[Commlist] Call For Papers: Baltic Screen Media Review /- Participation in transition: Rethinking participatory culture

*/Call For Papers: Baltic Screen Media Review /- Participation in 
transition: Rethinking participatory culture *

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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed physical interaction 
among people, but it also continues to shape our relations with media 
and technology. Mediated and distant interaction and communication 
became the norm. This led to struggles for some individuals, groups, 
institutions, practices and services, while others blossomed and 
thrived. Is participatory culture, as we know it, changing as a result 
of the challenges of 2020?

Building on the 2020 volume of /Baltic Screen Media Review/, which 
explored the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to media 
industries, we now call for papers on participation in the context of 
the pandemic and related crises.

While the pandemic has posed an incredible challenge in terms of media 
production, it has concurrently pushed innovation, resulting in a 
reinvigorated relationship between media and the audiences. Media was 
the window to the world for locked-down people, and via media and 
communication technologies people were informed, entertained and able to 
interact with one another. Yet, the incredible volume of data created 
from people’s media participation has enhanced rather than diminished 
the disproportionate power of already powerful platforms and 
corporations held over access, participation, public speech and cultural 
discourse.

This has been a fertile ground for new participatory practices to 
emerge. We as scholars of participatory culture thus need to renew our 
focus on not only the empirical expressions of participation, but also 
on how we make sense of participation and how we conceptualize the 
effects of macro scale changes on it. Therefore, we call for submissions 
that explore the concept of participation, its present state and its 
future from both political and sociological perspectives.

In this volume of /BSMR/, we will accept long (4000 – 8000 words w/o 
ref) and short (2000 – 2500 words w/o ref) articles and commentaries.

These articles should reflect on and explore a range of issues 
concerning participatory culture. We invite articles focusing on the 
Baltic Sea region (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Poland, Germany, 
Finland, etc.), but analyses of similar issues elsewhere, especially in 
countries of similar size and circumstances, are also welcome.

Contributions addressing topics such as (but not limited to) the 
following are particularly welcome:

  * Participatory culture in transition
  * The future of participation
  * Interactive and participatory practices
  * Emergence of new forms of audience engagement
  * Crisis-specific participation and crisis participatory culture
  * Digitalisation and the power of platforms
  * Local vs global, local practices, local alternatives to platforms,
    local information bubbles
  * The digital public sphere
  * Collective identity and digital engagement


Key dates:

15.03.2021 - Submit abstracts of 200–300 words.

01.04.2021 – Communication of acceptance of abstracts

14.06.2021 – Submit full manuscripts that will be sent for blind peer 
review.

This issue of /BSMR /will appear as Volume 9:2, published both online 
and in print in late 2021. /BSMR /embraces visual storytelling, we thus 
invite authors to use photos and other illustrations as part of their 
contributions.


All submissions should be sent via email attachment to Indrek Ibrus 
((ibrus /at/ tlu.ee) <mailto:(ibrus /at/ tlu.ee)>) and Alessandro Nanì ((nani /at/ tlu.ee) 
<mailto:(nani /at/ tlu.ee)>).

_Note: With BSMR no payment from authors will be required._

Further info about the journal can be found at 
https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/bsmr-overview.xml?language=en&tab_body=overview 
<https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/bsmr-overview.xml?language=en&tab_body=overview>


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