*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.
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<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.
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