[ecrea] CFP Special Issue on Youth, Social Media & Gender - 1 FEB 2017

*CALL FOR ARTICLES – DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1ST 2017*
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/Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies/
Special Issue:* ‘Youth, Social Media and Gender: opportunity for 
resistance or reproduction of stereotypes?’*
Edited by Núria Araüna (Rovira i Virgili University), Tonny Krijnen 
(Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication), Sofie Van Bauwel 
(UGhent)

*Our aim is to examine the contexts and cultural understandings that 
interact with young people’s uses of social media from a gender 
perspective.* We would like to cover different related manifestations 
and experiences related to youth’s engagement with social media globally 
from a critical perspective.

We welcome contributions on these and other issues:

–Gendered and intersectional self-presentations on Social Networking 
Sites (SNS)
–Youth’s agency in constructing gender identities and interactions on SNS
–Double standards, victim blaming and assessment of peers’ activities online
–Care vs control behaviour in love and sexual relationships on SNS
–Alternative masculinities, transgender and intergender identities on SNS
–Adolescent and young people’s participation and engagement in 
alternative online communities
–Critical evaluation of revictimization through SNS of teenagers 
suffering sexual or gender violence
–Public controversies (media panics, institutional campaigns, press 
coverage...) regarding sexual aggression on SNS
–Emerging mobile social network services and transgressive gender 
subcultures

The journal plans to include articles of *6,500-7,000 words *(including 
references), as well as brief research notes or reports of around 
*2000-3000 words* for the Viewpoint section. Full manuscripts for both 
sections should be sentin accordance with the Notes for Contributors 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/CJCS%20NFC%202015.pdf> 
to the email address (catalan.journal /at/ urv.cat) 
<mailto:(catalan.journal /at/ urv.cat)> by *1 February 2017*. All contributions 
will be subjected to double blind peer review.



Full text of the call attached and on the CJCS website:
https://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/content/call-for-papers/ 
<https://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/content/call-for-papers/>


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