[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy Special Issue

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy


Special Issue: ’Digital Transformation and Media Policy in MENA9’


View the full CFP here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers>


Guest Editors:

Khayrat Ayyad, University of Sharjah, U.A.E. ((kayad /at/ sharjah.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(kayad /at/ sharjah.ac.ae)>)


Ahmed F. Radwan, University of Sharjah, U.A.E. ((aradwan /at/ sharjah.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(aradwan /at/ sharjah.ac.ae)>)


Jairo Lugo-Ocando, University of Sharjah, U.A.E. 
((jlugoocando /at/ sharjah.ac.ae) <mailto:(jlugoocando /at/ sharjah.ac.ae)>)


Digital technologies have transformed the media landscape around the 
world, including regions in the Global South such as the Middle East and 
North Africa (El Hajj, 2019; Mellor et al., 2011). By means of their 
disruptive nature, these technologies have brought about important 
changes at the levels of production, dissemination and consumption of 
media industries and media content. Therefore, transforming culture and 
politics in their way. It is often claimed that these changes happen so 
abruptly that governments and their policies often follow rather than 
lead when canalising these changes towards particular goals. In liberal 
societies, media policy tends to be the result of debates, struggles and 
consensus between political actors. These outcomes in the form of 
regulations and legal framework are also defined by a variety of 
corporate and societal interests that interact, lobby and pressure to 
define policymaking and decision taking (Collins, 2005). Less clear is 
what happens in settings where we find very different settings in the 
development of policy.


This special issue assesses, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the 
process of policy formulation and effects in the face of digital 
transformations upon media industries in the Middle East and North 
Africa. It is expected that the different articles will cover a series 
or interrelated topics that range from the type of impacts that digital 
transformation has had upon the creative and media industries to the 
challenges and limitations for media policy formulation in the region. 
We expect to include papers on how policy makers map and address the 
digital transformation of the media ecologies in the region.


The issue seeks to incorporate contributions from various countries. The 
special issue will be looking at how digital technologies, 
interactivity, social media platforms and data have fostered a new set 
of dynamic and practices within creative industries and the legacy 
media. The aim is to explore the significance of digital transformations 
in the local and regional context, and to understand how these shifts 
have reshaped the media industry and cultural industries around media 
consumption as well as the type of politics that derived from them.


The potential papers will be included in a symposium to be organized on 
13 Mar. 2024 (onsite & hybrid). The final decision of what would be 
published will depend on the feedback from reviewers. However, we are 
providing free support in translation and proofreading for authors from 
the region who are selected in the first round. Indeed, we aim to assist 
and support scholars in the region with translation and editing for 
non-English speaking authors while offering the possibility of 
submitting first versions in Arabic, English and French for the initial 
peer-review process. Once there is a group of papers that have been 
pre-selected, translated and edited, the guest editors will send them to 
external peer-review. This will allow us to have a collection of 
articles that is both representative of the region as well as meeting 
the highest standards possible.


Topics include (but not limited to):

•Policymaking, communication and digital transformation in MENA

•Digital transformation and the media landscape in MENA

•Digital transformation and media audiences

•Religion, culture, and media policy in MENA

•Media Consumption, Entertainment and Societal Attitudes

•Digital media and social media in MENA’s public sphere configuration

•Arab theoretical contributions in the understanding of digital media 
and creative industries

•Changes in the digital media landscape

•Cultural Industries, Gender and Digital Transformation.


Deadlines:

Abstracts (400 words):2 November 2023

Full manuscripts (6,000–8,000 words, including references): 17 May 2024.


Timeline:

•30 Jun. 2023: Call for Papers (CfP) goes out (in Arabic, English and 
French)

•2 Sep. 2023: Deadline for Abstracts submitted in Arabic, English French

•15 Sep. 2023: Guest Editors select abstracts & invite first draft of 
papers in Arabic, English and French.

•15 Jan. 2024: Guest Editors receive first draft of papers in Arabic, 
English and French

•21 Feb. 2024: Online Symposium: Discussion and Feedback/Standards for 
the Publication – (English)

•15 Apr. 2024: Guest Editors receive full articles (in Arabic, English 
and French).

•17 May. 2024: Selected articles are sent for translation into English 
and proofreading.

•20 May. 2024: Articles are sent out to peer reviewers (in English).

•14 Nov. 2024: Final version of paper is submitted by the authors.

•13 Dec. 2024: Finalized articles are packaged and passed to Intellect.


General information on Calls for Papers:


All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under 
consideration by other publications. Please review Intellect’s Image and 
Table specifications here before submitting:

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors>



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