[Commlist] CFP Special Issue on Transnational Activism

Giuliana Sorce & Delia Dumitrica are currently seeking submissions for a 
themed issue on Transnational Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest 
to be published in the Review of Communication, a flagship journal of 
the National Communication Association (NCA). There are no APCs and 
submission and publication is free. Please see the full CFP below.

REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION / THEMED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Transnational 
Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest

GUEST EDITORS: Giuliana Sorce (U of Tübingen) and Delia D. Dumitrica 
(Erasmus U)

This themed issue aims to map international perspectives on 
transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider 
claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the 
logic of spatial organization to networked flows (Bennett & Segerberg, 
2012; Mercea, 2020), this themed issue seeks to illuminate how the 
global and local come together in networked public spheres. Recent 
transnational movements such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter yield the 
importance of interweaving digital communication, pre-existing 
activist collectives, and citizen activation on a seemingly global 
scale. The policing of physical protests during the ongoing COVID-19 
pandemic have intensified reliance on digital technologies among 
activists and grassroots collectives (Sorce & Dumitrica, 2021), further 
enhancing the appeal to create transnational ties and globalize movement 
appeals.

We ask how political causes circulate globally, what role digital 
technologies play, and ultimately, what “transnational” means for 
seemingly universal causes, global collective identity, and activist 
practice. In reflecting how activists across the globe employ digital 
media to construct a civic imaginary of a transnational polity, 
attention must be paid to the dialectical nature of transnational 
processes that simultaneously magnify the importance of locality while 
normalizing hybridity (Roudometof, 2016; Kraidy, 2005; Pieterse, 2015).

Where previous scholarship has drawn attention to the diffusion of 
political causes (della Porta & Mattoni, 2014) or cultural references 
(Dumitrica, in press) across national borders, this themed issue focuses 
on how digital technologies mediate and shape transnational processes 
in global organizing. This includes how transnational causes move across 
cultural contexts and how global appeals or activist vocabularies 
traverse (local) initiatives, considering the ways transnational 
organizers create collective identities among dispersed adherents, and 
what digital tactics of action work for global movements.

Possible contributions might examine, but are not limited to:

• transnational activism as shaped by digital action

• (re)direction of transnational flows in digital contention

• transnational circulation of protest causes, identities, symbols, and 
vocabularies

• formation of global dissent in networked contexts

• (digital) activism, campaigns, and protest on “global” issues

• global values and transnational appeals in border zone, migration, 
First Nation, diasporic,

environmental, queer, or gender rights protest communication

• roles and affordances of new media technologies in transnational 
organizing

• digital network(ing) practices in transnational activism

• narrative and rhetorical strategies in forging transnational activist 
alliances

SUBMISSION DEADLINES AND GUIDELINES

August 31, 2021 Submit extended abstract for Guest Editors’ review (max. 
750 words)

October 15, 2021 Submit completed manuscript for peer review (invitation 
only*)

Extended abstracts should include the research problematic, theoretical 
angle, methodology, and key findings. The extended abstracts will be 
reviewed by the Guest Editors, who will subsequently invite a selection 
of authors to submit full papers.

Completed manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word using a 
12-point common font, double- spaced, no more than 7,000 words, 
inclusive of all matter (abstract, keywords, endnotes, etc.).

Review of Communication follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., 
endnotes style. Abstracts and manuscripts must be submitted 
electronically through the Review of Communication submission site.
Authors should identify which themed call their paper is responding to 
by selecting the relevant drop-down option in ScholarOne.

REVIEW PROCESS

In keeping with the journal’s current practice, all invited 
manuscripts/submissions will undergo rigorous peer review, including 
screening by the Guest Editors and review by at least two anonymous 
referees. *Please note that an invitation to submit a full manuscript 
does not guarantee acceptance/publication. If accepted, there are no 
APCs for authors.

Please direct questions about submissions to this themed issue to:

Giuliana Sorce, PhD
Institute of Media Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
(giuliana.sorce /at/ uni-tuebingen.de) <http://tuebingen.de>
OR
Delia D. Dumitrica, PhD
Department of Media & Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam
(dumitrica /at/ eshcc.eur) <mailto:(dumitrica /at/ eshcc.eur)>.nl





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