Category: Publication opportunities

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.

CFP Education in Action: The Crucible of College Media

Education in Action: The Crucible of College Media (tentative title)

We are soliciting essays to be chapters in book to be published by the Peter Lang Publishing Group. The focus of the book is college media organizations (radio stations, newspapers, websites). These organizations are most often formed at the undergraduate level adjunct to more formal curriculum offerings. We are interested in essays about the process of learning and the learning outcomes of these organizations. The proposed volume thematically will emphasize how students learn through the give and take of shared experiences. The finished volume may include essays that are experiential narratives of this learning and how it has been instrumental in a later career. Please contact us for a list of proposed topics or suggest one that you think be relevant. Chapters will be 4,000 words roughly. We’ll respond with a style sheet and guidelines if your proposed chapter-essay fits our project.

Contact:
Gregory Adamo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Global Journalism and Communication
Morgan State University

Allan DiBiase, EdD
Retired
Plymouth State University

CFP Internet Governance in China

Call for papers
China Perspectives / Perspectives Chinoises: Special Feature on Internet Governance in China
Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2014

Edited by Séverine Arsène, Ph.D.
chief editor of China Perspectives

The exponential increase of Internet connectivity in China has generated a great deal of journalistic and scholarly works, which have essentially documented the emergence of the Internet as an unprecedented, though censored, platform for public expression. Analyses have focused on the emergence of online public opinion, youth popular cultures, online dissent and civil society organizations, as well as their interactions with the authorities and the media. Much attention has been paid to censorship and propaganda.

Much less is known, however, about the more diversified forms of power that are embedded in Internet governance, broadly conceived as the incremental conception, implementation, regulation, management and uses of Internet networks and services. Political positions and ideological visions are embedded in technological choices, from the layout of physical networks and routers to the development of applications like search engines or expression platforms. The crafting, implementation and interpretation of regulatory measures are also of crucial importance in framing the users’ agency, and so do business models, funding or pricing issues among other aspects.

These issues are not only in the hands of central and local governments, but also of a variety of more or less independent agencies like registrars, self-regulation associations, private companies, individual developers and hackers. Users, either individually or collectively, also contribute to building the characteristics of the Chinese Internet, as they may adopt or not online services, complain about particular features or even use them in a way that was not foreseen by the developers or regulators. In other words, these various aspects of Internet governance offer insights on the complex and often ambiguous (power) relationships between the local and central government, private actors and Chinese citizens.

It is all the more important to further document these aspects as China has become more assertive on the global stage, and now strives to push Chinese interests through technological standards, economic and cultural domination and global Internet governance schemes. As a result, Chinese positions carry increasing weight on such global issues as net neutrality, copyright, privacy, or freedom of speech, to mention but a few.

China Perspectives  thus plans to publish a special feature on Internet governance in China, which will cover these aspects from a multidisciplinary perspective, including law, political science, political economy, political sociology, communication, or international relations.

Contributions are welcome on such topics as:
– the political and ideological foundations of Internet development in China
– the political stakes of technological choices
– the central / local relationship within the Chinese administration and Internet service providers
– the role of businesses
– the political economy of the Internet in China
– the motivations and stakes of the Chinese positions on global Internet governance
– innovative usage of Internet services, apps etc.
– the maker / hacker movement and its role in the development of the Chinese Internet
(list not exhaustive)

In conformity with China Perspectives‘ editorial policy, papers should be rigorous, original contributions to their respective disciplines, while providing readable insights on contemporary China for the general public and scholars from other scientific backgrounds. Submissions are particularly welcome from researchers at an early stage of their careers.

Format of submissions:
Full name, title and institutional affiliation
Contact details
800-1000 words abstract

Submissions must be sent to Séverine Arsène. Upon acceptation, full papers of 8000 words shall be written according to China Perspectives’ Style guide.

Timeline:
31 July 2014: deadline for proposals
15 August 2014: notification of accepted contributions
01 December 2014: deadline for full papers
Expected publication date: Summer 2015

All full papers will need to pass the double blind peer-review process. Final acceptance of papers cannot be confirmed until their validation by both peer-reviewers and the editorial committee.

About the editor:
Séverine Arsène holds a Ph.D in political science from Sciences Po, Paris. Her work focuses on Internet uses and Internet governance in China. She is currently a researcher at CEFC and chief editor of China Perspectives. She previously held positions at Georgetown University (Yahoo! Fellow), the University of Lille 3, and France Telecom R&D Beijing.

About the journal:
An interdisciplinary quarterly journal published in both French and English, China Perspectives provides insightful analysis of the latest political, economic, social and cultural trends in the Chinese world. China Perspectives is an anonymously peer-reviewed academic journal. Its authority is ensured by an editorial board made up of reputed scholars. A serious yet readable journal, China Perspectives has already proven essential for sinologists and Asia analysts, but its broad scope and highly informative articles may be of interest to anyone keen on improving their knowledge about Greater China.

About the CEFC:
The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) is a public research centre with a regional remit (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,) supported by the French ministry of Foreign Affairs and the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research).

[Original publication: China Perspectives website]

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.