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[ecrea] CfP Book: Social Inequalities, Media and Communication: A Global Perspective.

Sat Jul 05 10:00:37 GMT 2014



Call for chapter abstracts

Social Inequalities, Media and Communication: A Global Perspective.



Contributions are invited for an edited international collection of original chapters engaging theoretical and empirical themes on social inequalities, media and communication.


Overview

Social inequality is a universal phenomenon. The unequal distribution of economic, social and cultural capitals has consequences on every sector of human life.

The contestations between neoliberalism, rights and participation continue to influence arguments about acquisition of resources, unemployment, discrimination, poverty, identity and inclusion. The impacts of capitalism and globalization are skewed in a way that benefits accrued to certain social configurations at the expense of others. Issues of class struggles, gender discrimination, poverty, racial discrimination, economic imbalances and other socio-cultural fractures continue to shape analysis of participation, exclusion, inclusion, dignity and humiliation in society. Alongside these imbalances, media and communication events, technologies and industries are increasingly shaping global and local cultures. The digital technology revolution has spurred many developments in communication and culture. The over two decades of commercial availability of the Internet, the explosion of digital satellite television content platforms, the innovations in mobile communication technologies, and the increasing proliferation of media and communication content across many platforms have shaped a global society where engagements with media and communication have become an essential aspect of life.


Structure

In this book, we seek to provide a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media and communication. We seek international chapter contributions from scholars around the world engaging country and region specific case study analyses of social inequalities on media and communication. This book intends to engage this theme in two parts.

Part 1: Historical and Theoretical Analyses of Social Inequality

The first part of the book engages the various historical and theoretical approaches to social inequalities and their relevance in contemporary analysis of media and communication. This section will explore the scholarly analysis of theories and the conceptual framings of social inequality in relation to media and communication. It will explore the classical, structuralist, culturalist, postmodernist, and postcolonial theoretical approaches to inequality, and engage critical questions, such as: how does class analysis provide understanding of media and communication realities? What are the limits of economic deterministic narrative of inequality? How does culture as a theoretical concept enrich social analysis of inequality? What is the relevance of postcolonial theories of social inequality in current analysis of media and communication? How does a theoretical analysis of sustainable development and social change shape understandings of social inequality?

Part II: Empirical analysis of social inequality, media and communication.

This section engages country and region specific thematic issues and case study analyses of social inequalities and communication. It will examine critical scholarly questions, such as: how do social inequalities shape identity and culture? How do racial representation and discrimination shape identity, culture and participation in the media? How does gender analysis reveal marginalization and inclusion of people in media realities? Who gets to use media technologies, and who is excluded? Who owns and controls these technologies and how does the control shape economic and social participation of those outside the ownership class? In what ways do capitalism and attendant neoliberal ideologies configure pattern of exclusion and inclusion in the media? How are media and communication tools effective in addressing social concerns around development and social change?



To engage these and other critical questions, chapter contributions will address themes such as:

1. Historical context of inequalities and impact on media and communication

2.     Theoretical framings of inequalities, media and communication

3.     Theoretical and conceptual analysis of inequalities and culture

4.     Communication for sustainable social change and development

5.     Global media corporation, culture and identity in the global South

6.     Globalization, culture and the global South

7.     Digital inequalities and digital divide

8.     Representations of race, sexuality and gender in the media

9.     Feminist media analysis

10.  Class analysis of media and culture

11. The political economy of the media – ownership structure of media organizations

12.  Poverty and media (How is poverty framed and neglected in the media)

13.   North –South media analysis

14.  Immigrant experience and the media

15.  Environment, sustainability and culture

16.  Local media and participation

17.  Citizenship, identity and participation

Length of abstract

We are seeking a one-page scholarly abstract from diverse disciplines and wide range of methodological and theoretical analyses.

Deadlines.

Abstract submission:  July 15 2014

Contributors will be informed of the outcome of their submission by October 20 2014.

Final chapter submission February 15 2015



Abstracts should be mailed to

Jan Servaes, PhD (jservaes /at/ cityu.edu.hk)

Toks Oyedemi, PhD (toyedemi /at/ gmail.com)




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