[ecrea] Call for Papers - Communication, Power and Social Change

Call for Papers - Communication, Power and Social Change

Journal of Communication and Emergent Technologies ICONO 14

The Journal of Communication and Emergent Technologies ICONO 14 
<http://www.icono14.net <http://www.icono14.net/>> offers a space to 
disseminate quality scientific works concerning basic or applied, 
experimental, epistemological and descriptive research on communication, 
its corresponding fields, and particularly Information and Communication 
Technologies from a communicative perspective.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMMUNICATION, POWER AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Manuscript Submissions Due: October 15, 2017

Publication Date: January 1, 2018

This monographic issue seeks to collect contributions that allow 
observing, explaining, and reflecting about the transformations that 
political communication is experiencing in the digital environment. 
These changes are disrupting the scenario, the actors and the balance of 
power between them. The new digital media, usually considered as 
messianic technologies, are opening the debate between the public or 
citizens empowerment, and idea that rises as a new totem in the 
framework of utopian or dystopian approaches, depending on who 
articulates them. This presents the redefinition of the power flows and 
opens a new possibility for the social change and the transformation of 
the democracy. Digital platforms, such as social media or app, and their 
communicative potential are generating debates about the new modalities 
of building the public agenda, about the ability to articulate new 
discourses or about the power struggles between old and new political 
actors, media actors, and social actors in this new environment, among 
other aspects.  All these questions require new knowledge to understand 
this era of transit and its communicative and democratic consequences. 
For this reason, this monographic issue wants to unite, from diverse 
theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches, theoretical or 
empirical contributions, including case studies, which contribute to 
this aim.

Proposed lines of research:

• Theoretical perspective about democracy and communication in the 
digital environment: between representation and participation.

• Theoretical perspectives on political communication: between targeted, 
deliberative, participatory, and hybrid communication, and the paradigm 
change.

• The social actors involved in the political communication and its 
discourses: citizens’ empowerment.

• New relations form between political, media, and social actors in the 
digital political communication environment.

• Changes in the communicative system and in the process of building 
public opinion: new mechanisms for building the public agenda, the role 
of the emotional in political communication, etc.

• Transformations introduced by social media in political communication 
and democracy.

• The networked deliberative system.

• New connective social movements and their communicative strategies.

• Political and electoral mobilization and new media.

• Communication for social change in the digital environment.

Keywords

Political Communication / Theories / Social Change / Power / 
Participation / Representation / Empowerment / Public agenda / Digital 
enviroment

GUEST EDITORS

- Miguel de Aguilera, Universidad de Málaga ((deaguilera /at/ uma.es) 
<mailto:(deaguilera /at/ uma.es)>)

- Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Università degli Studi di Milano 
((gianpietro.mazzoleni /at/ unimi.it) <mailto:(gianpietro.mazzoleni /at/ unimi.it)>)

- Andreu Casero-Ripollés, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló ((casero /at/ uji.es) 
<mailto:(casero /at/ uji.es)>)

SUBMISSIONS

To submit a proposal for this issue, it must access 
http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions 
and following the instructions on the rules of publication and 
submission of authors.

The proposal must be submitted in English or Spanish.

Read the entire Call for Papers – Special Issue on Communication, Power 
and Social Change click 
here:http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/announcement/view/18 
<http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/announcement/view/14>

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Editors

Francisco García García, Audiovisual Communication Professor, UCM, 
Madrid, Spain

Manuel Gertrudix Barrio, Digital Communication Principal Lecturer, URJC, 
Madrid, Spain

Volume Number: 15, 2017

Frequency: 2 issues per year

ISSN Online: 1697-8293 | DOI: 10.795/ri14

www.icono14.net <http://www.icono14.net/>

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