[ecrea] Communication and food for health benefits: cfp extended deadline

CALL FOR ARTICLES  EXTENDED DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15TH

Communication and food for health benefits. Negotiating meanings in
networked times
Catalan Journal of Communication&  Cultural Studies - Special Issue
5.2 (Fall 2013)

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. All contributions will be subjected to anonymous
peer review.

Full articles for proposed contributions should be sent to
(catalan.journal /at/ urv.cat)
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15 February 2013.


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.

Prof 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.

For more details about the journal guidelines please visit:
http://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/

For more information on previous special issues please visit:

Volume 4 / Issue 2
“Gender relations in the media. Conflicting pictures and new
representational practices”. Guest Edited by Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent
University) and Iolanda Tortajada (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/cjcs/2012/00000004/00000002

Volume 3 / Issue 2
"Tourism&  communication: place brands, identities and new trends”.
Guest Edited by Nigel Morgan (The University of Wales Institute
Cardiff) and Assumpció Huertas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/cjcs/2011/00000003/00000002

Volume 2/ Issue 2
"The communicative turn in risk communication: Theory and practice”.
Guest Edited by Tom Horlick-Jones (Cardiff School of Social Sciences)
and Jordi Farré (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/cjcs/2010/00000002/00000002

Some of the authors publishing in the Catalan Journal of Communication
and Cultural Studies are Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow);
Peter Lynch (University of Stirling); Tom Horlick Jones (Cardiff
School of Social Sciences); David Altheide (University of Arizona);
Graham Murdock (Loughborough University); Ortwin Renn (Stuttgart
University); Stijn Joye (Ghent University); William Kinsella (North
Carolina State University); Nigel Morgan (The University of Wales
Institute Cardiff); Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University); or Víctor
Sampedro (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), just to mention some of them.

--
Enric Castelló
Departament d'Estudis de Comunicació
http://ecastello.com/
http://mediosyconflicto.wordpress.com/

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