*CFP* "INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION", BOOK PROJECT CHAPTER

Since the 1970s, the active role and involvement of marginalised citizens in development and social change programmes at local, national, and in some instances, international levels, has sparked much interests from scholars around the globe (cf. Waisbord, 2008). At the heart of this scholarship is the need to coordinate active citizen participation in different aspects of development, which is a breakaway from the earlier top-down development agenda of the 1940s- which placed emphasis on the Marshall plan of economic growth (i.e. Modernisation), where beneficiaries of development played little or no role in decision-making processes involving them (cf. Melkote & Steeves, 2015; Manyozo, 2008). 

Through participatory communication- which was influenced by Paulo Freire’s work on dialogical praxis, liberation pedagogy, and conscientisation as part of his classical treatise: “Pedagogy of the oppressed” (cf. Molale, 2021), scholars around the global south, largely from Latin America, began exploring ways in which different theories, frameworks and models can be established to facilitate and enhance meaningful and sustainable transformation in the quality of life for local citizens through their active involvement in development processes (cf. Manyozo, 2012).

*CFP* "DIGITAL YOUTH AND RELIGION", BOOK CHAPTER

Public and academic discourse on the online activities of youth have been stormy and ambivalent at times. Nevertheless, a significant body of work has been devoted to the grass-rooted workings of youth on new media platforms, albeit in adolescents’ autonomous settings, such as social media (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube), online gaming, and interpersonal communication (e.g., instant messaging, WhatsApp). While past scholarship has yielded a rich offering of insight into these activities, there is a clear dearth of research on the online social worlds of religious youth. Nowadays, youth are afforded multiple venues of religious creeds and interpretations in unprecedented formats and channels. These channels enable access to youth outreach, foster communal participation, and shape youths’ identities, belief systems, and affiliation to (or from) religious institutions.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to draw together concepts, theories, and empirical data related to the study of three legacies: youth cultures, digital culture, and religious studies. We invite scholars that study different societies, faiths, cults, and sects from interdisciplinary fields (e.g., media studies, sociology, anthropology, semiotics, cultural studies, religious studies) to submit a proposal.

*CFP* "YOUTH, NEWS, AND DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS

Citizens’ political engagement is essential for the well-functioning of democracies. From boycotting products and signing petitions to discussing politics, attending demonstrations, and voting, citizens’ political engagement shapes our societies. In order for such engagement to take place, people need information that can mobilize them. For a long time, the news media was the key source in this regard. As a natural consequence exposure to news and political information in the media is a well-known forerunner for democratic engagement.

The relationship between news exposure and democratic engagement is constantly evolving, however. In today’s hybrid media system, people get information about politics and society from various sources and on many different platforms. In the contemporary media environment an endless list of information sources, including legacy news outlets, alternative news sites, politicians, and interest organizations, are therefore competing for people’s attention. Exposure to political information can take place on traditional platforms, like television or newspapers, or on new digital platforms, such as social media sites or other private online platforms. Not all information is equally reliable, and mis- and disinformation is part of the information ecosystem. At the same time, new forms of political participation are also emerging, especially online where people, for example, can discuss politics or contact politicians without much investment.

*CFP* "SCANNING THE FUTURE: CLIMATE, POPULISM, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & JOBS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE YOUTH VOICE JOURNAL

The Youth Voice Journal (YVJ®) is the leading, international, multidisciplinary and double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in publishing theoretical contributions and empirical research on issues affecting young people all over the world.

The Youth Voice Journal (ISNN 2056-2969) is ranked and indexed by Scopus, ORCID, Kudos, EBSCO Information Services, The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) and Criminal Justice Abstracts. YVJ is also a member of COPE, ensuring we adhere to codes of conduct for journal editors.

The YVJ is managed by an independent Academic and Editorial Board and seeks to provide a reference source for academia, policymakers and youth services internationally.

*CFP* "YOUNG PEOPLE'S VOICES IN PUBLIC POLICY", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE YOUNG VOICE JOURNAL

The Youth Voice Journal (YVJ®) is the leading, international, multidisciplinary and double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in publishing theoretical contributions and empirical research on issues affecting young people all over the world.

The Youth Voice Journal (ISNN 2056-2969) is ranked and indexed by Scopus, ORCID, Kudos, EBSCO Information Services, The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) and Criminal Justice Abstracts. YVJ is also a member of COPE, ensuring we adhere to codes of conduct for journal editors.

The YVJ is managed by an independent Academic and Editorial Board and seeks to provide a reference source for academia, policymakers and youth services internationally.

*CFP* "SEXUAL IDENTITIES AND ASSAULT IN CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE AND CULTURE", VOICES FROM THE WRECKAGRE: YA VOICES IN THE #METOO MOVEMENT, EDITED COLLECTION

Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on the theme: Sexual Identities and Assault in Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture for an edited collection Voices From the Wreckage: YA Voices in the #MeToo Movement edited by Kimberly Greenfield Karshner (Lorain County Community College).

This collection will focus on situating young adult voices in the #MeToo movement, and into American culture and identity. Children’s and young adult literature is an area of study that has rapidly evolved in the past ten years bringing previously silenced voices have to light. This is especially true for YA LGBTQ voices, and also young narrators who are not only discovering, celebrating, and coming to terms with their identities, but also dealing with the assault of their identities.  

*CFP* "ALT KIDLIT: WHAT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE HAS BEEN, NEVER WAS AND MIGHT YET BE", CHAPTER BOOK

Children’s and young adult literature (CYA) is an Anglo-European formation that has been exported to and adapted by nations and cultures around the globe. Sometimes it has cooperated or merged with native, Indigenous, or local traditions of child-associated narrative, but more typically it has circulated like other products of Western settler-imperial culture. Its emergence is linked with Western notions of childhood and Western print culture. CYA is now firmly established as a body of work, a field of discourse, and a cultural good.

We sometimes question its definition or borders but tend to accept and even naturalize it as a phenomenon. Alt KidLit troubles that acceptance by building on existing scholarship and sketching an alternative history of what children’s literature has been, never was, and might be now and/or in the future. Fortunately, CYA has become more diverse in representation, scope, and form, as many scholars have noted. In some sense, CYA is already “alternative” or has alternative tendencies, and there is no “outside” of CYA so to speak. And yet CYA is still overwhelmingly white and otherwise normative in its structures and materials. How might CYA be diversified further, as a body of work, a cultural idea, a field of study? What are the alternative texts, contexts, and possibilities of CYA past, present, and future?

*CFP* "ADOLESCENTES EN SERIE. JÓVENES PROTAGONISTAS EN LA FICCIÓN TELEVISIVA", FONSECA: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

En las últimas décadas estamos asistiendo a un crecimiento exponencial de las series televisivas, tanto en cantidad (casi inabarcable) como en calidad (la televisión ya ha dejado de ser la hermana pobre del cine). “Las nuevas tecnologías han alterado de manera radical la forma de consumir televisión e, indirectamente, algunos hábitos establecidos a la hora de producirla […] En un proceso global para todo el medio, segmentos poblacionales como los jóvenes, han dejado de consumir el indiferenciado flujo televisivo para pasar a ver únicamente programas que han captado su interés.” (Cascajosa, 2009: 28-29).  La aparición y consolidación de las nuevas plataformas de producción y exhibición (Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime...) ha transformado por completo el panorama televisivo, y uno de sus puntos fuertes han sido precisamente las series. También las televisiones generalistas parecen haber incrementado su apuesta por esta forma de narración.

Si repasamos, de forma incluso superficial, la producción de estos últimos años encontramos innumerables series de ficción, tanto en las plataformas de pago como en las televisiones generalistas, donde el o los papeles protagónicos, aun compartidos con adultos, recaen en jóvenes o adolescentes. Estas series ya no están pensadas únicamente para un público específico coincidente con esa franja de edad, ni tampoco quedan circunscritas a unos géneros determinados asociados a ese target.

*CFP* “CONSTRUCTING YOUNG SELVES IN A DIGITAL MEDIA ECOLOGY: YOUTH CULTURES, PRACTICES AND IDENTITY”, NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (NKUA)

Constructing Young Selves in a Digital Media Ecology: Youth Cultures, Practices and Identity

Two-day Symposium

Thursday 4 and Friday 5 June 2020

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Sonia Livingstone, Professor. DPhil, FBA, FBPS, FRSA, OBE London School of Economics and Political Science

Mary Celeste Kearney, Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre Director, GeNDer Studies Program University of Notre Dame

The development of young people’s identities and sense of selfhood is widely recognized as being a social activity undertaken through interaction and feedback with significant others. Advancing beyond earlier top-down models of socialization, whereby parents and teachers were largely seen as responsible for transmitting stable cultural norms, knowledge, political attitudes, religious beliefs and social practices to young people, contemporary understanding has instead foregrounded the active, dynamic, co-construction of young selves. Such approaches have not only drawn attention to the active engagement of young people in shaping their own identities but has also emphasized the wider social, political, economic, cultural contexts that frame the possibilities for the interactive realization of personhood. Most profoundly, and the focus of this international symposium, for the current generation of young people, the active construction of self is significantly mediated by and through a digital media ecology of communications networks, algorithms and platforms. 

*CFP* “THE YOUTHIFICATION OF TELEVISION AND SCREEN CULTURE”, BIANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE TELEVISION STUDIES SECTION OF ECREA

The Youthification of Television and Screen Culture

Biannual Conference of the Television Studies Section of ECREA

24-25 October 2019

University of Groningen, NL

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Prof. Jeanette Steemers (King's College London)

Dr. Vilde Schanke Sundet (Inland Norway University, Lillehammer)

Television is constantly testing its definitional boundaries. What was formerly defined by ways of transmission and screen technology, is more and more in dissolution in today's mediated landscape. Young people, especially, are turning away from traditional broadcast television - and turning towards other screens and formats. This development is forcing established structures to react and adapt to this new viewing culture. Novel formats, such as the Norwegian teen drama series 'SKAM' or the Spanish talent show 'Operación Triunfo Star Academy', proved to be extremely successful in overcoming the traditional boundaries of the medium, amongst others by including multi-platform technology and storytelling via social networks.