[Commlist] Call for chapters: Politics, media, and the war in Ukraine

Call for chapters

Politics, media, and the war in Ukraine

Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman (eds.)

The war in Ukraine could well mark a sharp turning point in global 
history, as the West isolates Russia, which now appears to try to more 
closely align itself with non-Western powers. Though the long-term 
consequences of the conflict cannot yet be fully understood, many 
observers have noted that the world is going through one of the most 
dangerous phases in its history, with conflict between nuclear-armed 
states a real possibility.

The present moment calls for academics, journalists, and other experts 
to engage with the ‘first rough draft’ of history that is being produced 
and disseminated by the media. There exists an urgent need to explore 
the information war from all sides with the aim to understand the 
media’s role in war and, hopefully, peace. Specifically, academics and 
other experts can play a part in resisting the observed tendency of 
national and global media, especially during war, to silo themselves off 
by excluding voices that run counter to established state narratives.

The world’s chances to resolve the crisis will improve when people have 
ready access to the main, relevant perspectives and arguments from all 
sides to the conflict, and when they can avail themselves of informed 
critiques of the coverage by national media systems and global media 
outlets, and of insightful contextualization of the media, including the 
commercial and political interests they might have.

Therefore, we would like to invite abstracts for chapters that 
critically explore:

National coverage of the war in Ukraine

Comparative coverage of the war

Coverage of the refugee crisis

Propaganda and information warfare

Misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation

Censorship by governments

Censorship by private media companies

Other topics that fit the call for chapters

We are especially keen on chapters that include an original, structured 
analysis of media content with any quantitative or qualitative method, 
and that reflect on strengths and weaknesses of the coverage, and on the 
relations between the media and other societal forces, including 
politics and economics.

If you would like to participate, please send an abstract of maximum 500 
words and a bio of 150 to 200 words to the editors. Routledge has 
expressed interest in publishing the book. Once the abstracts have been 
selected the full book proposal will be submitted to the publisher.

Timeline

Abstract deadline: 1 May

Abstract decisions: 30 May

Full chapter deadline: 1 December 2022

Chapter length: 6 to 7 thousand words

Contact

Tabe Bergman: (Tabe.Bergman /at/ xjtlu.edu.cn)

Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman: (Johearnsbranaman /at/ uic.edu.cn)



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