*CFP* "SHOWING THEORY TO KNOW THEORY: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE VIGNETTES", CATALOGUE E-CAMPUS ONTARIO

Funded by e-Campus Ontario, this collaborative, open educational resource (OER) will bring together a collection of 100+ short pedagogical pieces (500-1000 words) to help new learners understand complex theoretical concepts and disciplinary jargon from the critical social sciences. Each entry takes the form of an “illustrative vignette”—a short, evocative story, visual or infographic, poem, described photograph, or other audio-visual material. This OER will be of use across disciplines and community contexts, democratizing theory while linking it to practical, grounded experience. 

 

This FOLLOW-UP to our initial CFP is to gather submissions that address one of the remaining available terms in our catalogue. Please consult the online spreadsheet to select an available concept/term. Then email your Expression of Interest to the editors (contacts below), confirming the your selection AND the illustrative example that you would like to use. We will get back to you with any feedback. To create your vignette, follow the template attached to this CFP. Two sample vignettes are also included to provide examples of style, tone, and structure.

You may create your vignette as an expository text, story or narrative, illustration or infographic, poem, described photograph, or other audio-visual material.

*CFP* "EXCLUSIONS IN THE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES", INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION REMOTE PRECONFERENCE

Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies

International Communication Association Remote Preconference

May 27, 2021

Online

The broader field of communication studies is in a moment when we are—or should be—intensively interrogating patterns of exclusion and hegemony that have continued to constitute it: around global region (de-Westernizing, theory from the South, persistent patterns of American influence/hegemony), race (#communicationsowhite), gender (#metoo, #gendercom, Matilda effects,), and indigeneity/colonization (postcolonial and decolonial initiatives). To frame these exclusions as constitutive is to head off any easy solutions in terms of greater inclusivity, though that needs to be part of the mix; rather, it is to invite us to consider all of the ways in which these and other exclusions have functioned to center certain problems, theories, methods, languages, nations, social identities, and publication venues; and to exclude or marginalize others that are cast as differentially less valuable, lower status, Other, and more. To frame them as constitutive is also to draw attention to how those exclusions are performatively enacted on an ongoing basis through the full range of practices, social and epistemological, through which the field (re)produces itself.