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[ecrea] cfp: Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe

Wed Jan 18 13:37:11 GMT 2012



Call for papers - special issue International Journal Obs*


Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe

(REVISED CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION)

Guest Editors: Cristina Ponte & Myria Georgiou

Within the Cost Action IS0906, Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, Working Group 4 focuses on Audience transformation and social integration. Two topics are in the core of its interests: public issues related with media roles and regulations, citizenship and social diversity in a complex and multicultural European space; and issues related to the sphere of contemporary families such as the roles of the media in relationships among family members. From this debate a shared research topic emerged: Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe.

The blurring of boundaries between the public and private spheres and the shifts in societal and familiar spaces of communication and identity require an interdisciplinary agenda and research practice. While media and communications research on cultural diversity, transnational families, and media consumption within migrant households needs to be aware of and engage with research within family studies and ethnic and migration studies, these disciplines can also benefit immensely from media and communications' research and analysis. Therefore, we would like this special issue to contribute to an interdisciplinary approach that cross-fertilises research from across social sciences and the humanities and draws particular attention to research on uses of media and ICTs among migrant families.

We invite submissions on the following themes:

" What is the role of the media in advancing or hindering the participation and/or integration of migrant families in local, national and transnational communities? How do different media (e.g mainstream media, diasporic media, ethnic media) participate in such processes? " How does media consumption and appropriations of communication technologies contribute to integration and identity construction among transnational migrant communities? " How do digital media impact on the way identity is constructed among transnational migrant communities? " How do media roles change according to age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or religion? What role do media play in the intergenerational cultural transmission and in sustaining family ties within and across borders? How much does generation matter, and how much does generation matter in media practice and in transmitting/sharing culture(s) in the households? How do family relation dynamics surrounding media uses vary in the case of different media? (How does socio-economic status affect these dynamics? What do migrant families think about public service media? Do they use them? Why or why not? What are their expectations?

Please send developed abstracts (+/- 1200 words) in English to the special issue editors ((cristina.ponte /at/ fcsh.unl.pt) & (M.A.Georgiou /at/ lse.ac.uk)) with the subject line "COST WG4 special issue", until March 31, 2012.

The calendar for this Special Issue is the following:
- Decision of acceptance and comments on the abstracts by the editors: April 30, 2012
-    Full paper submitted: July 15, 2012
- Decision of acceptance: September 30, 2012 (blind peer review system): paper accepted as it stands; paper subject to minor revisions; paper subject to major revisions and re-submitted for consideration;
-    Final paper submitted: November 30, 2012
-    Publication: First semester of 2013
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