[ecrea] CFP Special Issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication: Digital Labor

CALL FOR PAPERS
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Special Issue: Digital Labor, Below-the-Line
Submission deadline: January 12, 2015
Final drafts due: April 12, 2015
Publication: August 2015

The work required to produce the web and to fill the media devices that 
increasingly occupy 21st century life is often difficult to see. With a 
click content appears, images proliferate, and text, sound and video 
streams across our screens. However, behind the screen exists a globally 
distributed network of people who toil to create, manage, distribute, 
promote and update digital content. Their labor reflects new modes of 
production and shifting divisions of labor that characterize media 
production in a digital economy.

For this special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication, issue 
editor Nina
Huntemann seeks papers that explore digital media workers “behind the 
screen.”
Submissions should advance scholarship about invisible labor in the 
digital media
industries, and should principally consider the labor produced by those 
engaged in below-the-line work.

Cultural producers in such positions might include social media interns,
web content editors and copywriters, online community managers, video game
playtesters, 3D animation modelers and riggers, texture artists, video 
loggers, and digital content asset managers. In addition to workers 
involved in cultural production, this special issue also invites papers 
that consider the labor of those working to create and maintain the 
digital media infrastructure, such as hardware assembly line workers, 
miners in raw materials extraction, technical support staff (e.g. Genius 
Bar/Geek Squad), and security personnel at data centers.

The editor is particularly interested in manuscripts that consider the 
special issue theme at the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, 
nation/region, sexual orientation, class, and ability.

To discuss possible submissions, please email the issue editor Nina 
Huntemann at
(nhuntemann /at/ suffolk.edu).


About the Journal

Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) publishes scholarship in 
media and mass communication written from a Cultural Studies and 
critical perspective. Research articles selected for publication make a 
substantial contribution to existing literature in media studies, 
provide novel theoretical insights that have the potential to stimulate 
further research, and serve as foundational contributions for debates 
within and beyond the field of communication. While each essay is well 
researched, primary emphasis is on the theoretical contribution the 
essay makes through the development of concepts, terms, and ideas that 
move the field in new and exciting directions.

Submission Details

All manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American 
Psychological
Association (6th edition, 2010) and should not exceed 7,000 words 
including references,
notes, figures, and tables. Shorter pieces will be considered. Essays 
significantly longer
than 7,000 words may be returned. All submissions should be made online 
at Critical
Studies in Media Communication’s ScholarOne Manuscripts site. Please see 
the journal
website for the complete submission instructions for authors.

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Associate Professor Tania Lewis, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Australia
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Beyond Behaviour Change: www.rmit.edu.au/ahuri/beyondbehaviour

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