Michael Prosser – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CFP Social Media in Africa

Social Media in Africa: Call for scholarly chapter proposals

International Social Media Trilogy
Vol. 1: Social Media in Asia, coedited by Cui Litang, Tan Kha Kee College, Xiamen University, and Michael H. Prosser, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia and Shanghai International Studies University; Dignity Press, 2014, 668 pages. ISBN 978-1-937570-36-1. This volume has been nominated for the outstanding 2014 edited or coedited scholarly book award for the International and Intercultural Communication Division, [US] National Communication Association.

Vol. 2: Social Media in the Middle East, coedited by Michael H. Prosser and Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran, Dignity Press, forthcoming early 2016.

Vol. 3. Social Media in Africa, coedited by Michael H. Prosser and David Balosa, Arcadia University, Dignity Press, estimated publication early 2017.

Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. is a founder of the academic study of intercultural communication, a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research and its Life-time achievement award recipient, June 2015, Bergin, Norway. He is editor or author of 20 books, most recently for Dignity Press: with Mansoureh Sharifzadeh of Tehran and Zhang Shengyong of Dezhou University: Finding Cross-cultural Common Ground (2013); with Cui Litang, Social Media in Asia (2014); with Li Mengyu of Ocean University of China: Chinese Communicating Interculturally (2014), and A Journey to the East: Asia in Focus (2015).

David M. Balosa, MS.Ed, MA. Ed, an Angolan native, is an adjunct Professor of Reading and Composition in the English Language Institute (ELI) at Arcadia University, Glenside. Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. His research interests include: intercultural communication and cultural exchange, moral and political philosophy, political discourse analysis, Fanon studies, sociolinguistics. and Lusophone Africa Studies.David is persuing in doctoral degree in the Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) Ph.D program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

Dignity Press encourages, where possible in its published books, an emphasis on dignity, peace, human rights, social justice, gender equality, and overcoming humiliation. A founder of the Press and Human Dignity and Humiliation Network, Evelin Lindner, Ph.D., MD, has been nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

Guidelines for submitting proposals for scholarly chapters for Social Media in Africa.

200-300 word proposals and resumes due before October 1, 2015. Notifications identified as accepted in progress.

Completed scholarly chapters with APA sixth edition citations and references, 22-25 pages, plus biographies and thumbnail photos, February 1, 2016.
Estimated publication: early 2017.

Please send appropriate materials to both Michael Prosser (michaelhprosser@hotmail.com) and David Balosa (dbalosa1@umbc.edu).

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 Social media-Asia

Call for Scholarly Chapters on “Social Media in Asia” for publication by Dignity Press in early 2013

“Cui Litang, a language instructor and media expert/specialist colleague in Shanghai, China, and I are interested in receiving chapter proposals for our anticipated co-edited book, “Social Media in Asia,” with an expected publication in the first quarter of 2013 by Dignity Press: a new, small, nonprofit, open access/Creative Commons Attribution license/ print on demand- print and E-book format press, which especially supports the concepts of dignity, social justice, and gender equality. Presently, Dignity Press books are sold on its website, through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers and will continue to expand over time.

We hope to have an introductory chapter and ten to twelve substantive chapters in the volume. The intended focus suggests scholarly chapters of approximately 25 pages each, plus rich reference lists in the sixth APA Manual style, on such illustrative but not exclusive topics as social media trends; influence; economic, cultural, religious, and political practices; control and censorship in specific Asian regions and the larger countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Countries such as Australia, China, India, Indonesia, and Japan and the regions of South East Asia, North Asia, the Korean peninsula, the European “stans,” and Russian Siberia provide illustrative examples for potential chapter emphasis.

Interested scholars should submit a specifically targeted proposal of 200-300 words, plus an up to date resume to me as soon as possible. For the accepted chapter proposals, the deadline for submission of the chapters to me is December 1, 2012, with expected limited print and E-book publication formats in the first quarter of 2013.”

Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D.

Early leaders in ICC

Retrospective International Journal of Intercultural Relations issue on selected early leaders in intercultural communication scheduled for 2012

At the kind invitation of Dan Landis, Executive Editor of the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Steve J. Kulich, Executive Director of the Intercultural Institute at the Shanghai International Studies University, and Michael Prosser are serving as the Guest Editors for a special issue in 2012 for IJIR of selected early leaders in the developing field of intercultural communication. While space is limited, and thus we are only selecting 13 early leaders for this special issue, we hope that later it might be possible to select another dozen first and second generation leaders and scholars for a potential second special issue of IJIR, perhaps in 2013.

This issue will contain scholarly articles about the following early leaders and academic scholars in the development of intercultural communication as a field of study. Introduction: Steve J. Kulich
Molefi Kete Asante, author: Reynaldo Anderson
Nobleza Asuncion-Lande (deceased), author: Dorthy Pennington
Fred L. Casmir author: (to be selected)
John C. Condon, author: Richard Harris
Dean Barnlund (deceased), author: Janet Bennett
D. Ray Heisey (deceased), author: Michael H. Prosser
L. Robert Kohls (deceased), author: to be selected
Robert T. Oliver (deceased), author: Robert Shuter
Charles Osgood (deceased) authors Oliver Tzeng and Dan Landis
Paul Pederson, author: Gary Fontaine
Everett Rogers (deceased), author: Arvind Singhal
K.S. Sitaram (deceased), author: Michael H. Prosser
Edward C. Stewart, authors: Jackie Waskilewski, Holly Kawakama, Jun Ohtake

We are searching for a potential scholarly author (s) who knows well the leadership and academic contributions of Fred L. Casmir and L. Robert Kohls. to the field of intercultural communication. Please contact me, Michael Prosser (michaelhprosser@yahoo.com). The deadline for submission to me of a 25 page essay, including the latest APA citations and references is September 1, 2011. All proposed articles must meet the rigorous scholarship standards of IJIR.

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