[Air-L] CFP: Theme issue on online videos and global communication

[Louisa Shu Ying Ha]

Online Media & Global Communication
eISSN:  2749-9049

Sponsored by Center for Global Public Opinion Research of China and
School of Journalism and Communication,
Shanghai International Studies University, China
E-mail: OMGC at shisu.edu.cn

CALL FOR PAPERS
 THEMED ISSUE: SHORT VIDEOS AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATON
(500 word abstracts due Dec. 1, 2021)

TikTok as a short-video app is taking the world by storm as the most downloaded mobile app in 2020 and its average user usage has surpassed YouTube in the U.S.  Other social media such as Facebook, Twitter  and Wechat/Tencent also increased their video postings.  How do these short videos affect people’s perceptions and knowledge of their own countries and other countries?  How are short online video use similar or different between countries? We invite scholars from around the world to submit their research on shorts videos to our journal which will have a theme on this topic in our second issue in 2022.

Online Media & Global Communication is a new free open access English language refereed journal published quarterly by De Gruyter and sponsored by Shanghai International Studies University.  It aims to publish high quality, innovative and original research on global communication especially in the use of global online media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Whatspps, Weibo, WeChat, Wikipedia, web sites, blogs, etc., in an effort to make theoretical contributions on online media and global communication, particularly in but not limited to the Global South.  This journal will address the contemporary concerns about the effects and operations of global digital media platforms on international relations, international public opinion, fake news and propaganda dissemination, consumer behavior as well as the balance of voices in the world.

Topics of interest but not limited to these topics for the themed issue:

1.       Social media influencers on TikTok and short videos: Political, social, cultural and commercial Effects across countries and cross-national comparison.

2.       How do short videos change national and city images in global communication?

3.       How can short videos contribute to new research methods in studying global communication?

4.       How do short videos differ from television in shaping global media news coverage and global youth culture?

5.       How do different national governments or cultural tourism agencies in different countries use short videos or how do such use change relationship among countries?

6.       How do online short videos transform the journalism practices of news media?

7.       Under the global COVID-19 pandemic, how do online videos create new models and practices or affect current health communication?

8.       How do national governments and the public perceive the algorithm used by these short video sites from privacy to social and political impacts such as the cancel culture?
The journal publishes six-language abstracts in United Nations official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish).



This journal adopts a dual track review system as the first in the field of communication. Two review tracks are offered to the authors and authors must choose either one before final submission: 1) double blind (masked) review track that both authors and reviewers do not know the identity of the author; 2) single blind (masked) review track that reviewers will know the identity of the author and the authors are free to cite their own works and refer to themselves in the manuscript. Submitters who have posted their manuscript or its earlier version elsewhere online or with more than five self-citations will undergo the review process using the single-blind review track.  All original submissions are in English with reviews by two or more reviewers.

We adopt a structured abstract format with purpose, method, highlight of findings, practical implications, social and theoretical implications, originality and contribution so that just the abstract would be informative to the readers. Authors pay no fee to publish in the journal.  During the first year of publication, each accepted article will receive US$200 cash reward.

Author Submission Guideline:

1.                   Publication Ethics. The journal will follow the Committee on Publication Ethics guideline for both reviewers and the authors.  https://publicationethics.org/

2.                   Original Submissions. All unsolicited authors’ submissions must be original and have not been   published in English or other languages, either in print or online publications. Manuscripts which have been posted online such as university web sites, in preprint servers or file-sharing sites must self-identify such posting in the cover letter and undergo single-masked review.

  1.          Submission procedure:   Authors are welcome to submit abstracts to the editor to determine the appropriateness of the manuscript before submitting the full-length   manuscript to our journal e-mail: OMGC at shisu.edu.cn
  2.          Cover Letter.  All new submissions must include a cover letter explaining whether the manuscript is the first time the dataset was being used.  If not, then the author should report previous articles or submissions to other journals using the same dataset and explaining the advancement of knowledge of the submitted manuscript over previous articles and other manuscripts under review in other journals.
  3.          Abstracts and keywords. Manuscripts must include a structured abstract format no longer than    300 words in total (purpose, method, findings, implications, value) and proper keywords to help identify appropriate reviewers. See example on journal web site.  Up to eight keywords can be accepted.  The keywords must include country/region of study, research method, and the name of   the online media platform being studied such as YouTube or category such as social media.
  4.         Citing your own works. When authors choose double-masked review track, excessive self-citations (more than 5) are discouraged and will be viewed as an attempt to identify the author.  Such manuscript will undergo single-masked review automatically.  Authors going through a double-masked review track who need to cite their own previous works should cite them in the\same way as other authors. There is no need to specify the work is written by the author. The only exceptions are in press or forthcoming articles.  In those cases, the in-text reference should be (Authors, in press/forthcoming). In single-masked review track, authors are free to cite and refer    to their own works in the text of the manuscript and there is no limit on self-citations as long as      they are appropriate.
  5.          Citation style.  The journal generally adopts APA style 7th edition in general and publishes in
               American English.  However, in the reference section, authors are required to provide the full name of each cited author such as Chen, Daiwen and Kaoqiu Lu (2020),
               instead of initials, to help identify authors in non-English speaking countries who have little differentiation by last name.

Louisa Ha, Ph.D.
Professor of Research Excellence, School of Media and Communication
Interim Graduate Coordinator
Bowling Green State University
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Online Media and Global Communication
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9zeJXnEAA
Twitter: @LouisaHaBGSU