[Commlist] CfP "Convergences: Communication, work and gender", Thematic issue, Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research

Call for Papers
"Convergences: Communication, work and gender" - Thematic issue of 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research

With this issue, we aim to bring to the forefront the increasing 
convergence between labour and communication (Brophy, 2011), which is 
facilitated by interactive technologies, and we pay attention to how 
this process is related to gender and other identity categories. We use 
“interactive technologies” as a synonym for digital or computer-based 
technologies, and we privilege it since it captures a certain uniqueness 
which emerges when we look at the history of communication technologies. 
Communication technologies can be defined as tools, organisational 
structures, and social values that assist individuals in collecting, 
processing, and exchanging information (Rogers, 1986); the point of 
differentiation that interactive technologies convey is that they 
stimulate and diversify the channels of interpersonal communication, 
which in the past was relegated to face-to-face interaction. Interactive 
technologies intensify communication, creating disruptions in paid and 
unpaid work (Morini, 2007).
Gender continues to be a core organising principle in our society, and 
we acknowledge that it is influenced by (and that often becomes less 
prominent in relation to other identity categories such as) social 
class, age, race or ethnicity, educational background, occupational 
status, job type, bodily and cognitive abilities, non-normative 
sexualities, or nationality. Thus, we ask what are the gendered and 
identity-based outcomes of the labour and communication confluence that 
we are witnessing due to the widespread of interactive technologies? We 
seek to answer the question by integrating papers that illustrate 
various facets of this tendency. This is undertaken in a post-pandemic 
context, in which, by comparison to the past, there is an increased 
social acceptability of remote and hybrid work. Also, technology is 
framed as a tool of reorganisation of work in terms of efficiency, 
productivity and employees’ autonomy. There are benefits stemming from 
it, as there are challenges, such as mental overload and fatigue, that 
arise also because a higher degree of planned communication mediated by 
interactive technologies is necessary to supplant the lack of 
spontaneous interactions via physical proximity. With this issue we aim 
to contribute to the larger discussion on the rising importance of 
“mental work” (Daminger, 2019; Jensen & Prieur, 2016) in our society, 
and we will do so by gathering evidence regarding the key-role of 
communication in this process.
We welcome contributions on the following topics:
- Gender/ identity categories, interactive technologies and the labour 
process
- Affective work,  gender/ identity categories and interactive technologies
- Gender/ identity categories and unpaid labour in the platform economy
- Workplace (in)equality, forms of resistance, and communication
- Labour practices and work changes in communication industries from a 
gender perspective

Publishing Schedule
The deadline for abstracts submission is February 1, 2024, and the 
deadline for the full papers is 1 May, 2024.
The issue is scheduled for publication in January 2025.

Please submit an extended abstract (500-600 words) to:
- editor’s office: (genderteam /at/ soc.cas.cz) <mailto:(genderteam /at/ soc.cas.cz)>
- guest editors Nicoleta Elena Apostol (University of Bucharest), and 
Romina Surugiu (University of Bucharest): (nicoleta.apostol /at/ fjsc.ro) 
<mailto:(nicoleta.apostol /at/ fjsc.ro)>, (romina.surugiu /at/ fjsc.ro) 
<mailto:(romina.surugiu /at/ fjsc.ro)>

After the extended abstracts are reviewed by the editors, the full 
articles are expected to be ready by May 1, 2024. Articles should have 
between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including footnotes and references. The 
language for this thematic issue is English, and the submission 
guidelines can be found on the journal’s website: 
https://www.genderonline.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1200_Submission-Guidelines.php 
<https://www.genderonline.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1200_Submission-Guidelines.php>

There are no submission/ publication fees.

About the journal
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research is a peer-reviewed 
transdisciplinary journal of gender studies and feminist theory. The 
territorial focus is on Central and Eastern Europe as well as other 
global macro-regions. The journal is included in SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, 
CEJSH, DOAJ and other databases.

https://www.genderonline.cz/en/artkey/_sn-005000-0038_Call-for-papers-for-thematic-issue-Convergences-Communication-work-and-gender.php 


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