*CFP* "REDEFINITIONS", NEXT ISSUE, H-ERMES: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS

The next issue of H-ermes, Journal of Communication (17, 2020) will be dedicated to the topic redefinitions. Definitions represent a scientific and cultural heritage that has its roots in antiquity. From Platonic dialogues to the definition of God in Anselmo and Descartes, up to and including the classics of the social sciences in their tormented relationships with the physical-mathematical sciences, defining has characterized the entire history of human ideas.

Between the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, each scientific field measured itself with its own rethinking, giving itself the objective of reviewing objects, concepts and methods of investigation. However, this is a condition destined to recur, albeit in different ways, because the digital technological acceleration and the intertwining of disciplines entail a constant movement of objects and research strategies.

What redefinitions are characterizing contemporaneity? What redefinitions do we need?

The essays of the issue will develop the following points, in a broader multidisciplinary perspective, favoring original or little-discussed case studies:

• Redefinitions and new definitions;
• Social and regulatory redefinitions, from national security to citizenship;
• Redefinements in the media system, with particular reference to the television, cinema, radio and new media fields;
• Outdated definitions pending redefinition;
• New definitions for new disciplinary areas;
• Types of redefinition: real, nominal, traditional, stipulative, ostensive, explanatory;
• Redefinements in the system of the arts: how theater, dance, music, painting, sculpture, literature are redefined;
• The redefinition as the result of a social negotiation (gender, movements, minorities, etc);
• Mainstream definitions and alternative redefinitions;
• Negative and oppositional definitions, from non-being to non-place, and redefinitions such as post-democracy, post-truth or, on another level, transmedia.

Referees

Each essay will be evaluated by at least two anonymous referees. The referees may be members of the Scientific Committee, of the Editorial Board, of the Editorial Staff, or external scholars.

Submission

Sending an abstract to the editorial staff (max 2,000 characters) by 1 September 2020 and delivery of the essays by 1 November 2020.

The proposals must be sent to the e-mail address: h-ermes@unisalento.it 

Languages

The essays can be made in Italian, English, French, Spanish, German.

For any further information, please refer to the guidelines for the authors.