[Commlist] cfp: communication +1 seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and Communication"

Reminder: communication +1 seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and 
Communication"  Due Jan 10th 2021

Edited by Zachary McDowell, Peter Royal, and Justin Raden



Notwithstanding the current situation, periods of crisis and upheaval 
exacerbate inequities in our communication infrastructure and throw into 
sharp relief the profound barriers to access. In such fraught moments, 
we can glimpse the extent to which our systems of mediation 
differentially serve and confound us according to our positionality 
within these systems. To understand the effects of crises on 
communication, it is important to consider the history of systems of 
mediation that have both limited and encouraged access, participation, 
and equity across knowledge, space, and culture. What have crises, both 
present, perpetual, and past, intimated about flaws, gaps, and 
inequities in systems of communication that are overlooked or 
disregarded under “normal” (if “normal” exists) conditions? How might we 
think about how infrastructure relates to the crises and thus the 
infrastructures of communication are the infrastructures of 
communication in/justice? How and why are people and communities 
affected differently in these crises, and how do systems of 
communication and mediation both mitigate and compound these phenomena?


Questions of meaning making, truth, misinformation, and access are 
welcomed within our new collection. In particular, bringing new context 
and contextualization (whether philosophical, historical, archeological, 
rhetorical, ecological, or otherwise) to query contemporary crises of 
communicative access issues are welcome.


Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by January 10th, 
2021 to (communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>

Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5th, 2021, with 
expected publication in August, 2021. Invitations will be sent out no 
later than the end of January 2021.

About the Journal

The aim of communication +1 is to promote new approaches to and open new 
horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary 
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that 
seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of 
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both 
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social 
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, 
communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to 
create a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these 
experiments.

communication +1 is an open access journal supported by University of 
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication

communicationplusone.org <http://communicationplusone.org/>.


    Editors

Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago


    Advisory Board

Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago

Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais

Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom

Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

John Durham Peters, Yale University

Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Florian Sprenger, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

Jonathan Sterne, McGill University

Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder

Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara

Greg Wise, Arizona State University


For more information about the project in general, as well as short 
pieces, lectures, and interviews, visitcommunicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/>.

For more information or to participate in thecommunicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/>project, please email 
(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>

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