[ecrea] "Communication and Languages" journal, 48: call for papers

"Communication and Languages" journal, 48: call for papers until 
September 26^th , 2017

It is open until September 26^th  the call for papers for “Communication 
and Languages" journal nº 48, a thematic number about “*Cities of the 
Future*”, that will be edited by *Catarina Patrício *(CIC.Digital 
FCSH/NOVA and Assistant Professor at ECATI-ULHT).

When speaking about the cities of the future, one assumes recognizing 
the challenges that the urban space already present. The reasons are 
manifold and inescapable. See how information and communication 
technologies have radically transformed the way cities are (re) 
projected, recognized, and appropriate. Nowadays, amidst several traces 
there is the precariousness of work, the unsustainability of the social 
state, the increase of migratory flows and social mobilizations, and new 
forms of conflict which are being intensified. And, in an even more 
global way, the sustainability of the planet's natural environment is 
destabilized.

The city, a space where multiple territories coexist and intertwine, now 
leads as never before to a growing ambiguity between the public and 
private realms, between the real and the virtual. But it is also at this 
moment, with the earth woven in the meshes of cyberspace, all of it 
scanned and mapped, that one discovers the reticular nature of space. 
However, discovering the network is the same as understanding the world 
in its finitude and impossibility of expansion. Even "cloud" storage 
involves servers, and servers are on the ground. Undoubtedly, this is 
the great anxiety of the twenty-first century − the limit of extension 
and exploration at a time when the world population already exceeds 7 
billion people. The Smart City movement seems to be born to manage the 
urban space in the face of such a challenge.

The next issue of the Journal of Communication and Languages aims to 
bring together a transversal set of discourses and ideas, and to 
converging them in a debate where the challenges to the future of cities 
and the potentialities of the cities of the future can occur. There is a 
certain sense of urgency, especially insistent in this matter since it 
involves the whole Earth. Smart City should therefore be taken as a 
politically oriented program and not merely as a cosmetic.

Thematic Areas:

1. Sustainable systems and development
2. Governmentality and territorial management
3. Public space, media and social movements
4. Cities of the future in literature and cinema
5. Contemporary culture and technologies

The articles will be subject to blind peer review and should be sent, 
with strict observance of the journal rules of submission, through the 
*OJS platform until September 26^th , 2017.*

*
Conditions for submission and Instructions to authors:
*http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/index.php/rcl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Coordinator of the edition:

*Catarina Patrício – *CIC.Digital FCSH/NOVA and Assistant Professor at 
ECATI-ULHT


Journal of Communication and Languages is a biannual publication of 
Center for Research in C 
<http://cicdigitalpolo.fcsh.unl.pt/pt/home/>ommunication, Information 
and Digital Culture <http://cicdigitalpolo.fcsh.unl.pt/pt/home/>
(CIC. Digital pólo FCSH/NOVA) in the field of the large scope 
Communication Sciences, created by the Centre for Communication and 
Languages Research Center (CECL) of NOVA University of Lisbon in 1988. 
This journal aims to contribute to interdisciplinary research in the 
field of communication and culture studies; to promote the meeting 
between different research networks in cultural studies high standard 
research in a national and international context; to contribute to 
research dissemination and to improve up-to-date research related to 
communication and culture teaching and researching. Each number has a 
special subject under which the call will be made.
The registration 
<http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/index.php/rcl/user/register>and login are 
required to submit items online and also to check the status of current 
submissions.


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