[ecrea] Special Issue: Social Media Critical Discourse Studies

CfP*: Social Media Critical Discourse Studies*

Special Issue:*Journal of Critical Discourse Studies*

Guest Editor: *Majid KhosraviNik*, (Majid.KhosraviNik /at/ newcastle.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Majid.KhosraviNik /at/ newcastle.ac.uk)>

The Journal of Critical Discourse Studies aims to publish critical 
research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in 
social processes, social structures, and social change. This special 
issue is in response to changes in mediation technologies of discourse 
i.e. the techno-discursive re/deployments in the media industry brought 
about by the penetration, proliferation and concentration of discursive 
practices within communicative paradigm of social media (KhosraviNik 
2017, 2018). The issue addresses this particular media context against a 
 broadly defined field of Critical Discourse Studies. The special issue 
 aspires to bring together studies which:

- Make theoretical and/or methodological contributions in response to 
challenges to CDS notions of discursive/media power, representation and 
ideology etc. as well as adaptations in approaches of accessing, 
analysing and interpreting discursive practices online.

- Consider social media communication as a new paradigm of communication 
 as well as the spaces, locations and platforms for such communication.

- Critically unpack the nature of contemporary digital discourses beyond 
 merely viewing social media as ‘data repositories’ i.e. engaging with 
changes in production and consumption of digital discourses.

- Engage with original, empirical and current case study analyses of 
various contemporary discourses in politics, culture, identity, etc.

- Make critical, fresh and meaningful transdisciplinary connections with 
 social media theory.

- View discourse as forms of structured representations across a range 
of modalities of communication including the emerging meaning-making 
artefacts and practices on social media

- Clearly position the research within the core tenets of CDS i.e. its 
aspirations, assumptions and critique as well as engagement with social 
theory

KhosraviNik, M. (2017) Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM‐CDS). 
 In John Flowerdew & John E. Richardson (Eds.), /Handbook of Critical 
Discourse Analysis/, 583–596. London: Routledge.

KhosraviNik, M. (2018) Social Media Techno-Discursive Design, Affective 
Communication and Contemporary Politics. /Fudan J. of Humanities and 
Social Sciences/ (ePub ahead of Print), 1-16.

**

*Submission deadlines*

*01/09/2018 Abstract Submission*: Please email your proposal/abstract of 
 500 words, specifying the scope, aims, theoretical and methodological 
approach, the case, data and significance of the study to 
(Majid.khosravinik /at/ newcastle.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Majid.khosravinik /at/ newcastle.ac.uk)>. Pease include five keywords 
plus a short bio for the author.

*10/09/2018 Acceptance Notifications*

*15/12/2018 Full Article Submission*

Articles should be original manuscripts of *8000 words maximum*, 
including author details, abstract, and bibliography, and should follow 
the instructions for authors available on the CDS homepage.

Please note that*accepted articles will go through the usual blind 
review process as per CDS guidelines and can be rejected at any time. 
*The title of the SI may be modified at later stages.

More info on the journal here 
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rcds20**


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