[Air-L] CFP - Special Issue: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries

[Issaaf Karhawi]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit full papers for
the Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, an open-access journal from the
University Feevale, in Brazil. I am the guest editor of the special issue
"Digital Influencers and Creative Industries" and we are very interested in
works from around the globe,  from Communication scholars.



Submissions are opened until 20th November, 2022. And we expect to have the
issue published in January, 2023. All the details are available at the
journal website
<https://periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.php/braziliancreativeindustries/announcement/view/28>.
But
if you have any questions, you can address the editor-in-chief, Vanessa
Valiati at vanessavaliati at feevale.br



Best,

Issaaf Karhawi



*Special Issue: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries*

Studies about digital influencers—commonly called creators today—have
consolidated along different theoretical-methodological perspectives:
studies on celebrities (ABIDIN, 2018; ABIDIN, 2022), platformization
(POELL, NIEBORG, DUFFY, 2022; ARRIAGADA, BISHOP, 2021), communication and
media (KARHAWI, 2020), and digital labor (DUFFY, 2017). This plurality has
also shaped a supposed discipline (CUNNINGHAM, CRAIG, 2021; ABIDIN,
KARHAWI, 2021) demonstrated by the fertile discussion arising from the
topic, which we intend to highlight in this dossier for
the Brazilian Creative Industries Journal: Digital Influencers
and Creative Industries.


For the scope of this dossier, digital influencers and/or creators are
understood as different content producers who act—for professional and
commercial reasons—on platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch
and others. The creative industry, in turn, is characterized as having
intellectual capital and creativity among its core values and includes
activities like the arts, games, communication, design, audiovisual,
information technology, and technology.



Thus, bearing in mind the professional activities of digital influencers in
the field of communication and the creative industries, this dossier aims
to bring together multidisciplinary works that examine aspects such as:


         - Digital influencers and creative industries;

         - Digital influencers and business models;

         - Digital influencers and sociabilities;

         - Digital influencers and creativity;

         - Digital influencers and content strategies and production;

         - Digital influencers and relations with distinct markets;

         - Digital influencers, entrepreneurship and management;

         - Digital influencers, consumption and brands;

         - Digital influencers, pop culture and fans;

         - Digital influencers, platforms and platformization;

         - Digital influencers and labor relations;

         - Digital influencers and disinformation.



Works that articulate broader questions like methodological perspectives
and conceptual approaches will also be considered. Works by national and
foreign authors (written in Portuguese and/or English) are welcomed to be
submitted for publication, as well as various types of content that
contribute to the development of the field.



The journal accepts works by authors holding a graduate degree and master’s
students in co-authorship with PhDs. Articles must be submitted by
20/11/2022 directly on the journal’s website:
https://periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.php/braziliancreativeindustries/announcement/view/28

*The journal has no Article Processing Charges. No payment from the
authors will be required.



Guest Editor: Dra. Issaaf Karhawi (Unip/Brazil) [issaaf at gmail.com]

Editor in chief: Dra. Vanessa Amalia Dalpizol Valiati (Feevale/Brazil) [
vanessavaliati at feevale.br]



Submission deadline: November 20, 2022

Publication date: January 30, 2023




*References *ABIDIN, Crystal. Internet celebrity: Understanding fame
online. United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, 2018.

ABIDIN, Crystal. Mapeando celebridades da Internet no TikTok: Explorando
Economias da Atenção e Trabalhos de Visibilidade. Pauta Geral - Estudos em
Jornalismo, v. 8, n. 2, p. 1–50, 2021. DOI: 10.5212/19881.

ABIDIN, Crystal; KARHAWI, Issaaf. Influenciadores digitais, celebridades da
internet e "blogueirinhas": uma entrevista com Crystal Abidin. Intercom:
Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação, São Paulo, v. 44, n. 1, 2021.

ARRIAGADA, Arturo; BISHOP, Sophie. Between Commerciality and Authenticity:
The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy,
Communication, Culture and Critique, v. 14, n. 4, 2021.

CUNNINGHAM, Stuart; CRAIG, David. Creator Culture: An Introduction to
Global Social Media Entertainment. New York: New York University Press,
2021.

DUFFY, Brooke Erin. (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: gender, social
media and aspirational work. New Haven & London: Yale University Press,
2017.

KARHAWI, Issaaf. De blogueira a influenciadora: etapas de
profissionalização da blogosfera de moda brasileira. Porto Alegre: Sulina,
2020.

POELL, Thomas; NIEBORG, David; DUFFY, Brooke Erin. Platforms and cultural
production. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.