[ecrea] CFP: Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age

CFP: Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age

Editors: Ahmet Atay, College of Wooster & Margaret D’Silva, University 
of Louisville

New Deadline: October 2016


Profound changes in global communication, particularly social media, are 
leading us to re-examine our notions of culture, communication, 
audience, and identity. This book aims to bridge the gaps between 
intercultural communication and traditional and new media scholarship.

Media texts, social media platforms, global applications, and cyber 
culture play a paramount role in intercultural communication, 
particularly in the context of globalization.  Beyond traditional media, 
social media are particularly relevant to facilitating intercultural 
communication. Global social network sites such Facebook or Twitter, 
online gaming sites, online courses, global blogs, and all of the 
applications that appear in smart phones, tablets or computer devices 
are part of a very complicated and multi-faceted digital culture that 
moves beyond the borders of nation-states.

These social media platforms allow global communities to emerge; 
immigrants, diasporic bodies, and cosmopolitans can communicate and 
connect across the globe. They also allow members of traditionally 
oppressed groups to find their voices, cultivate communities, create 
homes away from home, and construct their cultural identities and 
narratives. Digitalized social movements around the world, identity 
performances of diasporic queer bodies, and long-distance relationships 
between partners and family members are some examples. This cyber 
culture centers around communication between people who are culturally, 
nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. 
Therefore, studying traditional and social media in relation to 
intercultural communication is extremely crucial and timely.

This call invites abstracts for an edited book that takes qualitative, 
interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives in examining the 
reciprocal relationship between media and intercultural communication. 
The book’s interrelated goals are to:

  1. Examine how media, social media in particular, influence and
     contribute to intercultural communication.
  2. Analyze the complex and multidimensional relationship between
     culture and media in the context of globalization.
  3. Understand how media, particularly social media, construct
     identities and enable or disable individuals to express their
     cultural identities.
  4. Analyze how globalization as a cultural and political process
     impacts mediated and intercultural communication.
  5. Look at different contemporary issues relevant to intercultural
     communication and social media scholarship such as immigration,
     diaspora, social movements, religion and spirituality, democracy,
     and intercultural/ international relationships, from a media
     perspective.
  6. Examine both negative and positive influences of media, particularly
     social media, on intercultural communication.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1-Theorizing mediated intercultural communication

2- Social media and cultural identity

3- Social media and intercultural relationships

4- Media and online courses in the context of globalization

5- Cyber intercultural communities

6- Social media and global social movements

7- Immigrant media

Abstracts are due by October, 15, 2016, with a word length of no more 
than 500 words, along with pertinent references, contact information, 
and a short biographic blurb of 300 words. Full-length manuscripts are 
due on April 1, 2017, with a word length of no more than 5,000-7,000 
words and in APA style, including references, endnotes, and so forth. 
Routledge has already expressed interest, and so we are excited to move 
forward. Please mail your abstracts as Word documents to Ahmet Atay 
((aatay /at/ wooster.edu)) for an initial review.



Ahmet Atay, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
College of Wooster

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