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From: *Cristina Ponte* <(ponte.cristina1 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(ponte.cristina1 /at/ gmail.com)>>
Date: 2011/12/7
COST Action ISO906, “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”
Working Group 4
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
/Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations
and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe /
Guest Editors: Cristina Ponte & Myria Georgiou
**
* *//The blurring of boundaries between the public and private spheres
and the shifts in societal and familiar spaces of communication and
identity require an interdisciplinary agenda and research practice.
While media and communications research on cultural diversity,
transnational families, and media consumption within migrant
households needs to be aware of and engage with research within family
studies and ethnic and migration studies, these disciplines can also
benefit immensely from media and communications’ research and
analysis. Therefore, we would like this special issue to contribute to
an interdisciplinary approach that cross-fertilises research from
across social sciences and the humanities and draws particular
attention to research on uses of media and ICTs among migrant families.
We invite submissions on the following themes:
· What is the role of the media in advancing or hindering the
participation and/or integration of migrant families in local,
national and transnational communities? How do different media (e.g
mainstream media, diasporic media, ethnic media) participate in such
processes?
· How does media consumption and appropriations of communication
technologies contribute to integration and identity construction among
transnational migrant communities?
· How do digital media impact on the way identity is constructed among
transnational migrant communities?
· How do media roles change according to age, gender, sexuality,
ethnicity, or religion? What role do media play in the
intergenerational cultural transmission and in sustaining family ties
within and across borders? How much does generation matter, and how
much does generation matter in media practice and in
tr/ansmitting/shari/ng culture(s) in the households? How do family
relation dynamics surrounding media uses vary in the case of different
media?/ /(How does socio-economic status affect these dynamics?
. What do migrant families think about public service media? Do they
use them? Why or why not? What are their expectations?
P/lease send articl/es of 8000 wo/rds max. (exclud/ing references) to
the special issue edit/ors// (/(cristina.ponte /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)
<mailto:(cristina.ponte /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)> & (M.A.Georgiou /at/ lse.ac.uk)
<mailto:(M.A.Georgiou /at/ lse.ac.uk)>) with the subject line "COST WG4
special issue". Submissions (as Word attachments) should contain a
page with the title of the presentation, the name of the issue /Media,
technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and
articulations in a culturally diverse Europe /and the name(s) and
contact details for ALL authors and the article on a separate page
(with no author identification so as to allow blind review).
For submission guidelines and rules for authors please visit:
http://www.obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
_Deadline for submission of articles is March 31, 2012._
The articles will be blindly peer reviewed; participants will be
notified of decisions by June 30, 2012. Accepted articles will be
considered for the journal special issue to be published in the first
semester of 2013.
Kind regards
Cristina Ponte and Myria Georgiou
--
Cristina Ponte, PhD
Professora Auxiliar com Agregação em Estudos dos Media e do
Jornalismo/ Assistant Professor, Habilitation in Media & Journalism
Studies
Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação/Department of Communication
Science
FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, 26-C
1069-061 Lisboa
Portugal
EU Kids Online Portugal (coord.): http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/eukidsonline,
www.eukidsonline.net <http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/eukidsonline>
Digital Inclusion and Participation (coord.). UTAustin|Portugal
Program: http://digital_inclusion.up.pt <http://digital_inclusion.up.pt/>
ECREA: Audience and Reception Studies (vice-chair)
COST IS0906, Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies - WG4
Audiences transformations and social integration (chair) -
*http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu
<http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/>*
