[Air-L] CFP: Thematic Issue of Media and Communication. Topic: Media History & Democracy.

[Park, David]

Hello everyone:

This is a reminder that a special issue of Media and Communication, to be
published in March of 2018, will accept abstract submissions on or before
30 June 2017. The topic for this special issue will be Media History and
Democracy. It is easy to imagine that historical scholarship concerning
the internet becoming an important part of this special issue.

Information related to this special issue can be found below. Please do
consider submitting your work.

Thank you,
Dave Park




Volume 6, Issue 1

Title: Media History and Democracy

Editor: David W. Park (Lake Forest College, USA)

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2017
Deadline for Submissions: 30 September 2017
Publication of the Issue: March 2018

Information: The journal Media and Communication hereby announces a
thematic issue (to be published in 2018) dedicated to the topic of media
history and democracy. Democracy, in its many guises, has long been an
influential concern for media historians. The emphasis on democracy in
this thematic issue is intended to link up with media histories that take
on the intersection of democracy and media as understood through any one
of a number of lenses. The issue of democracy brings this thematic issue
in contact with numerous approaches to media history. Authors will find
connections to be made between democracy and concerns for: history of
technology, social history, cultural history, political history, the
history of social networks, intellectual history, and more. Democracy need
not be conceptualized as a formal political system for this thematic
issue, and many authors may find it fruitful to consider the multifarious
aspects and meanings of democracy as they reflect on how they might draft
a submission to this thematic issue. Media and Communication is an
international journal, and we are particularly interested in programming a
thematic issue that features historical scholarship from around the world,
including manuscripts that address transnational communication flows. This
thematic issue of Media and Communication would be a good match for
articles addressing the following topics:

The history of democratic ideals in the development of media technology;
Considerations of democratic formations as they relate to journalism
history and historical understandings of the role of journalism;
Histories of media as they relate to political activism;
The history of alternative and independent media outlets as they relate to
democratic processes;
The history of public service broadcasting and its applications worldwide
or transnationally;
Histories of media reform movements;
Treatments of the history of literacy and its political meanings;
Internet histories as they relate to citizenship or democracy;
The historical roles of interpersonal communication and social networks as
they relate to democracy;
The history of media policies and regulation designed to arrange for (or
thwart) democratic communication;
Historical themes concerning the relationship between capitalism and
democracy.


Instructions for Authors: Authors interested in submitting a paper for
this issue are asked to consult the journal¹s instructions for authors
(http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/forauthors)
 and to send their abstracts (about 200­250 words, with a tentative title
and reference to the thematic issue) by email to the Guest Editor (Dave
Park: park at lakeforest.edu<mailto:park at lakeforest.edu>) by 30 June 2017.

Open Access: The journal has an article processing charge to cover its
costs, so authors are advised to check with their institutions if funds
are available to cover open access publication fees. Further information
about the journal¹s open access charges and institutional memberships can
be found here: 
http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicies
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