[ecrea] Call for Manuscripts--The Geopolitics of Information Series

    University of Illinois Press
    <https://t.e2ma.net/click/2ghlj/a76gg6c/abe9te>

    *Call for Manuscripts*
    *The Geopolitics of Information Series*

    The Geopolitics of Information is a new book series published by the
    University of Illinois Press. The series editors are professors*Dan
    Schiller*, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),*Pradip
    Thomas*(University of Queensland), and*Yuezhi Zhao*(Simon Fraser
    University). We are now soliciting book manuscripts in the 60,000
    word range – short, well-documented, critical studies of topical
    issues and trends.
    *Aims of the Series*
    The Geopolitics of Information is broadly demarcated to foreground
    both political and economic rivalries within the interstate system,
    and struggles within and across societies. The series encompasses
    both emergent pressure points and environing social-historical
    dynamics; and both states' efforts to project power
    extraterritorially and the wider, more multifaceted,
    political-economic processes to which state policies contribute.
    Because domination and inequality persist as shaping forces in
    today’s information sphere, both the structural mechanisms of power
    and the patterns of resistance to it require scrutiny. We will
    emphasize communication and information production, signifying not
    only the formal activities of states and corporations, but also the
    production and circulation of mediated speech acts by interacting
    social agents and power groups. Put differently, we will situate
    historically changing systems of information and communication
    within more encompassing societal relations, which are not only
    powerladen but also animated by contestation and struggle.
    *Call for Manuscripts*
    The issues are both timely and complex; they require careful, often
    revisionary, scholarly research. The field of Communication and
    Media Studies is well-placed to undertake this work. To do so,
    however, it will need to move beyond its longstanding conceptual
    separations between media systems, content, uses, and effects, and
    its fixation on individual media users as consumers abstracted from
    environing social relationships; and it will need to eschew
    knee-jerk praise for new media as presumed agencies of emancipation.
    The Geopolitics of Information seeks research that cuts against the
    grain. Books in the series may assess information-related
    developments and policies within individual countries or regions; or
    engage international policy issues and trends; or study concrete
    local, national, or transnational social struggles that bear on the
    developmental path of information and communications.
    *For More Information
    <https://t.e2ma.net/click/2ghlj/a76gg6c/q3e9te>:
    http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/GPI_Call_for_Book_Manuscripts.pdf
    <https://t.e2ma.net/click/2ghlj/a76gg6c/6vf9te>*

    *Current titles in the series*

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    Depression book cover 978-0-252-08032-6
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