[ecrea] CFP: Food and Communication CJCS 5.2

CALL FOR ARTICLES -  Catalan Journal of Communication&  Cultural
Studies - Special issue 5.2 (Fall, 2013)
'Communication and food for health benefits. Negotiating meanings in
networked times'

Nowadays communication has become a central issue in food health
policies. There is growing concern among food-related institutions, at
all levels from the local to the transnational, about how best to
communicate the benefits of better food practices and healthy diets
that can reduce food-related illnesses and health-care costs. Social
and cultural influences frame food and health issues in terms of diet,
education, and consumption decisions. Innovative interdisciplinary
approaches are needed to better understand how new media environments
and social networks interact in the negotiation of meanings
surrounding food communication policies and practices.

The development of new food technologies offers huge potential to
improve the overall health of populations, general well-being and
consumer confidence. Agriculture and the food industry are becoming
increasingly strategic in all national contexts and food communication
practices can have a significant effect on both companies and
consumers. For this issue CJCS welcomes articles from a media and
communication studies perspective on food for health benefits
exploring the links between institutions, companies, new and
traditional media and health choices by consumers.

We welcome research on media discourses about food, social marketing
and educational campaigns, labelling systems and product advertising,
corporate and public agency strategies, construction of the meanings
of food and health policies, the need for food-related information and
consumer information processing, and the acceptance of both new health
food products (functional, genetically modified products, novel food)
and alternative food networks (local, organic, slow food).

The journal plans to include articles of around 6-7000 words, plus
short research notes and reports of around 2-3000 words for the
Viewpoint section. Full articles for proposed contributions should be
sent (tocatalan.journal /at/ urv.cat)  by 31 January 2013. Acceptance of
papers will be confirmed by 30 March 2013. Contributions will be
subjected to anonymous peer review.

Guest Editors for the issue are Jordi Farré (Universitat Rovira i
Virgili) and Julie Barnett (Brunel University)

Dr Jordi Farré is Senior Lecturer, Head of the Department of
Communication Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and
Director of the Repsol/URV Chair for Excellence in Communication. His
research fields are related to the study of risk communication
processes and practices, with special emphasis on the communicative
turn on risk governance and perception. He is the author of several
books and articles, among them Teoría de la comunicación de riesgo
(co-authored with Juan Luis Gonzalo). He has led several research
projects and is currently participating in the FP7 of the European
Union in a project on food risk/benefit and communication.

Dr Julie Barnett is a social psychologist with particular interest in
and expertise around public appreciations of risk, risk communication,
processes of public engagement and evidence based policy making. She
is currently a Reader in Healthcare Research at Brunel University and
is a co-investigator on the Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology
Centre for Healthcare (MATCH). Over the last five years she has been
Principal or Co-Investigator for a range of largely interdisciplinary
projects funded by UK Research Councils, FP7, Government, and
Charities. On-going work is exploring the communication of food risks
and benefits, the value of social media, and challenges for people
with allergies around food choice, labelling and use of
auto-injectors.


Previous Special Issues of the CJCS are available at:

'The communicative turn in risk communication. Theory and Practice' (2010)
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1890/

'Tourism and Communication: Place Brands, Identities and New Trends' (2011)
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2053/

Download CFP in PDF and Note for contributors at:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=162/view,page=2/

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Enric Castelló
Departament d'Estudis de Comunicació
http://ecastello.com/
http://mediosyconflicto.wordpress.com/
http://www.urv.cat/asterisc




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