[ecrea] Socially-Mediated Publicness: A Call for Papers

Socially-Mediated Publicness: A Call for Papers
September 13, 2011
by Nancy Baym

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Theme Issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

“Socially-Mediated Publicness”

Guest Editors:

- Nancy Baym (University of Kansas)

- danah boyd (Microsoft Research)

Editor: Zizi Papacharissi

Social media call into question conventional understandings of what it 
means to “be public,” what it means to be “in a public,” and even the 
meaning of “public” itself. New types of publics are emerging because of 
the technological affordances of social media and individuals may be 
more visible than ever before, whether they seek this or not. This 
special issue will explore these issues.

We seek scholarship from an array of theoretical and methodological 
perspectives that critically examines how public life is reconfigured 
because of or in relation to social media. We welcome articles from 
diverse fields, including media studies, communication, anthropology, 
sociology, political theory, critical theory, etc.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· Processes and practices of building and living in online publics

· How new technologies of publicness affect celebrities, artists, 
musicians, and other creators

· How mediated publics challenge social, political, and economic assumptions

· The meaning of concepts such as “audience” and “listening” in mediated 
public spaces

· How counterpublics and intimate publics are reshaped by technology

· The relationships between being public and being part of a public

· Degrees, boundaries, and scales of technologically-mediated publicness

· How new types of publicness reconfigure identity and race, class, 
gender, sexuality, religion, and/or nationality

In order to be more public, this special issue of JOBEM will be 
published as an open-access issue. All articles will be available online 
at the point of publication. The anticipated publication date for this 
issue is September 2012.

Manuscripts should conform to the guidelines of the Journal of 
Broadcasting & Electronic Media (www.beaweb.org/jobem).

By December 12, 2011, you should send a title, abstract, and list of 5 
potential reviewers to (jobem.publicness /at/ gmail.com) to help us streamline 
the peer review process.

Articles should be submitted no later than January 6, 2012 at: 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hbem (select “Special Issue: Socially 
Mediated Publicness” as a manuscript type).
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