[Commlist] Call for papers: Class in/and the media

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access)***

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Title: ‘Class in/and the media’​
Special issue editors: Johan Lindell (Karlstad University), Peter 
Jakobsson (Södertörn University), Fredrik Stiernstedt (Södertörn University)
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2019
Deadline for full paper submissions:19 April 2020

*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.

*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.

*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 tothe 
/Nordicom Review/ guidelines 
<https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/nordicom-review>. *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 
<https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/nordicom-review>.

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 any questions as well as abstract and paper submission please contact:*

Johan Lindell, Karlstad University
(johan.lindell /at/ kau.se) <mailto:(johan.lindell /at/ kau.se)>

Peter Jakobsson, Södertörn University
(peter.jakobsson /at/ sh.se) <mailto:(peter.jakobsson /at/ sh.se)>

*About */Nordicom Review /
/Nordicom Review/ is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal 
published by Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and 
Communication Research) at the University of Gothenburg. The publication 
of /Nordicom Review/ is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. 
/Nordicom Review/ is indexed by SCOPUS. For more information, please 
visit www.nordicom.gu.se. <http://www.nordicom.gu.se. ;>

View this CFP on Nordicom's 
website:https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/call-papers-class-inand-media

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