[ecrea] Call for Book Chapters Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age

Call for Book Chapters

Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the 
Digital Age

Editors: Margaret D’Silva, University of Louisville, and Ahmet Atay, 
College of Wooster

Ahmet Atay and I are co-editing a book under contract with Routledge.  
Because three of our authors are unable to deliver their chapters, we 
are sending a request for completed chapters or extended manuscripts 
(1000 words) of works in progress.

Profound changes in global communication, particularly social media, are 
leading us to re-examine our notions of culture, communication, identity 
and social movements. This book aims to bridge the gaps between 
intercultural communication and traditional and new media scholarship.

Media texts, social media platforms, global applications, and cyber 
culture play a paramount role in intercultural communication, 
particularly in the context of globalization.  Beyond traditional media, 
social media are particularly relevant to facilitating intercultural 
communication. Global social network sites such Facebook or Twitter, 
online gaming sites, online courses, global blogs, and all of the 
applications that appear in smart phones, tablets or computer devices 
are part of a very complicated and multi-faceted digital culture that 
moves beyond the borders of nation-states.

These social media platforms allow global communities to emerge; 
immigrants, diasporic bodies, and cosmopolitans can communicate and 
connect across the globe. They also allow members of traditionally 
oppressed groups to find their voices, cultivate communities, create 
homes away from home, and construct their cultural identities and 
narratives. Digitalized social movements around the world, identity 
performances of diasporic queer bodies, and long-distance relationships 
between partners and family members are some examples. This cyber 
culture centers around communication between people who are culturally, 
nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. 
Therefore, studying traditional and social media in relation to 
intercultural communication is extremely crucial and timely.

This call invites completed manuscripts or extended abstracts of 1000 
words for an edited book that takes qualitative, interpretive, and 
critical and cultural perspectives in examining the reciprocal 
relationship between media and intercultural communication. The book’s 
interrelated goals are to:

1 - Examine how media, social media in particular, influence and 
contribute to intercultural communication.

2 - Analyze the complex and multidimensional relationship between 
culture and media in the context of globalization.

3 - Understand how media, particularly social media, construct 
identities and enable or disable individuals to express their cultural 
identities.

4 - Examine social movements in the digital age.

5 - Analyze how globalization as a cultural and political process 
impacts mediated intercultural communication.

6 - Look at different contemporary issues relevant to intercultural 
communication and social media scholarship such as immigration, 
diaspora, religion and spirituality, democracy, and intercultural/ 
international relationships, from a media perspective.

7 - Examine both negative and positive influences of media, particularly 
social media, on intercultural communication.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1-Theorizing mediated intercultural communication

2- Social media and cultural identity

3- Social media and intercultural relationships

4- Media and online courses in the context of globalization

5- Cyber intercultural communities

6- Social media and global social movements

7- Immigrant media

To meet our contractual deadline with Routledge, full length manuscripts 
of about 6,000 words or extended abstracts with a length of not less 
than 1000 words are due by February 5, 2018, along with pertinent 
references, contact information, and a short biographic blurb of 300 
words. Full-length manuscripts of accepted abstracts are due on March 1, 
2017 with a word length of no more than 5,000-7,000 words and in APA 
style, including references, endnotes, and so forth. Please email your 
manuscript or extended abstract as word documents to 
(margaret.dsilva /at/ louisville.edu) for an initial review.


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