[ecrea] CfP "Communication, social change and digital activism: spreading protests and alternatives in times of crisis"

We would like to remind you the upcoming deadline for submitting
articles /(in English or Spanish)/ for a special issue of /Commons.
Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital //(an open access journal
of communication and digital citizenship) /on “*Communication, social
change and digital activism: spreading protests and alternatives in
times of crisis*”. /The deadline for submitting articles is March 1^st
2016 and the issue will be released on June 2016.///


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///We hope this CfP will be of interest to you and we appreciate if you
could spread it among other colleagues interested in the field./


Editors of the special issue

Alessandra Farné (UJI) – guest editor – and Víctor Marí (UCA) – 
Editor


*Call for papers vol. 5, issue 1 (2016)*

Special issue “Communication, social change and digital activism:
spreading protests and alternatives in times of crisis”.

 From /Commons. Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital/ we
announce a call for papers to be published in a special issue, devoted
to cyberactivism, digital power and online activist communicative
practices, which will be released on June 2016.

The term cyberactivism refers to forms of citizens’ activism that is
carried out on the Internet and, in this regard, the concept is closely
related to the emergence and evolution of the Internet (ROE, 2006;
Tascón and Quintana, 2012). Since the late 1990s, cyberactivism has been
linked with the initiatives of the anti-globalization movement and its
use of the Internet for organizing and disseminating alternative
information. Nevertheless, it is during the last decade when we have
witnessed the increasing of digital activism, concurrently with the
emergence of the so-called Web 2.0. In fact, social media and several
other applications and technologies facilitate not just receiving
content, but also creating it by users, leading the way towards
self-mass communication (Castells, 2009) and the potential for a
networked forth power (Sampedro, 2014).


Actually, this context of communicative options for co-creation and
connection opens up windows of opportunities for citizens to organize
and networking, generating counter-information and carry out relevant
socio-political actions. This potential has been highlighted with the
relation of digital power with social movements arisen since 2011 – 15M
and Occupy among others – and all citizens’ activist initiatives whose
communication revolves around the online environment, shaping connected
multitudes in techno-political practices (Toret, 2013) and collective
social actions in times of crises (Della Porta and Mattoni, 2014).
Although in capitalism crises have a systemic character, for this call
we apply the term “crisis” to the most recent protests of the cycle that
began around 2008, with events such as Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, and
citizens’ response to austerity measures and discourses that have been
deployed since these circumstances.


This call seeks to publish papers that allow to reflect upon and advance
in the above-mentioned debates, in one of the following areas:

-Theoretical and conceptual contributions on communication and digital
activism, social and political uses of the Internet and social media, as
well as communicative practices of online activism for social change.

-Establishing criteria, strategies or good practices of digital activism
and online communicative initiatives that have an impact on social and
political transformations.

-Completion of case studies or analysis of experiences that arise from
this concept of digital activism and activist online communication as
citizens’ practices for social change. In this regard, the special issue
welcome papers preceding from different contexts (European, Latin
American, Africa, Asian) or that carry out comparative studies between
different experiences.

Besides these details, please take into account the editorial scope of
/Commons/, a journal specialized in the field of communication,
development and social change, and that is a meeting point of researches
interested in impact on transforming reality and producing knowledge
with an emancipatory dimension.


Papers can be submitted in English or Spanish. Paper submission will
close on March 1st 2016.


Regarding guidelines and format instructions please check the following
journal section: http://reuredc.uca.es/index.php/cayp/about/submissio
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