[Commlist] CFP: Re-introductions to Cultural Science

*CFP: Re-introductions to Cultural Science*

Cultural Science Journal (https://culturalscience.org/ 
<https://culturalscience.org/>) is an Open Access (free for authors to 
publish) journal that was started by Professor John Hartley and 
colleagues in 2008 at the Queensland University of Technology. Most 
recently it has been published by Ubiquity Press and Curtin University’s 
Centre for Culture and Technology. After 13 years of activity the 
editorship of the journal is handed over this year to professors Indrek 
Ibrus and Maximilian Schich, both of Tallinn University. The journal 
will be published by Tallinn University's Cultural Data Analytics Open 
Lab (https://cudan.tlu.ee/ <https://cudan.tlu.ee/>) and it is currently 
being transferred to Sciendo platform (https://www.sciendo.com/ 
<https://www.sciendo.com/>).

Cultural Science Journal continues to be a multidisciplinary journal 
publishing original work on change and dynamics in culture, media and 
communications. It investigates structures, interactions, and processes 
of cultural systems at all levels of analysis and scales of application.

The Journal takes advantage of advances in cultural analytics, cultural 
data science, and cultural semiotics. It encourages active dialogue with 
evolutionary and institutional economics, biosemiotics, complexity 
science, network analysis, research in and cultural history and cultural 
evolution, specifying the ‘uses of culture’ from personal meanings to 
planetary platforms and systems of meaning.

Cultural Science Journal looks forward to publishing new work that is 
critical, analytical and/or empirical, but is most often dialogical: 
interested in the production and translation of new ideas and knowledge, 
especially across perceived and disputed borders between systems, 
groups, identities, and academic disciplines.

Building on the handover momentum we announce a Call for Papers aimed at 
rethinking the purposes, potentials and methods of 'cultural science'. 
Therein we want to build on and invite reflections on the work done 
during the first 13 years in the Cultural Science Journal. 'Cultural 
Science 2.0' as it was framed by John Hartley was to build on the work 
of Raymond Williams, his interest not only in the micro-contexts of 
culture, but also in the systematic and general processes and the 
mutually conditioning relationships between the micro, meso and macro 
contexts. Hartley and colleagues (Jason Potts, Lucy Montgomery, Stuart 
Cunningham, Carsten Hermmann-Pillath, Alan McKee, Paul Ormerod and 
others) launched a systematic effort aimed at conceptualising and 
studying such relationships systematically, worked towards 
transdisciplinary frameworks linking the study of culture with 
evolutionary and institutional economics, complexity science and other 
evolutionary approaches to change. This work has been pathbreaking, 
feeding into new approaches and further studies into evolutionary 
processes in media markets and cultural industries internationally 
(emergent fields of media innovation studies, cross-innovation systems, 
open publishing and so on).

Yet, also parallel approaches have emerged linking the study of culture 
with other disciplines especially evolutionary biosciences, but also 
mathematics, physics, data science and network science, etc., resulting 
in novel and epoch making approaches such as cultural analytics, 
cultural evolution studies, computational humanities and social science, 
etc. 'Cultural Science', it can be argued, is evolving into an intensely 
dialogic, multidisciplinary and an 'explosively' (to use a Juri Lotman 
term) evolving domain.

In this dynamically evolving context Cultural Science Journal wants to 
become the arena where the relevant dialogues are held, where centuries 
of humanities-based knowledge on culture's forms, languages and systems 
of meaning can meet most contemporary scientific methods, where new 
questions are asked, where novel conceptualisations can meet or emerge 
from rigorous empirical or analytical work. Thus, to mark and discuss 
the purposes, potentials, uses and methods of 'cultural science' we 
invite for the 2021 re-inaugural issue papers that address these from 
different angles. The angles and questions could include:

- Histories of cultural science and multidisciplinary studies of change 
in culture, media and communications;
- Methodological challenges to the multidisciplinary work on culture, 
media and communications;
- The new and future methods for cultural science;
- Regional, linguistic and cultural differences to the conceptualisation 
of 'cultural science';
- The ways to conceptualise 'cultural innovation';
- The unused potentials and limitations of the 'evolutionary turn' to 
the study of culture;
- The unused potentials and limitations of the 'computational turn' to 
the study of culture;
- The role of network science in cultural science;
- Artistic research and scientific approaches to the study of culture;
- The post-human groundings of cultural science;
- The uses of cultural science in cultural, innovation and economic 
policies;
- The perspectives of cultural science with regard to research funding;
- Relationships of cultural semiotics and biosemiotics with cultural 
science;
- Evolutionary approaches to media change;
- The relationship between communication studies and cultural science;
- Cultural science and the study of digital culture and the internet;
- Cultural science approach to studying media production, industries and 
markets.

We invite original papers that could be of different length: 1) 
2500-4000 word conceptually oriented 'perspective papers' or ‘concise 
research papers’ that follow the multidisciplinary standard with 4 to 6 
figures; 2) 4000-9000 word ‘long research papers’. The word counts are 
all inclusive (abstract, footnotes, endnotes, references).

Manuscript submission deadline: May 26th. Manuscripts should be sent to: 
(csj /at/ tlu.ee) <mailto:(csj /at/ tlu.ee)>.





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