Special Issue on Human Values in the Digital Media Age

Special Issue on Human Values in the Digital Media Age

deadline for submissions:
June 30, 2017
full name / name of organization:
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
contact email:
deepa.linto@sagepub.in
Submit your research to the upcoming special issue of Journal of Human Values

Special Issue on “Human Values in the Digital Media Age” (January 2018)

Guest Editors: Smeeta Mishra, Business Ethics and Communication Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Amani Ismail, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, The American University in Cairo

To not cognize the impact of the digital media age on our very livelihoods would at best be naïve negligence of an inevitable reality, at worst a lost opportunity to understand a critical dimension in shaping who we are.

The scholarly quest to interrogate how technological development has influenced our political, social, cultural and economic values seems particularly pressing now more than ever. From foresight as early as McLuhan’s “the medium is the message,” the imprint of the modern mass media on our identities, functions, and vision of the future has been all but hard to miss. Indeed, we have found ourselves defining our times in terms that pay homage to this very communication leap – the digital media age, among other interchangeable vernacular.

The January 2018 issue of Journal of Human Values invites submissions that speak, broadly or specifically, to the interface between digital media and human values.

General topic areas could encompass but are not limited to: political expression and social media; impact of digital media’s ubiquity on human interaction; structural and/or component changes in relationships against a continually evolving digital media backdrop; dynamics of generational transmission of cultural heritage in consonance/contradiction with contemporary technology; the position of globalization within media evolution discourse; and implications of access to and use of technology for race, gender, national origin, socioeconomic background and other primordial as well as instrumental identity markers.

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: June 30, 2017
Decision of manuscripts: July 29, 2017
Submission of revised manuscripts: August 19, 2017

All submissions in double space should be submitted to jhv_special_issue@iimcal.ac.in by email. The word file attachment should have the title of the paper as the file name. The text of manuscripts should not ordinarily exceed 5,000 words. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and up to six keywords. For detailed manuscript submission style, etc, please refer to the JHV website http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jhv