[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age

Call for Chapters: Book “Historicizing media and communication concepts 
of the digital age”

ECREA Communication History Section is launching a call for chapters for 
a new book project tentatively entitled Historicizing media and 
communication concepts of the digital age. The book aims to historicize 
some of the most relevant ideas and concepts in contemporary digital 
media studies, and will appear in the series “Studies in digital history 
and hermeneutics” directed by Andreas Fickers (DeGruyter Editor). The 
volume will be both online with free access and printed thanks to the 
support of C2DH at the University of Luxembourg, and will be edited by 
Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian 
Schwarzenegger – the former and current management team.

The main goal of the book is to show how several concepts did not 
originate with digital technologies, but existed before the digital age 
and have been used for long time, also in the “analogue times”. This 
should help to understand how concepts have changed over time and to see 
both continuities and profound mutations in their meanings between past 
and present, between the analog and digital eras. We have selected more 
than 20 concepts and part of them will be assigned thanks to this Call 
for Chapters.

We are looking for authors for the following words/concepts:

·Fake News

·Virtual/Reality

·Convergence

·Mobility

·Divide/Inequalities

·Multimedia

·Privacy/Private Life

·Data

·Network

·Sharing

·Piracy

If you or your team of authors are willing to write a chapter of 
5’000-6’000 words, please express your interest to 
(christian.schwarzenegger /at/ phil.uni-augsburg.de) 
<mailto:(christian.schwarzenegger /at/ phil.uni-augsburg.de)> by July 9, 2019 
and enclose an interest statement (no more than 500 words) mentioning 
the concept you selected and giving us a few a details on:

– How would you historicize this concept?

– How is the concept you selected linked to your previous work and why 
did you pick it? (small biography)

– Which are the media historical examples you plan to consider in your 
chapter?



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