[Commlist] cfp: special issue on Trends on Youth Identity Construction in Digital Media*

We are inviting you to submit a paper to the special issue *Trends on 
Youth Identity Construction in Digital Media* of the Journalism and 
Media <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/>. The Article 
Process Charges will be fully subsided by MDPI for all invited authors. 
Thus, the accepted papers are going to be published free of charge.


*Special Issue Information*

There is a wide consensus in the academic debate that youth individual 
and social identities have been shaped by the use of digital media. As 
smartphone ownership has become nearly omnipresent in young people’s 
lives, they engage with the online sphere mainly to be entertained, to 
self-express, to socialize, to find information and learn new things, 
and to build online communities around common interests. All those 
activities could be seen as performative elements of identity in which 
the self is constructed by mediatized interactions with others. In the 
last decade, the complex interplay between media use and identity became 
increasingly marked by the marketplace logic of huge platforms such as 
Google, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok. These very large corporations do 
not produce or own most of the content they circulate, but they co-opt 
regular users to become producers that nurture a datafied, privacy 
invasive, and commodified environment with their contents and data. The 
predominance of this digital influencer model and its business practices 
profoundly affected the youth online culture, including the youngsters’ 
self-presentation on social media. In this sense, young people’s digital 
performances frequently emulate the aesthetic and values of celebrity 
culture to gain popularity and consequently achieve a higher social 
status. These practices often entail a “dark side”, as young people 
experience frustration, anxiety, or addiction, in their constant search 
for acknowledgment, recognition, and value from their peers on these 
platforms. It is in this context of hyperconnection, platformization, 
commodification, and celebritization that young people learn, interact, 
and perceive themselves and one another.

The Journalism and Media journal invites submissions to a Special Issue 
addressing emergent problems of youth identity construction taking into 
consideration their consumption of digital media contents and also their 
online self-presentation and interaction in an environment profoundly 
affected by the political economy of digital technologies. The articles 
provided to the issue may cover the following themes:

Youth narrative identity development on social media;

Consumption, brands, and the youths’ construction of identity on digital 
media;

- Fan identities and media;

- Gaming, avatars, and identity;

- Gender and sexual identity performance online;

- Youth migrant digital identity;

- Young people digital activism;

- Celebrity culture and youth identity;

- Sharenting and the construction of youth’s digital identity by parents 
and relatives;

- Digital performances, socialization, and peer culture;

- Images and identity construction: memes, emojis, gifs, digital 
manipulation of photos;

- Digital disconnection and resistant identities;

- Young people’s representation on news, advertisement, and fiction.

*Special Issue Editors*

Prof. Dr. Lídia Marôpo
Guest Editor

Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal
Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), NOVA 
University, Lisbon, Portugal

Prof. Dr. Patrícia Dias

Guest Editor

CECC/Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal

*Manuscript Submission Information*

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com 
<https://www.mdpi.com/> by registering 
<https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/> and logging in to this website 
<https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/>. Once you are registered, click here 
to go to the submission form 
<https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=journalmedia>. 
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be 
peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the 
journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special 
issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short 
communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short 
abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for 
announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be 
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference 
proceedings papers).All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a 
single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant 
information for submission of manuscripts is available on the 
Instructions for Authors 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/instructions> page. 
Journalism and Media <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/> is an 
international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/instructions> page before 
submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and 
use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service 
<https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english> prior to publication or during 
author revisions.

For more information write to:

(lidia.maropo /at/ ese.ips.pt) <mailto:(lidia.maropo /at/ ese.ips.pt)>

(pdias /at/ ucp.pt) <mailto:(pdias /at/ ucp.pt)>

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