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[Commlist] CFP: Special Issue of Convergence on "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia"

Tue Aug 29 03:29:45 GMT 2023





CFP: Special Issue of Convergence on "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia"

Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies -- "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia" Guest Editors: Qian Huang (University of Groningen); Jing Zeng (Utrecht University); Hiromi Tanaka (Meiji University); Saif Shahin (Tilburg University)

Maintaining visibility on digital platforms has become increasingly significant in contemporary society for professionals, citizens, and communities to acquire opportunities, accumulate social capital, and expand influence. Meanwhile, recent scholarship has shed light on the phenomenon of social media users strategically localizing and restricting their own digital visibility instead of solely maximising it to avoid conflicts or undesired attention.

Various factors, including social norms, regulatory frameworks, and technological affordances/limitations influence the negotiation of one’s digital visibility. Institutional actors and stakeholders also play crucial roles in this process as they exercise power to govern and potentially manipulate what and who should be allowed to be seen. Given this backdrop, the negotiation and contestation of digital visibility are highly culturally contextualized issues. Underexplored in the existing literature on digital visibility, Asian societies (including the Asian diaspora) provide intriguing contexts for studying this subject for their unique platform political economy and distinct socio-cultural dynamics that shape digital practices and cultures.

This special issue aims to gather contributions on the topic of digital visibilities, with a specific focus on empirical analysis in Asian contexts. We especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers and scholars from the region. We also invite contributors to explicitly reflect on how their scholarship contributes to the theorisation and conceptualisation of digital visibility from an interdisciplinary perspective.

We invite submissions that address questions including, but not limited to, the following: ● How do different actors and stakeholders enable or limit the digital visibility of individuals or communities in Asia or among the Asian diaspora? ● How do individuals or groups establish/enhance/restrict their digital visibility in Asian communities? ● What are the social impacts of the increasing need to manage one’s digital visibility? ● How can we conceptually understand the negotiation of digital visibility based on empirical research in Asian context? ● What strategies do individuals/groups employ to negotiate visibility transculturally within and beyond Asia? ● Methodologically, how can we empirically study visibility as a research subject?

Information for authors:
Potential contributors should submit a 500-word abstract (excluding references), a 100-word bio, and the corresponding author's contact information to the guest editor Qian Huang ((qian.huang /at/ rug.nl) <mailto:(qian.huang /at/ rug.nl)>). Feel free to consult the special issue editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. After the abstracts have been selected, authors will be invited to submit a full paper. Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will go through the journal’s peer review process. All manuscripts submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or be currently under consideration elsewhere. No payment from the authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be required. The CFP can also be found on the journal's official website: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/con/CFP_convergence_Negotiating%20Digital%20Visibility%20230823-1692958954.pdf <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/con/CFP_convergence_Negotiating%20Digital%20Visibility%20230823-1692958954.pdf>

Abstract submission deadline: 1st October 2023
Invited submission notification: 20th October 2023
Full paper submission: 15th February 2024
Expected date of SI publication: October 2024 (individual articles will be published online first upon acceptance)
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