[Commlist] Call for Book Chapters: Media and Marginalized Voices: Issues and Discourses

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Call for Book Chapters

Book Title: Media and Marginalized Voices: Issues and Discourses

Concept of the Book:

The media has a close relationship with socio-cultural and political 
systems in today’s society. This relationship both offers the potential 
to tackle the various challenges associated with inequality and, at the 
same time, creates a nexus with the elite classes of society to keep the 
marginalized away from the mainstream. It is central to the relations of 
media, power and communication since it is concerned with the well-being 
of people living on a periphery and explores the fundamental and 
structural aspects of social change and justice.

Marginalization is the social process of becoming or being made 
marginal, especially either an individual or as a group within the 
larger society. Marginalization occurs not only at the individual level 
but also group or community level. Individuals’ exclusion from 
meaningful participation in society can create individual 
marginalization. Dalits, Tribals, Women, Minorities, LGBTQI+s, People 
with Disabilities, etc. are at the margin and periphery of the society 
as they suffer from poverty, experience deprivation and downgrading. 
These communities live in the shadow of vulnerability and discrimination 
irrespective of region. Each group continues culturally and socially 
marginalized. Social problems of individuals are deeply connected with 
larger social structures in society and continue to push individuals to 
the margins of society causing various forms of oppression and 
marginalization.

Possible Questions:

The issues of these marginalized communities are hardly shown and 
covered by the mainstream media. The deprived communities including 
minority communities are less visible and their voices are hardly heard 
in the mass media. It not only creates silence among the social groups 
but firmly perpetuates its communal, class and caste prejudices. The 
marginalized and minority community has been further reinstated, 
endorsed, reinforced, and regressed by contemporary mass media. The 
proposed book titled /Media and Marginalized Voices: Issue and 
Discourses/ may seek an answer and find the complex relationship between 
the media and the marginalized communities in the Indian context from 
theoretical and empirical perspectives. The major focus would be on 
marginalized voices and representations in the media scholarship.

Chapter Themes:

  This book aims to cover different aspects of marginality and its 
relationship with media within an interdisciplinary framework discussed 
in social sciences and other disciplines. In this regard, we would like 
to share a global call and ask for abstracts through a peer-review 
process. The book chapters invited may be on the following topics such 
as relations of media with gender, sexuality, nation, disability, 
disciplinary boundaries, youth, caste, class, and religion, but are not 
limited to:

Sub-Themes:

·The conceptual discourse of margin

·Structural and ideological construction of marginality

·Media, social inclusion, and exclusion

·Representation of minorities in media

·Construction of gender in media

·Caste bias, violence, and discrimination in media

·Media, religion, and diversity

·Media, youth, and conflicts

·Media, ethnicity, and violence

·Media, identity, and citizenship

·Media, region, and language

·Media and representations of Adivasi & LGBTQI+ communities

·Media and class representations

·Social media and marginality

Who can apply:

The proposed edited book//may consist of various chapters contributed by 
scholars, professors, academicians of media studies, communication 
studies, cultural studies, and social sciences.

Abstract Submission Guidelines:

Interested authors are free to suggest related themes/subjects in 
accordance with the call for a book chapter. Abstracts (min 300, max 500 
words) should be mailed to Dr Jyoti Ranjan Sahoo <(jyotiranjan /at/ xim.edu.in) 
<mailto:(jyotiranjan /at/ xim.edu.in)>>, marking a copy to Dr V. Vijay Kumar 
<(vijaykumarvijayan /at/ xim.edu.in) <mailto:(vijaykumarvijayan /at/ xim.edu.in)>> by 
15 June 2022. In June 2022, the authors of accepted abstracts will be 
informed. Author (s) are expected to send their final manuscript by the 
end of September 2022. No payment from the authors will be required for 
publication. The book chapter will be prepared according to the 
manuscript guidelines of a reputed publication house. But the author (s) 
may follow the below manuscript guidelines for submission of a 
full-length paper.

Guidelines for Contributors:

The prescribed word limits of the full-length paper should be 5000-7000 
words including footnotes. The body of the manuscript should be in Times 
New Roman, with Font size 12 and 1.5 line spacing. The text should be 
justified and a margin of 2.54 centimeters shall be left on all sides of 
the paper. The footnotes should be in Times New Roman, Font size 10 and 
single line spacing. Endnote may not be used. The APA Style is to be 
strictly adhered to for citations and references. Submission must be 
made in the MS Word (.doc/.docx) format. Full-length submission can be 
mailed to Dr Jyoti Ranjan Sahoo <(jyotiranjan /at/ xim.edu.in) 
<mailto:(jyotiranjan /at/ xim.edu.in)>>, marking a copy to Dr V. Vijay Kumar 
<(vijaykumarvijayan /at/ xim.edu.in) <mailto:(vijaykumarvijayan /at/ xim.edu.in)>>. 
The subject of the email should be the title of the book and the 
submission may contain a separate cover letter as an attachment 
enumerating the following details:

(a)Title of the book chapter

(b)Name and affiliation of the Author (s)

(c)Email, contact number and postal address

(d)

The submission will undergo a blind peer-review process; therefore, the 
author (s) shall not disclose their identities anywhere in the body of 
the manuscript. All the submissions will undergo a plagiarism check. The 
submitting chapter (s) must be original and unpublished work. The author 
(s) must confirm that the manuscript is not being considered for 
publication elsewhere. Being part of pre-publishing formalities, the 
author (s) are expected to submit a scanned copy of the copyright 
agreement form once the manuscript is accepted for publication.

For further queries, please feel free to the editors of the book:

Dr Jyoti Ranjan Sahoo - (jyotiranjan /at/ xim.edu.in) 
<mailto:(jyotiranjan /at/ xim.edu.in)>, Mob: +91 – 729 102 4532

Dr V. Vijay Kumar - (vijaykumarvijayan /at/ xim.edu.in) 
<mailto:(vijaykumarvijayan /at/ xim.edu.in)>, Mob: +91 – 995 200 5677

Profile of the Book Editors:

Dr Jyoti Ranjan Sahoois an Assistant Professor at the School of 
Communications, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr Sahoohas 
received his PhD in the area of /‘Media and Social life’ /from the 
Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New 
Delhi, India. He has published eighteen articles in 
national/international journals and edited books in the areas of media 
sociology, media and marginality, development communication, 
advertising, media education, communication & culture, media, and 
gender. He has also conducted four research projects and presented over 
20 research papers at national and international conferences on diverse 
interdisciplinary issues of media and communication. He has contributed 
research papers and presented at IAMCR & AMIC conferences abroad. His 
current ongoing research assignment is the author’s book on /‘Technology 
and Education’/. Other research assignments for a journal article are 
/COVID-19 Health Perception and Communication/ as well as /Media, 
Development and Democracy/ etc.

Dr V. Vijay Kumaris the Academic Dean of the School of Communications, 
XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He is a seasoned media 
professional and a media educator, with ample years of industrial 
experience in audio-visual content development, supervision, and 
management. Right from television reality shows to non-fiction live 
broadcasts, from television commercials to feature films, he worked on 
various projects in different capacities. He worked with Sun TV Network, 
Chennai; Shop CJ TV Network, Mumbai; Frames Entertainment, Chennai, 
India, in senior roles and he was the creative head and show director of 
an award-winning Tamil reality talent hunt show /‘Naalaya Iyakunar’/ 
(Future Director) and South India’s first reality television show for 
identical twins /‘Iruvar’/ (Twins). He has completed his PhD from Anna 
University, Chennai, India. His doctoral research is on the topic 
/‘Interactive Reality Television’/. He is specialized in audio-visual 
content development, entertainment television programmes, digital 
filmmaking, and educational media design. His research interests are 
television programming, television studies, film studies, social media, 
interactive digital communication, positive psychology, and educational 
media. Apart from teaching, he is actively involved in audio-visual 
content development in the forms of documentaries, music videos, 
television shows and educational video modules.


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