This special issue aims at strengthening critical perspectives in Global Media Studies as well as international communication in order to expand and challenge the hegemonic canon of media studies. These include marginalized positions such as post- and neocolonial, intersectional and queer perspectives. Such perspectives can draw attention to blind spots in communication studies, question global norms and standards, and productively use ambiguities in analyses of media and communication processes. In this way, critical approaches to media and communication can engage with current complexities of media societies and offer important perspectives with regards to global dynamics, caused by the rapid changes and dynamics in our global communication infrastructures and reveal their production of and inscription in socio-economic, cultural, and political power relations. This includes the analysis of international regulatory systems and dynamics of global communication infrastructures, especially with regard to their changes through digital media.
Epistemological and methodological reflections will also be considered in this special issue: with a global perspective, the researchers' own privileges and positioning as well as processes of inclusion and exclusion in existing knowledge production can be analysed. Furthermore, the description and analysis of socio-technological systems require inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to describe and assess current developments and understand reproductions of sexist, racist and classist power relations. The global pandemic does not only pinpoint our dependence on digital infrastructures but also sheds light on increasing inequalities.
This Special Issue of the Global Media Journal – German Edition aims to gather a broad range of scholarly and practical perspectives on the topic of critical perspectives addressing regulations and the political economy of global media, social movements and protest as well as media practices and negotiation of gender, class and race.
Possible questions in this context could revolve around:
- Who bears the consequences for the "monopolization of the internet"? How and where should global norms be formulated addressing global inequalities in the development, distribution and use of information and communication technologies?
- How can intersectional and queer perspectives contribute to the analysis of the political economy of global media and the continuity of global injustices in the distribution of resources around information and communication? How can political institutions, big tech and civil society organizations be addressed?
- How do social movements, protest and activist media practices support emancipatory politics?
- How can they intervene in power relations and hegemonic structures? Where do media practices of solidarity become visible and which forms of transnational or global public spheres emerge?
Submissions may consider, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:
- Debates around regulations in a comparative and international perspective
- Online content regulations and new (?) forms of discrimination
- Global regulation systems from comparative perspectives:
- user centred empowerment approaches, collective regulations, media literacy approaches
- platform governance and/or
- (trans-) national approaches
- State censorship and human rights abuses in authoritarian settings
- (transregional and national) regulations of the automation of platform governance and content regulations
- Digital violence and intersectionality
- Decolonization of algorithm decision-making in theory and interruptive practice
- Political economy of global media
- Critical perspectives on usage and ownerships of media platforms in different national contexts
- Access to the study and development, use and distribution of ICTs
- Alternative digital communication infrastructures
- Relation of colonialism and communicative capitalism
- Surveillance capitalism and global dependencies
- Attention economies carved in political and economic power
- Transnational activisms and social movements for justice; their mediatization, struggles and international connectedness
- Recognition and visibility of minoritized positions in global media cultures
- Digital protest, (intersectional) hashtag activism and the formation of transnational publics
- Transnationalism and social movements under conditions of technological surveillance and control
- Usage of digital media to unite people in solidarity
- Media practices and negotiations of (political) identities and solidarities in transnational and transcultural settings
- Media processes of inclusion and exclusion and forms of ambivalent participation
- Queer_feminist media (practices) and activism,
- Medial and artistic interventions in big data and algorithmization
- Tactics of resistance and anti-racist, queer perspectives on technologies
Submission Guidelines
Submission of abstracts: 25th May 2021
Response to authors: 14th June 2021
Deadline for full papers: 20th August 2021
Publication: December 2021
Abstract: 260 words
Format: Articles (peer-reviewed); Essays and Commentaries; From the Field; Graduate Section
Submissions: Anna Antonakis (anna.antonakis@fu-berlin.de); Ricarda Drüeke (ricarda.drueeke@sbg.ac.at) and GMJ-DE editor Katharina Noetzold (gmj@uni-erfurt.de)
Style guide: You will find it here
There are no submission and publication charges.
Please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors for questions regarding content and the managing editor for editorial questions.
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