[Commlist] Call for Book Chapters (Routledge): Disliking outgroups: overcoming hate speech and polarization in the participatory society

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (ROUTLEDGE)

*/Disliking outgroups: overcoming hate speech and polarization in the 
participatory society. /*Marta Pérez-Escolar & José Manuel Noguera-Vivo 
(eds.)

Abstracts of no more than 250 words can be submitted to 
(martaperez /at/ loyola.es) <mailto:(martaperez /at/ loyola.es)> or (jmnoguera /at/ ucam.edu) 
<mailto:(jmnoguera /at/ ucam.edu)> until June 31, 2019.

Notifications to authors of abstracts: September 31, 2019
Full book chapter: February 15, 2020 (4,000 - 6,500 words, including 
references)

This is not just a book about the utopian and dystopian views of the 
internet, but a tool to understand why the participatory society is 
still far away of its best aims and possibilities in fields such as 
politics, media or cultural industries. In all these cases the tensions 
between the great possibilities of participation and the lack of 
strategies or resources are offering almost a perfect scenario for the 
growth of some hate speeches. From dynamic fields such as media studies, 
political communication, new media and journalism, the responses to this 
problem can be different but absolutely complementaries. Despite of 
previous similar works, such as Brown (2015); Valdesolo & Graham (2016); 
Jesuit, Russell & Williams (2017); Itten (2018), Brown & Sinclair (2019) 
or Beaufort (2019), among others, this handbook is the first holistic 
approach that deals with hate speech, polarization and enclave 
deliberation as cross axis that influences digital conversations in 
regards to politics, journalism and the anti-fandom phenomenon -fiction, 
gaming and cultural industries-.

The myths and realities around the echo chamber effect and the filter 
bubble (Pariser, 2017) or the phenomenon of enclave deliberation and its 
impact (Sunstein, 2003) are just some of the examples of matters that 
need a broader and deeper to understand the media ecosystem and their 
challenges. The Routledge Handbook Title comprises the very latest 
developments in theories and methods for students and scholar seeking to 
understand why it is too hard to fight against hate speech and political 
polarization in this media landscape but it is still worthy -and 
possible- to try it. Both theoretical approaches as well as empirical 
case studies are welcome.

Areas of interest:

- Political and ideological polarization
- Hate speech in the social and mass media
- Toxic fandom universe

The acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee the publication of the 
book chapter, which will be under blind peer review.

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