[ecrea] CFP themed section on reading, readers & digital media

Call for Papers: /Participations: International Journal of Audience 
Research/

*Themed Section: Reading, Readers and Digital Media*

*Co-edited by Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham, UK) and DeNel 
Rehberg Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent U, Canada)*

This themed section of approx. 8 articles will focus on recent and 
current work investigating the various ways that individual and groups 
of readers (who may be readers of books or magazines or other formally 
print genres and/or born-digital material) use or engage with digital 
media. 'Digital media' here is intended in its broadest sense, to 
encompass medium, texts, platforms etc.

While we invite scholars working on reading studies and reception from 
all disciplines and from all parts of the world, we particularly seek 
articles from work investigating readers  in Asia, Africa, continental 
Europe, Latin and South America.  We seek articles which tackle problems 
of method or methodology as well as those which are case-study based. 
 Suggested topics might include:-

  * New media, new challenges, new methods?
  * The ethics of investigating readers and reading spaces online
  * Intersectionality, reading reception and digital media
  * Reading and digital media as a form of social justice/as political
    engagement
  * Algorithms, economics, and the commercialisation of readers’
    responses and audiences of readers
  * The uses and/or abuses of reading devices (mobile and/or static)
  * The politics of access to digital media and reading
  * Fan readers and reading fandoms
  * Publishers’ relationships with readers online
  * Readers and transmedia texts

Articles will be published in English. The editors of /Participations 
/are happy to publish an additional abstract in another language, where 
this will be of assistance to authors and expected audiences.  We 
recognise that writing in English can be a challenge for authors who are 
not native English speakers.   Editors will help, where they can, with 
details of English expression, but we retain the right either to 
copy-edit submissions for language issues before confirming acceptance 
of a submission, or to ask authors to arrange for this to be done by a 
native speaker through their own connections.

Submissions to the Journal may be of any length.  As an online Journal, 
we are pleased to be able to work without the restrictions inevitably 
imposed on print Journals.  We are willing to entertain submissions 
which go beyond the usual 6-8,000 limit that other Journals have to 
impose – providing that the additional space is used to make accessible 
such things as: the contexts within the research is set; the 
methodologies used (and their limits); the evidential base; and the 
implications for other related bodies of work/fields.

Expressions of interest for the ‘Reading, Readers and Digital Media’ 
themed section consisting of a 200-word abstract, article title and 1 
page CV including relevant publications should be emailed to: 
(BeyondTheBookInfo /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(BeyondTheBookInfo /at/ gmail.com)>by 30 
November 2017.  Full articles will be due: 1 May 2018. /Participations / 
employs an open peer-review process.  The publication date for this 
themed section is May 2019.


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