[Commlist] Cfp: Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19

Cfp: Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond 
COVID-19

Open call for Media, Culture & Society’s Crosscurrents special section
"Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond 
COVID-19"

Scholarly discussions on media and culture at the time of COVID-19 often 
tend to focus on short-term responses, replicating a rhetoric of 
emergency that shapes debates in the public sphere. As the COVID-19 
pandemic approaches the beginning of its third year, however, it becomes 
increasingly important to
reflect on how the cultural and social implications of this global event 
may solicit a reorganization and reframing of some of the existing 
conceptual and theoretical tools that have shaped media and cultural 
studies as a field.

In the effort of promoting long-standing reflections with the potential 
to inform debates within the field beyond the timeline of the emergency, 
Crosscurrents will offer a platform for timely interventions and debates 
around a number of keywords that are crucial for the past, the present, 
and the future of the field. We invite submissions of short commentary 
pieces that move from one specific keyword to consider how these notions 
are imbricated by the current crisis, either COVID-19 specifically or in 
more general terms. Contributors are asked to engage not only with 
current events but also with historical debates in Media, Culture and 
Society and in the wider field, taking a longer, broader 
theoretical/conceptual perspective. Contributions that consider 
experience and approaches beyond the West are especially encouraged.

This is an initial list of potential keywords and topics with which this 
special section aims to engage: Care, Privacy and Surveillance, 
Globalization, Nation-States and Nationalism, Technology, Time, Memory, 
Art, Activism and critique, Digital Pedagogy, Gender, Welfare, Public 
Service Media, Race and Migration, Hope, Utopia and Futures, Sociality, 
Community and Interaction Online, Fandom and Celebrity, Expertise, 
Crisis Communication and Events. Authors are also welcomed to submit 
manuscripts focusing on other relevant
keywords, which should be identified clearly in the submission title.

Prospective authors should submit articles of 3,000-4,000 words 
including references and endnotes.

The articles should be formatted and submitted online according to the 
journal guidelines provided here:
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/media-culture-society#submission-guidelines 
<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/media-culture-society#submission-guidelines>

Selected articles will be published in the Crosscurrents section of 
Media, Culture and Society. Please direct any queries to 
(mcsarticles /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(mcsarticles /at/ gmail.com)>

No payment from the authors is required to public in Media, Culture and 
Society.


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