[Commlist] CFP: Studies on Framing in Latin America

*CFP: Studies on Framing in Latin America*

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*Deadline for full manuscripts submission: July 15, 2022*

Editors of this special issue:

Carlos Muñiz (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México)

Natalia Aruguete (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes y CONICET, Argentina)

Paola Ingrassia (Universidad Nacional de San Juan y CONICET, Argentina)

Jamil Marques (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil)

In the arena of dispute over meanings, politicians, media organizations, 
social movements, religious institutions and other actors dialogue and 
compete in order to impose their own definitions of public problems. 
Public meanings that are successfully brought forth depend on the 
discursive strategies that are used and the existing strength of a 
specific community. Studies on Framing have been consolidated over the 
last decades in the field of communication and in debates on political 
analysis, establishing a multiparadigm research program (D’Angelo, 
2012). In the last five years, around 1,000 theoretical and empirical 
works on this subject have been published in Latin America. Indeed, the 
political, institutional and social events that have recently taken 
place in the region illustrate the need to address the production and 
circulation of public meanings on a broader scale. Media framing, frames 
of political discourse, or marks of meaning are pertinent instruments 
for classifying the characteristics of government communication, the 
polarized narratives of electoral campaigns, media coverage of gender 
inequalities, the collective action of social movements, and the framing 
in digital social networks, including its ability to bypass traditional 
avenues of information. In short, it is an analytical approach which 
provides the necessary tools to reflect on the different stages of the 
communication process: from the framing used by broadcasters to the 
forms of interpretation on the part of the audience, and those involved 
in the political culture where discourses are produced and circulated. 
Based on research carried out in the region, this call for papers seeks 
to expand on and further develop the theoretical and empirical 
contributions of framing in political communication.

Based on interpretive sociology and cognitive psychology, framing is a 
particularly media-centered perspective; it highlights the importance of 
mass communication within a broader social process of defining reality. 
Frames are packages of discursive resources which different political, 
corporate or media actors use to offer an alternative definition of 
issues of public interest (Schuck et al., 2013); they are a type of 
translation of information, through the use of frameworks, that serve to 
suggest a particular perspective of reality (D'Angelo, 2002; de Vreese, 
2003; Entman, 1993; Matthes, 2012). Framing guides the way events are 
presented through informative messages, either emphasizing or excluding 
possible aspects of current reality (de Vreese, 2005; Muñiz, 2015). In 
short, framing is conceived as a paradigm capable of informing and 
enriching both behavioral and critical, and quantitative and qualitative 
approaches; indeed, framing is an exercise in power as it affects our 
understanding of the political world (Reese, 2007).


Based on this line of reasoning, this call for papers invites 
researchers to submit articles on the different frameworks in 
communication processes that advocate approaches from Latin America to 
help further develop this theory or field of study. All authors are 
encouraged to reflect on the idiosyncrasies that emerge from “Latin” 
objects or from the national and regional dynamics of the subcontinent, 
observing how this area participates in the process of interpreting 
data/results. This call for papers is also interested in articles that 
review the modernity of this object in the region or that map – or even 
propose – possible Latin American dimensions of the theory of framing. 
The following topics of contribution are suggested:

• Studies on comprehensive communication perspectives

• How political framing is constructed

• Analysis of the informative treatment of political processes

• Framing in electoral campaigns

• Methodological proposals for the study of political framing

• The effects of framing on public opinion

• Media framing production processes in digital environments

• Activation and circulation of frames in digital environments

• The framing of political actors in disputes over meaning

• The framing of collective actions and social movements

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Finished articles (30 to 50 thousand characters with spaces, including 
references and footnotes) must be submitted by July 15, 2022 to the 
dossier editors via the following e-mail addresses:

(carlos.munizm /at/ uanl.mx) <mailto:(carlos.munizm /at/ uanl.mx)>;

(nataliaaruguete /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(nataliaaruguete /at/ gmail.com)>;

(paoingrassia2 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paoingrassia2 /at/ gmail.com)>;

(marquesjamil /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(marquesjamil /at/ gmail.com)>;

(editors.surlejournalisme /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(editors.surlejournalisme /at/ gmail.com)>;

It is also possible to submit through the journal’s site:

https://revue.surlejournalisme.com/slj/submissions 
<https://revue.surlejournalisme.com/slj/submissions>

Articles may be written in Spanish, French, English and Portuguese, and 
will be judged using a double-blind review process. About journalism – 
Sur le journalisme – Sobre jornalismo is indexed on the following 
academic databases: EBSCO Communication Source collection, Archive 
ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (HAL-SHS), DOAJ, EZB 
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WorldCat (OCLC), European Reference Index for the Humanities and the 
Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS). About journalismis classified as 
qualifiedjournal in France (HCERES Index). Brazilian Qualis-CAPES 
evaluation for 2013-2016: B5.


_No payment from the authors will be required (no APCs or Article 
Processing Charges)._

Bibliography

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