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