Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Social Media in the Middle East

Social Media in the Middle East
Call for Chapter Proposals
Deadline: September 20, 2014

Editors:
Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia/Shanghai International Studies University
Adil Nurmakov, Ph.D., International IT University, Kazakhstan
Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran, Iran

Publication information: to be published in late 2015 or early in 2016 by Dignity Press.

The Middle East is a challenging and highly provocative region today, and many countries and regional or local groups have a vibrant/fractured social media in interaction or opposition. The editors believe that Social Media in the Middle East will be a valuable scholarly book which will provide greater insights into the historical and contemporary events in the rapidly changing Middle East.

Seeking online chapter proposals of 200-300 words and a resume, for intended scholarly analytical chapters of 22-25 pages on topics related to social media in the Middle East: historically, politically, militarily, geographically, economically, religiously, culturally, and/or cross-culturally,  the chapters including an abstract of about 200 words; key words; an analytical framework; with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method methodology; discussion; appropriate charts and graphs; and generous citations and references according to the sixth edition of the APA Guidelines. A maximum of three coauthors for each chapter is allowed.

Interested scholars of the Middle East seeking to submit a high quality chapter proposal of 200-300 words, plus a resume, should send it all of the editors (emails in links above) by September 20, 2014.

Decisions about accepted chapters will be made in between mid-September to early October, 2014. Selected authors will have four months from acceptance to complete their chapters (not later than February 1, 2015).  All finalized chapters will be reviewed by the three coeditors for recommended revisions, additions, or changes.  Social Media in the Middle East will also include authors’ 200-250 word biographies in the third person, and thumbnail photos as an attachment, with at least 300 pixils. It is intended that Social Media in the Middle East will be in the range of 500+ pages with a preface, introduction, 14-15  high quality chapters, biographies and thumbnail photos of authors, and an index.

In the meantime, already planned  tentative chapters include:
*Dr. Haneen Mohammad Shoaib, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business  and Technology, Saudia Arabia:  social media in Saudia Arabia and immediate  environs, with Dr. Samar M. Shoaib as coauthor;  *Adil Numakov, International IT University, Kazakhstan: a cross-cultural study relating to social media in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan as they border the Middle East; and
*Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran:  social media in Iran.

These tentative chapters do not exclude other possible proposed chapters relating to similar topics.

The editors have an interest in additional topics, as illustrative, among other possibilities: Cross-cultural study of social media in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank; Social media historically and contemporarily in Egypt; Cross-cultural study of social media in Sudan and South Sudan; Cross-cultural study of social media in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Dubai; Cross-cultural study of social media among the Kurds in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Turkey; Cross-cultural study of social media in the Syrian government and opposition groups in Syria; Social media in Iraq; Social media in Turkey; Social media in Lebanon; Social media in Kuwait; Social media of ISIS, the Levant, proposed Caliphate; etc.

CFP Women, Gender & Justice: International Perspectives

Call for Chapters/Papers: Women, Gender, and Justice: International Perspectives

We are in the process of editing a forthcoming book publication tentatively entitled Women, Gender, and Justice: International Perspectives to be published by an international publisher of progressive academic research. The book is dedicated to include issues & challenges pertaining to women and justice and/or gender and justice. Remember, any issue related to women or gender should be discussed from the point of view of justice (law or fairness). Authors are free to select any social, political or legal issues or regulatory challenges or legal reforms as a whole in their country or in any country.

Participants are invited to respond to this call for papers by:
Submitting an abstract of between 400-500 words, including title and keywords for an individual paper;
Submitting CV along with the abstract; to the editors: Anil Kumar and Dr Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi
Abstracts Due: 31 October 2014; Acceptance Advice: 1 November 2014
Book Publication: March 2016

Please mail the editors for more details & discussions.

(1) Anil Kumar, Assistant Professor
Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Kashmir Nowgam Campus, Nowgam, Srinagar, 190 015 (Jammu & Kashmir) India

(2) Dr Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, Assistant Professor School of Languages & Literature, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu, 182 230 (Jammu & Kashmir) India

CFP Comm Yearbook literature reviews

Communication Yearbook 40: Deadline February 15, 2015
A Publication of the International Communication Association
Editor: Elisia L. Cohen

CY 40 is a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. Specifically, we are seeking state-of-the-discipline literature reviews, meta-analyses, and essays that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts. Submitted manuscripts should provide a rigorous assessment of the status, critical issues and needed directions of a theory or body of research; offer new communication theory or additional insights into communication systems, processes, policies and impacts; and/or expand the boundaries of the discipline. In all cases, submissions should be comprehensive and thoughtful in their synthesis and analysis, and situate a body of scholarship within a larger intellectual context. For CY 40, the editorial board also welcomes essays that advance knowledge and understanding of communication research methodologies and applications.

Details
*Submit manuscripts electronically via a Word attachment to Elisia L. Cohen, Editor
*Submissions for CY 40 will be considered from January 1, 2015 through February 15, 2015
*Use APA style, 6th edition
*Include a cover letter indicating how the manuscript addresses the CY 40 call for papers
*Prepare manuscripts for blind review, removing all identifiers
*Include a title page as a separate document that includes contact information for all authors
*Following Communication Yearbook‘s tradition of considering lengthier manuscripts, initial manuscript submissions may range from 6,500 to 13,000 words (including tables, endnotes, references).
*Incomplete submissions not adhering to the above journal guidelines will be returned to authors for revision.

For more information about CY 40 or this call for submissions, please contact Dr. Cohen, Editor, Communication Yearbook.

CFP Information History of World War I (Hungary)

Call for Papers
Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO
for a publication on the Information History of World War I. They are looking for contributions from historians and archivists from around the world. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 September.

The proposed section headings are the:
*        destruction or loss of information during the war;
*        positive impact of the war on information creation/generation;
*        flow of information on the frontlines, in the hinterland or in-between;
*        parasites of the information flow;
*        visual war; which can be seen and read;
*        realignment of schemas, cultural patterns and mental models.

See the complete Call for Papers for further details.

CFP World Peace Day e-conference

Call for Papers
Multidisciplinary International e-Conference dedicated to World Peace Day

All accepted papers will be published as a special publication with a unique ISBN number. The authors will be also sent a printed copy of the publication after the conference finishes. The papers will be also published in a special edition of European Scientific Journal. The authors of all the accepted papers on the conference will be given the opportunity to present them online. However the authors of the accepted papers are not obliged to present their works. Supporting the concept of interdisciplinarity, we welcome submissions in all academic fields.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 10th September 2014

Organizers: European Scientific Institute, ESI (affiliated institution with the UN Academic Impact) and Center for Law and Economic Studies, University of the Azores (Universidade dos Açores), Portugal. For submissions or any other information please send an email to the conference organizers.

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Business/Professional Comm Quarterly: Reviewers/Submissions call

The Business and Professional Communication Quarterly has had a change of name and scope. BPCQ is published by Association of Business Communication, and ABC is one of the organizations making up the Council of Communication Associations, the parent organization of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue. ABC has international members, including one serving on the CID Advisory Board, so they are definitely open to international responses.

 

 

 

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CFP Translation, Cosmopolitanism & Resistance

Journal of Communication and Culture

Theme: Translation, Cosmopolitanism & Resistance
Coordination: Maria Alexandra Lopes
Deadline for submission of original articles: 30th November 2014

Throughout history, translation has always been a site of multiple, often conflicting political, social and aesthetic agendas. Translation has diversely proven a pathway to conquering and steamrolling others into conformity, a locus of resistance and preservation of difference, as well as a space of dialogue between disparate worldviews. In either of these guises, translation has always had a powerful impact on different areas of human experience, from religion to science, from the media to politics, the economy and literature (Woodsworth and Delisle: 1995, 2012).

As an act of negotiation, translation is inextricably linked to processes of exchange of goods and ideas, cosmopolitization, hybridization and mobility (Cronin, 2002, 2010). Resistance, on the other hand, depicts a large array of attitudes, mentalscapes, emotions, political gestures that react against any given circumstance. ‘Resistance’ is taken here as a broad concept encompassing different meanings: on the one hand, the at times strong and/or violent opposition to something extant (the status quo, bigotry, censorship, ideology, globalization, etc.) or to come (new ideas, technology, value systems, etc.); and on the other hand, the ability to remain immune to something (other people, revolutionary trends, innovation, new ways of thinking, etc.). Thus, resistance may imply movement or immobility, creativity or epigone-like repetition, conservatism or unconventionalism with the decision to translate is often governed by one impulse or the other, depending on the degree of interest in change/preservation a given community evinces (Venuti, 2013).

The present issue of Comunicação & Cultura wishes to address and highlight modes of resistance and cosmopolitanism that translation may have promoted or facilitated down the ages and, especially, in the present time, thus reflecting upon the role and the effects of translation in different media, in the shaping of present-day politics and global economy, in acquainting a given culture with different patterns of behaviour, ways of life, narratives and geographies. As a potent tool for spreading ideas and ideologies, translation helps shape worldviews and social attitudes in indelible ways that need further investigation.

CFP Communicating Prejudice

Call for Chapters for Edited Book
Communicating Prejudice: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach
Proposal Submission Deadline:  October 10, 2014
Editors: Camara, S. K., Drummond, D. K., & Hoey, D. M.
Publisher: Nova Publishing, Inc.

Objective:
In the conclusion of his edited book Communicating Prejudice, Michael Hecht called for an intellectual movement beyond understanding prejudice and its personal and social effects on individuals to a more proactive approach that inquires about appreciation as a serious subject of investigation.

Our edited book, Communicating Prejudice: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach, will blend direct unsettling lived experiences with a deep exploration of appreciation, respect and empowerment. We seek contributions which will speak boldly about personal experiences with prejudice with reflections on practical emancipatory frameworks that generate new directions and tools for dialogue. These meta-narratives should display the potential for creating opportunities for inclusivity, transformation, growth and social justice. We hope to draw on key concepts from a variety of disciplines, including Communication, Sociology, Education, Psychology, and Gender Studies.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
*Meta-analyses of Prejudice: Pre and Post racial America
*Autoethnographic Accounts of Prejudice and Transformation
*Examining Historical and Present initiatives to reduce prejudice
*Exploring Varying Contexts of Prejudice (e.g., Gender, Sexual Orientation, Race, Disability)
*Approaches to Appreciative Structures and Prejudicial Experiences
*Theoretical insights to opening dialogue with others
*Fostering appreciative conversations to defeat exclusion
*Co-creating Business and Organizational transformation
*Dealing with difficult situations and reframing conflict
*Contributions to Social Justice

Submission Procedure:
To have an original chapter considered for inclusion in this peer-reviewed volume, submit it with a 100-word abstract. Please include a separate title page with the author(s) and complete contact information, with brief author bio(s) to the editors by October 10, 2014. Indicate in your email cover letter which of the aforementioned topics your chapter best fits. Quantitative and qualitative research articles are limited to a maximum of 25 pages of text excluding references. Personal narratives or essays are limited to 10 pages.

Important Dates:
October 10, 2014– Chapter Submission Deadline
January 15 1, 2015- Notification of Acceptance
June 1, 2015– Chapter Feedback to Authors
October 15, 2015– Final Edited Submission Due

CFP Aging in place vs aging in distance

Call for Submission:
Ageing in Place Versus Ageing in Distance: Improving Age-care through Communication
A Special Section of China Media Research

This special section (CMR-2015-02) invites scholars from across disciplines to address the timely issue of improving the experiences of ageing and age-care through communication within specific social and cultural contexts. Age-care creates a range of challenges not only for the older generation but also for their younger generations. Provision of care to older people is of increasing importance. Internationally, public health policies encourage “ageing in place”; however, the increasing cross-border movements of people result in a sizable population of older people who are or will be ageing outside their home country. “Ageing in distance” can be even more challenging, as older migrants often experience isolation, depression, cultural and communication barriers, and exclusion. They feel belonging to neither “where they came from” nor “where they are residing”. Given the trend of international immigration and population ageing, we face economic, social, and cultural imperatives to support older people to age well either in their homeland or in a foreign land.

We would welcome papers that enhance our understanding of how age and ageing is perceived in different cultures, what roles the mass media can play in constructing and perpetuating stereotypes about older people, how the formal model of community care can better link with the model of family care to form a culturally appropriate age-care model for immigrants in particular and the larger population in general. Topic areas include, but not limited to, stereotypes of older people; social media and older people; cultural assumptions of ageing and age-care; communication campaigns that enhance understanding between older and younger generations, mass media coverage of older people and audience effects, and cross-cultural adjustment of older migrants.

Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. We will accept the extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) of the paper at the first stage of the reviewing process. Please email your extended abstract as MS Word attachment to the Guest Editor of the special section, Dr Shuang Liu by July 25, 2014. The complete manuscript must be received by September 5, 2010 after the extended abstract is accepted. Complete manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA publication manual (6th ed.) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be reviewed and the authors will be notified of final acceptance/rejection decision. Please visit China Media Research for more information about the quarterly journal, which publishes both printing and online versions. For inquiry, please contact Dr Shuang Liu and/or CMR co-editor, Professor Guo-Ming Chen.