[Commlist] Call for abstracts: Special issue of MedieKultur – PandeMedia. How Covid-19 has affected the role of media in society

Call for abstracts: Special issue of MedieKultur – PandeMedia. How 
Covid-19 has affected the role of media in society


Fundamentally, media technologies facilitate communication between two 
parties or more across vast distances - synchronously and 
asynchronously. During the Covid-19 pandemic era, these properties have 
proven important towards organizing mass testing as well as providing 
news, updates, and information. In addition to this, the many facets of 
digital communication in the modern workplace have become even more 
important. Aside from the many practical aspects where media 
technologies have proven valuable or necessary, social lives have been 
mediated as well through familiar social media platforms, message apps, 
and video conference software. Moreover, the Covid-19 era has 
highlighted debates over misinformation, conspiracy theories, fringe 
online cultures, and the role of surveillance technologies in society. 
None of these practices represent entirely new forms of media use, but 
due to the pandemic they have become necessary and apparent in new ways. 
In summation, this special issue will be open to a wide range of topics 
within the scope of media culture through the prism of the Covid-19 
pandemic.

Suggested topics:
-	Everyday media practices during ‘lockdowns’
-	Changing perceptions of digital media beyond the pandemic
-	Global and regional differences to changes in the role of digital 
media in the pandemic
-	Surveillance technologies in the battle against contagion
-	The role of news media during the pandemic
-	Remote learning experiences with and without digital media
-	Experiences with working remote and digital facilitation of 
consumption (e.g., online deliveries, new digitization, etc.)
-	Conspiracy theories and their proliferation through media
-	Mediation of cultural institutions (e.g., museums, theatres, etc.)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 1st, 2021

Deadline for full paper: February 1st, 2022

Deadline for revisions: June 15th, 2022

Expected publication: November 2022


Guest editors:

Thomas Enemark Lundtofte, Assistant Professor in media studies, 
University of Southern Denmark
Stine Liv Johansen, Associate Professor in media studies, Aarhus University

No payments or Article Processing Charges (APC) from authors or their 
institutions will be required.

Please visit MedieKultur’s website for further information on how to 
submit your abstract:
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/907

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