[Commlist] Cfp: Vol. 24 N.º 45 (2024) Youth views of the world

Cfp: Vol. 24 N.º 45 (2024) Youth views of the world and contexts of 
digital citizenship

Title: Youth views of the world and contexts of digital citizenship

(No payment is required from the authors)

Editors:
Maria José Brites - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; 
(maria.jose.brites /at/ ulusofona.pt) <mailto:(maria.jose.brites /at/ ulusofona.pt)>
Teresa Sofia Castro - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; 
(teresa.sofia.castro /at/ ulusofona.pt) <mailto:(teresa.sofia.castro /at/ ulusofona.pt)>
Paloma Contreras-Pulido - UniversidadeInternacional de La Rioja (UNIR); 
(paloma.contreras /at/ unir.net) <mailto:(paloma.contreras /at/ unir.net)>

Topics:
Children, youth, and news
Children, youth, and contexts of digital citizenship
Subtopics:

Algorithms and datafication
Audiences and news
Socialisation, families, and peer influence
News literacies
Information disorders
News resistance and avoidance
Theoretical reflection and future perspectives of the field
Methodological discussions
Participatory media
Decolonization of the field
Glocal news contexts
Glocal digital citizenship contexts


In this special issue, we aim to capture theoretical and empirical 
reflections that shed light on how, why, and where young people follow, 
understand and express what is currently happening in the world in the 
context of digital citizenship and information disorders (Wardle & 
Derakhshan, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic and recent wars accelerated a 
torrent of fake news and other information disorders (Galan et al., 
2019, Frau-Meigs et al, 2017), in which social media platforms revealed 
underlying ambivalences. This is why it is so pressing to consider 
diverse approaches in the investigation that identifies what, how and 
where young people from diverse contexts and geographies propose their 
views and expressions of what is happening in the world. By anticipating 
normative and/or decolonised definitions of news, we aim to apprehend 
research that assesses themes related with youth voices and views of the 
world, their (dis)connection with news and contexts of digital citizenship.

The research continually points to a shift from the traditional 
journalism environments to new opportunities for consumption and 
production (Clark and Marchi, 2017), fostering participative processes. 
By proposing the concept of “connective journalism”, Clark and Marchi 
(2017) highlight the need for sharing, having a self-view of the news 
stories, and considering making their stories. They also note a 
disruption between young audiences' needs and news outlets.

What are the social environments where these processes are grounded? 
Even if the peer group influence has an impact, family, and in 
particular parents, are at the centre of the socialisation process for 
seeking news and different views of the world (Brites et al., 2017; 
Edgerly et al, 2018a; Lemish, 2007; Silveira, 2019), including contexts 
for operating digital devices (Edgerly et al, 2018a). Self-socialization 
is found in other studies regarding youth information consumption: 
incidental and leisure (Boczkowski et al, 2018) and news avoidance and 
resistance (Brites e Ponte, 2018; Edgerly et al, 2018b).

These sociocultural environments pose additional challenges to news 
brands and the production of stories that fit young people’s interests 
and expectations. It is thus imperative to reflect on these timely 
issues, namely considering how young people regard and deal with 
algorithms (Swart, 2021), algorithmic literacy, and what are the 
implications for information selection and consumption processes in 
their everyday lives, and even to observe how in some cases this content 
is used for participatory, prosocial and citizen purposes, shaping 
initiatives that promote social change.

This special issue [under the project Youth, News and Digital 
Citizenship - YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021); 
https://youndigital.com <https://youndigital.com/>] invites articles 
that theoretically and/or empirically tackle these and other dimensions, 
considering youth layers in terms of social, educational, gender, and 
cultural diversity, which demands to be studied and analysed within 
their relationship with digital media, news, platforms, and digital 
citizenship.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submitting articles: March 15, 2024
Review process: March-June 2024
Editors' decision: July 2024
Expected publication date: October 2024

Authors must indicate the special issue to which they are submitting the 
article.

Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is an open-access peer-reviewed 
scientific journal that operates in a double-blind review process and is 
indexed in Scopus. Each submitted work will be distributed to two 
reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, according to academic 
quality, originality, and relevance to the objectives and scope of the 
theme of this edition of the journal.

Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's website 
(https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj 
<https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj>). When accessing RMJ for the first 
time, you must register to be able to submit your article and accompany 
it throughout the editorial process. Consult the Instructions for 
Authors and Conditions for Submission.

For more information, contact: (patriciacontreiras /at/ fcsh.unl.pt) 
<mailto:(patriciacontreiras /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)>


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