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CFP IJOC (Un)civil Society in Digital China

Call for Proposals
International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
Special Journal Issue – (Un)civil Society in Digital China

Special Editors
Min Jiang (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Communication Studies, UNC, Charlotte, USA

Ashley Esarey (Ph.D.), Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada

Rationale
Civil society’s role in furthering democratization and the development of a public sphere has long attracted scholars whose work has traced the historical roots of civil society in China and celebrated its emergence offline and online. While decades of economic reforms have empowered myriad civil society organizations, volatile contention has arisen among social groups along ideological, class, ethnic, racial and regional fault lines. Uncivil exchanges, amplified by the Internet and social media, often work at cross purposes and fail to produce consensus or solutions to public problems. These disputes, and the underlying social/political/cultural schisms, threaten to undermine constructive citizen engagement and the promise of civil society in China. They also challenge the notion of a unified civil society standing in solidarity against a monolithic, authoritarian state.

Consider the following examples of new sociopolitical contention:
o The Internet flame war between Han Han and Fang Zhouzi that delegitimized the notion of “public intellectual” in China
o Left-Right debate among China’s intellectual communities that spill over into street brawls
o Vigilantism and breaches of privacy (i.e., instances of “human flesh search engine” and the Guo Meimei Red Cross scandal)
o Online conflicts between “haves” and “have-nots” amidst extreme inequality
o Virtual contention between Han and ethnic minorities over the status of Tibet and Xinjiang
o Racial discourse on mixed-race Chinese and immigrants
o Clashes over Taiwan’s “sunflower movement” expressed on the Internet
o Divergent online opinions about the “umbrella movement” in Hong Kong

This special section invites contributors to unpack the multilayered, multidimensional reality and contradictions that define the Chinese Internet, focusing on the big-picture ramifications of online contention. With a population of nearly 650 million, Chinese Internet users are more diverse than the tech-savvy, liberal elites who first went online two decades ago. The groups active online today include politically conservative, nationalistic, apathetic, and even reactionary individuals. They also evince complicated attitudes towards the state, business and other demographic segments. The complex make-up of Chinese civil society and the nature of its self-representation thus challenge, on the one hand, an idealized notion of civil society that is independent from the private sphere, government and business, and on the other, the implicit assumption prevalent in Chinese Internet studies of a liberal subject demanding social justice, media freedom and political reform.

Questions for contributors:
o What are the characteristics of Chinese civil society? What is its potential or limitations? Does the proliferation of the Internet in China necessarily empower civil society in China? Is the opposite possible?
o Is civil society always civil? Can it be uncivil, fractious and even reactionary? How does the Chinese Internet amplify or mitigate (un)civil tendencies? To what extent is online public debate or collective action becoming more fragmentary, working at cross purposes, or resulting in “echo chamber” effects and polarization? Do nationalistic, jingoistic and even reactionary forces overwhelm and dominate “civil” discourse?
o Are the “uncivil” tendencies of the Chinese Internet inevitable in a society composed of increasingly diverse groups? To what extent do commercial and state institutions influence uncivil tendencies online through intervention or even manipulation? What roles do powerful Internet businesses and elite personalities play?
o Under what circumstances might incivility online prove advantageous for political or social change?
o What evidence do we have for (un)civil society in China? Examples might include the formation of informal groups and formal organizations, discourses, and their intersection with collective action, social movements, and other social behavior.

Contributions to this special section will map a spectrum of key actors, issues, and orientations of a contentious civil society that has been submerged under a larger body of research on China and established democracies that assume state-society confrontation and fail to explore intra-societal tensions. Collectively, the contributions promise to produce a theoretically-interesting and empirically rich body of work that expands and deepens Chinese Internet research dominated by work focused on such topics as Chinese Internet censorship and propaganda, online activism, civic associations, deliberation and online culture. Insights generated from this special issue will in turn inform and advance research on civil society by debating its essence and examining the conditions conducive or unfavorable to its growth, with implications going beyond China. Although contributions will emphasize what polarizes Chinese society and sometimes seem to tear it apart, we welcome contributions that analyze the prospects for rising above incivility, bridging sociopolitical schisms, and building consensus without compromising self-expression and personal security.

Affiliated Conference
We encourage interested contributors to attend the 13th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) that includes as its theme “(un)civil society in digital China.” The conference will be held at the University of Alberta, Canada on May 27-28, 2015. The deadline for submitting paper abstracts (400 words) for the conference is February 15, 2015.

Proposed Schedule for IJoC Submissions
Abstract Deadline July 1, 2015
Notice of Abstract Acceptance August 1, 2015
Full Paper Deadline January 1, 2016

Paper Guidelines
o Abstracts submitted for pre-screening should be less than 500 words. Please send your abstract to Min Jiang and Ashley Esarey.
o Submitted papers will go through double-blind peer review.
o The maximum word count is 9,000 words (including the abstract, keywords, images with captions, references, and appendices, if any). Submitted full papers are not guaranteed acceptance.
o Formatting of the special section follows Author Guidelines of the International Journal of Communication (IJoC). Articles will be returned to authors if not APA (6th edition) compliant.

CFP Research About Communication

CALL FOR PAPERS
Research about Communication: History, current situation and prospective
Special issue of DISERTACIONES: Anuario Electrónico de Estudios en Comunicación Social
Edited by Manuel Martínez Nicolás (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) and Miguel Vicente Mariño (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)

Deadline for submitting full articles: 15/10/2015

The scientific research of communication has experienced during the last 25 years a pronounced expansion. During this period, it has not only reinforced its scholarly institutionalization (proliferation of university programmes, strengthening of scientific societies, launching of specialized journals…) but it has also increased its position within Social Sciences and Humanities, as far as it fully deals with one of the key features of current societies: the analysis and comprehension of the digital and communications revolution. Connected to this renewed energy, lately one can perceive a growing interest to address a reflexive approach towards the scholarly community itself, in order to analyse their scientific practices and epistemological options, to reveal its knowledge interests, to evaluate the outcomes it is producing, to account of the institutional devices influencing in research tasks or to highlight the strengthens and weaknesses that define the scientific study of communication.

There is no doubt that the reflexive attitude is an indicator of maturity within a scientific community. Moreover, it is the required path to follow in order to meet your own identity and, even more, to gain a certain degree of recognition in the general scientific field. Communication research has benefitted during the last years from the heuristic value of this reflexive approach, as the proliferation of projects dealing with the analysis of the conducted research, generally labelled as “metha-research” studies, as they synthetize the predominant objects of study, methods and theoretical approaches in the field or in their specific domains. Besides these type of publications, usually focused on the current research, there is a growing interest in renewing the history of studies about communication. Under the International Communication Association (ICA) sponsorship, and in collaboration with the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the European Communication Reseach and Education Association (ECREA), London hosted the conference New Histories of Communication Studies in June 2013, putting forward an ambitious agenda for a comparative historiography and opening a great scholarly avenue for establishing and consolidating international networks and common projects. The recent joint project between ECREA and ALAIC (Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación) to edit a volume titled Connecting paradigms: Communication studies in Latin America and Europe, where the editors ask for contributions “including a historical perspective, a detailed analysis of the current debates and future proposals”, indicates that this agenda has already started its development in specific actions.

DISERTACIONES proposes this special issue to strengthen this reflexive approach, and invites the scholarly community to send their contributions, preferably as empirical studies, helping to increase the knowledge about the field of Communication Research, and covering, among others, the following aspects:

1. The scientific production in this field, in order to identify the predominant objects of study, topics and problems; the theoretical and methodological approaches; the authors, schools and traditions; the research outputs and the contributions to the progress of the scientific knowledge about communication, etc.

2. The main features and the internal structure of the scientific community of communication researchers: research groups, networks and scholarly relations, institutional and educational profile and background of researchers, epistemological and paradigmatical adscriptions, etc.

3. The socio-institutional context in which the scientific labour is inserted, empashizing the organization of research (universities, specialized centres, companies), the public scientific policies, the funding programmes for research, the regulation to access teaching and researching opportunies (accreditation processes, system of rewards, etc.), the influence of the social and historical contexts in the research practices, etc.

4. The process of secondary institutionalization of Communication Research, particularly referred to the scientific societies (constitution, roles, functions, activities, organization, etc.), scientific journals (procedures, criteria, etc.), publishing companies and book series.

All these features of Communication Research can be approached from diverse disciplinary strategies and perspectives. Hence, within the analysis of the scientific production one can find both quantitative studies (bibliometrics, content analyses) and critical evaluations about results and contributions regarding specific domains and topics (political communication, audience/reception studies, organizational communication, etc.). Additionally, the inquiry about scientific communities, socio-institutional contexts and secondary processes of institutionalization welcome contributions from a wide array of social sciences, such as Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Economy, Etc.). Transversally, all these aspects can be approached from a historical perspective, both in terms of dealing with certain moments or periods in the past and in revisit their evolution across time and space.

El Anuario Electrónico de Estudios en Comunicación Social “Disertaciones” es una publicación arbitrada e indizada, editada conjuntamente entre la Universidad de los Andes de Venezuela (Departamento de Comunicación Social de la ULA Táchira, Grupo de Investigación Comunicación, Cultura y Sociedad y Laboratorio de Investigación Educativa Simón Rodríguez (LIESR)) y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid de España (Grupo Mediación Dialéctica de la Comunicación Social MDCS). En la última evaluación de Latindex, Disertaciones fue indizada cumpliendo un 100% de los criterios de calidad tomados en cuenta por este índice regional.

CFP The Spanish Civil War 80 years on: Discourse, Memory and the Media

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies – Special Issue 8.1 (Spring 2016)
*Special Issue: ‘The Spanish Civil War 80 years on: discourse, memory and the media’*
Guest Editors: Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University), Stuart Price (De Montfort University) and Laia Quílez Esteve (Rovira i Virgili University)
Deadline for contributions: *15 October, 2015*

The Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies invites submissions for a 2016 Special Issue that will mark the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, by presenting a collection of papers that represent the latest perspectives on the
cultural, historical, regional, political, and social aspects of the Civil War and its legacy.

If it is true that ‘history is written by the victors’, the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War provides a textbook example of this tendency: the victorious Nationalists spent the following thirty-six years (1939-1975) trying to eliminate any remaining vestiges of those who had fought against them. For the losers, this meant in effect both a constant purge
of any dissenting ideologies, and the physical persecution of anyone who was suspected of sympathising with the Republican cause. Furthermore, the ‘pact of silence’ that was agreed during the transition to democracy meant that the problems caused by the Civil War and the dictatorship remained unresolved long after Franco’s death, maintaining deep-rooted
divisions in contemporary Spain.

It was only approximately thirty years after Franco’s death that the recovery of memory was promoted through social, political, and cultural means, so that the unheard voices of the past began to gain attention. However, this remains a highly contentious area, since the old struggles often re-emerge in contemporary political and socio-economic issues within the country. The Law of Historical Memory provides guidelines on several issues related to memory, from the exhumation of mass graves to the alteration of street names to eliminate references to agents of the dictatorship. However, the limited extent and application of this Law by the Government has led to the further polarisation of political perspectives (while thousands of families are still looking for the graves of their relatives).

This Special Issue considers Memory as yet another site of struggle, a contemporary re-enactment of the old divisions that are very much part of the country’s identity and which still permeate social, political and cultural life in contemporary Spain. The collection of articles will acknowledge the reproduction of these tensions, but will also offer a clear-sighted account of the conflict, grounded in a variety of historical and political discourses, oral testimonies, and analyses of media outputs.

Among other aspects, this issue is concerned with the ways in which children and grandchildren of victims and survivors of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship relate to the memory of the repression, and to the development of the democratic transition. The examination of these issues from the perspective of generational memory involves several considerations, including the socialization of memory, the institutionalization and revision of the past, the connections between popular culture, media practices and representations, and the uses of memory through time in relation to the changes in the policies of remembrance.

We invite contributions from scholars, researchers and practitioners from around the world to submit full articles on topics that may include, but are not limited to, the following:
– Media representations of trauma and violence in the Civil War, Franco’s repression, the final years of the dictatorship and the transition
– The significance of the conflict in contemporary Spain
– Memory and the Civil War
– Postmemory and Civil War, Francoism and the Transition
– Collective identities (national and regional)
– The work of Memory Associations in Spain
– Women in the Civil War and beyond
– The struggle of anarchists and libertarian communists
– Constructions of ‘national’ (Spanish) memories and their national and regional significance
– Social perceptions of the Civil War, the dictatorship and the transition
– Using the past to look into the future

The journal plans to include articles between *6000 and 7000 words*, as well as brief research notes and reports of around *3000 words* for the Viewpoint section. Full articles for proposed contributions should be sent to catalan.journal@urv.cat by *15 October 2015*. All contributions will be subjected to double blind peer review. And please follow the guidelines for authors.

CFP Mediation Theory and Practice

Call For Papers for the first volume of Mediation Theory and Practice.

Editor
Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University

Review Editor
Laura Mackey, College of Mediators

Mediation Theory and Practice is the journal of the College of Mediators. It is an international forum for original, peer-reviewed research about mediation, as well as practice and events reports, policy discussions and innovations in mediation training and education. The journal’s approach is multidisciplinary and it is a resource for academics, practitioners, trainers, and policy makers. Mediation is understood in its broadest context, with the journal publishing the latest research and practice focused on understanding the causes of and solutions to interpersonal, intergroup and international human conflict. It welcomes work on all forms of mediation, from family, community and medical mediation to civil, intergenerational, commercial and peer mediation, as well as on related approaches to alternative dispute resolution.

Mediation Theory and Practice welcomes empirical, theoretical and practice-based articles which display originality in terms of their theoretical developments, use of empirical materials, transfer and exchange of knowledge between academic, practitioner and policy audiences. Other pieces will include policy articles, ‘rapid response’ discussions, special themed issues, conference and event reports, brief translations of key articles originally published in languages other than English, discussions of innovative strategies for mediation training, profiles of key figures in the field, and reviews of recent books on mediation and related topics. Overall, articles address the implications of theory and research for informing practice and vice versa.

The editors welcome the submission of the following types of material for publication in the journal: Research Articles (typically reporting the results of empirical research or theoretical pieces), Practice Articles (typically reporting both training teaching practice, contextualized in current debates, and including reflections on research but focused particularly towards concrete guidance for practice; these can include case studies), Policy Articles (as previously but with a particular focus on local, regional, national or international mediation policy), Rapid Responses (typically responding to live debates in mediation research, practice or policy with the aim of fast-tracked publication), Conference and Event Reports, Book Reviews, Review Essays, and Prize Articles (articles that have been awarded MTP prizes). Submitted articles are subject to a blind, peer review process. Please adhere to the guidelines (see ‘For Authors Page’ above) when preparing submissions for the journal.

Publication and Frequency
Published twice a year, May and November, commencing May 2016

ISSN: 2055-3501 (print)
ISSN: 2055-351X (online)

Send books for review to:
Laura Mackey
College of Mediators
Unit 1, OpenSpace
41 Old Birley Street
Manchester,M15 5RF
United Kingdom

Chinese Management in a Global Context

Call for Submissions: Chinese Management in a Global Context
A Special Issue of China Media Research

This special issue (CMR-2016-04) invites scholars from across disciplines to examine the Chinese management in a global context. The rapid development of the Chinese economy as well as the internationalization of Chinese firms in recent decades has warranted an opportunity for scholars to examine, refine, and develop a set of systematic knowledge regarding Chinese management from indigenous, non-Chinese (e.g., Western), and/or ambi-cultural perspectives. Papers dealing with the test or explication of principles, theories, or methods of Chinese management from different cultural or contextual aspects using qualitative and/or quantitative research methodologies are invited. Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. We’ll accept the extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) of the paper at the first stage of the reviewing process. Please email Word attachment of the extended abstract to the guest editors, Dr. Guo-Ming Chen and Dr. Tony Fang.

All submissions must be received by October 1, 2015.
The complete manuscript must be received by March 25, 2016 after the extended abstract is accepted.
Accepted manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA style and should not exceed 8,000 words (including references).

CFP Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies

Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies (Karl Alber Verlag, Freiburg/Munich, Germany) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed, international journal dedicated to comparative thought. It seeks to explore common spaces and differences between philosophical traditions in a global context. Without postulating cultures as monolithic, homogenous, or segregated wholes, it aspires to address key philosophical issues which bear on specific methodological, epistemological, hermeneutic, ethical, social, and political questions in comparative thought. Confluence aims to develop the contours of a philosophical understanding not subservient to dominant paradigms and provide a platform for diverse philosophical voices, including those long silenced by dominant academic discourses and institutions. Confluence also endeavors to serve as a juncture where specific philosophical issues of global interest may be explored in an imaginative, thought-provoking, and pioneering way.

The journal seeks submissions on all relevant aspects of comparative philosophy. The editors welcome innovative and persuasive ways of conceptualizing, articulating, and representing intercultural encounters. Contributions (articles, book-reviews, survey articles, critical notes) should be able to facilitate the development of new perspectives on current global thought-processes and sketch the outlines of salient future developments.

Papers should not exceed a word-count of 6250 words. They can be submitted via email.

CFP LusoFrance: Cultural Productions by and about the Portugues and Lusodescendants in France

CALL FOR ARTICLES
For a special issue of The InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies
“LusoFrance: Cultural Productions by and about the Portuguese and Lusodescendants in France”

Since the nineties, the Portuguese in France can no longer be considered an invisible minority (Albano Cordeiro, Jean-Baptiste Pingault). Although they have long been the focus of scholarly inquiry in sociology (e.g. Michel Oriol, Maria Do Ceu Cunha, Maria Beatriz Rocha Trindade, Albano Cordeiro, Christine Volovitch-Tavares, Irène dos Santos, Jorge de la Barre, Manuel Antunes da Cunha, Maria Baganha, etc.), political science, history (e.g. Victor Pereira, Cristina Clímaco) and linguistics (e.g. Michele Koven, Roselyne de Villanova), their cultural productions have remained understudied.

In order to explore the diversity of cultural productions of “Luso-France,” we wish to expand the field of cultural studies on the Portuguese diaspora in France in this special issue. To date, scholarship in this emerging area of inquiry has addressed literature (Ana Paula Coutinho, Isabelle Marques, Marie Isabelle Vieira, Martine F. Wagner), immigrant life stories (Elsa Lechner), film and documentary (José Cardoso Marques, João Sousa Cardoso), poetry (Dominique Stoenesco), drama (Graça dos Santos), the graphic novel (Michael Gott), and humor (Michèle Koven and Isabelle Marques). We seek papers that expand on this approach, welcoming work that explores how the cultural productions of the Portuguese in France can illuminate contemporary debates in Francophone, postcolonial and migration studies, and more specifically on issues related to national, transnational, diasporic, and ethnic identities, gender and sexuality, travel writing, (post)memory, history, and trauma. We invite original contributions with a multidisciplinary approach on the diverse genres of Portuguese and lusodescendants’ cultural productions in France (literature, migrant and life writing, film, poetry, theater, comics and graphic novels, humor, multimedia, music).

Unpublished and original papers in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French are welcome. Possible areas for consideration include, but are not limited to:
– Memories of o salto, clandestinity, border crossings, travel writing
– Exile, nostalgia, saudade
– Working lives of immigrants, labor bodies, disability
– Political engagement, écriture engagée, writing politics
– Representations of identity, hybridity, transnationalism, sexuality, LGBT
– Transgenerational memories, postmemory of the dictatorship and Portugal’s Salazar
– The Portuguese and lusodescendants in history, national, regional or local French history
– The status of women, women writing, gender
– The myth of return, return narrations, road movies
– Languages, dialects, multilingualism, lyrics, music, humor
– Images of the Portuguese in comics, photographic, film, digital representations

Submissions: All articles will be double-blind peer refereed. An invitation to submit a paper to the special issue in no way guarantees that the paper will be published; this is dependent on the review process. Prospective contributors should email all inquiries and submissions to the issue editors, Martine F. Wagner and Michèle Koven. Please send an abstract (400-500 words) with a bio-paragraph by June 30, 2015. Articles will be due by December 1, 2015.

Details: Manuscripts must be submitted electronically as word documents. When submitting your paper, please use the following checklist to match your submission with the editorial guidelines: 1. On a separate page, please include the following author’s information: name, address, and email address, professional affiliation, biographical note (maximum 150 words) 2. Title of the paper 3. Abstract (400-500 words), and Keywords (5-7 maximum, separated by commas) 4. Research Paper: a) Length: 20-25 pages maximum. This length includes only the text of the article and not the abstract, references, notes and appendices. b) Paper should conform to the MLA preparation guidelines for punctuation, spelling, capitalization, italics, abbreviations, headings, subheadings, quotations, numbers, tables, figures, citations, and references. c) Papers should use: double-spaced text – 12-point standard font -(Times, Times Roman)- 1 inch (2,54cm) margins (i.e., top, bottom, left, right) – italics, as needed, but no underlining – page numbers, in the upper right corner of the page header; – section headers, as needed- endnotes – any acknowledgements of persons, institutions, or granting agencies should be brief. – tables, figures and other artwork: Number tables, figures or illustrations consecutively throughout the text. Each should include a title. All labels on figures and illustrations must be typeset. Images must be accompanied with proof of copyright permission.

CFP IJOC Section on Net Neutrality

International Journal of Communication Call for Papers: Special Section on Net Neutrality
The Work of Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality and the Labors of Policy Advocacy in the U.S.

Special Section Editors
Becky Lentz, McGill University
Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine

Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2015

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in February 2015 to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, and thus to secure Network Neutrality and the principle of nondiscrimination at its center, it delivered an important victory to the millions of people who had insisted that strong Network Neutrality protections were crucial for an open, democratic Internet. This victory owed in part to the tremendous outpouring of public support for Network Neutrality, which itself owed to the ongoing labors of community organizers, issue campaigners, funders, scholar activists, public interest lawyers and many others to make visible how issues of media policy fundamentally affect issues of social justice and political change.

For this special section of the International Journal of Communication, we seek articles that foreground the multiple labors involved in achieving policy victories like the Network Neutrality Order. In this section, we aim to make visible the often invisible work required to effect lawmaking, judicial rulings, and regulations in the public interest.

We specifically wish to publish historically and theoretically informed articles that are attentive to examples of multiple forms of advocacy work that include but are not limited to the following: strategic research, community organizing and mobilizing, popular education, issue campaigns, donor advising and support, lobbying, legal interventions, regulatory filings, and public education campaigns. Also of interest are historically and theoretically-informed papers on the political economy of policy advocacy, especially those attentive to the multiple forms of capital (financial, informational, reputational, cultural) required for advocacy work. Of particular interest is research that documents the multiple challenges involved in advocacy work on the Network Neutrality issue. In addition, we seek analyses of the materials and artifacts used in organizing, mobilizing, and lobbying for Network Neutrality, including studies of the rhetorical appeals and visual culture deployed by advocates.

We additionally seek theoretically informed analyses of how news sources—especially non-corporate, civil society outlets—reported on and framed the Network Neutrality issue, as a strategic feature of advocacy work.

Finally, we seek ideas for book reviews relevant to the topic of the special section (maximum 1,500 words including references; guidelines available).

Note: For this special section, we will not be seeking legal interpretations and policy analyses of the Network Neutrality debate itself; sufficient work already exists in this area in media and communication studies journals as well as law journals. Nor are we seeking normative papers advancing solutions to achieve Network Neutrality. Instead, our focus is on scholarship that foregrounds the varieties of work required to intervene on behalf of the public interest.

If interested, please submit full articles by August 31, 2015. Articles should be no more than 8,000 words (all-inclusive) and should follow the APA-6th Edition style guide. Articles should be submitted to the International Journal of Communication and specify “Net Neutrality Special Section” in your entry. See author guidelines.

Please direct any questions about topics, formats, article length and expected submission standards to the special section editors Becky Lentz or Allison Perlman. Be sure to specify “Net Neutrality Special Section” in your email subject line.

Call for Nominations: Communication Yearbook Editor

The International Communication Association Publications Committee is soliciting nominations for the editor of the Communication Yearbook (CY). Self-nominations are welcome. The appointment is for four years and begins in August/September, 2015.

Communication Yearbook will be published in four issues per year, with a rapid online publication model, and bound together as a final volume at the end of the year. Each volume will publish state-of-the-art essays and synthesis of scholarship. A new section to be developed by the future editor with the support of the ICA Board of Directors will include topical review essays of significant publications in the field.

It is both highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. The new editor of Communication Yearbook enjoys the opportunity to help shape the future of this important publication outlet, which will transition more formally into a journal format for Communication Yearbook 41-44 (2016-2019) enjoying the full electronic editorial support of a publisher.

A complete nomination package includes a letter of application from the candidate which should include a mission statement for the editorship; the candidate’s vitae; 2-3 letters of support from published scholars familiar with the candidate’s work, experience and suitability for the task of journal editing; and a letter of institutional support from the candidate’s home institution. Responsibilities are detailed in the ICA Publication Manual.

Editors of ICA publications should reflect and seek to enhance the diversity of the Association in terms of their interest areas, gender, ethnicity, and national origin.

Please send your nomination package at your earliest convenience to Michael Haley, ICA Executive Director. Review of packets will begin on 1 April 2015, and continue until the position is filled.

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