[Commlist] CFP EDEIJ "Innovation and disruption in business models and technologies related to the care economy"

Call for papers for Special Section, Vol. 2 (December 2023): "Innovation 
and disruption in business models and technologies related to the care 
economy"

04/05/2023

*Chief Editor:*
*Dr. César García Muñoz
*ESIC University (España)

Cesar.garciamunoz@esic.university <mailto:Cesar.garciamunoz@esic.university>

*Guest editor:*
*Dr. Jorge Alberto Hidalgo*
University of Anahuac (Mexico)

(jhidalgo /at/ anahuac.mx) <mailto:(jhidalgo /at/ anahuac.mx)>

*EDEIJ, ESIC Digital Economy & Innovation 
Journal* (https://revistasinvestigacion.esic.edu/edeij/ 
<https://revistasinvestigacion.esic.edu/edeij/index.php/edeij/index>) 
invites the national and international academic community to submit 
proposals for articles for a special section to be included in Volume 2, 
to be published in December 2023.*Communication and Media Studies 
scholars are welcome*. *No payment is required for publication.*

Digitalisation has had a pervasive impact on all aspects of life and 
culture, altering the way products and services are produced, 
distributed, marketed and consumed. This change has had a significant 
impact on economic, political, cultural and social structures. The 
media, cultural, creative and entertainment industries have played a 
crucial role in globalising the dynamics of convergence and 
hypermediatisation. These industries have been instrumental in the 
expansion of this global trend which has led us to live in the era of 
the end of dead time (Hidalgo, 2021).


The struggle for attention is not only a battle led by media companies 
but also by public companies from various industrial sectors, public 
sector organisations and civil society. Every product, service, content, 
platform and interface is tinged with an entertainment component. We 
live in an attention economy that has become a scarce resource in 
industrialised countries (Falkinger, 2008; Franck, 2019, 2020).


In the digital economy, which has become the panopticon economy 
(Hidalgo, 2018), most businesses and organisations need the attention of 
their audiences and that is the key to success. Attention has become a 
competitive commodity for which companies, governments, political 
parties and all kinds of institutions compete. And the issue goes beyond 
the generation of algorithms.


The second machine age, also known as the new phase of the digital 
revolution (4th Industrial Revolution), focuses on interconnectedness, 
automation, artificial intelligence and data mining. This trend has 
generated new technological and media ecosystems that interact in real 
time with humans, machines and institutions. As we move towards a 
post-digital world, the communicational and economistic view is 
insufficient to understand the implications and effects of the 
connection between physical and digital systems, as well as the 
exploitation of the internet of things, cyber-physical systems and the 
constant flow of data. All of this is evidence of user and consumer 
patterns and trends, posing new challenges to our understanding of the 
world we live in.


Many of the applications of big data, machine learning, automation and 
exponential disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) 
have as one of their main objectives to capture the attention of 
audiences. Innovation becomes an essential element for the loyalty, 
dynamisation and monetisation of these audiences.           Another 
aspect to bear in mind is that the care economy cuts across all sectors. 
It includes business, education, public institutions, universities and 
many others. Technology, communication and marketing act as 
cross-cutting elements and drivers of processes. Their repercussions 
pertain to the economic, human and ethical spheres as the so-called 
"surveillance capitalism" (Zuboff, 2021) or "surveillance advertising" 
(Crain, 2021) raises questions about its limits and regulation.


The connection between innovation and attention is clear and will define 
how human beings use their time, resources and leisure in the coming 
years. This scenario presents researchers with multiple theoretical, 
methodological and ethical challenges in order to understand their 
object of study from a complex and multidisciplinary perspective; this 
is the focus of this dossier, which is why we invite you to send your 
articles focused on analysis, reflection and empirical research on the 
following topics:


- Big data.
- Machine learning.
- Social networks.
- Automation.
- The importance of virtual environments: the Metaverse.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) as a knowledge activator.
- New exponential disruptive technologies.
- Digital media and platforms as pillars of leisure, learning and 
development.
- New technologies applied to education.
- Reformulation of models.
- Critical approaches: "surveillance capitalism" and "surveillance 
advertising".

*Referencias*
Crain, M. (2021). /Profit over privacy. How surveillance advertising 
conquered the internet./
University of Minnesota.
Falkinger, J. (2008). Limited Attention as a Scarce Resource in 
Information‐Rich Economies. /The/
/Economic Journal/, 118(532), 1596–1620. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02182.x 
<https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/118/532/1596/5088820?redirectedFrom=fulltext>
Franck, G. (2019). The economy of attention. /Journal of Sociology/, 
55(1), 8-19.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783318811778 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1440783318811778>
Franck, G. (2020). /Vanity fairs. Another view of the economy of 
attention./ Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41532-7 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41532-7>
Hidalgo Toledo, J. A. (2021). Ocio y entretenimiento: la familia digital 
ante el fin de los tiempos muertos en López Novelo, R. A. /Ocio y 
entretenimiento en el contexto digital: Aproximaciones desde la 
academia./ Gedisa.
Hidalgo Toledo, J. A. (2018). La Economía del Panóptico: la Imagen y las 
Identidades digitales en Grossi, A., Barcellos, J., Carvajal García, A. 
& et al, /Semiótica e História: Fotografia e Informação./ Ria Editorial
Zuboff, S. (2020). /The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a 
Human Future at the New Frontier of Power./ PublicAffairs.

All the articles must comply with the journal's rules, which can be 
consulted at 
https://revistasinvestigacion.esic.edu/edeij/index.php/edeij/about/submissions 
<https://revistasinvestigacion.esic.edu/edeij/index.php/edeij/about/submissions>

**

*Dates to be taken into account:*

- Submission of manuscripts: until 1 October 2023.
- Online publication: December 2023.

**

*Articles should be sent through the submissions section on the 
journal's website 
<https://revistasinvestigacion.esic.edu/edeij/index.php/edeij/about/submissions>.*

Authors who wish to send their questions regarding the special section 
to the editors may do so via the following e-mail addresses:

Dr. Jorge Alberto Hidalgo: (jhidalgo /at/ anahuac.mx) 
<https://revistasinvestigacion.esic.edu/adresearch/index.php/adresearch/management/settings/announcements/mailto:(jhidalgo /at/ anahuac.mx)>

PhD in Applied Communication from the Universidad Anáhuac; Member of the 
National System of Researchers Level 1. President of the Mexican 
Association of Communication Researchers, AMIC period 2019-2021. Vice 
President of the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers, AMIC 
for the period 2017-2019; University Vice President of the Mexican 
Academy of Communication for the period 2015-2017 and 2017-2020; 
President of the National Council for Teaching and Research in 
Communication Sciences, CONEICC for the period 2012-2015; Secretary of 
the Catholic Association of Communication, SIGNIS Mexico for the period 
2014-2016. He also worked as Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in 
Communication 2008-2017; Researcher of the Research Center for Applied 
Communication of the School of Communication of the Universidad Anáhuac. 
He currently serves as Postgraduate Coordinator of the School of 
Communication at the same university. With more than 25 years of 
professional experience in communication areas in which he has worked 
for different organisations including the Reforma newspaper, El 
Universal, El Heraldo, collaborator of the publications Origina, MD 
magazine, The O and editor of Clap! magazine. He was host and producer 
at Grupo Acir, Grupo Radio Centro. He has almost 30 years of teaching 
experience. He has published 9 books and more than 50 chapters in 
national and international books.

Dr. César García Muñoz: cesar.garciamunoz@esic.university 
<mailto:(jhidalgo /at/ anahuac.mx)>

He specialises in teaching and research in public relations and 
strategic communication. He has more than a decade of experience in 
Europe in the professional world of public relations for international 
firms such as Edelman and Pleon.
He has published more than 35 articles, mostly as sole author, in 
relevant public relations and global communication journals such as 
Public Relations Review, Public Relations Inquiry, Journal of 
Communication Management, Public Relations Journal, International 
Journal of Strategic Communication, Journal of International 
Communication and International Journal of Sport Communication, among 
others. Several of these articles analyse the intersection between 
public relations, culture, politics and economics and explore the 
intellectual history of public relations.
He has published opinion articles in Spanish newspapers such as El País, 
El Español, El Mundo, El Confidencial and ABC, as well as in The 
Huffington Post (Spain edition). He has written three books: American 
Psique (2011); Historia de un estereotipo. Intelectuales Españoles en 
Estados Unidos (1885-1936) (History of a Stereotype. Spanish 
Intellectuals in the United States [1885-1936]) (2009), and Public 
Opinion in Santayana (2006). I have also written several chapters on the 
history of communication.

	
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