[ecrea] cfp: Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe

Call for papers - special issue International Journal Obs*


Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and 
articulations in a culturally diverse Europe

(REVISED CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION)

Guest Editors: Cristina Ponte & Myria Georgiou

Within the Cost Action IS0906, Transforming Audiences, Transforming 
Societies,
Working Group 4 focuses on Audience transformation and social 
integration. Two topics are in the core of its interests: public issues 
related with media roles and regulations, citizenship and social 
diversity in a complex and multicultural European space; and issues 
related to the sphere of contemporary families such as the roles of the 
media in relationships among family members. From this debate a shared 
research topic emerged: Media, technology and the migrant family: Media 
uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe.

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 transmitting/sharing 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?

Please send developed abstracts (+/- 1200 words) in English to the 
special issue editors ((cristina.ponte /at/ fcsh.unl.pt) & 
(M.A.Georgiou /at/ lse.ac.uk)) with the subject line "COST WG4 special issue", 
until March 31, 2012.

The calendar for this Special Issue is the following:
-    Decision of acceptance and comments on the abstracts by the 
editors: April 30, 2012
-    Full paper submitted: July 15, 2012
-    Decision of acceptance: September 30, 2012 (blind peer review 
system): paper accepted as it stands; paper subject to minor revisions; 
paper subject to major revisions and re-submitted for consideration;
-    Final paper submitted: November 30, 2012
-    Publication: First semester of 2013
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