[Commlist] Call for papers: Decolonising media futures

A call for papers for /Emerging Media/ below. Please note the very tight 
deadline.

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*Call for research and colloquium articles: Decolonising media futures*

*Special issue of /Emerging Media/*

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https://journals.sagepub.com/home/emm 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/emm>

Guest editors:

Donald Matheson, (donald.matheson /at/ canterbury.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(donald.matheson /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)>

Tara Ross, (tara.ross /at/ canterbury.ac.nz) <mailto:(tara.ross /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)>

Zita Joyce, (zita.joyce /at/ canterbury.ac.nz) <mailto:(zita.joyce /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)>

Research articles and colloquium articles are invited for this special 
issue. Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2024.

Media technologies are not neutral, but reflect the societies and 
cultures in which they arise and are made use of. A key issue for 
scholarship on emerging media is, then, the extent to which emerging 
media structures, forms and practices reproduce inequities and biases in 
society and culture and thereby privilege the interests and perspectives 
of some groups over others. That issue also has a flip side, that is, 
the extent to which groups that have been historically marginalised, 
colonised or disempowered can shape a different media future. These 
concerns are global ones and raise questions about how large-scale and 
enduring power imbalances between people can be critiqued or challenged. 
This special issue will contribute to this project of decolonising 
communication by drawing together work that explores emerging media in 
terms of the interests and understandings of those who have been 
colonised, including systematically oppressed groups, indigenous people 
and groups who have been structurally excluded from communication. That 
work may include:

-    analysis of the challenges and opportunities experienced in 
decolonising media projects

-    conceptual work on what emerging media mean in indigenous contexts

-    critique by indigenous scholars of neo-colonial practices in 
digital media

-    data sovereignty projects in the global South

-    research on the consequences of specific technologies such as AI 
for decolonisation

Original research articles (up to 6000 words): Submission of articles is 
invited, to be double-blind peer reviewed in addition to the special 
issue editors. Acceptance will be offered after peer review. Invitations 
will be made on the basis of excellence rather than a spread of 
contributions or authors. A special invitation to submit is extended to 
scholars from the global South, from indigenous scholars or researchers 
foregrounding the perspectives of those involved in decolonising media.

Colloquium articles (up to 3000 words): Articles will be reviewed by the 
editorial team. Researchers with ongoing work that promises to develop 
the field or lead to significant findings are invited to submit articles 
that set out highlights of their research, such as their research goals, 
the ways they have collaborated with communities or civil society 
groups, the innovativeness of their approach or is otherwise distinctive.


No author processing charges or other payment from authors will be required.

The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2024. Please email one of 
the guest editors if you have any questions.


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