[Commlist] CFP: Special Issue of Convergence on "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia"

CFP: Special Issue of Convergence on "Negotiating Digital Visibility in 
Asia"

Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into 
New Media Technologies -- "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia"
Guest Editors: Qian Huang (University of Groningen); Jing Zeng (Utrecht 
University); Hiromi Tanaka (Meiji University); Saif Shahin (Tilburg 
University)

Maintaining visibility on digital platforms has become increasingly 
significant in contemporary society for professionals, citizens, and 
communities to acquire opportunities, accumulate social capital, and 
expand influence. Meanwhile, recent scholarship has shed light on the 
phenomenon of social media users strategically localizing and 
restricting their own digital visibility instead of solely maximising it 
to avoid conflicts or undesired attention.

Various factors, including social norms, regulatory frameworks, and 
technological affordances/limitations influence the negotiation of one’s 
digital visibility. Institutional actors and stakeholders also play 
crucial roles in this process as they exercise power to govern and 
potentially manipulate what and who should be allowed to be seen. Given 
this backdrop, the negotiation and contestation of digital visibility 
are highly culturally contextualized issues. Underexplored in the 
existing literature on digital visibility, Asian societies (including 
the Asian diaspora) provide intriguing contexts for studying this 
subject for their unique platform political economy and distinct 
socio-cultural dynamics that shape digital practices and cultures.

This special issue aims to gather contributions on the topic of digital 
visibilities, with a specific focus on empirical analysis in Asian 
contexts. We especially encourage submissions from early-career 
researchers and scholars from the region. We also invite contributors to 
explicitly reflect on how their scholarship contributes to the 
theorisation and conceptualisation of digital visibility from an 
interdisciplinary perspective.

We invite submissions that address questions including, but not limited 
to, the following:
● How do different actors and stakeholders enable or limit the digital 
visibility of individuals or communities in Asia or among the Asian 
diaspora?
● How do individuals or groups establish/enhance/restrict their digital 
visibility in Asian communities?
● What are the social impacts of the increasing need to manage one’s 
digital visibility?
● How can we conceptually understand the negotiation of digital 
visibility based on empirical research in Asian context?
● What strategies do individuals/groups employ to negotiate visibility 
transculturally within and beyond Asia?
● Methodologically, how can we empirically study visibility as a 
research subject?

Information for authors:
Potential contributors should submit a 500-word abstract (excluding 
references), a 100-word bio, and the corresponding author's contact 
information to the guest editor Qian Huang ((qian.huang /at/ rug.nl) 
<mailto:(qian.huang /at/ rug.nl)>). Feel free to consult the special issue 
editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. 
After the abstracts have been selected, authors will be invited to 
submit a full paper. Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not 
guarantee publication, given that all papers will go through the 
journal’s peer review process. All manuscripts submitted must not have 
been published, accepted for publication, or be currently under 
consideration elsewhere. No payment from the authors of manuscripts 
accepted for publication will be required. The CFP can also be found on 
the journal's official website: 
https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/con/CFP_convergence_Negotiating%20Digital%20Visibility%20230823-1692958954.pdf 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/con/CFP_convergence_Negotiating%20Digital%20Visibility%20230823-1692958954.pdf> 


Abstract submission deadline: 1st October 2023
Invited submission notification: 20th October 2023
Full paper submission: 15th February 2024
Expected date of SI publication: October 2024 (individual articles will 
be published online first upon acceptance)
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