Special Issue for New Media & Society: Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms

Category: Publication

Underlying the goal of this call for papers is a desire to engage with scholars who are exploring violence on digital platforms as a cultural experience (Cover, 2022) that reinforces or resists existing power structures (Marwick, 2021; McCosker, 2014). Our call welcomes scholars to delve into the stickiness of mediated violence (Zelinzer, 2023), encouraging contributions on how online harm can serve as vehicles for both productive and destructive forces within contemporary cultures. We especially encourage interdisciplinary contributions that go beyond definitional or methodological issues around violence on digital platforms and emphasize its social, political, and ethical implications (Jane, 2015) on a global scale, with a particular emphasis on non-Western contexts. Accordingly, we invite submissions that address topics including, but not limited to, the following: ● Perceptions, experiences, and actors involved in the symbiotic relationship of offline and digital violence within various sociocultural contexts. ● Perceptions, experiences, and actors involved in algorithmic violence enacted within specific communities and contextual settings. ● Perpetuation and amplification of symbolic violence through digital platforms. ● Networked violence centered around attacking and revealing the identity of digital personas (e.g., doxxing as a form of violence exacted on minoritized individuals). ● Collective mobilization and contestation to counter material and symbolic violence on digital platforms. ● Escalating endorsement of violence as a method for collective mobilization. ● Digital resistance of platform and algorithmic bias.

Initiator(s):
ecrea European Communication Research and Education Association

Deadline: 01.04.2024
Publication-Type: Article

https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/13299486

Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein