[Commlist] Call for Papers | Moment Journal’s issue on participation and the media

Call for Papers

Moment Journal’s December 2019 Issue: Participation and the Media

The emergence of new media and its affordances have generated an 
increasing interest not only in resurgence of centralized structures and 
surveillance, but also in their participatory potential. Such interest 
is, in fact, not historically distinctive; each time the society is 
introduced to a new medium of communication, its potential of being used 
for the broader social good or harm becomes a matter of debate. Then 
again, where the rise of authoritarianism in the world today is 
considered, enabling more citizen participation in social and political 
debate is regarded as a progressive contribution of new media in general.

In Turkey’s context, participation is generally associated with 
practices that are limited to efforts to sustain electoral democracy and 
politics. However, looking at the increasing international scholarly 
calls for contribution on participation issue by numerous journals and 
books, one can see the diversity in the ways in which participation as a 
concept is understood as a very broad category, which may imply 
“interaction”, “engagement” or merely a social, political or cultural 
“joining”. For instance, Nico Carpentier (2013) defines participation in 
a much broader way than it is used in the academic lexicon of Turkey, 
but also with a narrower political signification than many others assume 
since he considers participation as an equalization of power relations 
in decision-making processes. Communication as a “practice” and media as 
an “institution” play a crucial role in strengthening or changing social 
power relations in such processes. The definition of participation by 
Henry Jenkins (2013), on the other hand, is closer to the broader 
meaning when he refers to "participatory cultures" of youth, including 
fan clubs, blogs, popular videos, online activism, etc.

Within the framework outlined above, we invite submissions for Moment 
Journal’s issue on participation and the media, on topics including, but 
not limited to:

- theoretical explorations on participation and the media

- methodological perspectives on participatory communication research

- electoral processes, participation and media performance

- citizenship, media participation and public sphere

- alternative, radical or community media, activism and participation

- gender, ethnicity, age and equality in participation

- new media, technological challenges and possibilities for participation

- breaking the institutional production-consumption chain via 
participatory practices

- new media and participatory practices at global and/or local levels

- participatory practices in social media apps

- youth cultures, fan clubs, new media and participation

- participatory art practices via communication media

The manuscripts should be submitted to the Moment Journal via Dergipark 
between June 1 and September 1, 2019.  Submissions both in English and 
Turkish will be accepted.

Publication Date: 15 December 2019.

For details, see SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

<http://www.momentdergi.org/index.php/momentdergi/about/submissions>

Theme Editors:

Oğuzhan Taş (Ankara University, Turkey) & Emre Canpolat (Hacettepe 
University, Turkey)

_References_

Jenkins, H., & Carpentier, N. (2013). Theorizing participatory 
intensities: A conversation about participation and politics. 
Convergence, 19(3), 265–286.

	


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