[Commlist] Call for Papers: Everyday Life in Digital Landscape

*Call for Papers | Everyday Life in Digital Landscape*

Everyday life offers an endless array of subjects to ponder upon. The 
sheer importance of research and discussion on quotidian life does not 
escape our notice even under its obviousness (Jacobson, 2009). In short, 
doing things in everyday life should no longer be obscured, rather it is 
to be articulated based on theoretical questions (de Certeau, 1988). 
However, theoretical focus on happenings are scarce, therefore the 
quotidian concept calls for a critical analysis of their cultural sites 
and practices (Devadas & Prentice, 2008).

      Years before, Schuetz (1945) encapsulated the same idea of 
everyday life when he said, the world of everyday life is the scene and 
the object of people’s actions and interactions. Further, the emphasis 
on everyday in social sciences enhances the focus towards the secondary 
characters and thereby to the mass of the audience (de Certeau, 1988). 
On the other hand de Certeau (1988) also warns that everyday life 
flourishes itself by intruding on the property of others in countless ways.

      Previous scholarship in the concept of everyday life suggests 
that it has a lot to do with temporal, spatial and social dimensions. 
Lefebvre’s (1991) notion of everyday life treats it as a locus of social 
struggles and resistance. In the realm of communication studies, 
everyday life, according to Lefebvre (1991), seeks for an understanding 
in which power is studied as a mundane concept. From cultural studies to 
theories of domestication, everyday life took a large leap in focussing 
on the integration of media technologies at home. The concept has 
immense scope to be explored in this era of digital media (Ytre-Arne, 2023).

       Digital media has seeped into our everyday life and has 
catalysed the transformation of the world. We now have newer ways of 
socialization, economy, political movements and much more. Rapid 
diffusion of smartphones and uninterrupted connectivity aids this shift, 
offering room for a series of debates and discourses. Moreover, 
intertwined and enmeshed with the quotidian life of people and digital 
media, both people and things get shaped mutually. A series of 
unplanned/planned, small/big, expected/unexpected events stand as the 
potential causes that impact our media usage. The same can be 
exemplified when our mundane media use underwent a change during and 
after COVID – 19 pandemic (Ytre-Arne, 2023). Further, the restrictions 
and inequality being the undesirable practices in everyday circumstances 
create a divide in the usage of media.

      Furthermore, the incursion of algorithms into our lives has begun 
to pose many questions including how our everyday life is composed by 
these new technologies (Neyland, 2019). In a posthuman ontology, the 
everyday life of both people as well as things emerge as significant 
entities that have distributed agencies in a networked assemblage. Among 
other questions concerning algorithms, it is argued that opaque 
algorithms guide the routinized practices in the digital world and thus 
the notion of engaging with power in the everyday life of algorithms and 
users becomes important. Challenging algorithmic power that sidelines 
everyday life (Neyland, 2019) constitutes our everyday struggle against 
algorithmic bias and capitalism (Barassi, 2015). Capitalism has also 
introduced an imperial mode of living impacting our everyday life either 
reducing us to responding to the culture of speed (Berg & Seeber, 2016) 
or living a life of an indebted man enslaved to machines (Lazzarato, 2011).

The current issue of /Communication and Culture Review/ problematizes 
how media, space, capitalism, labour and digital landscape constitute 
the everyday life of digital technology users. We welcome submissions on 
(but are not limited to) the following topics:

  * Epistemological, methodological and theoretical perspectives for
    studying media in everyday context
  * Critical Approaches to the platformization of the everyday
  * Case studies of (local and global) transitions at the intersections
    of the digital and everyday
  * Interplays of power, power relations and digital divide
  * Ubiquitous relationships formed around our engagements with the digital
  * Building novel imaginaries and vocabularies for navigating the
    digital everyday
  * Discourses on digital citizenship, digital State and digital democracy
  * Digital media literacy, digital activism, digital privacy and rights
  * Critical inquiry into the role, nature and scope of the digital for
    social justice

*References*

Barassi, V. (2015). /Activism on the web: Everyday struggles against 
digital capitalism/. Routledge.

Berg, M. & Seeber, B. K. (2016). /The slow professor: Challenging the 
culture of speed in the academy/. University of Toronto Press.

de Certeau, M. (1984). /The practice of everyday life/ (S. Rendall, 
Trans.). University of California Press.

Jacobson, M.H. (2009). The everyday: An introduction to introduction. In 
M.H Jacobson (Ed.), /Encountering the everyday: An introduction to the 
sociology of the unnoticed/ (pp. 1-41). Bloomsbury.

Lazzarato, M. (2011). /The making of the indebted man: An essay on the 
neoliberal condition/ (J. D. Jordan, Trans). Semiotext(e).

Lefebvre, H. (1991). /Critique of everyday life: Foundations for a 
sociology of the everyday. /Verso.

Neyland, D. (2019). /The everyday life of an algorithm. /Palgrave Macmillan.

Perintice, C & Devadas, V. (2008). Postcolonial studies and the cultural 
politics of everyday life. Sites: /A Journal of Social Anthropology and 
Cultural Studies, 5/(1), 1-19.

Schutz, A. (1945). On multiple realities. /Philosophy and 
Phenomenological Research, 5/(4), 533 -576.

Ytre-Arne, B. (2023). /Media use in everyday life/. Emerald Publishing.

*Important dates*

- Abstract submission: April 20, 2024 (Abstract length not more than 350 
words)
- Intimation of selected abstracts: May 15, 2024
- Full Paper submission: August 26, 2024 (Full paper should not exceed 
8000 words)
- Notification of selected papers for peer review: September 15, 2024
- Intimation of final acceptance/correction/rejection: November 20, 2024
- Publication of the issue: December 20, 2024

Note: There is no authorship fee for this journal.



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