[ecrea] CFP: New Media and Processes of Social Change in Contemporary Africa

*_Call for Book Chapters_*: /New Media and Processes of Social Change in
Contemporary Africa/

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*_Editors_*

Poul Erik Nielsen; School of Communication and Culture; Aarhus University.

Jessica Gustafsson; School of Communication and Culture; Aarhus University.

Teke Ngomba; School of Communication and Culture; Aarhus University.


*Publisher*: Nordicom*__*


*_Introduction_*

Since the late 1990s, one of the central developments in Africa has been
the epochal spread of new information and communication technologies
(ICTs) in both rural and urban areas. According to the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU), in addition to the spread of community
radio stations and satellite television, the more recent spread of the
Internet; mobile phones and in particular, mobile broadband
subscriptions in the developing world, have constituted some of the most
important dynamic developments, with regards to modern ICTs in these
countries.

The tremendous transformations in these countries’ media repertoires
have been taking place alongside other significant domestic processes
such as the increasing youthfulness of the population; recurrent
vestiges of authoritarianism against a backdrop of strides to entrench
liberal democracy and rising urbanization and persistent poverty which
clouds records of economic growth (see IFAD, 2011).

Combined, these wide ranging changes have challenged earlier
understandings of the role of the media in Africa’s development; the
forms of media reception; mediated forms of popular culture expression
and the relationship between media and the formation; alteration and
expressions of individual and collective identities in the region.
Clearly, the rapid spread of new media across Africa and the contexts in
which Africans’ creative appropriations of new media take place have
occasioned the need for more robust empirical and theoretical inquiries
that can capture both the overall patterns and intricate subtleties in
ordinary citizens’ use of the media in Africa.

*_Objectives and Target Audience_*

The proposed book aims to contribute to the on-going discussion about
media and processes of social change in Africa by offering to students
and the scholarly community, a vast selection of new empirical and
theoretical studies from both emerging and established scholars. The
book will seek to capture the many different ways in which ordinary
Africans are interacting and making use of new additions in their media
ecologies and how these redefine and alter power relations; identity
formations and their articulations in the region.

*_Potential Contributions_*

We are soliciting comparative or single country contributions from
scholars to cover any of the following three themes:


1.*_Changing Media Ecologies; Everyday Life Practices and Processes of
Social Change in Africa_*

Within this strand of discussion, we are interested to receive chapters
which will address issues such as the following:


-How are ordinary Africans in rural and urban areas experiencing and
interacting with different kinds of media in contexts of increasingly
digitalizing media landscapes? In what ways, to what extent and with
what implications are these experiences and forms of interactions gendered?

-In what ways and to what extent are intergenerational relations reified
or modified in contexts of diversifying media affordances in Africa?

2.*_Appropriation of New Media and Process of Social Change in Africa_*

Within this strand of discussion, we are interested to receive chapters
which will address issues such as the following:


-How are diverse forms of socio-cultural identities and gender mediated
and negotiated in contexts of changing media ecologies?

-What kinds of participatory cultures do changing media landscapes
foster and what are the implications for social, cultural and political
change in Africa?


3.*_Theorizing the Connections Between New Media and Processes of Social
Change in Africa_*

Within this strand of discussion, we are interested to receive chapters
which will address issues such as the following:


-How can we theorize the interrelationship between new media and
processes of social change in Africa in historical and or contemporary
perspectives?

-What are the strengths and limitations of existing theories of media
and/or social change looked at from the perspectives of what is going on
across Africa today?

*_Submission Procedure_*

Contributors are invited to submit chapter proposals on or before 15
March 2016. The chapter proposals should be maximum 500 words and
contributors should indicate under which of the above-mentioned themes
their chapter falls.

The proposals, including a very short bio of each contributor should be
submitted through e-mail to the following:

Poul Erik Nielsen: *(imvpen /at/ dac.au.dk) <mailto:(imvpen /at/ dac.au.dk)>*

Jessica Gustafsson: *(jessica.gustafsson /at/ dac.au.dk)
<mailto:(jessica.gustafsson /at/ dac.au.dk)>*

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All full chapters will be refereed through a double-blind review
process. Following notification of acceptance of proposals, contributors
will be expected to submit the full chapters (ranging between 8.500 –
10.000 words) by 30 September 2016. Submitted chapters should not have
been previously published or be under review for publication elsewhere.

*_Important Dates_***

*Chapter Proposals Submission Deadline*: 15 March 2016

*Notification of Decision on Proposals*: 31 March 2016

*Submission of Full Chapters Deadline*: 30 September 2016

*Reviewers Decision on Full Chapters: *15 December 2016

*Revised Chapter Submission Deadline:* 15 February 2017

*Planned Publication*: August 2017


*_Inquiries_*

For any questions or need for further information, please contact Poul
Erik Nielsen ((imvpen /at/ dac.au.dk) / <mailto:(imvpen /at/ dac.au.dk)%20/>+4587161973).



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