[ecrea] CFP Special Issue Migration, Digital Media and Emotion * International Journal of Cultural Studies *

Call for Papers
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
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Migration, Digital Media and Emotion
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Guest edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Donya Alinejad Utrecht University 
(The Netherlands)
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In contexts of migration and transnational mobility, spheres of lived 
sociality have long spanned borders and nation-state territories. More 
recently, however, the use of mobile digital devices has become 
ubiquitous within many forms of migratory mobility, especially when they 
come paired with the latest iteration of Web 2.0, or “the social web.” 
Yet these developments in media technologies not only allow for 
information exchange but also foster a globally mediatized emotional 
exchange, which leads to new interactions between media, migration, and 
emotion. As the use of these devices and platforms penetrates the most 
intimate relationships and exchanges shaped by transnational distances 
and mobility, we are reminded anew of how migration has always been 
shaped by more than rational, economic considerations.
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Nonetheless there is a paucity of studies on the connection between 
media and emotion in migration contexts. This raises urgent questions 
about how social media usages mediate the emotionality of contemporary 
migration experiences, not only for new media and communication studies, 
but also in neighboring disciplines such as anthropology, postcolonial 
studies, gender studies, psychology, and sociology. Theoretical 
understandings of emotion and affect as being defined not by discrete 
inner states but as residing in the relations people have to their 
surroundings, things, and other people have opened up an array of 
possibilities for investigating emotionality as quintessentially social 
and always mediated. *
We are therefore interested in contributions that relate to the 
following themes and questions:
- How does digital media reshape the experience of migration by bridging 
distance through digital intimacy?
- How are emotions, affect, feelings and sentiments articulated online?
- How are feelings of togetherness and co-presence experienced across
distances in particular ways through social media practices?
- How are migrants’ emotional relationships with communities, diaspora, 
and/or
homelands shaped by social media?
- Which forms of transnational emotional communication emerge as specific to
social media use? And what are the (potential) implications?
- How do social media apps fit into older regimes of emotional mediation 
for migrants and highly mobile people?
- What is the role of visuality in the digital mediation of emotions in 
migrant contexts of the social media age? E.g. emojis, photo-sharing, 
audio-visual social media posts.
- In which ways can we go beyond the normativity of transnational 
families in the study of feelings of home and belonging through social 
media?
Contributions can include, but need not be limited to themes of:
- Mobile, digitally mediated spatio-emotional engagement in the cities of
residence,
- Experiences of transnational co-presence through social media,
- New kinds of digitally mediated relationships within diaspora as well 
as with
other “host country” residents/citizens,
- Formations of and (political) engagement with networked affective publics,
- Intergenerational and life-cycle shifts or discontinuities in the diaspora
community and/or family communications,
- And the use of social media in (implicit or overt) subversions of the
homogenous nation as a reference point.
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This special issue aims to bring together scholars working on a variety 
of theoretical and methodological issues arising from theoretical as 
well as empirical investigation of emotion and affect as it relates to 
migrant sociality mediated through a range of social media, apps, 
platforms, and digital media as they emerge in a variety of socio- 
cultural and geographic locales across the globe.
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Guest editors:
Donya Alinejad, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Media and Culture 
Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
(d.alinejad /at/ uu.nl)
Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, 
Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The 
Netherlands. (s.ponzanesi /at/ uu.nl)
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Timeline:
-Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2019
-Notification of acceptance/selection: 31.03.2019
-Deadline for full papers: 31.08.2019
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Submission:
Proposals of 500-750 words should include an abstract and a short 
description explaining whether/how previous or current research relates 
to the special issue
  theme. Please also include a short bio of 250 words including name, 
affiliation, and contact details.
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Please submit your proposal no later than 15 February, 2019.

Invited paper submissions will be due 31 August 2019 and will undergo 
peer review following the usual procedures.

Please send submissions to (d.alinejad /at/ uu.nl) and (s.ponzanesi /at/ uu.nl). We 
look forward to receiving your submissions.


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