[Commlist] CFP Information Communication and Society -

CFP

Sexuality, Gender, Media. Identity articulations in the contemporary 
media landscape
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Communication and society 
to be published in 2020 (online); 2021 (print)
edited by Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Tonny Krijnen and Paul G. Nixon

 From Trump’s discourses to the everyday life performances in digital 
platforms, from representation of LGBTQ+ in TV programs to pornography, 
the relation between gender, sexuality and media is ubiquitous and 
strongly embedded in everyday life. The definitions of gender and 
sexuality are in constant flux with the media playing a key role in 
shaping, articulating, representing and performing these definitions.
The current, general openness and debate on gender and sexuality is 
built upon the struggles of many groups and individuals to bring these 
issues into the mainstream. Issues that have important influences on the 
ways in which we live our lives and view those of others.
Because of political and cultural changes, questions connected to sexual 
identity and gender are constantly under attack, whilst opposite 
tendencies of reconfirming patriarchal scripts and resisting 
challenging, and redefining these paradigms are simultaneously present.
Considering gender and sexuality as social and cultural construction, 
this special issue of Information Communication and society aims to 
explore issues able to focus on the contemporary social changes that are 
connected to gender and sexuality in and through media. The articles 
will be concerned, on the one hand, with exploring aspects of the 
changing social and sexual landscape, on the other hand, on the ways in 
which media seem to stubbornly recycle gender and sexual stereotypes. 
How do these two tendencies relate to one another? How do contemporary 
gender ideologies influence media perspectives and practices? Do 
mediated representations reinforce, echo, or challenge social 
hierarchies based in differences of gender and sexuality? How do new 
media technologies feed into discourses on gender and sexuality?
Potential papers could explore new researches at the forefront of media 
and communication practice and theory and the nuances of contemporary 
sex and gender scripts as they are played out in popular media looking 
at both the more traditional and normative interpretation of gender and 
sexuality as well as texts that challenge and therefore move beyond the 
heteronormative and sexist.

We are looking for contributions that analyze media both in terms of 
representation and agency and that will be able to reflect different 
cultural conditions and experiences, contrasting perspectives in terms 
of analytical orientation, and geographically dynamic subjects.

Possible topics could include:

* adapting and resisting gendered and sexed identities
* forging new normative gendered identities
* dating and hook up apps
* use of social networking sites, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
* rebranding feminism
* pornography
* datafication of gender and sexuality
* representation of gender and sexuality in popular media
* gender and media production
* gender, sexuality and technologies, technology of pleasure, sex bots.

Please submit your 300 word abstract along with the author’s bio (100 
words) and author’s full contact details before 31 May 2019.

Please upload you abstract using this link: 
https://www.dropbox.com/request/OXDnBkBIewJldq14OZIi

Please direct enquiries to Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Tonny Krijnen and 
Paul G. Nixon

(marco.scarcelli /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(marco.scarcelli /at/ gmail.com)>
(krijnen /at/ eshcc.eur.nl) <mailto:(krijnen /at/ eshcc.eur.nl)>
(p.g.nixon /at/ hhs.nl) <mailto:(p.g.nixon /at/ hhs.nl)>







Publication schedule:
30 June 2019: Decisions on abstracts



1 February 2020: deadline full paper submission

1 February - 15 April 2020: Peer reviewing

22 April 2020: Comments to authors

8 May 2020: Deadline submission revisions

21 May 2020: Final decisions



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