[Commlist] cfp: Challenges for Proximity Communication: Sustainability, Participation and Connections with the Community

Revista Comunicando invites you to submit papers for the thematic 
section"Challenges for Proximity Communication: Sustainability, 
Participation and Connections with the Community": 
https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/announcement/view/17 
<https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/announcement/view/17>

Thematic editors: Miguel Midões (Polytechnic Institute of Viseu/ 
Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, 
Portugal) and Giovanni Ramos (Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal)

In this thematic section we would like to receive works that show the 
reality of proximity media and proximity in the media, as well as those 
that analyse the relationship between the media and communities and the 
impact that technological advances, new publishing platforms and current 
production and distribution models have on this relationship.

Topics of interest for this section include, but are not limited to:

  * Local media and technological advances
  * New publishing platforms
  * Old and new forms of funding and/or business models
  * Local and community media, democracy and strengthening communities
  * Public sphere: traditional journalism versus new social media dynamics
  * Media and the hinterland: production, distribution and use of local
    news
  * Local media: independence, political and financial control
  * Co-operation strategies in local and regional media
  * Local media, disinformation and fake news
  * Alternative media and collaborative journalism

The works in the thematic section will be published between July and 
December 2025, in a continuous edition.

All papers are subject to a double-blind peer review process. There are 
no associated publication fees (article processing fees or APCs).

FULL TEXT SUBMISSION PERIOD: from 2 January to 21 March 2025

LANGUAGES: Portuguese, English or Spanish

SECTIONS: articles, interviews, reviews and experience reports

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 
https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/about/submissions 
<https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/about/submissions>

Revista Comunicando is an open-access academic journal dedicated to the 
area of Communication Sciences and its interfaces with Social and Human 
Sciences. Created in 2012 as part of the Young Researchers Working 
Group, it is one of the scientific journals of the Portuguese 
Association of Communication Sciences.


The journal also maintains a permanent open call for submissions in the 
different areas of communication sciences: 
https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/announcement 
<https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/announcement>

For further information, please contact: revistacomunicando[at]gmail.com 
<http://gmail.com>


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