[ecrea] special issue International Journal Obs* Cost Action IS0906 "Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies"

Call for papers – special issue International Journal Obs*

Task Force 3: Networked belonging and networks of belonging
Cost Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”

Guest Editors: Manuel José Damásio&  Paula Cordeiro

The Task Force on Networked belonging and networks of belonging of  COST
Action IS0906 invites abstract submissions for a special issue of the
International Journal Obs* on networked media and spaces of interaction
and participation. The group has broad interests in the role networked
media play in the spheres of communication, interaction, mediation
processes and identity. Networks represent a core set of resources in our
society, while at the same time subjects are daily confronted with
original forms of experience that call for our participation and
involvement with networked supported practices. Networks though stand at
the same time for the infrastructural form of media organization, a set of
resources at the subjects’ disposal and a manifestation of contemporary
experience that impels relations to the centre of subjectivity and
identity.


We invite submissions on the following themes:

What are the ways audiences interact with networks in the contexts of
mobile access and provision of services?

How does sense of belonging develop in function of networks models?

What’s the implications networked based practices have for individual
identity and privacy?

How are networked media changing modes of participation and engagement
for audiences?

Do audiences use networked media to promote new forms of societal
organization and cohesion?

What forms of political and social organization, participation and
engagement are emerging in Europe around networked media?

How are traditional media (i.e television) converging to the networked
environment in different European countries?

Do mobile networks represent original social arrangements around networks?

How are the roles of the producers and the consumer structured in
networked media?

Please send articles of 8000 words max. (excluding references) to the
special issue editors ((mjdamasio /at/ ulusofona.pt)&  (pcordeiro /at/ iscsp.utl.pt))
with the subject line "COST WG special issue".

Submissions (as Word attachments) should contain a page with the title
of the presentation, the name of the issue ("Networked belonging and
networks of belonging"), and the name(s) and contact details for ALL
authors and the article on a separate page (with no author
identification so as to allow blind review).

For submission guidelines and rules for authors please visit:
http://www.obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Deadline for submission of articles is Dec 1st, 2011.

The articles will be submitted to blind peer review; participants will
be notified about results by May 31, 2012. Accepted articles will be
considered for the journal special issue to be published end 2012.


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