[Commlist] Call for Submissions to a Special Issue of Democratic Communiqué

*Call for Submissions to a Special Issue of Democratic Communiqué:*

/Freedom of Expression, Campus Politics, Academic Freedom, and the War 
on Gaza /

Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Israel has engaged in an 
ongoing and massive escalation of the assault on Gaza and the 
Palestinian people, inflicting mass casualties to such an extent that 
many academics, journalists, activists, artists, human rights groups, 
and even the nation of South Africa, have identified the Israeli 
government’s aggression as genocide. This onslaught also extends to the 
West Bank and Lebanon. At the same time, an international protest 
movement has called for an end to the violence and for the liberation of 
the Palestinian people. But many voices of protest have been met with 
silencing, censorship, deplatforming, punishment, and, at times, 
violence. While this has long been the case, the past year has seen an 
acceleration of reactionary responses to activism, art, education, and 
media devoted to solidarity with the Palestinian people. Because of the 
Union for Democratic Communication’s commitment to free speech and 
academic freedom, we are devoting a special issue of /Democratic 
Communiqué/ to manuscripts focusing on the suppression of criticism of 
the Israeli government’s actions, and the censoring of pro-Palestinian 
perspectives, in both academia and the larger political discourse.

*Manuscript Submission Information*

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to guest editor, Bill Yousman: 
(yousmanw /at/ sacredheart.edu) <mailto:(yousmanw /at/ sacredheart.edu)>

The deadline for full consideration is April 30, 2025. Only completed 
manuscripts will be considered for review. Both full length (25 page) 
manuscripts or shorter reflection pieces will be considered.

Peer review will consist of two blind reviews, followed by an editorial 
decision. In cases with reviewer discrepancies the managing editor will 
weigh in.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be 
under consideration for publication elsewhere.

*About UDC*

The Union for Democratic Communications is an organization of 
communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy 
analysts, academics and activists dedicated to:

• critical study of the communications establishment;

• production and distribution of democratically controlled and produced 
media;

• fostering alternative, oppositional, independent and experimental 
production;

• development of democratic communications systems locally, regionally 
and internationally.

UDC encourages critical perspectives in communication theory, media 
production and the study of popular culture. Through its conferences, 
journal, and other activities, UDC seeks to:

• bring together media producers, researchers, policy makers, and 
grassroots communications activists;

• promote varied critical approaches to communications and media;

• advocate the creation of structures to promote democratic communications;

• work with other progressive organizations to facilitate the production 
and distribution of democratic communications.

*About Democratic Communiqué:*

Our journal, Democratic Communiqué, is focused on critical media 
analysis. We publish articles exploring any of a wide range of topics, 
including alternative/community/public media, the internationalization 
of capital and information flows, media and imperialism, 
telecommunication industry ownership and consolidation, information 
society, information technology and surveillance, feminist political 
economy, environmental political economy, media’s relatedness to social 
class, labor or social movements, and analyses of cultural artifacts or 
practices which encompass ideational and material concerns. While these 
topics encompass a vast swath of academic inquiry and scholarship, they 
are united in their critical examination of media and communication as 
they relate to political economy, individual and societal involvement in 
these economic systems, and the policies that shape them.


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