*CFP* "FINE-COMBING THE PAST: FRAMES, PATTERNS AND METAPHORS", SPRING 2021 ISSUE, THE FRENCH JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES

The raison d'être of this thematic issue is to showcase innovative, experimental and disruptive approaches to transforming the traces of the Irish past into evidence and narratives from as broad a range of perspectives as possible.

Feeding the processes involved in working through the past that are expressed by the German word vergangenheitsbewältigung through an Irish Studies prism, we reinscribe the Irish expression mionchíoradh an am atá caite (fine-combing the past) as a prompt for engaging with and processing the time before our perpetual present and organising the articles in this volume.

As in the German, the Irish phrase implies the evolution, renovation or creation of methodologies to disentangle and sift the traces of the past and carefully work towards healthier narratives. Simultaneously, Cíoradh also implies disturbing, shaking things up, harassing and aggravating, and we are particularly interested in subjects that are generally avoided: the difficult, unpopular, awkward, inconvenient, undocumented, invisible and impossible. 

*CFP* “YOUNG ADULT SEXUALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE”, CHAPTER BOOK

Technology is rapidly advancing, and each innovation provides opportunity for such technology to mesh with humans’ enactment of physical intimacy or in the quest for information about sexuality. Many people will seek out online communities for sexual identity formation, for knowledge or validation that they are not alone, or to seek out others with whom they share identity or affinity.

Additionally, technology has allowed for new ways of meeting people, of arranging for both casual and serious sexual encounters and intimate relationships, and created a platform for sexual communication.  Online communities may also help young adults shed stigma traditionally associated with certain sexual identities. However, the availability of this technology has also complicated sexual decision making for young adults as they navigate sexual identity, orientation, behavior, and community.

*CFP* "VISUAL, DIGITAL AND MEDIA CULTURE: IMAGES AMONG GENERATIONS", SPECIAL ISSUE, VISTA-VISUAL CULTURE JOURNAL

Social context determined by the culture of media convergence, together with the proliferation of digital devices connected to the Internet and their penetration among citizens, has given relevance, more than ever, to the media and visual culture. Digital media and images have conducted visual field towards the study of consumer´s practices and producer´s image, in accordance with the social aspects and the cultural contexts that characterize them.

To the multidisciplinary approach of media and digital literacy, intergenerational issue is added as the starting point of this issue, which seeks to delve into the fact that the media experience occurs in differentiated conditions, characterized by different cultural (media and digital) competences between generations: analogical and digital citizens, emigrants and digital natives. From the family portraits to the selfies of our smartphones, from soap opera and TV series to social networks. Images produced and consumed get increased from a diversity of experiences and memories, from a multiplicity of lifestyles and media uses, which is worth to be rethought from the idea of ​​"generations".