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

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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