[Commlist] Call for papers | Comunicação e Sociedade | Vol. 39 | Who cares? Digital platforms, sharing and regulation in connected economies

  Call for papers | /Comunicação e Sociedade/ | Vol. 39 | Who cares?
  Digital platforms, sharing and regulation in connected economies

*Editors*: Rodrigo Saturnino (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal), 
Helena Sousa (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal) & Jack Qiu (School of 
Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

Sharing Economy is a common expression used to refer to various forms of 
exchange facilitated by digital platforms involving a great diversity of 
profit-oriented and non-profit activities with a broad spectrum of 
social, economic, cultural, and political purposes. The underlying idea 
of the sharing economy is generally about giving access to unused 
resources. This model has rekindled the promises of an economically 
sustainable society shaped by the various forms of connections.

On the one hand, it is considered that the connective power of 
information and communication technologies has led to the creation of 
new business models motivated by cyber culture-inspired logics (e.g., 
open access, collaboration and sustainability), as well as favouring the 
financial autonomy of users and environmental preservation through a 
community consumption project on the global and/or regional scales. On 
the other hand, a more critical view considers that when it is being 
dominated by large companies such as Uber and Airbnb, Sharing Economy 
helps to instrumentalise expensive social concepts such as the idea of 
home, solidarity, and trust to reinforce capitalist interests and 
reiterate precariousness, technological dependence, and social inequalities.

This thematic volume aims to approach and critically understand the 
varied interfaces of this economy based on the emergence of digital 
platforms, considering the scope and scale that such models have 
contracted in the daily life world. It is interesting to discover, for 
example, how international regulatory frameworks have systematised and 
are dealing with the platform operations, and what strategies are being 
developed by users either to resist and/or to benefit from them. And 
yet, what are the resilience and sustainability strategies that their 
users have used to co-exist with such platforms?

This volume of /Comunicação e Sociedade/ is devoted to studies on 
Sharing Economy. It pays special attention to proposals for articles 
that result from scientific research work on the following topics:

– Sharing economics and regulatory frameworks;
– New professions and new lifestyles;
– Sharing economics and communication theory;
– Social theory and economics of sharing
– Digital platforms (for-profit and non-profit);
– Digital labour, precariousness and dependence;
– Unemployment through the sharing economy;
– Alternative platform formations (e.g., platform cooperatives);
– Collaborative consumption and environmental footprint;
– Commodification of trust, reputation and solidarity;
– Sustainable forms based on the sharing economy;
– Big data, surveillance, privacy and intimacy
– Social inequality, racism and risk behaviours through the sharing economy;
– Economy of sharing, culture of access and connection
– Covid-19 effects on sharing economy.

*KEY DATES*

Full article submission deadline: 15 September 2020
Editor’s decision on full articles: 15 November 2020
Deadline for sending the full version and translated version: 05 
February 2021
Issue publication date: June 2021

*LANGUAGE*

Articles can be submitted in English or Portuguese. After the peer 
review process, the authors of the selected articles should ensure 
translation of the respective article, and the editors shall have the 
final decision on publication of the article.

*EDITION AND SUBMISSION*

/Comunicação e Sociedade/ is a peer-reviewed journal that uses a double 
blind peer review process. After submission, each paper will be 
distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it, in 
terms of its academic quality, originality and relevance to the 
objectives and scope of the theme chosen for the journal’s current issue.

Originals must be submitted via the journal’s website 
<https://revistacomsoc.pt/>. If you are accessing /Comunicação e 
Sociedade/ for the first time, you must register in order to submit your 
article (indications to register here 
<https://revistacomsoc.pt/user/register>).

The guidelines for authors can be consulted here 
<https://revistacomsoc.pt/about/submissions>.

For further information, please contact: 
(comunicacaoesociedade /at/ ics.uminho.pt) 
<mailto:(comunicacaoesociedade /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>

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