[Commlist] CfP - MIA #194: Digital media and the labor market in the post-pandemic landscape in Latin America

We have just *extended the deadline* on our call for papers for MIA's 
#194 feature topic (see details below)!

Additionally, the Feature Topic Editor has kindly offered to review 
extended abstracts of around 500 words for feedback, prior to your 
submission to Media International Australia.

*Call for Articles.*/Media International Australia /(/MIA/). SAGE.

Feature Topic. *Digital media and the labor market in the post-pandemic 
landscape in Latin America. *

*(Deadline Extended to March 1^st , 2024) *

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*Feature Topic Editor:*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).

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*Brief.*

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 articles 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 a mechanism to surpass economic and 
social exclusion, and (iii) externalities, genre barriers and legal and 
ethical controversial issues, are particularly welcome.

*Submission Instructions. *

Articles should be between 5,000-8,000 words in length (including notes, 
references, accompanying reference list, and all other inclusions). 
Papers should be submitted directly to the journal. More information in 
this link https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/MIA 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/MIA>

You may send an extended abstract (500 words) to receive feedback from 
the Feature Topic editor, before you submit your article to the journal.

*No payment from the authors is required*, for submission and 
publication of their work in Media International Australia; Open Access 
options are available.

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