[ecrea] Call for Papers: Refugees and the Media

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*CALL FOR PAPERS: *“Refugees and the Media”


Deadline for submission

30.March.2016


Almost a century after the outbreak of World War I, Middle East is once
again facing war and turmoil. Political and social order is one more
time being restructured by direct and proxy wars with the involvement of
global and regional powers. Unfortunately, there is no one single year
without war and conflict in the region since the beginning of the new
world order discussions at the end of the Cold War. The most obvious
consequences of these conflicts are displacement of millions of people
from their homes, towns and countries, scattered all over the world.


Refugees escaping from the civil wars in Libya and Syria to find shelter
and safe heavens are dominating not only the scenes of the international
media but also the agenda of international community. Data released in
2014 shows that the current refugee crisis is worst the world is
experiencing since the Second World War. This is also the largest wave
of immigration for Turkey, too, when compared with the wave of
migrations, known in the collective memory as “muhajir”, following the
Balkan, the First World and the Independence Wars.


It is necessary; therefore, to take a multidimensional look at the
refugee question especially in Turkey particularly in relation to
displaced people from the civil war in Syria. Considering the novelty of
experience after a long period of time for Turkey, it is imperative to
first address the issue primarily in the context of Turkey, of course,
without losing sight of its global implications. To this end, the theme
of the *Marmara Journal of Communication*’s 24th issue is identified as
the media and communication dimension of Turkey’s experience with the
refugees in the last four years.


Although the concepts of migrant, asylum seeker, expatriate, guest,
muhajir and refugee are occasionally used interchangeably in everyday
language, media discourse and academic studies, it should be kept in
mind that they are different concepts with different implications.
Irrespective of currently denoting a legal status, the concept of
refugees is preferred to denote people “displaced due to war.”


*Refugees and the Media* subject will be examined from two primary
topics: (a) representation of refugees in the media and (b)
communication of refugee question with its political, economic, social
and cultural dimensions. We do not restrict the scope of the discussion
to a type of media or any specific media content. All types of the
media, media content, frameworks and dynamics associated with
construction of refugee representations in Turkey are eligible for
consideration. Communication of refugee question in the context of
Turkey, on the other hand, encapsulates dimensions of the issue ranging
from public relations, political communication, public diplomacy and
strategic communication processes utilized in other domains with a
particular emphasis on social and cultural interaction.


Addressing the refugee question from the media and communication
perspective is an invitation to make a contribution to the search for
solutions to not only one of the worst humanitarian crises with multiple
causes at global, regional, social and individual levels but also the
war carried out over the reconstruction of centennial old
socio-political order in the Middle East.

In this context, the Marmara Journal of Communication’s 24th issue on
“Refugees and the Media” is seeking papers and review articles on the
headings below:


  * The media representations of refugees in Turkey
  * Refugee media in Turkey (owned and operated by refugees)
  * Refugee cinema and Turkey
  * Refugees, foreign policy and public diplomacy
  * Approaches to news production and refugees
  * Political communication and refugees
  * Refugees’ perception of Turkey /Turkey’s perception of refugees
  * Production of knowledge by Academia, NGOs and the Media on refugees
    in Turkey:
  * Turkey and refugees in global media
  * Refugees and socio-cultural interaction


Please send your articles via submission system on our website
http://e-dergi.marmara.edu.tr/maruid.index

For questions and comments, contact us via email at
  (iletisimdergi /at/ marmara.edu.tr).


Editor

Hediyetullah Aydeniz

Marmara University, Faculty of Communication

http://e-dergi.marmara.edu.tr/maruid

E-mail: (iletisimdergi /at/ marmara.edu.tr)

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Marmara University, Faculty of Communication

Marmara University, Niþantaþý Campus,

Büyükçiftlik Street, No:6 Niþantaþý 34365 Þiþli/ Istanbul


iletisim.marmara.edu.tr



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