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*Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies: Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood* Edited by Panos Kompatsiaris, Cláudia Álvares, and Sofie Van Bauwel /Deadline for Abstracts: 1-15 January 2024///| /Deadline for Articles: 15-31 May 2024/ /Media and Communication/, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Web of Science (Impact Factor: 3.1) and Scopus (CiteScore: 5), welcomes article proposals for its upcoming issue "Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies: Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood," edited by Panos Kompatsiaris (IULM University), Cláudia Álvares (Iscte–University Institute of Lisbon), and Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University). Apart from transforming regimes of production and consumption, the rise of gigantic, privately owned, digital platforms has particular effects on selfhood, performance, and identity. This thematic issue looks at the gendered dimensions of platform economies focusing specifically on how entertainment interweaves with expertise in the construction of contemporary femininities and masculinities. While platforms can offer visibility to progressive gender causes in public debate, they can instigate a relation of ‘cruel optimism’ vis-a-vis ideal gender constructions, to use Laurent Berlant’s (2012) term, as the latter becomes a desirable object which at the same time creates anxieties and frustration by being unrealizable. This thematic issue will gather articles that shed light on the multifaceted and often contradictory constructions of gender in platform-based cultural economies. Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers here <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#GenderedCultures>. Abstracts welcome by 1-15 January 2024. Best wishes, Raquel *Raquel Silva* Media and Communication Cogitatio Press www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication> <https://twitter.com/CogitatioMaC><https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogitatio-press> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SOCIALMEDIADISCUSS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SOCIALMEDIADISCUSS&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SOCIALMEDIADISCUSS, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/