[Commlist] cfp Latin American non-fiction Hipertext journal

Hipertext.net journal n. 23: Call for Papers
Latin American non-fiction: from interactive to transmedia documentary

Guest editors:
Fernando Irigaray & Anahí Lovato
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Deadline for submission: July 20th, 2021
Notification of acceptance: October 2021
Publication: November 2021
More info: https://raco.cat/index.php/Hipertext/announcement/view/90 
<https://raco.cat/index.php/Hipertext/announcement/view/90>

Introduction:
In recent decades, several processes of digital and technological 
convergence have made possible the mutation of narrative formats and the 
appearance of new forms in the field of communication. Non-fiction 
narratives were not alien to these transformations. On the contrary, 
many documentary and journalistic projects began to assume interactive 
and transmedia formats and involved experimentation with multiple 
languages, the development of participatory strategies and stories that 
spread across different platforms and media.
In Latin America, non-fiction has deep roots, sustained in the writing 
of its great chroniclers and in the audiovisual productions of its 
schools of political and social documentary. This stamp of identity can 
also be traced in interactive formats, sometimes referred to as webdocs, 
idocs, interactive multimedia documentaries and even in documentary or 
journalistic transmedia projects.
Interactive and transmedia documentary in Latin America has now been 
under development and in consolidation for over two decades. Throughout 
the continent’s extensive geography, it is possible to recognize some 
production poles that are very active in the search for innovative 
formats and in experimentation with new technologies to tell stories of 
the order of reality. This issue of Hipertext.net proposes a critical 
perspective from which to map the state of the art while historicizing 
documentary productions, analyzing their intrinsic characteristics, 
reviewing their experiences of narrative design, circulation, and 
consumption, and identifying the challenges and opportunities that arise 
for interactive and transmedia non-fiction in this region of the world.
On this occasion, the guest editors have had the pleasure of inviting 
interactive and transmedia documentary researchers and producers to 
submit their proposals. The topics proposed are for guidance purposes 
only and are not exclusive:
• Interactive and transmedia documentary in Latin America: theoretical 
approaches, history, evolution, and conceptual definitions.
• Documentary and journalistic interactive and transmedia productions in 
Latin America. Case analyses.
• Interactive and transmedia narrative design in Latin American productions.
• Participatory, collaborative, and co-creative strategies in 
interactive and transmedia documentaries in Latin America.
• Latin American interactive and transmedia productions: the main 
thematic areas, production poles, influences, and references.
• The role of the universities in interactive and transmedia documentary 
productions: innovation, support, and production.
• Use of audiovisual, sound, photographic, infographic and animated 
languages in non-fiction transmedia and interactive projects in Latin 
America.
• Links and connections between narrative and territory in Latin 
American projects. Expanded territoriality in interactive and transmedia 
non-fiction.
• Gamification and immersion in Latin American non-fiction.
• Challenges and opportunities for the interactive and transmedia 
production of non-fiction in Latin America.
• The role of technologies, platforms, social networks, and the 
involvement of new users.

Section Policies:
• Papers. Original texts of between 4,000 and 8,000 words, excluding the 
bibliography. Recommended structure: introduction, theoretical 
framework, methodology, results, discussion, and references.
• Analysis and case studies. Texts of between 4,000 and 8,000 words, 
excluding the bibliography. With free structure.
• Letters. Texts of between 1,000 and 3,000 words. Recommended 
structure: introduction, report, discussion, references

Languages: Originals written in Spanish, English and Catalan are accepted
Revision: Peer Review
Contact: Pere Freixa, Editor-in-chief, (hipertext /at/ upf.edu) 
<mailto:(hipertext /at/ upf.edu)>

Publication Fees: The authors do not need to pay any article-processing 
charge (APC).

Hipertext.net is an Open Access academic publication created and 
promoted by the Information Science and Digital Media research group 
(DigiDoc) of the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra 
(Spain).

More information about this call for papers:
https://raco.cat/index.php/Hipertext/announcement/view/90
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