[Commlist] Call for Papers: Crisis, Conflict, and Cultural Relations in Media Environments

Call for Papers: Crisis, Conflict, and Cultural Relations in Media 
Environments
Ahmet Atay, (aatay /at/ wooster.edu)
Editors:
-AhmetAtay, College of Wooster
- Margaret D’Silva, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

In the wake of current cultural, social, and political happenings and 
due to the ongoing global COVID-19 related health crisis, the role of 
new media technologies is heightened. The current global pandemic 
created new cultural and political conflicts, presenting new issues, 
heightening some of the oppressive structures, and creating newer 
troubles for members of marginalized communities. As a result, people 
are turning to media technologies to escape reality, to find solutions, 
and to create new online communities to belong.

Digital communication connects residents of different countries in an 
invisible web of entanglement that creates a layered global identity 
beyond the confines of national borders. Our collective ideas of our 
past, our perceptions of the present, and projections for the future are 
influenced by our constantly changing information and communicative 
environment. This book takes a broad theoretical and applied perspective 
to describing conceptual links among conflict, crisis, and cultural 
relations in a mediated world.

This call invites abstracts for an edited book that takes qualitative, 
interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives in examining the 
reciprocal relationship among new media, culture, and crisis in the 
context of communication. The book’s interrelated goals are to:

1. Examine different links among conflict, crisis, and cultural 
relations in a mediated world, especially in social media and other 
online domains.
2. Investigate how new media technologies and online platforms are 
providing different opportunities to make sense of the moments of 
cultural, social, and political conflicts.
3. Analyze the role that new media technologies play in the context of 
personal, cultural, or political crises.
4. Explore the complex realities of the current pandemic from a mediated 
perspective.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

1. Social media in personal and relational crisis

2. New media technologies in the context of COVID-19 and other health crises

3. Political conflicts and social media

4. New media, isolation, and loneliness

5. Social media as a sight of conflict

6. Global conflicts and mediated connectivity

7. Crisis in online communities

Abstracts are due by October 15, 2020, with a word length of no more 
than 300 words, along with pertinent references, contact information, 
and a short biographic blurb of 300 words. Full-length manuscripts are 
due on March 1, 2021, with a word length of no more than 5,000-7,000 
words and in APA style, including references, endnotes, and so forth. 
Please email your abstracts as Word documents to Ahmet Atay 
((aatay /at/ wooster.edu)) for an initial review.


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