[Commlist] Special Issue on Media and health in everyday life, MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research

MedieKultur, Journal of media and communication research

Call for abstracts: *Special Issue, Media and health in everyday life*

Guest editors: Associate professor Anette Grønning (ahg /at/ sdu.dk) 
<mailto:(ahg /at/ sdu.dk)>, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and 
Associate professor Helena Sandberg, Lund University, Sweden

Issue editor: Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke, Roskilde University, Denmark

Abstracts should contain a maximum of 500 words excluding references. It 
should include the research question(s) addressed, theoretical and 
methodological approaches. Abstracts should be submitted as 
Word-documents via our journal system at www.mediekultur.dk.

MedieKultur does not take any charge for submission, review or 
publishing of articles.

Deadline for abstract submission: May 1st, 2022

Acknowledgement of acceptance for full paper submission: May 15th, 2022

Deadline for full paper: September 1st, 2022

Deadline for revisions: December 15th, 2022

Expected publication: May 2023

Media and digital technologies are deeply embedded in our lives and 
activities across the globe. Thus, also influencing and transforming 
every day health practices by introducing new digital solutions and 
services, such as digital health communication, health websites and 
portals, fitness applications etc. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused 
further rapid changes to the healthcare system, wherein digital health 
solutions have become more relevant than ever. However, the digital and 
the analogue media still need to co-exist to safeguard inclusion and 
equal health for all. This special issue addresses the ways in which 
media technology contributes to reconfiguring health practices, health 
experiences, and the sense-making of health and illness, from an 
everyday perspective, a concept referring to the “(…) ordinary, often 
familiar, and taken for granted, the common-sensical (…) rarely 
theorized” (Bennett, 2005:1, see also Lefebvre, Rabinovitch & Wander, 2017).

We invite scholars to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of the 
digital transformation, the emotive and cognitive engagements, the 
interplay between ‘online’ and ‘offline’ practices, the conflicts, 
tensions and negotiations, as well as new and creative ways in which 
media and health practices are intertwined and played out in social, 
cultural, private, domestic, public and/or commercial domains. Concrete 
empirical analyses in the form of case studies, as well as 
methodological and theoretical discussions are welcome. We invite 
international contributions from all over the world and strive for 
diversity in terms of nationalities among the authors, as well as the 
perspectives and approaches within media and health studies, such as – 
to mention but a few – cultural studies, science and technology studies, 
actor network theory, phenomenology and existential media studies, 
multimodal and mediated discourse analysis, studies of (re)mediation and 
medium theory, comparative approaches, (digital) ethnography, and mixed 
method approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Media use and media engagement in relation to content on health and
    illness (health journalism, health promotion/prevention campaigns,
    entertainment, reality drama, fiction, comedy and satire,
    autobiography etc) in news media, social media, and body media; in
    blogs/vlogs; pods; on platforms; in games; chat-groups and support
    groups; as well as apps
  * Knowledge production on health and illness, identity construction
    and social mobilisation in relation to health and illness;
    narratives and experiences on health, diseases, suffering, death
  * Analyses of individuals or groups of individuals’ (babies, children,
    teenagers, adults, parents/families, old persons, vulnerable groups,
    patients and/or their close ones), challenges and opportunities
    regarding specific mediated health practices in everyday life
  * Critical and cultural perspectives: conflicts, tensions and
    negotiations of the digital transformation in relation to health and
    wellbeing, biological citizenship, medicalization
  * New, playful, and creative ways in which media and health practices
    are intertwined and played out in social, cultural, private,
    domestic, public and or commercial domains

References

Bennett, A. (2005). /Culture and everyday life./ Sage Publications.

Lefebvre, H., Rabinovitch, S., & Wander, P. (2017). /Everyday life in 
the modern world/. Routledge.

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