{"id":568,"date":"2024-07-24T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewmedia.pt\/mam\/liacom\/?p=568"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:25:02","slug":"call-for-papers-para-a-comunicacao-publica-n-o-37-dezembro-de-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liacom.escs.ipl.pt\/en\/publicacoes\/call-for-papers-para-a-comunicacao-publica-n-o-37-dezembro-de-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers for Public Communication No. 37 (December 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thematic Issue: DIGITAL CULTURE: MEDIATIZATION, SURVEILLANCE, AND PUBLIC SPACE<\/strong>
Editors<\/strong>: Silvia Valencich Frota (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon) and Nuno Medeiros (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon)
Languages<\/strong>: Portuguese; English; Spanish
Submission Deadline<\/strong>: September 1, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/em>
The transformations in culture, driven both by digital technology and the development of media and information and communication systems, represent one of the major challenges of modern societies. Understanding these changes and their often profound impacts becomes part of the daily life, not only of communication professionals but of all citizens. What challenges, risks, and opportunities arise? What new public spaces for interaction and socialization are being promoted? From a transdisciplinary approach, this thematic issue aims to reflect on the impact of these new technologies on a society characterized, on the one hand, by an abundance of information and data, and on the other, by a profound and widespread crisis of trust, with all the potential for rupture and instability associated with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description and Context<\/strong>
Thinking about contemporary societies involves, to some extent, mapping, understanding, and analyzing the complex information and communication systems that simultaneously structure and are structured by them. This web of networks, with its multiple nodes and connections, enables and stimulates the circulation of data, ideas, objects, and people, transforming notions of space and time, intertwining and challenging them (Castells, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communication is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, reaching the most minute spaces and practices of social life, from the most intimate sphere to the most publicly visible and disseminated. In this sense, the concept of mediatization, as proposed by Hjarvard (2013), seems timely in emphasizing the transformative capacity of social institutions promoted by (but also promoting) media development, which, in turn, become an institution per se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accelerated \u2013 and, despite the so-called digital divide (Furtado, 2012), presumably irreversible \u2013 process of digitalization is a relevant part of this scenario. Digital culture conquers territories and minds, but it is necessary to think beyond it. More than digital culture, it is important to understand, analyze, and reflect on the culture of the digital, i.e., the new values, worldviews, forms of relationship, and processes of meaning-making directly and indirectly promoted by digital technology, and the plural ways they inscribe themselves in \u2013 and inscribe \u2013 the social, cultural, economic, and political structures of human existence and interaction (Arditi & Miller, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this dual inscription, a space of tension is engendered between cultures \u2013 and structures \u2013 of freedom, and cultures \u2013 and structures \u2013 of surveillance, both supported by a current scenario marked, among other defining traits, by hyperconnection, superdiversity, and the centrality of data in contemporary life and the issues that arise from it, particularly in terms of their public expressions. What new public spaces are possible? How are they characterized? What new opportunities and risks emerge? What new agents participate in them? What new power relations are established?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The power \u2013 and corresponding responsibility \u2013 of major technology platforms has been widely questioned, especially in debates about disinformation and regulation. However, there are many other emerging topics, such as the risks associated with the development of artificial intelligence, new forms of asymmetry and inequality and\/or polarization and violence promoted by the algorithmic logic governing social networks, social disengagement, and the weakening of the effectiveness of relationships in fields such as labor or education, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives and Desired Approaches<\/strong>
Starting from an interdisciplinary dialogue involving diverse fields such as cultural and communication studies, sociology, literary studies, anthropology, political studies, economics, editorial studies, among others, the aim of this issue is to promote reflection on the impact of new information and communication systems on a society marked, on the one hand, by an abundance of information and data, and, on the other, by a profound and widespread crisis of trust, with all the potential for rupture and instability associated with such a scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible Subtopics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Hyperconnection, superdiversity, and citizenship in the networked era
\u2022 Digital memory, the right to be forgotten, and the role of media
\u2022 Artificial intelligence, post-humanism, and technology
\u2022 Surveillance, discrimination, and algorithms
\u2022 Nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization in\/of media
\u2022 Nationalisms, identities, and citizenship in the digital age
\u2022 Decolonialism, alternative media, and representation
\u2022 Media, citizenship, and cultural production
\u2022 Trust, post-truth, and disinformation
\u2022 Infocracy, surveillance capitalism, platform capitalism
\u2022 Hyperculture, cyberculture, and the virtualization of reality
\u2022 Convergence, disjunction, and overlap between digital and print media
\u2022 Transmedialization, intermediality, and the media transposition of works<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliographic References:<\/strong>
\u2022 Arditi, D., & Miller, J. (eds.). (2019). The Dialectic of Digital Culture. Lexington Books.
\u2022 Castells, M. (2009). The Communication Power. Oxford University Press.
\u2022 Couldry, N. (2012). Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice. Polity Press.
\u2022 Furtado, J.A. (2012). Uma Cultura de Informa\u00e7\u00e3o para o Universo Digital. Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
\u2022 Han, B.C. (2022). Hyperculture: Culture and Globalization. Polity Press.
\u2022 Hjarvard, S. (2013). The Mediatization of Culture and Society. Routledge.
\u2022 Lemos, A. (2023). Cibercultura. Tecnologia e Vida Social na Cultura Contempor\u00e2nea. Editora Sulina.
\u2022 Rabinovitz, L., & Geil, A. (eds.). (2004). Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture. Duke University Press.
\u2022 Santaella, L. (2022). Neo-Humano: a S\u00e9tima Revolu\u00e7\u00e3o Cognitiva do Sapiens. Paulus.
\u2022 Zuboff, S. (2019). Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPORTANT DATES<\/strong>
Call for Papers Opening:<\/strong> February 26, 2024
Submission Deadline:<\/strong> September 1, 2024
Publication Date:<\/strong> December 15, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submission of Articles:<\/strong>
Submissions should be made through the platform https:\/\/journals.ipl.pt\/cpublica\/index<\/a>. Authors must register in the system before submitting an article; if already registered, simply log in and start the 5-step submission process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles must be submitted using the pre-formatted model for submissions to Public Communication<\/a>. For more information about submissions, please refer to the Information for Authors<\/a> and Instructions for Authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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