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

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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