology (Commission on Visual Anthropology), amongst others. Book Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Managerialism and Academentia (HSRC Press, 2021). Back cover endorsements were supplied by Jonathan Jansen and Nithya Chetty.2 Prof Adri Drotskie, Director, UJ School of Management set up a monthly webinar during 2021, initially titled “Academentia Conversations”, drawn from the title of the 2021 book, which has impacted the global critical management studies community. Three reviews have been penned, a lengthy one in Australian Universities Review3, with more scheduled for SA Journal of Science, Electronic Law Review and Transformation. Peer reviewing for i) Stellenbosch SARchi Chair in Science Communication; ii) NRF SARchi (Science Communication) new chair application; iii) assessor for Elsevier of Critical Theory (Shanghai University), for transfer to its stable; iv) assessor for a promotion at UWC (Anthropology) In terms of paradigm sparked, Tomaselli was the opening speaker at the inaugural Participatory Video/Cellphilm Symposium, Canada, 10 June 2021. The associated CellphilmFestival arose 10 years ago from articles he had co-written on the new cellphilm phenomenon. These articles (one of which was translated in updated form into Chinese for English Studies, generated the idea for the annual cellphilm festival, and this first Symposium. An edited anthology to which he contributed ennunicated a new participatory production paradigm: MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C and Schwab-Cartas, J. (eds.) What’s a Cellphilm? Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Partici1 This work dovetails with UJ’s 4IR emphasis: see Sinha, S. “University of critical Pan-African inquiry that seeks to propel Africa into the Fourth Industrial Revolution)” (https://tinyurl.com/UJ-4IR-RI) 2 Contemporary Campus Life Academentia – When Universities ... www.hsrcpress.ac.za › uploads › files › Webinar-...
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