CfP: Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments and Practices (DL Abstracts: 1-15 December 2021)
Edited by Julia Metag, Florian Wintterlin and Kira Klinger.
Deadline for Abstracts: 1-15 April 2022 | Deadline for Articles: 15-31 July 2022
Media and Communication, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Web of Science (Impact Factor: 2.465) and Scopus (CiteScore: 2.9), welcomes article proposals for its upcoming issue "Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments and Practices," edited by Julia Metag, Florian Wintterlin and Kira Klinger.
This thematic issue deals with the opportunities and challenges digital environments offer for science communication. It will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of how online environments and practices are shaped by established as well as new actors in science communication.
Contributions may focus on issues including, but not limited to, the following areas:
Contributions may focus on issues including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Access to and participation in science communication online (new (pseudo-)scientific actors in science communication, consequences of online communication for established scientific communicators, new forms of participation in science online, role of infrastructure and governance of platforms);
- Presentation of science online (visualization, use of data);
- Debates and discourses about science in digital environments (reliability of information, disinformation, deliberation, algorithmization).
Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers here
Abstracts welcome by 1-15 April 2022.