Call for Book Chapters
Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
Editors: Margaret D’Silva, University of Louisville, and Ahmet Atay, College of Wooster
Ahmet Atay and I are co-editing a book under contract with Routledge. Because three of our authors are unable to deliver their chapters, we are sending a request for completed chapters
or extended manuscripts (1000 words) of works in progress.
Profound changes in global communication, particularly social media, are leading us to re-examine our notions of culture, communication, identity and social movements. This book aims
to bridge the gaps between intercultural communication and traditional and new media scholarship.
Media texts, social media platforms, global applications, and cyber culture play a paramount role in intercultural communication, particularly in the context of globalization. Beyond
traditional media, social media are particularly relevant to facilitating intercultural communication. Global social network sites such Facebook or Twitter, online gaming sites, online courses, global blogs, and all of the applications that appear in smart
phones, tablets or computer devices are part of a very complicated and multi-faceted digital culture that moves beyond the borders of nation-states.
These social media platforms allow global communities to emerge; immigrants, diasporic bodies, and cosmopolitans can communicate and connect across the globe. They also allow members
of traditionally oppressed groups to find their voices, cultivate communities, create homes away from home, and construct their cultural identities and narratives. Digitalized social movements around the world, identity performances of diasporic queer bodies,
and long-distance relationships between partners and family members are some examples. This cyber culture centers around communication between people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Therefore, studying traditional
and social media in relation to intercultural communication is extremely crucial and timely.
This call invites completed manuscripts or extended abstracts of 1000 words for an edited book that takes qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives in examining
the reciprocal relationship between media and intercultural communication. The book’s interrelated goals are to:
1 -
Examine how media, social media in particular, influence and contribute to intercultural communication.
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Analyze the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and media in the context of globalization.
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Understand how media, particularly social media, construct identities and enable or disable individuals to express their cultural identities.
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Examine social movements in the digital age.
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Analyze how globalization as a cultural and political process impacts mediated intercultural communication.
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Look at different contemporary issues relevant to intercultural communication and social media scholarship such as immigration, diaspora, religion and spirituality, democracy, and intercultural/
international relationships, from a media perspective.
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Examine both negative and positive influences of media, particularly social media, on intercultural communication.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1-Theorizing mediated intercultural communication
2- Social media and cultural identity
3- Social media and intercultural relationships
4- Media and online courses in the context of globalization
5- Cyber intercultural communities
6- Social media and global social movements
7- Immigrant media
To meet our contractual deadline with Routledge, full length manuscripts of about 6,000 words or extended abstracts with a length of not
less than 1000 words are due by February 5, 2018, along with pertinent references, contact information, and a short biographic blurb of 300 words. Full-length manuscripts of accepted abstracts are due on March 1, 2017 with a word length of no more than 5,000-7,000
words and in APA style, including references, endnotes, and so forth. Please email your manuscript or extended abstract as word documents to [log in to unmask] for an initial review.