[Commlist] CFP: Beyond the Echo Chamber – The Tactical Use of Social Media in Social Movements

*_Call for Papers _*

*/South Atlantic Quarterly/**122 (4)*

*“Beyond the Echo Chamber – The Tactical Use of Social Media in Social 
Movements”*

*_Editors:_*

Rhon Teruelle, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication & Creative Arts

Purdue University Northwest

(rteruell /at/ pnw.edu) <mailto:(rteruell /at/ pnw.edu)>

Alex Khasnabish, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Mount Saint Vincent University

(Alex.khasnabish /at/ msvu.ca) <mailto:(Alex.khasnabish /at/ msvu.ca)>

*_Issue Description:_*

We invite proposals for essay submissions for a thematic issue of /South 
Atlantic Quarterly /focusing on the tactical and political uses of 
social media in struggles for radical social change. In this issue, we 
want to push past the well-worn tropes of the network and the echo 
chamber to consider how a range of social movements are making use of 
social media platforms in their social change efforts and with what 
consequences. Outside of their role as platforms for networked 
communication, recent scholarship has identified the important role 
played by social media as “discourse laboratories” and sites for 
collective identity construction. Social media platforms have become 
central tools and contested terrains not just for social justice 
movements but for those of the far Right as well. While much attention 
has been focused on the way that movements for social justice have 
deployed social media as a key tool for communication and mobilization, 
we also want to consider the ways that movements of the reactionary and 
radical Right make use of this digital infrastructure.

This issue will consist of contributions examining movements across the 
political spectrum and their use of social media in the context of their 
tactical repertoires and the political goals they seek to achieve. 
Beyond questions of communication, coordination, and mobilization, how 
are contemporary movements entering into these digital ecologies and how 
are they being affected by them? This timely collection aspires to 
contribute to the critical conversation about movements, social justice, 
free speech, and digital communicative infrastructure at a moment of 
surging activity across all these registers.

We invite prospective contributors to send via email a title, abstract 
(300 words maximum), and brief author note (150 words maximum) in a 
single Word file to issue editors Alex Khasnabish 
((Alex.khasnabish /at/ msvu.ca) <mailto:(Alex.khasnabish /at/ msvu.ca)>) and Rhon 
Teruelle ((rteruell /at/ pnw.edu) <mailto:(rteruell /at/ pnw.edu)>) by July 1, 2021. 
We particularly invite contributions from members of oppressed and 
marginalized communities and those whose scholarship focuses on under 
studied movement and struggles. Inquiries can be directed to the issue 
editors at the emails above.

There will be no payment from the authors.

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