[Commlist] CFP: Special Issue on the Digital Life of Young People in the Nordics

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on the Digital Life of Young People 
in the Nordics

This special issue of Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning – Nordic 
Journal for Youth Research (NTU) invites researchers from different 
scholarly fields to contribute with empirically founded articles 
investigating young people's digital lives in the Nordic countries.

Today, young people are leading digital lives with multiple connections 
to their physical lives. Digital communities play a significant role for 
youth in the management of their everyday lives. In globalised online 
spheres, communities span geographical locations, crossing cultural and 
linguistic barriers. Young people are also navigating different 
platforms and leading digital lives in parallel in different 
communities. The Nordic countries are advanced information societies 
where the young people’s digital consumption is high. Young users are 
members of different communities where they share a common goal with 
others and are able to develop agency and strengthen their identities. 
What characterises the digital life of the young in terms of their 
identity work, relationships, sharing of ideas and practices, and 
cultural exchange? How do digital technologies affect the young people’s 
everyday lives, as well as shifts from childhood to adult life? What 
characterises young people’s agency, cultural engagement and lifestyle 
in online communities? What new possibilities, challenges and research 
agendas emerge?

This special issue of Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning – Nordic 
Journal for Youth Research (NTU) invites researchers from different 
scholarly fields to contribute with empirically founded articles 
investigating young people's digital lives in the Nordic countries. We 
invite researchers interested in, above all, media, information, digital 
literacy, and digitalisation, as well as non- and informal learning in 
different disciplines and interdisciplinary settings to contribute to 
this special issue. We are interested in articles that examine 
youth-initiated activities in the digital sphere and relate to questions 
and approaches in youth research. We define young people as individuals 
from their pre-teens to early adolescence (about 11–25 years) but expect 
each contributor to define their target group.

The special issue is planned to be published in 2024. NTU is an open 
access social sciences journal with no article processing charge (APC) 
for the authors.

We encourage scholars from different disciplinary fields and different 
theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to contribute. 
Relevant topics may include but are not restricted to, the following:

  * young people’s engagement and content production in nationwide and
    specifically Nordic/local communities of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube,
    as well as cross-platform audiovisual content consumption, and/or
    production;
  * gaming on different platforms, and the activities’ effects on health
    and everyday life;
  * genres and genre practices: practices of sharing content related to
    distinct interests, vlogging, curating, collaborative forms of 
creation;
  * problems and challenges: information mis- and maluses,
    disinformation, misinformation and information disorders, fake
    content, cyberbullying;
  * emergence, advocacy, and development of new digital literacies:
    algorithmic literacy, artificial intelligence (AI) literacy,
    cross-platform literacy, multiliteracy in online environments;
  * diversity in online youth communities: gender differences, digital
    life of vulnerable, marginalised and minority groups,
    multilingualism, multicultural encounters, ethnicity, religion;
  * policies and informal pedagogies: sustainability, digital
    resilience, youth’s responses to crises, peer support communities.

Submissions

Please submit a 200-word abstract with 3–5 keywords, written in English 
or Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian or Swedish) by June 1 2023, 
to (sevtap.gurdal /at/ hv.se).  NTU is an interdisciplinary social science 
journal. The maximal length of articles is 7,500 words. Submitted 
manuscripts must comply with the journal's guidelines for authors and 
will be subject to a double blind peer review.

Important dates

  * June 1, 2023: Deadline for abstracts
  * June 5, 2023: Authors are notified of acceptance
  * November 15, 2023: Deadline for submitted first draft (full papers)
  * May 1, 2024: Deadline for submitted revised manuscript after peer 
review
  * June/July 2024: Issue will be published

Editors of the special issue

For any inquiries, please contact the editors of the special issue:

Sevtap Gurdal, PhD, Senior Lecturer, University West, Trollhättan, 
Sweden, (sevtap.gurdal /at/ hv.se)

Maarit Jaakkola, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg, 
(maarit.jaakkola /at/ gu.se)

Linus Andersson, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Halmstad 
University, (linus.andersson /at/ hh.se)


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