[ecrea] CFP: The Year in Feminist Hashtags

FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
Commentary and Criticism Call for Papers

Issue 14.6 The Year in Feminist Hashtags
Hashtags, shared terms used to make social media posts searchable and 
collectible (and denoted by the # symbol that precedes them) have made 
an indelible mark on the popular vernacular and mainstream discourse. 
Hashtags specifically related to feminist causes, like #YesAllWomen, 
#BringBackOurGirls, and #EverydaySexism, are invoked by social media 
users worldwide in response to current events and discussions. At their 
most visible, these terms and their spread are taken up by newspapers, 
television, and other media outlets as stories of collective public 
opinion and, sometimes, further action.

For our final issue of 2014, the editors of Feminist Media Studies' 
Commentary and Criticism section invite essays commenting upon arguably 
the most visible form of engagement with feminism this year: the 
feminist hashtag. Essays should choose a specific hashtag as a starting 
point to provide commentary and critique. We encourage authors to frame 
their comments so as to be accessible to non-social-media-using readers, 
while offering insight into the issues hashtags, hashtag discourse, and 
hashtag activism pose for feminists and feminist media scholars. Essays 
might also address broader topics such as violence against women, news 
coverage of gender issues, transnational activism, differences and 
alliances among feminist constituencies, etc. In the spirit of timely 
social media discourse, please keep essays brief (around 500 words is 
ideal).

Please submit contributions by 15 August 2014, via email to both Susan 
Berridge ((seberridge /at/ yahoo.co.uk) <mailto:(seberridge /at/ yahoo.co.uk)>) and 
Laura Portwood-Stacer ((lportwoodstacer /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(lportwoodstacer /at/ gmail.com)>).

Email submissions directly to both Susan Berridge and Laura 
Portwood-Stacer, as submissions for Commentary and Criticism will not be 
correctly processed if submitted through the main Feminist Media Studies 
site.

Please be sure to follow the Feminist Media Studies style guide, which 
can be found at the following link: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1468-0777&linktype=44 
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1468-0777&linktype=44>.


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Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD
www.lauraportwoodstacer.com <http://www.lauraportwoodstacer.com/>

Co-editor, Commentary & Criticism
/Feminist Media Studies 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rfms20#.Uk1lOxYr9SY>/