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CfP edited volume: When the Local meets the Digital - Implications and Consequences for Environmental Communication
*Deadline extended to 15 February* <br>CALL FOR PAPERS: <br>When the Local meets the Digital: Implications and Consequences for <br>Environmental Communication <br>Volume editors: Joana Diaz Pont, Pieter Maeseele, Annika Egan Sjlander, <br>Maitreyee Mishra, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton <br>Publisher: IAMCR/Palgrave Series <br>RATIONALE <br>Recent changes in territorial and digital capabilities of communication pose <br>new challenges for environmental communication, with particular impacts and <br>consequences at the local level. On one hand, a redefinition of environmental <br>problems is called for from the well-known maxim "think globally and act <br>locally" to the new "think locally and act locally". On the other, social <br>media and the emergence of collaborative platforms having an impact on the <br>local level are exposing multifaceted realities. For example, the discourses <br>on the multiple benefits of SmartCities, or platforms such as AirBnB, Uber or <br>Amazon, contrast with their physical and social consequences on the ground. In <br>the intertwining of the local and the digital, new injustices arise. Shared <br>are social and environmental impacts that trigger the emergence of social <br>movements and local platforms to fight the effects of decisions taken at <br>distant territorial levels and in digital spaces disconnected from the local. <br>These distant decisions often support profits and extractivist interests that <br>are the target of local protest. <br>The intersections of place and digital media raise new questions for <br>environmental communication scholars. For instance, about how place and the <br>digital effect local decisions and social relations. Individual attitudes and <br>behaviors of citizens find their most direct expression at the local level, <br>where ideologies are embodied in certain models of environmental behavior. The <br>local becomes the digital, physical and ideological space for different modes <br>of behavior, encompassing a continuum where participation and commitment to <br>environmental issues can acquire a collective voice in the form of advocacy <br>groups or social movements. Alternatively, digital spaces can result in the <br>fragmentation, reformulation and creation of politics and political parties. <br>This edited book will explore the interplay of the local and the digital in <br>environmental communication (research). Some questions that can guide <br>contributions: <br>- How is environmental communication impacted by the intertwining of the <br>local and the digital? <br>- How are digital media influencing environmental communication at the <br>local level? <br>- What is/could be the role of environmental communication in the <br>emergence of local environmental activism, networking, and political and <br>social participation? <br>- What is/could be the role of journalism and news media - mainstream <br>and/or alternative - in navigating the local and digital? <br>- What are the local experiences of digital collaborative platforms (eg. <br>AirBnB, Uber or Amazon) that in so many instances have become extractive <br>platforms? <br>- How, if at all, are environmental or social movements created or <br>redefined in response to these new injustices originating in distant digital <br>spaces? <br>- How does the prevailing political economic system impact on the local <br>experience of 'Green Growth' initiatives, such as SmartCities? <br>- Other questions are of course also welcome <br>The editors welcome papers from various theoretical, conceptual, and empirical <br>approaches. Empirical studies should be based on quantitative and/or <br>qualitative methods, including case studies and best practices. Literature <br>reviews are also welcome. Contributions must be in English. Submissions should <br>have the form of extended abstracts, consisting of an outline of the chapter <br>of about 1200 to 1500 words. Abstracts are due 15 February 2018 to <br>thelocalandthedigital[at]gmail[dot]com. <br>This edited volume is a joint initiative of the Environment, Science and Risk <br>Communication Working Group of IAMCR and the Science and Environment <br>Communication Section of ECREA. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be <br>invited to present their proposal during a webinar taking place 15 March 2018 <br>14-16h CET (UTC+1). Authors will be notified of the acceptance by 26 February <br>2018 and the submission of draft chapters will be expected by 16 May 2018. <br> <br> <br>[logo] <br> <br>Pieter Maeseele <br>Associate Professor in Communication Studies, UAntwerp <br>UAntwerp.be/pieter-maeseele | @MaeseeleP <br>Chair IAMCR Environment, Science and Risk Communication <br>WG <br>Vice-Chair ECREA Science and Environment Communication <br>Section <br>Maeseele P. & Raeijmaekers D. (2017 Nothing on the news but the establishment <br>blues? Toward a framework of depoliticization and agonistic media <br>pluralism. <br>Journalism. <br>Maeseele P & Pepermans Y (2017) Ideology in climate change <br>communication. The Oxford research <br>encyclopedia of climate change communication. <br>Carvalho A, van Wessel M & Maeseele P (2017) Communication practices and <br>political engagement with climate change: a research <br>agenda. <br>Environmental communication. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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