[Commlist] Call for Papers: 'The Media Ecology of Sports'

    Call for Papers: Explorations in Media Ecology


    Special Issue: ‘The Media Ecology of Sports’

Guest Editor: Édison Gastaldo, CEP/FDC, Brazil

We welcome contributions for a Special Issue on ‘The Media Ecology of 
Sports’ to be published in Explorations in Media Ecology.

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/explorations-in-media-ecology#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/explorations-in-media-ecology#call-for-papers>

Since 2020, at the 21st Convention of the Media Ecology Association, the 
panel ‘The Media Ecology of Sports’ brought out the discussion over the 
media-ecological interface with the universe of sports. As a media 
phenomenon par excellence, modern sports can be taken as a 
‘technopolization’ of traditional games. Under the power of rules, 
federations, statistics, contracts, sponsors and viewing rights, modern 
sports comprise a world of phenomena exclusively accessible through the 
media, even in the case of physical co-presence in stadiums or other 
public places. This special issue aims for paper submissions that 
discuss research trends over this interface, be it in the investigation 
of the growing ‘technopolization’ of the universe of professional 
sports; the reconceptualization of the notions of ‘public’ and 
‘audience’ in global media coverage of sports events, such as the 
Olympic Games or FIFA World Cup Finals; the collective construction of 
sports memories and dispute of narratives among fans; or the personal 
level of the technologization of sports as machine-mediated practices. 
The universe of sports, in its multiple dimensions (sociological, 
anthropological, economic, educational and media ecological) represents 
a wide field of possibilities for academic exploration.

Possible topics welcomed in this special issue include, but are not 
limited to:

●       Sports fans and sport fandom;

●       The technopolization of sports;

●       Sports and education

●       Sports and politics

●       Sport journalism

●       Professional sports

●       Sports, games and play in media ecological theory

●       The semiotics of sports phenomena

●       Sports and gender

●       Sports and identities

Abstracts (300 words) and a short biographical note should be submitted 
by 1 February 2026 via email to Edison Gastaldo 
[(edisongastaldo /at/ yahoo.com.br) <mailto:(edisongastaldo /at/ yahoo.com.br)>] with 
the subject line ‘Media Ecology of Sports’.

Important Dates:

●       Abstract submission (300 words): 1 February 2026

●       Manuscript submission: 1 March 2026

●       Notifications: 15 April 2026

●       Final manuscript submission: 15 May 2026

●       Target publication date: September 2026

Paper Submission Format:

Contributors are asked to submit original papers [4000-6000 words] in 
the journal’s requested manuscript format. You can find more information 
about formatting 
here:https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/8837/1/NfC_EME_16_1.pdf 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/8837/1/NfC_EME_16_1.pdf>.

Special Issue Guest Editor:

Édison Gastaldo ((edisongastaldo /at/ yahoo.com.br) 
<mailto:(edisongastaldo /at/ yahoo.com.br)>)is a Brazilian anthropologist, 
Associate Professor at the Centre for Personnel Studies (CEP/FDC) in Rio 
de Janeiro, Brazil. He has published extensively over the topics of 
sports and national identity in Brazil. His Ph.D. dissertation was 
published as a book (Nation, Soccer Shoes and Advertising) and was 
awarded the best Latin American Ph.D. Dissertation on Communications 
(2000). Between 2014 and 2019, he coordinated the ‘Soccer Fandom 
Project’, a multi-institutional collection of Brazilian soccer fans’ 
life story video interviews. The project involved 20 universities from 
all regions of Brazil and over 100 field researchers, and resulted in an 
open database with 112 video interviews available on a YouTube Channel 
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50LffqQoj1oATtxmlEfseQ 
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50LffqQoj1oATtxmlEfseQ>), a full 
length documentary film (Soccer Fans: life, passion and death in the 
soccer country, available at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF6Rt0OSRQE 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF6Rt0OSRQE>), a book and a 
photographic exhibition.
He has participated in Media Ecology Association conventions since 2005 
and, since 2020, has coordinated four times the panel ‘The Media Ecology 
of Sports’.

About the journal Explorations in Media Ecology:

Explorations in Media Ecology, the journal of the Media Ecology 
Association, accepts submissions that extend our understanding of media 
(defined in the broadest possible terms), that apply media ecological 
approaches, and/or that advance media ecology as a field of inquiry. As 
a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publication, 
EMEwelcomes contributions embracing diverse theoretical, philosophical 
and methodological approaches to the study of media and processes of 
mediation.


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