[ecrea] special issue of Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

    Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

    Special Issue Paper Call
    Digital Media & Politics: Effects of The Great Information and
    Communication
    Divides
    Public discourse about socio-cultural, economic and political 
issues has
    catalyzed a drastic shift in tone and tactics since the 2016
    presidential
    election campaign cycle.  Through the constant output of news and
    information
    presented by cable news networks, broadcast networks, social media and
    the
    Internet, an unprecedented array of tailored communication strategies
    have
    emerged to target and influence the diverse constituents and voters
    across
    different socio-economic, ethnic and racial subgroups.   In this early
    stage
    of the Web 3.0 environment, disrupted technologies – such as big data
    analytics and social bots – have the capacity to energize public 
opinion
    and exacerbate on-going information and communication divides in
    society.
    This special issue aims at investigating a range of topics that will
    help
    identify the information communication, and persuasion strategies
    applied to
    influence the interactions between media, politics and society as well
    as the
    effects of such interactions.  Appropriate topics for submission could
    address a wide range of issues that impact public discourse on our
    democracy
    and way of life.  Below is a set of sample concepts or constructs that
    help
    contextualize this special issue call.
    ·      Journalistic Truth vs. Alternative Facts
    ·      Fake News vs. Real News
    ·      Information Strategy Effects on Information Divides
    ·      Communication Strategy Effects on Communication Divides
    ·      Civil vs. Civic Discourse
    ·      Mainstream vs. Fringe Political Activism
    ·      Source, Message, and/or Channel Credibility
    ·      Climate Change and Science Communication
    ·      Personality, Social Movements and Political Movements
    ·      Uses and Manipulations of Data Analytics
    ·      Social Bots and Machine Learning
    Submission Guidelines
    All manuscripts should be received by December 1, 2018 (U.S. Eastern
    Standard
    Time). To submit a manuscript, please click on this link:
    https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hbem. Submissions should conform 
to the
    journal’s Instructions for Authors (see Here). For questions associated
    with this special issue, please contact the special issue guest 
editors.


    Special Issue Guest Editors
    ·      Homero Gil de Zúñiga (Ph.D.), College of Social Sciences, The
    University of Vienna (email: (homero.gil.de.zuniga /at/ univie.ac.at)
    <mailto:(homero.gil.de.zuniga /at/ univie.ac.at)>)
    ·      Hsuan-Ting Chen (Ph.D.), School of Journalism and
    Communication, The
    Chinese University of Hong Kong (email: (htchen /at/ cuhk.edu.hk)
    <mailto:(htchen /at/ cuhk.edu.hk)>)


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