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From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at>
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:10 PM
Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Special Issue Call: Ferments in the Field: The
Past, Present and Futures of Communication Studies (Journal of
Communication)
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Special Issue of the Journal of Communication:
Ferments in the Field: The Past, Present and Futures of Communication
Studies
Editors: Christian Fuchs & Jack Qiu
Call for submission of extended abstracts

http://fuchs.uti.at/1699/

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-
2466/homepage/call_for_papers__ferments_in_the_field.htm

In 1983, Journal of Communication (JoC) published the special issue
“Ferment in the Field” (Volume 33, Issue 3, co-edited by George Gerbner and
Marsha Siefert). The issue focused on “questions about the role of
communications scholars and researchers, and of the discipline as a whole,
in society” (Gerbner & Siefert, 1983, p. 4). The 35 contributions reflected
“on the state of communications research today; the relationship of the
researcher to science, society, and policy; the goals of research with
respect to social issues and social structure; and the tactics and
strategies for reaching their goals” (ibid). In 1993, two comparable JoC
issues were dedicated to “The Disciplinary Status of Communication
Research” (Volume 43, Issues 3-4, co-edited by Mark Levy and Michael
Gurevitch). In 2008, a JoC special issue discussed “Epistemological and
Disciplinary Intersections” (Volume 58, Issue 4, edited by Michael Pfau).

More than three decades after the original Ferment issue, it is again time
to reflect on disciplinary transformations in communication studies. By
calling this new special issue Ferments in the Field, we see historical
continuity in our efforts along JoC’s tradition of inviting communication
scholarship to reflect upon itself. Meanwhile, we ask questions with a
special eye on the increasing complexity and diversity of the field:

* What does the field of communication research look like?
* What have been the key tendencies and developments in communication(s)
research and its subfields?
* How has the field developed in the past decades? What have been long-term
continuities and discontinuities since the 1980s?
* What is the actual and desirable role for communication studies in
contemporary academe and society?
* What is the status of theory, methods, critique, ethics, and
interdisciplinarity in our field?
* What is the status of critical research and theories?
* How should the field position itself vis-à-vis key contemporary processes
and challenges?
* What does the future of communication studies look like?

Contributions to a new edition of “Ferments in the Field” should be
provocative essays that offer bold ideas with broad implications for the
field as a whole and areas of specializations. This special issue speaks of
ferments in the plural in order to spur reflections beyond established
academic boundaries and stimulate discussions that encourage scholars to
think beyond comfort zones. From multiple theoretical, methodological, and
disciplinary perspectives, it asks about the continuities and
discontinuities in communication research in an attempt to initiate a new
round of debates about the past, present and futures of the field.

The special issue will be published in 2018. The editors are Professor
Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster) and Professor Jack Qiu (Chinese
University of Hong Kong).

Authors are welcome to submit extended abstracts to the Editors by December
1, 2016. Extended abstracts should have a length of 400-1,000 words
(excluding tables, figures, and references). Abstracts should be submitted
to c.fuchs at westminster.ac.uk and jacklqiu at cuhk.edu.hk.
For doing so, please complete use the submission form available here:
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/Ferments.docx

Subsequently, authors who were asked to submit complete papers will need to
submit their manuscripts by May 2, 2017. Each manuscript should not exceed
4,000 words (including tables, figures, and references).

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