[Commlist] Television in the Global South CFP for Special Issue and Online Conference

*Television in the Global South*

*Call for Papers: Special Issue of /Connectist: Istanbul University 
Journal of Communication Sciences /and Online Conference*

*Guest editors: Yesim Kaptan (*Associate Professor, Kent State 
University, Ohio)**&* Ece Algan* (Professor, California State 
University, San Bernadino)

*Deadline for abstracts:* October 17, 2023

*Online Conference*: March 14-15, 2024

*Publication Date:* December 2024

After the neoliberalization of television in the 1990s, the late 2000s 
proved to be the start of the next important transformative phase for 
world television marked by the widespread use of personal digital media 
devices and increased access to the internet. This contemporary phase 
has witnessed rapid technological developments in television, such as 
the digitalization and platformization of television services and the 
expansion of television consumption via social media. These developments 
have also transformed the ways in which content is created by national 
media industries, is distributed by both local and global media 
companies, and is consumed by audiences worldwide. As a result, the 
experience of television production, distribution, and consumption has 
been redefined not just for the countries of the affluent West, but also 
for those in the global South. This special issue aims to investigate 
the transformations in contemporary television in the Global South and 
the influence of non-western television production and consumption on 
the global media landscape.

Today, audiences are exposed to a plethora of both global television 
content and local productions due to rapid transnational media flows in 
multidirectional ways across regions and countries. Moreover, social 
media affordances coupled with easier access to satellite and platforms 
offer an opportunity to view and discuss television content everywhere 
in the world including small towns and rural areas. In an era of 
increased permeability of television content, technologies, trends, and 
genres, we believe that any study of global television should take into 
consideration how the global television landscape affects the local, 
national and/or regional contexts of production and consumption and vice 
versa. This also necessitates a questioning of Western-centric theories 
and their applications to various local and national contexts. 
Therefore, one of the aims of this special issue is to globalize, 
de-westernize, and decolonize television studies.

In this special issue, we invite submissions which critically examine 
television in the Global South from various methodological approaches 
and theoretical perspectives. We encourage submissions from 
underrepresented regions as well as from scholars in the Global North 
who study television in the Global South. We look forward to submissions 
on (but not limited to) the following topics:

·The impact of digitalization and/or platformization on local, national 
and/or regional TV cultures and industries

·The rise of non-Western culture industries (e.g., Bollywood, Nollywood, 
Hallyu, Turkish, etc.) and the global popularity of their television exports

·Political economy of television in local, national, regional, 
intra-regional, trans-regional, and global contexts

·Changing dynamics of network and platform television production, 
distribution and consumption

·The politics of TV remakes and formats

·Television labor, precarity and the unionization of television workers

·TV representations, identities and audience reception

·TV consumption and broadcasting via social media (e.g., news outlets on 
the internet and social media, fans sharing and viewing TV series on 
YouTube, short videos of TV content on TikTok)

·Content sharing as resistance to big television and neoliberalization

·Nation-states’ influence on television production, distribution and 
exhibition (e.g., censorship, new laws and regulations, governmental 
control of TV outlets, platforms, TV outlets, platforms, and social 
media broadcasting channels)

·Permeability and exchanges of television trends, content, and genres

·South-to-South comparisons of case studies on television

·Contemporary television advertising and promotional culture in 
trans-local, national, intra-regional, trans-regional, and global contexts

Please submit abstracts (400-500 words) and a short bio to: 
(connectist /at/ istanbul.edu.tr) <mailto:(connectist /at/ istanbul.edu.tr)> by 
October 17, 2023.

/Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences /is 
an open access, peer-reviewed and international journal, which has been 
indexed by ProQuest and EBSCO among others and ranked Q4. Authors whose 
abstracts are accepted for the special issue of /Connectist /are 
expected to present their papers at the Television in the Global South 
Online Conference on March 14-15, 2024 before they submit their 
manuscripts for publication. There will not be a registration fee to 
attend the online conference or Article Processing Fee (APC) fee to 
publish in the journal./Connectist/ is published biannually 
anduses double-blind peer review for all articles it publishes.

Please contact the special issue guest editors Yesim Kaptan 
((ykaptan /at/ kent.edu) <mailto:(ykaptan /at/ kent.edu)>) and Ece Algan 
((ealgan /at/ csusb.edu) <mailto:(ealgan /at/ csusb.edu)>) should you have any questions.

*Important Deadlines:*

Abstract Submission: October 17, 2023

Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2023

Online Conference: March 14-15, 2024

Final Paper Submission: July 1, 2024

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