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- Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
- Emerald Studies in Media and Communications 2018 Call for THREE Volumes
- New Media and the U.S. South (Edited Collection)
- Call for Collaborators: RSHHGG Lab
Call for Book Chapters: Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
Editors: Margaret D’Silva, University of Louisville, and Ahmet Atay, College of Wooster
Ahmet Atay and I are co-editing a book under contract with Routledge. Because three of our authors are unable to deliver their chapters, we are sending a request for completed chapters or extended manuscripts (1000 words) of works in progress.
Profound changes in global communication, particularly social media, are leading us to re-examine our notions of culture, communication, identity and social movements. This book aims to bridge the gaps between intercultural communication and traditional and new media scholarship.
Media texts, social media platforms, global applications, and cyber culture play a paramount role in intercultural communication, particularly in the context of globalization. Beyond traditional media, social media are particularly relevant to facilitating intercultural communication. Global social network sites such Facebook or Twitter, online gaming sites, online courses, global blogs, and all of the applications that appear in smart phones, tablets or computer devices are part of a very complicated and multi-faceted digital culture that moves beyond the borders of nation-states.
These social media platforms allow global communities to emerge; immigrants, diasporic bodies, and cosmopolitans can communicate and connect across the globe. They also allow members of traditionally oppressed groups to find their voices, cultivate communities, create homes away from home, and construct their cultural identities and narratives. Digitalized social movements around the world, identity performances of diasporic queer bodies, and long-distance relationships between partners and family members are some examples. This cyber culture centers around communication between people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Therefore, studying traditional and social media in relation to intercultural communication is extremely crucial and timely.
This call invites completed manuscripts or extended abstracts of 1000 words for an edited book that takes qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives in examining the reciprocal relationship between media and intercultural communication. The book’s interrelated goals are to:
1 – Examine how media, social media in particular, influence and contribute to intercultural communication.
2 – Analyze the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and media in the context of globalization.
3 – Understand how media, particularly social media, construct identities and enable or disable individuals to express their cultural identities.
4 – Examine social movements in the digital age.
5 – Analyze how globalization as a cultural and political process impacts mediated intercultural communication.
6 – Look at different contemporary issues relevant to intercultural communication and social media scholarship such as immigration, diaspora, religion and spirituality, democracy, and intercultural/ international relationships, from a media perspective.
7 – Examine both negative and positive influences of media, particularly social media, on intercultural communication.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1-Theorizing mediated intercultural communication
2-Social media and cultural identity
3- Social media and intercultural relationships
4- Media and online courses in the context of globalization
5- Cyber intercultural communities
6- Social media and global social movements
7- Immigrant media
To meet our contractual deadline with Routledge, full length manuscripts of about 6,000 words or extended abstracts with a length of not less than 1000 words are due by February 5, 2018, along with pertinent references, contact information, and a short biographic blurb of 300 words. Full-length manuscripts of accepted abstracts are due on March 1, 2017 with a word length of no more than 5,000-7,000 words and in APA style, including references, endnotes, and so forth. Please email your manuscript or extended abstract as word documents to margaret.dsilva@louisville.edu for an initial review.
Emerald Studies in Media and Communications 2018 Call for THREE Volumes
Deadline February 12, 2018
Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is delighted to update our 2018 call with a special volume commemorating the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. The deadline for all three volumes is February 12, 2018.
This special anniversary volume commemorates the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. Submissions are welcome that explore any topic relevant to the thirty-year section history or the future of the section in years to come. Topics include but are not limited to communication, information technologies, and media sociology. Guest editors are Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman.
Call for Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Digital Culture
We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed. We also welcome theoretical submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. Methodological papers will be considered as long as they are grounded in theoretical concerns. The scope of the volume is wide and includes application of classical and contemporary theorists in media contexts. Any topic that engages the volume’s theme is welcome. Potential topics could include: ethics, practices, and politics of “big data”; self, identity, and community; privacy, publicity and surveillance; personal and algorithmic patterns of curation; social network formation, maintenance, and change; news and (dis)information; visual representations; memes and virality; politics; mediated embodiment, etc. Lead editor is Jeremy Schulz with guest editors Gabe Ignatow and Jenny Davis.
Call for Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional
We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed, and theoretical or methodological submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. The scope of this volume is wide, as it aims to contribute phenomenological and epistemic knowledge to the growing field of intersectionality. Submissions are welcome on any topics that speak to intersectionality as it relates to media including gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability. In addition, we are also especially interested in papers that expand and broaden the discourse of intersectionality vis-à-vis media to include: Parenthood, Community, Religion, Nationality, Immigration, Language, Political Association, Aging, etc. Lead editor is Apryl Williams with guest editor Ruth Tsuria.
Submission Guidelines: Deadline February 12, 2018 by email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com.
Submissions should be approximately 7,000-10,000 in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. American or British spelling may be used.
While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must gain all permissions and format their manuscripts in accordance with the series’ guidelines.
Submissions may be considered for either volume. All submissions must include:
1) title of manuscript,
2) abstract up to 250 words,
3) up to 6 keywords,
4) main text with headings,
5) references,
6) as appropriate to the submission appendices, images, figures, and tables.
For initial submissions, please follow these four steps or the submission may not be considered:
1) Create two copies of your submission: one in PDF for anonymous review and one in Word with all author information.
2) Use the title of your submission when naming your copies of your submissions in both Word and PDF.
3) Put the title of your submission and the name of the volume you prefer in the subject line of your email.
4) Email both copies of your submission in a single email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com by the deadline.
Anonymized Review Copy in PDF
Title of your submission + Anonymized (example: “Submission Title Anonymized”)
Remove any author information and affiliations and save doc as PDF
Editorial Copy in Word
Title of your submission + Editorial (example: “Submission Title Editorial”)
In a Word document, include all elements above, as well as a title page with all author names, emails, and bios of up to 250 words.
For more information, see emeraldmediastudies.com.
Please address any questions to: editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com
New Media and the U.S. South (Edited Collection)
Proposals Due May 1, 2018
Editors: Gina Caison (Georgia State University), Lisa Hinrichsen (University of Arkansas), Stephanie Rountree (Auburn University)
We are seeking inventive work from scholars in a variety of fields for an edited collection that will examine the role of new media in relationship to the U.S. South. Technologies of virtuality and transformations in digital media and the geoweb are augmenting traditional concepts of space and place, offering new knowledge politics that carry a cluster of implications for commerce, governance, civic participation, and activism. Beyond its global reach through popular web-based and mobile applications, new media reshape the ways we view and interact within the local, from altering the way we navigate city streets to innovating modes of human intimacy; they challenge and change the ways in which we build and express attachments to place(s), form spatial imaginaries, and interact with landscapes. In examining how changes in information and media landscapes modify concepts of “region,” this collection will both articulate the virtual realities of the 21st-century U.S. South and also historicize the impact of “new” media on a region that has always been mediated.
Recognizing that many forms of “old” media were once “new,” this collection seeks to engage with epistemologies of “newness” that act upon ideas of both “media” and the “South.” To that end, this collection poses several questions for investigation. How have new media technologies challenged the material and linguistic nexuses of southern communities? Might digital technologies aid in, to use Brittany Cooper and Margaret Rhee’s phrase, “hacking the b/w binary” that has permeated narratives of the U.S. South? Or do technologies of geomonitoring and surveillance trap humans in forms of what Jerome E. Dobson and Peter F. Fisher have called “geoslavery”? How are our knowledge and memory of southern space and place being reshaped by new media in the present, and what are the historical antecedents to this phenomenon? What new types of collective memories, politics, and publics are being created through new configurative practices inherent to digital media?
We welcome papers from a variety of scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches. Suggested topics include:
- The impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance in southern spaces
- Identity issues in social networks including but not limited to gender, sexuality, race, and disability
- Place-based new media practices
- New media and the fostering and/or threatening of cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Digital neocolonialism
- Digital decolonization efforts and activism
- U.S. South/souths and the digital public sphere
- Virtual/viral/hypertextual souths
- Region and the digital divide
- The U.S. South and big data
- The mobilizing potential of new media
- Digital news and disinformation
- Networked cultural production in the digital age, including media convergence
- New media and the construction of cultural identity
- Specific studies of the U.S. South/souths on or across specific platforms (e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Wikipedia etc.)
- Affective experiences with the new media
- Phenomenological and epistemological implications of new media
- Podcasting the U.S. South/souths
- Digital temporalities
- Locational data mining and new forms of “geoslavery”
- Neogeographic mapping practices
- Spatial archives, digital preservation, cultural heritage practices
- Transmedia narratives
- The aesthetics and politics of new media
- New pedagogies for the new media landscape
Chapter proposals of 500 words, along with a 200-word bio should be sent to southandnewmedia@gmail.com by May 1, 2018. We expect to notify authors by the end of May, and to require chapters to be completed by the October 1, 2018.
Call for Collaborators: RSHHGG Lab
Call for Collaborators: RSHHGG Lab
We are looking for students, scholars, and/or researchers interested in contributing to a new DH project: The RSHHGG Lab. The RSHHGG Lab is an interactive online index of the Revue de la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie, developed in collaboration with National Digital Initiatives’ LABS at the Library of Congress and with the help of the Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie. The RSHHGG Lab is slated to go live in February 2018 through labs.loc.gov.
The site will feature a fully searchable index of over 90 years of publications, as well as data visualizations, article annotations, and notes. We hope that the index will increase the impact of this important publication by facilitating the work of scholars of Haiti in the US, Haiti, and beyond. The site also aims to foster collaboration and new partnerships by connecting scholars and researchers of all levels and locales. To that end, we are looking for collaborators interested in contributing short (~300 words) article annotations to the site.
Please contact Chelsea Stieber (stieber@cua.edu) if you would like to collaborate. More information (guidelines, formatting, sample annotations) will be provided.
For more information on the project, you can see a short talk Chelsea gave in July 2017 at the National Digital Initiatives’ conference Collections As Data: https://youtu.be/OJWMHzgCu3c?t=6h35m13s