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[Commlist] CFP Social Semiotics Special Issue CFP: Political ideology in everyday social media use

Mon Feb 24 20:00:24 GMT 2020







* Social Semiotics Special Issue CFP: Political ideology in everyday social media use

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To be publishedin/SocialSemiotics/, Taylor & Francis journal

Scholars have looked extensively atsocialmediainterms of its potential to reinvigorate democratic participation and/ or bring newpoliticalvoicesinto our civic sphere (Coffey and Woolworth 2004; Denisova 2019; Merrin 2019). Buteverydaysocialmediauseis less about voicingpoliticalviews and more about engaginginthe mundane, whereinthe matter of a few minutes we laugh along to memes and mash ups that ridicule the powerful, comment on shared music videos, read a food recipe and watch someone unbox a new pair of trainers. From the perspective of Critical Discourse Studies,socialmediabrings the opportunity to look at thepoliticaland ideologicalina different way. Here, we can critically consider how ideologiesinfuse theeverydayand mundane forms of communication across and between platforms where we engage with and communicate about entertainment, familyissues, celebrity andpoliticalgossip, transport, health, food, sport and leisure.Inthisspecialedition, we start from the perspective that this type of engagement is ideological, deeplyinscribed with values and ideas. It isineverydayusewhere discourses are articulated, parodied, altered and/ or taken for granted. And it is this area ourspecialissuecritically explores.

Scholars have previously shown the need to look for thepoliticaland ideologicalinpopular culture (Adorno 1991, Williams 1963).InCritical Discourse Studies, some recentspecialissues make the same case (Machin & Van Leeuwen 2016; Way 2019) based on the idea that it isinpopular culture and theeverydaywhere we most experience politics “as fun, as style, and simply as part of the taken for grantedeverydayworld…. [though these] areinfused by and shaped by, power relations and ideologies” (Machin 2013: 347). Ourspecialissuediffers from this previous work, looking specifically atsocialmedia. We consider how ideologies like neoliberalism, sexism, racism and populism (to name a few) are embeddedinoureverydayengagement withsocialmedia.

Papers are welcome which critically look at anysocialmediaplatform and topic. Suggestions for critical reflectioninclude:

Retail reviews

Food and restaurants

Film and television

Music videos

Diet and fitness

Sports

Travel destinations and tourism

Mash ups, memes, viralmediaabout the powerful

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 wordsinlength, plus a short author biography to Dr Lyndon Way, Liverpool University at (Lyndon.way /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) and Professor Gwen Bouvier, Zhejiang University at (gwen.bouvier /at/ gmail.com) by 1 March2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March2020.

Dates to remember:

1 March deadline for submitting abstract and biography

1 August deadline for submitting full-length paper for blind review

1 November submit final revised paper

January 2021 papers published

Please note than acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee publication. All submissions will undergo double blind peer review once completed articles are submitted.

References

Adorno, Theo. 1991./The CultureIndustry: Selected essays on mass culture/, London: Routledge

Coffey, B., and S. Woolworth (2004), ‘Destroy the scum, and then neuter their families: The web forum as a vehicle for community discourse?’,/SocialScience Journal/, 41(1): 1–14.

Denisova, Anastasia. 2019./Internet Memes and Society:Social, Cultural, andPoliticalContexts/. Routledge: New York and London.

Machin, David. 2013. “What Is Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies?”/Critical Discourse Studies/10(4): 347– 355.

Machin, David and van Leeuwen, Theo (Eds). 2016.Multimodality, politics andideology,/Journal of Language and Polit/ics 15(3).

Merrin, William. 2019. “President Troll: Trump, 4Chan and Memetic Warfare”.In/Trump’sMediaWar/(Eds) Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins and William Merrin pp. 201-226. Palgrave Macmillan: Switzerland.

Way, Lyndon (Ed). 2019. The Politics of Sound:Intersections of Music, Discourse andPoliticalCommunication,/Journal of Language and Politics/18(4).

Williams, Raymond. 1963./Culture and Society/, Harmondsworth: Penguin.



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