Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Financialization, Communication, and New Imperialism

Call for Papers – Fall 2014 Issue, Global Media Journal

Theme of Fall 2014 Issue, Global Media Journal: Financialization, Communication, and New Imperialism

Guest Editors:
Mohan J. Dutta, National University of Singapore
Mahuya Pal, University of South Florida

The global financial crisis marks on one hand the ruptures in the universalized logic of neoliberal capitalism as a framework of global development, and on the other hand, narrates the story of the increasing consolidation of power in the hands of the global elite achieved through the language of the free market. As wehave argued in our earlier work on globalization and communication, meanings constitute the center of global financialization, consolidation of wealth in the hands of the global elite, and the deployment of technocratic efficiency as the solution to development narrowly conceived as economic growth (Dutta, 2011; Pal & Dutta, 2008). Even as these shifts in global power depict the newnetworks of power that operate globally, connecting spaces of resource consolidation, the relationships of power are played out in uneven terrains of global flows, reflecting the inequalities between geographic spaces. In these relationships of space, power, and finance, meanings offer guiding frameworks as they create the bases for the values, taken for granted assumptions, anddiscourses of practice. Of utmost importance in these shifts of power are the networks of finance that reify and reproduce global patterns of inequalities. What then are the key meanings that circulate in these spaces of finance and what is the relationship of these meanings to the old and new imperialisms that mark the globe. This special issue of “Financialization, Communication, and New Imperialism” will explore the interpenetrating networks of meaning incontemporary global capitalism. We invite both theoretical as well as methodological pieces that explore the role of communication in the financialization of the global economy.

Broad topics include, but are not limited to:
– Meanings of finance in global networks
– The ways in which discourse works to constitute and reproduce global financial policies
– The uses of communication to establish financial policies
– Reproduction of financial identities andrelationships in global spaces of capital
– The articulations of state, market, and capital in new networks of new imperialism(s)
– Relationships between old and new forms of imperialism, the overarching role of financialization, and the constitutive role of communication.

Graduate student research: In keeping with the mission of the Global Media Journal to provide opportunities for graduate student publication, this issue will have a graduate research section edited by Mahuya Pal, University of South Florida. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically. Please check submission guidelines.
Abstracts are due by July 1, 2014; acceptance will be sent by July 15, and full papers are due by September 1, 2014.

Please direct all inquiries and submissions to guest editor Mohan J. Dutta, National University of Singapore at . Direct graduate student research inquiries to Mahuya Pal, University of South Florida.

GMJ-American Edition is abstracted and indexed in the ProQuest CSA, Scopus, and EBSCO. Listed in DOAJ and Ulrich’s.  It is an official publication of the Global Communication Association in conjunction with the Center for Global Studies, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, USA. Its global editions are supported by their respective universities around the world.

References:
Dutta, M. (2011). Communicating social change: Structure, culture, agency. New York: Routledge.
Pal, M., & Dutta, M. J. (2008). Theorizing resistance in a global context: processes, strategies and tactics in communication scholarship. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 32, 41-87. New York, NY: Routledge.

CFP Africa, Media, Globalization special issue

Call for Abstracts – Communication, Culture & Critique
Deadline: August 15, 2014
Special issue on Africa, Media and Globalization
Guest editor: H. Leslie Steeves, University of Oregon, USA
Consulting editors: Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana, Ghana; John Hanson, Indiana University, USA

Globalization is not new to Africa, as histories of global conquest and colonial/postcolonial intervention have shaped the continent in recent centuries: the exploits of European explorers, traders and missionaries leading to the so-called ‘scramble for Africa’ and the division of the continent at the Berlin conference of 1884-85; post-independence alignments during the Cold War; and post-Cold War colonization via ideological and political economic processes and structures. However, to the extent that globalization is a process of neoliberal integration of economies and cultures, sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind other regions of the world and the overwhelming majority of Africans have not benefited from the spread of the global economy. Scholars today argue that Africa’s continued marginalization and exploitation are sustained by new hegemonic powers in Asia that benefit from Africa’s resources. China’s emergence as an economic superpower and its enormous and escalating investment in Africa must be included in analyses of Africa and globalization, as Africa’s global integration is no longer determined predominantly by Western interests. In her popular TED talk Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie speaks eloquently of Africa’s ‘single story’ of victimization, a narrative that contributes to Africa’s enduring erasure in Western media via homogenization, denial of agency, and economic dependence. At the same time, an overarching ‘single story’ discourse overshadows the production and distribution of media content by and for Africans. Further, the historic global movements of African peoples and cultures suggests many untold and under-told stories of globalization, stories unfolding at a rapid pace with growing technology and internet access. The spread of technology raises many questions, such as: in what ways do technologies impose alien values on African communities and/or extend indigenous values?

This special issue of CCC on Africa seeks diverse studies that critically address and illuminate 21st century stories about media and globalization relevant to Africa at multiple levels of observation and analysis. CCC is primarily a qualitative journal of the International Communication Association that publishes critical and interpretive research in media, communication, and cultural studies. Articles may focus primarily on phenomena relevant to one country, group or region, or may be comparative (one example might be the media’s contemporary role in evangelism and homosexuality legislation). Articles may address any aspect of media and globalization, including discourses, practices and structures of: journalism; popular culture (film, television, music, celebrity philanthropy, tourism promotion, beauty pageants, etc.); information and communication technologies (ICTs); foreign aid; and/or infrastructure investment, particularly in telecommunications.

Theoretical and methodological approaches may vary consistent with the guidelines of the journal as long as they contribute to our knowledge and conceptual understanding of media and globalization and relate directly to Africa.

Authors should email an abstract (500 words) to Leslie Steeves by August 15, 2014. The editor and consulting editors will review all submissions and successful authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript. Abstracts and manuscripts must be in English. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified of acceptance by October 15, 2014. Full papers will be subject to anonymous peer review, and full papers are due by February 15, 2015.

CFP Mobile Communication & the Asian family

Call for chapters: Mobile Communication and the Asian family – Transforming technologies, changing households
Edited by Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore
To be published by Springer in January 2015

This book explores how mobile communication technologies are penetrating Asia at a rapid rate, and being avidly domesticated by households in Asia. It investigates how such technologies are being incorporated into Asian families’ daily routines for work, education, entertainment and household coordination, while being appropriated for communication and the nurturance of family bonds. Even as mobile communication technology is evolving relentlessly, families in Asia are also going through a period of transformation as the region experiences unprecedented
economic growth, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change and this book seeks to capture the mutual impact of these two contemporaneous trends through the lens of the family. I welcome research on different types of families (e.g. nuclear, blended, single-parent, multigenerational, grandparent-led etc.), from a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, that utilise a range of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches, and which are informed by a diversity of theoretical perspectives.

*Research by emerging Asia-focused and/or Asia-based scholars whose work
has not previously been published in English is especially welcome.*

Chapter proposals are sought for topics including but not limited to the
following:
*             Influence of socio-cultural norms on families’ appropriation of mobile communication technologies
*             Time management and micro-coordination
*             Practices and negotiations pertaining to acquisition, ownership and usage of mobile communication devices and services
*             Blurring boundaries between work and family
*             Issues of (dis)empowerment, privacy and surveillance
*             Nature and quality of family interaction
*             Inter-generational differences in perceptions and usage of mobile communication
*             Parental mediation of mobile device usage

Please submit chapter proposals of up to 800 words, and brief author biographies of up to 300 words as an e-mail attachment by 15 May 2014. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 5 June 2014 and invited to submit a full paper to sunlim@nus.edu.sg . Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and submitted by 30 September, 2014.  All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission.

CFP Modernity and Telephones in the non-west

Call for Papers: History of Modernity and Telephony in the non-West
CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East
Guest Editor: Burçe Çelik
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2014 (Full Papers)

Aim
For the past few decades, history of modernization began to be written by focusing on how technologies as components of modernization processes change the lives of humans, their daily practices and imaginations, and the ways in which they construct and express their identities. Telephony, which functions in both public and private spheres and witnesses social and political changes in private as well as professional relations, is regarded as especially important for historical analysis. Functioning on multiple levels, social history of telephony can unearth the ways in which technologies obtain meanings and values in changing cultural contexts and the dynamics of social, political and cultural transformations. The history of modernization in the non-western societies is often studied by focusing on the projects of the rulers and on the discourses of the ruling parties that aim a social/political change in accordance with a particular Occidentalism where modernity is imagined with a model of the western modernization processes. Yet, the question of how people of these landscapes contributed to the modernization processes and how they produced their own modern practices in daily organizations, relations and experiences, did not receive enough scholarly attention.

This special issue of CyberOrient invites articles that focus on the history of modernity and telephony in the non-west that take the user perspective to the center. Topics could include the daily practices of users with telephone technology, the meaning and values that have been attributed to this technology by users, the role of telephony within
the social, cultural and political struggles of users, and the effect of the ownership or non-ownership of telephony in social, cultural and political lives of individuals and collectives. We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and critically grounded.

About CyberOrient
CyberOrient is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts.

Submission
Articles should be submitted directly to Burçe Çelik and Vit Sisler. Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in autumn 2014. More information can be found in the full call for papers.

CFP Health and Medical Discourses CDQ issue

CFP: Special Issue on Health and Medical Discourses
Communication Design Quarterly (Fall 2015 special issue)

In today’s often bewildering world of scientific, technological, cultural, and political change, medicine faces human problems and possibilities that transcend traditional academic disciplines. As such, communication about health and medicine is ever more important in shaping our understandings of our cultures, our politics, and ourselves. In an effort to map the changing climate of health care and medical communication, Communication Design Quarterly invites proposals for a Fall 2015 special issue on health and medicine.

Recent discussions at the intersections of English Studies, communication studies, and technical and professional communication have emphasized the importance of key issues including dissemination, ethics, connections, theory, and methods. Further, scholars have noted the importance of considering how conversations about health care are always already inflected by popular understandings of genetics, disease, and embodiment. This special issue seeks to expand these conversations by contributing to a growing body of collaborative and interdisciplinary work in health, medicine, and society. Submissions may focus on exploring and critiquing communication design concepts and practices that shape our understandings of health and medicine; pathology, disease, and illness; ability, choice, and access; and/or wellness and fitness. We additionally welcome interrogation of tensions between public health and privatized health care, neuroscience and enculturated practice, and reproductive health care and privilege in popular communication as well as investigation of gendered and racialized patterns of care and their uptake in news media. We are especially interested in submissions that include discussion of interdisciplinary approaches, environmental rhetorics, visual communication, and experiential/embodied knowledges. Further, we are excited to consider proposals for pieces that subvert and transgress the conventions of traditional scholarly articles. Collaborative essays, multimodal works, photo essays, posters, and other alternative media are strongly encouraged.

Potential questions that submissions might address include:
*       What do evolving definitions of medical rhetoric/health communication make possible and/or limit?
*       What are the primary distinctions, contradictions, and connections between humanities-based orientations and social sciences-based orientations to health and medical communication?
*       What are best practices in the design of health and medical communication?
*       How do health and medical researchers disseminate their work and what implications do common rhetorical choices in those communications have?
*       What productive points of confluence in theory and methods work can help to produce more efficient health and medical communication? And for whom must health and medical communication be efficient?
*       What practices can technical communicators engage in to promote social justice in the contexts of health and medical communication?
*       How can various approaches to the design of health and medical communication affect public perceptions of risk and ethical accountability?
*       What research challenges do health and medical communications researchers face?
*       What roles do the Internet and social media play in health communication?
*       In what ways have recent political interventions altered the ways we communicate about health and medicine, and what might this mean for future health/medical communicators and practitioners?

Please send article proposals of up to 500 words and a short c.v. to Lisa Meloncon and Erin Frost.

Schedule is as follows:
*       Proposals due:  May 1, 2014
*       Notifications for full drafts: May 15, 2014
*       Full drafts due: December 1, 2014
*       Final revisions due: April 1, 2015

CFP Comm and Social Justice

Communication and Social Justice:
Call for Book Manuscripts

Social justice is a powerful political and ideological concept in the 21st century; it has become an increasingly central idea for those trying to gain a fuller understanding of national and international grassroots politics. An implicit assumption of a social justice perspective is that the integrity of any community is violated when some of its members are systematically deprived of their dignity or equality. This assumption often leads to research whose findings are not comfortable for the status quo: governments, institutions, and disciplines.

Troubador’s Communication and Social Justice book series maintains that the relevance of scholarship should be judged by the degree to which scholarship advances social democratic values, and that these values must advance by way of valid research that provides honest critique and redescription of those institutions that promote and reify poverty, hierarchy, and/or social inequality. Books in the series recognize that concern for underprivileged and underresourced groups is becoming an increasingly important topic about which to theorize and for which to develop interventions. The goal of this series is to explore the theoretical and practical ways that communication scholars can reconceptualize national and international societies so as to enable inclusive and equitable communities to emerge; to seek to construct communities that protect individual freedom while insuring equality and dignity for everyone. Specifically, this series takes the position that potential contributors are intellectual laborers who view their professional commitments as indistinguishable from their social and political identifications. From varying perspectives, each book published in the series will illustrate the vitality of engaged scholarship and the claim that a scholarship of social justice is not incompatible with more traditional “ivy tower” research. A fundamental assumption of the books is that there is no worthier end for measuring social utility than the abolishment of social injustice.

Other books in the series include:
*Kevin J. Callahan, Demonstration Culture: European Socialism and the Second International
*Debbie S. Dougherty, The Reluctant Farmer: An Exploration of Work, Social Class, and the Production of Food
*Amos Kiewe, Confronting Anti-Semitism: Seeking an End to Hateful Rhetoric
*Shane Ralston,  Pragmatic Environmentalism: Toward a Rhetoric of Eco-Justice
*Amardo Rodriguez, Revisioning Diversity in Communication Studies
*Philip C. Wander, Shadow Songs: Reflections on Rhetoric, Culture, & Human Survival

For information on how to submit a manuscript proposal, please contract series editor Omar Swartz or visit the online site for the Troubador book series on social justice.

CFP Social media in the classroom

Social Media in the Classroom
Edited by: Hana Noor Al-Deen, Ph.D.
Chapter Proposal deadline: 31 March 2014

Proposals for book chapters are invited that address Social Media in the Classroom. The focus of this book lies on the usage of the prominent social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as tools in teaching advertising, public relations, journalism, and health communication at the college (undergraduate and graduate) level. The book seeks to provide a bridge between the theoretical foundation and the application of these tools. Original research is required and all methodological approaches are acceptable. The length of the chapter should consist of 7000-7500 words including assignments and references.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES:
Submit a 200-300 word abstract for consideration as a chapter in this proposed book and it should be accompanied by a bio as well as a tentative title. The abstract should give a clear sense of (a) the focus of the chapter, (b) the scope of the research, (c) the teaching methodology, (d) the type of social media that are used in such classes, (e) the subject of teaching, (f) the assignments (about one-third of the chapter), and (g) the academic level of the class. Please note that the chapter should also include intro, literature review, discussion, and references following the APA 6th ed. Feel free to include any additional information that you deem necessary to enhance your submission. The abstract and bio need to be submitted in (MS Word) as attachments. Individuals whose chapter proposals are accepted will be notified within two weeks and they need to submit the completed draft of the chapter by 30 June 2014.

Perhaps it is worthwhile to mention that this Noor Al-Deen’s third book on social media. The first two books “Social Media Usage and Impact” and “Social Media and Strategic Communications” were published by Lexington Books (2011 & 2012) and Palgrave Macmillan (2013) respectively.

CA Series in Public Anthropology Competition

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPETITION CALIFORNIA SERIES IN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY

The California Series in Public Anthropology encourages scholars in a range of disciplines to discuss major public issues in ways that help the broader public understand and address them. Two presidents (Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton) as well as three Nobel Laureates (Amartya Sen, Jody Williams, and Mikhail Gorbachev) have contributed to the Series either through books or forewords. Its list includes such prominent authors as Paul Farmer co-founder of Partners in Health, Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti.

Each year the Series highlights a particular problem in its international competitive call for manuscripts. The focus this year will be on INEQUALITY IN AMERICA.

We are particularly interested in authors who convey both the problems engendered by inequality as well as ways for addressing it. Prospective authors might ask themselves: How they can make their study “come alive” to a range of readers. They might, for example, focus on the lives of a few, select individuals tracing the problems they face and how, to the best of their abilities, they cope with them. Prospective authors might examine a specific institution and how, in various ways, it perpetuates inequality. Or authors might describe a particular group that seeks to address a facet of the problem. There is no restriction on how prospective authors address the topic of Inequality in America – only an insistence that it be presented in a way that attracts a range of readers into thinking thoughtfully about the issue (or issues) raised. The book’s primary intended audiences tend to be college students as well as the general public.

The University of California Press in association with the Center for a Public Anthropology will review proposals for publication independent of whether the manuscripts themselves have been completed. The proposals can describe work the author wishes to undertake in the near future or work that is currently underway. The proposals submitted to the competition should be 3-4,000 words long and describe both the overall work as well as a general summary of what is (or will be) in each chapter. We expect the completed, publishable manuscripts to be between 200-250 pages (or 60,000-80,000 words) excluding footnotes and references. Examples of the types of analyses we are looking for might be:

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich,
Someplace Like America: Tales From the New Great Depression by Dale Maharidge
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan Kozol
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

We are interested in establishing committed, supportive relationships with authors that insures their books are not only published but are well publicized and recognized both within and beyond the academy. We are committed to insuring the success of winning proposals.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 17, 2014 Submissions should be emailed with the relevant material enclosed as attachments. They can also be sent to: Book Series, 707 Kaha Street, Kailua, HI. Questions regarding the competitions should be directed to Dr. Rob Borofsky.

All entries will be judged by the Co-Editors of the California Series in Public Anthropology: Rob Borofsky (Center for a Public Anthropology & Hawaii Pacific University) and Naomi Schneider (University of California Press).

CFP Case Studies in Volunteering & NGOs

CFP – chapters for a case study book exploring communication and organizational issues in nonprofit and volunteer contexts

Book Editors:
Jennifer Mize Smith, Western Kentucky University, Department of Communication
Michael W. Kramer, University of Oklahoma, Department of Communication

Publisher:
This book proposal has been accepted by Peter Lang Publishing

Objective of the Book:
The purpose of this book is to provide empirically-based case studies that will compliment any number of other course materials, such as nonprofit textbooks or journal articles, used by teachers and scholars of nonprofit and volunteer studies.  Few of our current resources (books, texts, handbooks) address the micro-level, data-based analysis of communication and other organizational issues in nonprofit, volunteer, and philanthropic contexts.  Each chapter will present a case that illustrates one or more issues related to nonprofit organizations and their stakeholders (i.e., managers, staff, boards, volunteers, donors, and service recipients).  Cases should also address a broader conceptual or theoretical issue/framework of organizational studies.

Each case should have an open ending, followed by a series of 6-8 discussion questions proposed from at least two different theoretical/conceptual frameworks to encourage students to explore the case from multiple perspectives.  Questions should be designed to help students critically think about the particular nonprofit context, the organizational issues presented, the ways in which those issues could be addressed, whose interests are served, and potential consequences for the organization and its various stakeholders.

Contributors should consider a range of communication and organizational issues that address one or more nonprofit stakeholder groups, including NPO managers, staff, boards, volunteers, donors, and service recipients.  Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

Identity and Identification
Recruitment, Training, and Retention
Employee/Volunteer relations
Stress, Burnout, and Turnover
NPO Relationships and Collaborations
Marketing and Fundraising
Technology
Marketization and Professionalism
Newcomers and Socialization
Conflict, Voice, and Dissent
Supervision and Leadership
Role Negotiation, Uncertainty, and Expectations
Board Development
Corporate Partnerships, and Strategic Philanthropy
Staffing and Career Development
Mission, Mission Drift, and Founders Syndrome

Submission Process:
This edited book will present contributed case study chapters focusing on communication and other organizational issues in a nonprofit and volunteer context.  We seek case studies that are research based, focused on nonprofit-related issues, and open ended to allow for critical discussion. We invite interdisciplinary work that seeks to combine communication perspectives with other disciplinary knowledge.

For consideration, authors should submit an open-ended case study based on empirical research that is 2000-2500 words in length (not including title page).  In the initial draft, authors should also propose 6-8 discussion questions employing at least two different theoretical/conceptual frameworks.  In the submission email, authors should include a brief description of the research conducted that formed the basis of the case study.  The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 14, 2014.

Submissions will be peer reviewed and decisions about inclusion in the book will be made in early April.  Selected authors will be expected to produce a final draft with any requested revisions by June 1, 2014.

Inquiries may be addressed to either editor.  Submissions should be forwarded electronically (Microsoft Word document) to: Jennifer Mize Smith.

CFP Comm and Law in Russia

Call for Contributions:
Russian Journal of Communication
Special Issue: “Communication and Law in Russia”
Editors:
Igor Klyukanov (Editor-in-Chief)
Alexander Kozin (Guest Editor)

The focus on law selected for the upcoming special issue of the Russian Journal of Communication seeks to address yet another facet of Russian society that has undergone a deep transition in recent years. Despite its paramount importance for the emergent civic society, in comparison to politics, economics, entertainment and media, which have been at the forefront of public and academic discussion for some time, Russian law, particularly and crucially in its communication dimension, remains in the shadow and outside the purview not only of the public eye but also of specialised academic research. Yet at every level – for example, those of juridical language and discourse, of legal codes and conventions and of ritualised legal acts and practices – law draws attention to its communication strategies.

Most commonly, law in Russia expresses itself through mass media, focusing on such high-profile and tendentious cases, such as the Vasilyeva corruption case, the Khodorkovsky quasi-political case, or the Polonsky extradition case. However, behind the scenes too the country’s population has been deeply immersed in civil litigation, suing and countersuing relatives, neighbours, co-workers and businesses. Speedy criminal prosecution fuelled by the creation of the Federal Investigative Committee also creates an impression of a busy legal life in the new Russia. Yet, turning into a law-abiding society has proven to be harder than expected. Although the country moved well beyond the ‘lawless’ 1990s, new challenges have emerged, revealing the lack of independence, impartiality and competence of the judiciary; the collusion of law and bureaucracy; the corruption of the police and other law-enforcement agencies; procedural uncertainty; professional ineffectiveness and poor legal education of both defence and prosecution attorneys. These problems, some apparent and some dormant, have developed a persistent impression both in Russia and in the West that law in Russia is not an independent entity but services a higher political authority and that justice there is arbitrary and harsh in the extreme.

In order to examine these and other problems and developments, we invite submissions which would address Russian law vis-à-vis language, discourse, and communication. We welcome both humanistic and social scientific scholarly approaches to communication, including philosophy of communication, traditional and new media, film, literature, rhetoric, journalism, information-communication technologies, cultural practices, organizational and group dynamics, interpersonal communication, communication in instructional contexts, advertising, public relations, political campaigns, legal proceedings, environmental and health matters, and communication policy. All methodological perspectives—theoretical, empirical, critical, comparative, historical, and interdisciplinary studies—will be considered.

Articles might address one or more of the following, non-exhaustive list of topics:
*        Legal processes and their mass mediation
*        Russian law enforcement, its communication means and patterns
*        Pre-trial, examination, sentencing and other stages of criminal trial
*        Defamation and other types of ‘personal honour’ cases
*        International law and current lawsuits against and by Russia
*        Russian public and its communication in court
*        Court interpreting
*        Law and technology
*        Legal rhetoric
*        Russian courtroom’s interior and exterior
*        Communication education of legal professionals
*        Legal communication education of the general public
*        Issues concerning copyright
*        Law and pornography
*        Moral aspects of law
*        Main legal actors and their interactions inside and outside of the Russian court
*        Reality TV trial shows
*        Obscenity laws
*        Penitentiary laws and regulations
*        Examples of legal pluralism
*        Communication and Internet law
*        Communication and immigration law
*        Russian legal history and its communication dimension
*        Communication analyses of specific laws
*        Law and cultural values
*        Legal forensics

Please submit complete manuscripts (between 6,000 and 8,000 words, including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes) with a brief biographical statement and contact information via email attachment to both Igor Klyukanov  and Alexander Kozin no later than September 15, 2014. Prospective date of the special issue’s publication is May 2015. Notice of disposition will be sent within two months from the date of submission.

Russian Journal of Communication (RJC) is an international peer-reviewed academic publication devoted to studies of communication in, with, and about Russia and Russian-speaking communities around the world. RJC is published by Routledge and follows a double-blind peer review process to maintain its high standard of scholarship.  All research materials published in RJC have undergone rigorous evaluation, based on initial editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees.