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[Commlist] CFP: Media of Verification, communication +1, vol. 10 (2023)

Mon Oct 31 21:58:11 GMT 2022





CfP: “Media of Verification”
communication +1, Vol. 10, 2023

Submission of proposal: November 14, 2022
Submission deadline: April 30, 2023

Media of Verification
communication +1, Vol. 10, 2023
edited by Johannes Bennke, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel

From a global perspective, democracies are under pressure. From within, it is threatened by populism and its different forms of misinformation, lies, and the spread of mistrust and fear. From outside, it faces autocracies and war. Since decades, there has been an epidemic of un-trust or distrust in the social fabric of Western democratic societies. And modern technology seems to conspire with these threatening forces. Among other factors, social media seems to be fueling an epidemic of misinformation as well as distrust in science. But despite all the distrust – how is trust established with technology? >From a media studies perspective the focus turns away from the content driven analysis and surveys to the operations, apparatuses, and specific methods in how trust is being established through media technology. A key operation to generate trust, I argue, is verification. Trust is not only an element of the social fabric established by interpersonal interaction and behavior but also by media technologies and their particular operations of verification. Trust has been studied primarily in terms of an interhuman relationship in psychology (Thagard 2019), as social trust beyond a dyadic relationship in the political and social sciences (Uslaner 2018), or as cooperation in game theory (Axelrod 2006). Here, we intend to take a different, a media philosophical and cultural techniques point of view. Taking ,media of verification‘ as a starting point to think about trust in a society built on digital communication changes the discourse and allows media theorists to frame the problem differently.

The proposed issue of communication +1 departs from the perspective that considers media by focusing on the materialities, medialities, and performative operations and practices of media technologies that deal with verification processes.

With vol. 10 of the communication + 1 issue in 2023 on the topic of “Media of Verification” we invite scholars from various fields such as communication, media, film, and literature studies, philosophy and art history to contribute to a field of research that has yet to be explored and that spans different disciplines.

In case of interest, please submit a proposal of no more than 500 words and a brief academic biography by November 14th, 2022 to (johannes.bennke /at/ mail.huji.ac.il).

Full text submission will be due April 30th, 2023, with expected publication in September 2023. There are no article processing charges or fees associated with publication.
For details please visit:
http://www.communicationplusone.org/dialogues/cfp-vol-10-media-of-verification/
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