[Commlist] Call for paper - Exploring flows and counter-flows of information along the New Silk Road

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Call for papers

Exploring flows and counter-flows of information along the New Silk Road

The “New Silk Road”, or in the Chinese official discourse, the “Belt & 
Road initiative一带一路” was launched in 2013 to reconnect China with 
countries in Asia, Middle East, Europe and Africa and to establish 
different levels of cooperation with new partners. The complexity of 
this initiative is reflected in the diverse definitions provided by 
different stakeholders such as:

-  The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious effort to improve 
regional cooperation and connectivity on a trans-continental scale. The 
initiative aims to strengthen infrastructure, trade, and investment 
links between China and some 65 other countries (The World Bank)
-  China's ambitious plan for linking Asia and Europe and Africa through 
new massive infrastructure projects (European Parliament)
-  The Belt and Road Initiative is a systematic project, which should be 
jointly built through consultation to meet the interests of all, and 
efforts should be made to integrate the development strategies of the 
countries along the Belt and Road. (Chinese Government)
Discussions about the New Silk Road and its relationship with all 
related regions had been mainly conducted in political and economic 
studies. Much less attention has been paid from the media and 
communication perspectives. This special issue is designed to fill in 
this gap by bringing scholars in media, communication, language and 
culture studies to analyse the ramifications of the “Belt and Road 
Initiative” for studies of transnational and cross-cultural communication.

The special issue is addressed to explore different public engagements 
and sentiments of the “Belt and Road Initiative” highlighting social, 
political and historical contexts. Framing the initiative also as a 
“social space generated in communicative action” (Habermas 1996, p. 
360), we welcome studies with a more general perspective to analyze the 
initiative as a co-constructed practice within which the public is 
actively involved. In line with the goal of Communication and the 
Public, we expect this special issue to provide insights on different 
public discourse (by social actors or official narrative) that include 
analysis of local knowledge, concerns, modes of arguments, value 
schemes, logics, and the like shared among ordinary people” (Hauser, 
2011, p. 164).
Furthermore, from a more theoretical perspective this special issue has 
other three aims:

-  It contributes to studies exploring past and present flows of 
information/communication along the ancient and new silk road;
-  It develops a discussion on the up-to-date dynamics of information 
flows on an international level between China and different regions 
involved in the initiative; -  The third aim is to de-westernize 
communication research in search of new theoretical framework that 
offers richer cultural context to the present research framework.
We encourage submissions of topics include but are not limited to:

-  News flow and narratives through/among countries related to the New 
Silk Road;
-  Media production exchange or co-production between European and 
Chinese media companies; -  Media infrastructure studies along the New 
Silk Road; Media linguistic studies, discourse analysis and translation 
issues related to New Silk Road
-  Media governance and media law across boarders;

This special issue is a follow-up publication from the 2018 ECREA 
Pre-Conference organized by China Media Observatory (CMO), Institute of 
Media and Journalism (IMeG), at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) 
in October 2018 thanks to the support of the Chinese Embassy in 
Switzerland and the City Government of Lugano.  Since 2006 CMO has been 
actively developing academic platforms to improve scientific dialogue 
between Europe and China such as Europe-China Dialogue: Media and 
Communication Studies Summer School.
Papers for consideration in this special issue should be submitted 
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/communication-and-public#submission-guidelines 
 and should indicate they are intended for inclusion in the special 
issue. For inquires, contact Gianluigi Negro at (gianluigi.negro /at/ usi.ch) 
and Zhan Zhang (zhan.zhang /at/ usi.ch).

All manuscripts (6000-8000 words) should be submitted by March 31, 2019. 
All submitted manuscripts are subject to rigorous blind peer-review 
process. All accepted manuscripts will be published online first. The 
planned printed publication date is an issue of Communication and the 
Public in 2020. Submissions should conform to the editorial guidelines 
of the Communication and the Public found here 
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/communication-and-public#submission-guidelines



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