*CFP* "MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES OF COMMUNICATION IN A PANDEMIC CONTEXT", BOOK CHAPTER

The coronavirus crisis has led to individual reflections, sometimes presented in cChronicles, Oopinion Aarticles or Iinterviews, about the foundations of contemporary society, humanistic, mostly democratic and defender of Individual Human Rights.

The COVID-19 appears to have suspended all alleged certainties, freedoms, and guarantees. The first viral episode in Wuhan, China, in early December 2019, and which was only reported by the Chinese authorities just 30 days later, quickly replicated in other countries with overwhelming numbers of infected people and deaths, which would lead the World Health Organization to consider that the outbreak had reached pandemic status on 11 March 11. The pandemic has been making taking victims in 193 countries (RTP, 13/04/2020) and it is estimated that about 1/3 of the world’s population is estimated to be in isolation (Observador, 26/3/2020).

In this context, it is open a call for book chapters that integrate the perspectives of the communication sciences and that of social and human sciences on this phenomenon is opened, namely:

• Functions, strategies, and roles of the State in times of crisis;
• Diplomacy and cooperation between States and regional / global organiszations;
• Citizens' rights and duties responsibilities and privacy issues; 
• Public health management, pandemic risk and communication;
• Change in individual consumption habits of individuals (media, products, culture);
• Surveillance, control, populism;
• Comparative studies between COVID-19 and previous pandemics;
• Multidisciplinary scientific cooperation;
• Neologisms, technicalities, and stylistic resources used to describe the phenomenon;
• (Strategic) communication of high-level State leaders, articulation of messages between different institutional levels;
• Contingency plans, crisis management, and communication;
• The role of communication in the balance of ecosystems: ecology, climate crisis,   biodiversity;
• Pandemic risk and globaliszation crisis;
• New journalistic and / or media formats;
• New Sstrategies found to meet the needs of isolated populations and / or groups at risk;
• Effects of the pandemic (secondary criseis: economic, culturale, mental health, etc.);
• Reconfiguration of spaces (public / private;, work / family;, arenas / morgues);
• New forms of work and e-learning;
• Emerging artistic practices.

Deadlines

Deadline of Ccall for abstracts deadline: 29 May

Peer-reviewed abstracts: 26 June

Peer-reviewed results: 1 July

Submission of the complete chapter: 15 September

Notification about the 2nd peer review: 15 October

Submission of the revised chapter with the requested changes: 16 November

Publication of the e-book: 1st semester of 2021


Rules
Submission languages: Portuguese or English.

Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 4,000 characters including spaces (approximately 500 words), including title and keywords, and up to five references are invited and should be submitted by 29 May to the organiszers, at the following email: icnova@fcsh.unl.pt


Abstract model:

Introduction and purpose of the study (and research question if there is one) – helps summarizse the purpose and rationale of your study.

• Literature review – Helps place your work in context with the existing body of knowledge.
• Methodology – Define the main method used for gathering data, including sample size, and state the rationale for using this method.
• Results and conclusions – Helps to summarisze the answers to the research questions while also outlining the implications of the results. Also summarizse the limitations of the study and offer suggestions for future research. Practical and social implications – Offer the potential implications both for practice and society.

Abstracts should come as blind copies without names and affiliations of the authors, which must be identified in a separate cover page. Please use the suggested headings to structure the abstract. A list of references is not necessary, but if provided, it will be included into the word count.

Chapters should have between 6,000 and 7,500 words and follow APA citation rules.  Only original texts (that are not published or under evaluation) will be accepted.

For further information contact us to at icnova@fcsh.unl.pt or ivoneferreira@fcsh.unl.pt 

About ICNOVA

ICNOVA (NOVA Institute of Communication) is a research unit in the field of Communication Sciences in Portugal, evaluated with Excellent in 2019 by tyhe Pportuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Its current structure includes 4 groups (Media and Journalism; Culture, Mediation and Arts; Strategic Communication and Decision Making-Process; Performance and Cognition), and 2 labs (BlackBox and iNOVA Media Lab).