[Air-L] communication +1 is seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and Communication"

[Zach McDowell]

communication +1 is seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and
Communication"
Edited by Zachary McDowell, Peter Royal, and Justin Raden

Notwithstanding the current situation, periods of crisis and upheaval
exacerbate inequities in our communication infrastructure and throw into
sharp relief the profound barriers to access. In such fraught moments, we
can glimpse the extent to which our systems of mediation differentially
serve and confound us according to our positionality within these systems.
To understand the effects of crises on communication, it is important to
consider the history of systems of mediation that have both limited and
encouraged access, participation, and equity across knowledge, space, and
culture. What have crises, both present, perpetual, and past, intimated
about flaws, gaps, and inequities in systems of communication that are
overlooked or disregarded under “normal” (if “normal” exists) conditions?
How might we think about how infrastructure relates to the crises and thus
the infrastructures of communication are the infrastructures of
communication in/justice? How and why are people and communities affected
differently in these crises, and how do systems of communication and
mediation both mitigate and compound these phenomena?

Questions of meaning making, truth, misinformation, and access are welcomed
within our new collection. In particular, bringing new context and
contextualization (whether philosophical, historical, archeological,
rhetorical, ecological, or otherwise) to query contemporary crises of
communicative access issues are welcome.

Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by January 10th,
2021 to communicationplusone at gmail.com.

Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5th, 2021, with
expected publication in August, 2021.

About the Journal
The aim of communication +1 is to promote new approaches to and open new
horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that seeks
to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship,
communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to
create a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these
experiments.

communication +1 is an open access journal supported by University of
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication
communicationplusone.org.

Editors
Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago

Guest Editors
Peter Royal, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of
CommunicationJustin Raden, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of
English

Advisory Board
Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago
Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais
Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University
Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine
Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
John Durham Peters, Yale University
Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Florian Sprenger, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara
Greg Wise, Arizona State University


For more information about the project in general, as well as short pieces,
lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org.

For more information or to participate in the communicationplusone.org
project, please email communicationplusone at gmail.com

best
Zach

Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago
@zachmcdowell
Editor, communication +1
www.zachmcdowell.com