[Commlist] CFP '‘Living with Digital Platforms in Asia-Pacific'

Call for papers//(abstracts due 7 February 2020)

*‘Living with Digital Platforms in Asia-Pacific: Everyday Life, 
Participation, Policy, and Rights’*

Special issue of /Asian Journal of Communication/

Edited by

Gerard Goggin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Titik Rahayu (Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)

Internationally, the rise of digital platforms is a highly visible 
phenomenon in contemporary media and communications and social life. 
This special issue puts the spotlight on the prefiguring, incubation, 
and emergence of, and contests over, digital platforms in the Asia 
Pacific region.

It aims to bring together research, perspectives, proposals, 
provocations, and debate on questions such as:

  * What are the business models, economics, and service offerings of
    digital platforms in the Asia-Pacific region?
  * What are the socio-political and economic challenges for startups in
    developing countries to develop new digital platforms and compete
    with established multinational corporations?
  * How do digital platforms circulate and operate across and within the
    Asia and Pacific regions? What are the connections between digital
    platforms in Asia and other regions, as well as global digital
    platforms?
  * How do digital platforms figure in ­everyday life in Asian and
    Pacific settings, and what are their socio-cultural dynamics and
    implications?
  * What are the social imaginaries of Asian and Pacific digital platforms?
  * What theories and concepts are elicited by, and are suitable for,
    researching Asian and Pacific digital platforms?
  * What is the state of play for digital platforms in relation to
    social, political, cultural, and other forms of participation?
  * What are the policy issues being raised by digital platforms in
    Asian and Pacific contexts, and how are policymakers and regulators
    responding?
  * Where do digital platforms fit into questions of inequality and
    social justice? What of the implications of digital platforms for
    communication and expression rights, as well as other human, social,
    and cultural rights?
  * What are the alternatives to digital platforms being generated or
    debated in Asian and Pacific societies?
We welcome papers on these and other relevant aspects of digital 
platforms in Asia and Pacific. We are especially interested in research 
that addresses neglected or new case studies and dimensions of Asian 
digital platforms. Also we encourage papers that reflect upon and 
comment upon the research, practice, policy, and other agenda on digital 
platforms in Asia-Pacific contexts.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract for consideration by 7 February 2020 
to the special issue editors:

  * Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University
    ((gerard.goggin /at/ ntu.edu.sg) <mailto:(gerard.goggin /at/ ntu.edu.sg)>);
  * Titik Rahayu, Universitas Airlangga ((titik.rahayu /at/ fisip.unair.ac.id)
    <mailto:(titik.rahayu /at/ fisip.unair.ac.id)>)

Following notification of acceptance of abstract, full papers of 
6000-9000 words will be due by 15 July 2020 (with full submissions due 
by 15 December 2020).

For more information on the /Asian Journal of Communication/, and its 
style requirements, see: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rajc20/current


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