[Commlist] CFP Special Issue 13.2 - The breakthrough of digital health: communication as the catalyst of the transformation of care

CALL FOR ARTICLES
*FULL TEXT <https://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/content/call-for-papers/>*
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/The breakthrough of digital health:/
/communication as the catalyst of the transformation of care/


    Special issue /Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural
    Studies/ 13.2 (Fall 2021)

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*DEADLINES:*

*15 October 2020:* deadline for *abstract submission*

*31 January 2021: *deadline for *full proposals (selected abstracts)*

    /Guest Editors:
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    *Anna Sendra*, University of Ottawa
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    Sinikka Torkkola*, Tampere University
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    Eliza Govender*, University of Kwazulu-Natal


The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum to discuss the 
different roles of communication in the context of the transition 
towards digital health or (ill)health. Topics of interest include, but 
are not limited to:

  * new forms of patient engagement, decision-making and
    patient-provider interactions (e.g. e-consultations)
  * the impact of digitization on the workplace and practices of health
    professionals
  * methodologies to design innovative and people-centered care
    interventions
  * the role of health literacy, promotion and education in the context
    of digitization (e.g. social media)
  * using big data for the governance and management of health (e.g. apps)
  * the effect of digitization on the accessibility and quality of care
  * digitization of healthcare communication
  * theoretical perspectives on digitalization of health communication
  * ethics of digital (ill)health

Research articles should be 6,000 words in length (including notes and 
references), while Viewpoint articles should not exceed 3,000 words. The 
editors will carry out a preliminary selection of abstracts.


      Timeline:

  * *15 October 2020*: deadline for abstracts

    Abstract (maximum 500 words), title and selected biography, along
    with a 150-200 word author’s short bio (including your affiliation
    and contact information) should be sent to Anna Sendra
    ((asendrat /at/ uottawa.ca) <mailto:(asendrat /at/ uottawa.ca)>;
    (msannasendra /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(msannasendra /at/ gmail.com)>).

  * 30 October 2020: Editors’ decision on selected abstracts
  * *31 January 2021:* deadline for* full articles*

Full articles, based on the selected abstracts, should be submitted on 
the /Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies/web platform 
<https://callisto.newgen.co/intellect/index.php/CJCS/about/submissions> by 
*31 January 2021, *following the Author Guidelines 
<https://callisto.newgen.co/intellect/index.php/CJCS/about/submissions#authorGuidelines>.

  * 1 May 2021: final decision letters
  * Fall 2021: issue published

/All selected contributions will be subjected to double blind peer 
review, except for the Viewpoint articles, which will be evaluated by 
the Editors./

Full text: https://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/content/call-for-papers/


      CATALAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION & CULTURAL STUDIES INDEXING &
      ABSTRACTING

Scopus; Thomson Reuters: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); ASSIA; 
CARHUS Plus + 2013; CCUC; Comm Abstracts CIOS; Dialnet; ERIH PLUS; 
Genamics JournalSeek; Communication and Mass-Media Complete; TOC 
Premier; British Humanities Index; IBSS; IBZ; IBR; ICDS; MLA; REBIUN; 
Ulrich’s.

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