[Commlist] Book Chapter Submissions: Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: an anthology of emerging and contemporary issues

*Call for Book Chapter Submissions*

*Tentative book title: *

*/“Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: an 
anthology of emerging and contemporary issues”/*

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*Editors: *

Associate Professor Elira Turdubaeva, American University of Central 
Asia (eliraturdubayeva /at/ gmail.com)

Associate Professor Evangelia Papoutsaki, University of Central Asia 
(papoutsaki /at/ yahoo.co.uk)

*Prospective deadline for manuscript submission: *August/Sept 2020**

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*Statement on the book’s goals and methods*

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The aim of this edited volume is to explore, analyze and to shed light 
to the field, practice, research and critical inquiry of media, 
journalism and mass communications in four countries in Central Asia 
(Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan).

This book can fill the gap in the shortage of text/handbooks in 
journalism, media and communication programs primarily in Central Asian 
higher education institutions but also international institutions that 
have an interdisciplinary approach to Central Asian Studies or 
post-soviet communication and media practices. The scarcity of research 
and scholarly articles on the complex and increasingly changing media, 
journalism and mass/digital communication in Central Asia could be 
overcome with this anthology as it will serve as the fundamental 
literature for both researchers and academicians in and of Central Asia.

This handbook pays close attention to local media and communication in 
four Central Asian countries as an object of study. Besides offering a 
comparative perspective on the trajectories of local media and 
communication development in different countries, it provides a more 
nuanced understanding of the actual functions of such media in a 
country’s media system and for local communities. The proposed book will 
combine case studies with a more analytical discussion of the actual 
state of affairs in the local media and communication of four Central 
Asian countries using a variety of materials and methods.

The themes these chapters will be grouped around focus on social change, 
development and media freedom, civil society and media, national 
identity construction, ethnicity and media, media and religion, media 
ownership, media and elections, gender and media, migration and media, 
journalism curriculum, community media, public communications, media law 
and ethics, environmental journalism, emergency and crisis 
communication, community building and participation, media literacy, 
social networking sites, intercultural communication, tribalism and 
media, language and media, media and politics, foreign reporting, 
country branding, media and violence, cultural memes and identity.

The editors of this volume aim to include new and emerging researchers 
from this region by inviting them to author chapters based on their 
recently completed master’s and PhD dissertations. This approach is 
taken to ensure the latest research in this field of studies is included 
in this volume that is often not published in a collection of work that 
contextualizes the issues explored. By bringing together new and 
emerging researchers with established authors the editors also hope to 
provide a supportive dialogue between different points of view.

With this book we hope to contribute to overcome the dearth of works on 
Central Asia for both scholarly knowledge and undergraduate and graduate 
student education in journalism, media and communications. Contributors 
are expected to use both qualitative and quantitative research methods 
from various disciplinary fields (ethnography/anthropology, sociology, 
media/communication, education, politics etc.).

The chapters will be presented thematically focusing on issues and 
practices. Submissions will be assessed on their relevance to the themes 
identified for this volume, originality of research and presentation. 
After receipt of formatted papers and an introduction, the process would 
require peer review of the full publication, followed by revision.

Please send your book chapter titles and abstracts (450-500 words) by 20 
January, 2020 to editors’ email addresses.


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