[Commlist] cfp: Community and Activist Media: Resistance and Resurgence (JACM)

Journal of Alternative & Community Media (Journal)
ISSN 26344726 , ONLINE ISSN 22065857

The Journal of Alternative & Community Media (JOACM) publishes research 
that helps explain the shifting media environment, and the ways in which 
people use alternative forms of media and communication. Issues of 
concern to the journal include the nature and distribution of media 
power; access to and participation in media; media practices of 
communities and social movements; and the possibilities of emerging 
technologies and new media.

Volumes 1–4 of JOACM are available Open Access

Call for Papers
Journal of Alternative & Community Media
Special Issue: ‘Community and Activist Media:  Resistance and Resurgence'

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/51565/1/Alternative_media2.pdf

Journal of Alternative & Community Media (JOACM) publishes research that 
helps explain the shifting media environment and the ways in which 
people use alternative forms of media and communication. Issues of 
concern to the journal include the nature and distribution of media 
power; access to and participation in media; media practices of 
communities and social movements; and the possibilities of emerging 
technologies and new media. This Special Issue of Journal of Alternative 
& Community Media is inspired by papers from the OURMedia gathering in 
Brussels, 2019; and the planned (but cancelled) post-conference to the 
ICA 2020, to submit papers on the theme, ‘Community and Activist Media: 
Resistance and Resurgence’.

Planned publication is September 2021. We call for academic papers 
alongside contributions from alternative media practitioners who will 
contribute to a Special Section, ‘Essays from the Frontline’.

From the resurgence of white supremacy and authoritarian rule to 
rapidly changing technologies and the rise of social media; and from the 
precarious state of journalism to state crackdowns on dissent and the 
‘free press’, community and activist media face multiple ‘disruptions’ 
and challenges. While the twenty-first-century media environment offers 
increasing opportunities for ‘voice’, the challenges for community and 
activist media are practical, political and fundamental. At the same 
time that this is occurring in community and activist media, scholars in 
this field are often working at the intersection of research and 
activism, a theme explored in the 2019 OURMedia gathering.

This Special Issue will bring together engaged scholars to explore the 
challenges and opportunities for community and activist media at a time 
of unprecedented pressures – considering new resurgences and enhanced 
opportunities for resistance. Additionally, paper proposals at the 
intersection of research and activism are most welcome; and by 
extension, papers that draw connections between scholarly activism 
(scholactivism) and media activism, emanating from a key theme of the 
OURMedia conference, are also sought.

Key questions to be explored include: • What is the role of activist and 
community media in contemporary social justice struggles – including 
anti-racist work in the context of resurgent racisms and intersectional 
work in the context of anti-feminist backlash? What are the 
possibilities for resistance and transformation? • How can we best 
analyse and respond to white supremacist and far-right media?
How do community and alternative media enable voices that are 
marginalized or excluded from the ‘mainstream’ to be heard – what can we 
learn (or not ) from their practices?• What is the role and value of 
established ‘community’ media when social media platforms enable a 
proliferation of voice?• What have we learned from the legacy of 
platforms such as Indymedia, and how can this inform our structures, 
agendas and goals for the future?• How does one integrate activism and 
scholarship? What are the tensions between the ‘scientific’ needs of 
research and commitments to social change and social justice?• What is 
the state of news and current affairs – including news journalisms and 
issues-based talks programming – at a time of both technological and 
professional ‘disruption’?• What does ‘community’ or ‘alternative’ media 
mean in the current digital media environment, which features a 
proliferation of non-mainstream voices?


The Special Issue welcomes participation from researchers and 
practitioners across community and activist media very broadly defined – 
including alternative media in all its guises, community media 
interventions, alternative journalism initiatives, citizens media, media 
activism and more. No APCs are charged. Media activists and other 
practitioners who wish to contribute should contact Susan Forde directly 
((s.forde /at/ griffith.edu.au)) to discuss an alternative ‘Essays from the 
Frontline’ format to complement the suite of academic papers to be 
published in this Special Issue.

Abstracts should be submitted by 1 October 2020
Full articles are due 10 December 2020
Reviews will be sent to authors by 15 February 2021
Revised manuscripts are due 30 April 2021
Article acceptances notified 30 June 2021
Publication September 2021

Please send your abstracts to the guest editors.

Guest Editors
Tanja Dreher
University of New South Wales, Australia
(t.dreher /at/ unsw.edu.au)

Pieter Maeseele
University of Antwerp, Belgium
(pieter.maeseele /at/ uantwerpen.be)

Susan Forde
Griffith University, Australia
(s.forde /at/ griffith.edu.au)


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