[Commlist] Call for Papers: Class in/and the media– Nordic Review

CALL FOR PAPERS: CLASS IN/AND THE MEDIA Nordicom Review Special Issue 
(open access)

Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2019
Deadline for full paper submissions: April 19, 2020

The purpose of this special issue of Nordicom Review is to showcase the 
need to include social class as a central category in media and 
communications research, as well as to analyse how it intersects with 
other social dimensions such as race, gender, sexuality, age etc.

Social class underlies many debates within contemporary media and 
communications research. It is implicitly featured in debates about 
algorithmic targeting, digital surveillance and social sorting. It is 
also featured in debates about political communication, fake news and 
polarisation, as well as in relation to issues of media representations 
and media use. Social changes and phenomena in urgent need of attention 
such as increasing economic and cultural inequality and the rise of 
populist political movements are related to media and communication 
systems, while also being closely related to issues of class. Especially 
from a Nordic perspective, social class is more than ever a category 
that is needed in media research. The persistence of the idea of a 
Nordic exceptionalism and a Nordic (media) welfare state, against a 
reality of increasing social inequalities, makes it urgent to include a 
theoretical perspective on social class in analyses of the role and 
functioning of the media in the Nordic countries.

Contributions to the Special Issue should address one of the many areas 
in which social class is crucial for our understanding of media and 
communication. We welcome contributions that deal with social class in 
any media forms and genres, and that address social class from either 
the perspective of production, text or reception. Authors are free to 
adopt and/or develop any of the established theoretical notions of 
social class. The focus on the Nordic (media) welfare state means that 
contributions that highlight issues of social class in the Nordic region 
– in a single country or comparatively – are especially welcomed. 
Contributions that provide opportunities for international comparisons 
are also welcome.

The deadline for full paper submissions is 19 April 2020.The preliminary 
time of publication is winter 2020/2021. The selection of papers to be 
published will take place according to the following three-step procedure:

Step 1: Authors are requested to submit the title and abstract (600 
words max. incl. references) of their papers along with five to six 
keywords and short bios (150 words max. for each author) to the Special 
Issue editors. The deadline for submission of full abstracts is 15 
November 2019 and the authors will be notified of the eventual 
acceptance by the end of December 2019 at the latest.

Step 2: If the abstracts are accepted, authors will be requested to 
submit full papers (7,000 words max. inclusive of any front or end 
matter) anonymised for double-blind review and formatted according to 
the Nordicom Review guidelines. The deadline for submission of full 
anonymised papers is 19 April 2020, after which a double-blind peer 
review will take place. Please note that if the submitted papers are 
incompatible with the earlier/accepted abstracts or are of insufficient 
academic quality, the Special Issue editors reserve the right to reject 
such papers in line with Nordicom Review’s editorial policy.

Feedback from reviewers will be sent to authors by the end of June 2020 
at the latest. The deadline for submission of revised manuscripts is 30 
September 2020.

For more information, please visit 
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-class-inand-media

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