CFP - Em busca de um local: territorializar a crítica e a historiografia das mídias

Call for Papers - Special Issue

Dispositiva - Interinstitutional Journal of the Graduate Programs in Social Communication of PUC Minas and UFMG

Theme: In search of a place - Territorializing media criticism and historiography

Editors: Bruno Guimarães Martins (UFMG), Christina Ferraz Musse (UFJF), and Rachel Bertol (UFF).

Recognizing that one of the main qualities of media is their ability to carry out spatial-temporal displacements from specific socio-technical conditions, we invite researchers in the field of communication to submit articles that problematize space in the media. From different concepts to approach issues related to space - such as local, regional, global, nation, place, territory - it seems relevant to incorporate the temporal dimension - such as everyday life, duration, tradition, generation, performance, presence, historical.

We are interested in memories, narratives, discursive fields that are constituted from the space-temporal relationships engendered by the historicity of communicational processes. It is about recognizing that the forms of materiality and discursive modulations of the media affect the configuration of subjective and collective experiences in concrete, virtual, symbolic, and imaginary spaces. Faced with complex and often invisible overlays provided by the intensification of media uses, it becomes productive to revisit, even from a historical and historiographical perspective, the ways in which the media contribute to repositioning individuals in their localities and networks of interaction, in social and political life. The body itself, locus of biopower, becomes a territory of dispute, to the extent that the media tend to create abstract, stereotyped, and ephemeral bodies aimed at consumption. To what extent can the "search for a place" lead to the resignification of social life and even constitute forms of resistance, as in anti-racist, gender, environmental, and human rights movements? The "search for a place" also becomes an exercise in territorializing critical reflection in communication, situating us in decisive processes of contemporaneity. Thus, we suggest, without limiting, the submission of articles that address:

- Historiography of local media;
- Comparative studies of media history;
- Spaces and networks of affection in the media;
- Public, private, and intimate in the media;
- Self-representation and self-image in media history;
- Place, memory, and media;
- Media and local activism;
- Spatial perception and imagination in the media;
- Rhythms, patterns, and media stereotypes;
- Media and cartographies;
- Unplanned uses of media devices;
- Migrations and adaptations of media forms and genres.

The call is open from March 1st to June 1st, 2024, and the issue is scheduled to be published in December 2024.