[Commlist] Call for proposals: Media International Australia (MIA): Digital media and the labor market in the post-pandemic landscape in Latin America

/*Extended Deadline!*// Call for proposals.//**Media International 
Australia/(/MIA/). SAGE. Feature Topic. *Digital media and the labor 
market in the post-pandemic landscape in Latin America.*


David Ramírez Plascencia
Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico (Editor)

(davidrapla /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(davidrapla /at/ gmail.com)> and 
(davidram /at/ udgvirtual.udg.mx) <mailto:(davidram /at/ udgvirtual.udg.mx)>

Recent edited publications. Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and 
Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants (Brill, 2023), “Medios 
educativos como espacios subversivos en América Latina: potencialidades, 
inconvenientes y consideraciones en el contexto de la pandemia.” Journal 
of Iberian and Latin American Research (JILAR, Taylor and Francis, 
2022), and The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 1 and 2) 
(Routledge, 2020).

In Latin America during the health emergency in 2020, digitalization, 
despite digital infrastructure limitation, was essential not just 
because it allowed to continue studying and working at home and promoted 
the improvement of the exchange of goods and services networks using 
smartphones and mobile applications, but because it helped people to 
build solidary chains to support and provide relief in places where 
authorities were absent or negligent. Digitalization augmented even more 
the popularity of social platforms and mobile devices which have 
consolidated as the main places of socialization and entertainment among 
Latin Americans.

After three years since the outbreak, the Latin American landscape 
invites us to ponder, from a critical perspective, the digital economic 
activities that have flourished in this post-pandemic context. This 
special feature topic invites proposals that analyze, from an 
interdisciplinary and international perspective, the impact of the 
pandemic and digitalization in the Latin American labor market.

Prospective proposals may include topics related with social media 
influencers (Youtubers, Tiktokers, instangramers and so on), 
fact-checkers, crypto miners and bitcoin traders, digital nomad workers, 
online gamers and videogame-items dealers, delivery-platform app 
workers, social media platforms sellers, among others. Propositions that 
address (i) the economic and cultural influence of theses economic 
activities in the regional and international content-consumption market, 
(ii) novel digital professions as mechanism to surpass economic and 
social exclusion, and (iii) externalities, genre barriers and legal and 
ethical controversial issues, are particularly welcome.

**

*Submission Instructions.*

Please submit an abstract (500 words, not including references), 
accompanied by a 200-words bio. Abstracts must be sent no later than 
*August 06, 2023*to (davidrapla /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(davidrapla /at/ gmail.com)> and (davidram /at/ udgvirtual.udg.mx) 
<mailto:(davidram /at/ udgvirtual.udg.mx)>. Upon selection, scholars will be 
invited to submit full papers. Articles should be between 5,000-8,000 
words in length (including notes, references, accompanying reference 
list, and all other inclusions).


*APC.* There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
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