[Commlist] CFP: communication +1 is seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and Communication"

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/communication/ +1 is seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and 
Communication"
Edited by Zachary McDowell, Peter Royal, and Justin Raden

Notwithstanding the current situation, periods of crisis and upheaval 
exacerbate inequities in our communication infrastructure and throw into 
sharp relief the profound barriers to access. In such fraught moments, 
we can glimpse the extent to which our systems of mediation 
differentially serve and confound us according to our positionality 
within these systems. To understand the effects of crises on 
communication, it is important to consider the history of systems of 
mediation that have both limited and encouraged access, participation, 
and equity across knowledge, space, and culture. What have crises, both 
present, perpetual, and past, intimated about flaws, gaps, and 
inequities in systems of communication that are overlooked or 
disregarded under “normal” (if “normal” exists) conditions? How might we 
think about how infrastructure relates to the crises and thus the 
infrastructures of communication are the infrastructures of 
communication in/justice? How and why are people and communities 
affected differently in these crises, and how do systems of 
communication and mediation both mitigate and compound these phenomena?

Questions of meaning making, truth, misinformation, and access are 
welcomed within our new collection. In particular, bringing new context 
and contextualization (whether philosophical, historical, archeological, 
rhetorical, ecological, or otherwise) to query contemporary crises of 
communicative access issues are welcome.

Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by January 10th, 
2021 to (communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>.

Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5th, 2021, with 
expected publication in August, 2021.

About the Journal
The aim of communication +1 is to promote new approaches to and open new 
horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary 
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that 
seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of 
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both 
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social 
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, 
communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to 
create a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these 
experiments.

communication +1 is a platinum open access journal supported by 
University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of 
Communication
communicationplusone.org <http://communicationplusone.org/>.

We do not charge APCs. Ever. We are part of DOAJ and The Open Humanities 
Press.

Editors
Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago

Guest Editors
Peter Royal, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication
Justin Raden, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of English

Advisory Board
Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago
Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais
Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University
Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine
Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
John Durham Peters, Yale University
Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Florian Sprenger, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara
Greg Wise, Arizona State University


For more information about the project in general, as well as short 
pieces, lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/>.

For more information or to participate in the communicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/> project, please email 
(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>

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