[Air-L] Call for Papers! MIA #194: Digital media and the labor market in the post-pandemic landscape in Latin America.

[Katrin Langton]

Hello AoIR community, and happy Friday!


I know it’s almost the end of the year 🎇 so we have just extended the deadline on our call for papers (see details below)!

Additionally, the Feature Topic Editor has kindly offered to review extended abstracts of around 500 words for feedback, prior to your submission to Media International Australia.



Call for Articles. Media International Australia (MIA). SAGE.

Feature Topic. Digital media and the labor market in the post-pandemic landscape in Latin America.

(Deadline Extended to March 1st, 2024)



Feature Topic Editor: David Ramírez Plascencia, Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico (Editor)

davidrapla at gmail.com<mailto:davidrapla at gmail.com> and davidram at udgvirtual.udg.mx<mailto:davidram at udgvirtual.udg.mx>

Recent edited publications. Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants (Brill, 2023), “Medios educativos como espacios subversivos en América Latina: potencialidades, inconvenientes y consideraciones en el contexto de la pandemia.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JILAR, Taylor and Francis, 2022), and The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 1 and 2) (Routledge, 2020).



Brief.

In Latin America during the health emergency in 2020, digitalization, despite digital infrastructure limitation, was essential not just because it allowed to continue studying and working at home and promoted the improvement of the exchange of goods and services networks using smartphones and mobile applications, but because it helped people to build solidary chains to support and provide relief in places where authorities were absent or negligent. Digitalization augmented even more the popularity of social platforms and mobile devices which have consolidated as the main places of socialization and entertainment among Latin Americans.



After three years since the outbreak, the Latin American landscape invites us to ponder, from a critical perspective, the digital economic activities that have flourished in this post-pandemic context. This special feature topic invites proposals that analyze, from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, the impact of the pandemic and digitalization in the Latin American labor market.



Prospective articles may include topics related with social media influencers (Youtubers, Tiktokers, instangramers and so on), fact-checkers, crypto miners and bitcoin traders, digital nomad workers, online gamers and videogame-items dealers, delivery-platform app workers, social media platforms sellers, among others. Propositions that address (i) the economic and cultural influence of theses economic activities in the regional and international content-consumption market, (ii) novel digital professions as a mechanism to surpass economic and social exclusion, and (iii) externalities, genre barriers and legal and ethical controversial issues, are particularly welcome.



Submission Instructions.
Articles should be between 5,000-8,000 words in length (including notes, references, accompanying reference list, and all other inclusions). Papers should be submitted directly to the journal. More information in this link https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/MIA

You may send an extended abstract (500 words) to receive feedback from the Feature Topic editor, before you submit your article to the journal.


We are very much looking forward to your submissions!



Warm regards,

Katrin Langton (she/her)
PhD Candidate on Turrbal and Yuggera Country @ Queensland University of Technology
Digital Media Research Centre https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/katrin-langton/
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child https://www.digitalchild.org.au/person/katrin-langton/
Media International Australia (Editorial Assistant)
Twitter/X @LangtonKatrin