[Commlist] CFP: Epistemic contestations in the hybrid media environment

_Popular communication: The international journal of media and culture_

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_Call for papers: Epistemic contestations in the hybrid media environment_

Guest Editors: Katja Valaskivi (University of Helsinki, Finland), David 
G. Robertson (The Open University, UK) & Patrick Burkart (Texas A&M 
University, USA)

June 21, 2021

The aim of this special issue is to explore how a multiplicity of 
competing epistemologies interact and compete in the “post-Truth” 
marketplace of ideas in online popular communication. We invite 
contributions to a special issue on the intersections of popular 
communication, disinformation, and misinformation. We are especially 
interested in how popular communication can challenge and even upend 
traditional and inherited belief systems and knowledge regimes in 
religion, politics, fandom, and other institutions.

As traditional ideologies and other thought regimes collapse and new 
ones arise, recent scholarship has examined the contributions of 
digitalization and datafication of popular communication that contest 
older communitarian worldviews (e.g. Fuller, 2020). The internet has 
augmented collective understandings of the world but also undermined a 
broader sense of belonging, while enabling a new scope of contestation 
over “epistemic capital” (Robertson, 2016, 2021). In popular 
communication, especially, the social construction of meaning and 
worldviews is more manipulable than ever through disinformation, 
misinformation, and propaganda.

We welcome submissions exploring epistemic contestations through 
conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches. Possible topic 
areas include (but are not limited to):

  * conspiracy theories
  * terrorism
  * fandom
  * science communication
  * propaganda
  * identity politics
  * nationalism
  * affect
  * new religions / “cults”
  * New Atheism
  * the “Intellectual Dark Web”

The special issue will invite individual submissions on the basis of 
approved abstracts. To submit an abstract for consideration, please 
email an MS Word document of no more than 500 words with author 
information to Katja Valaskivi ((katja.valaskivi /at/ helsinki.fi) 
<mailto:(katja.valaskivi /at/ helsinki.fi)>) and cc: 
(popularcommunication /at/ tamu.edu) <mailto:(popularcommunication /at/ tamu.edu)> 
using the subject header, “Epistemic contestations special issue.” The 
deadline for receiving abstracts is October 1, 2021. Invited manuscripts 
of no more than 7,000 words (inclusive) must be submitted by January 1, 
2022 to receive a double-blind review. Only papers accepted for 
publication will be published. No payment from the authors will be required.

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