https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/gateway/plugin/AnnouncementFeedGatewayPlugin/atomRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism: Announcements2023-09-14T05:11:08+00:00Open Journal Systems<p><strong>Editor-in-Chief</strong>: Aleksandr G. Kovalenko, PhD (Philology), Professor</p> <p><strong>ISSN: </strong>2312-9220 (Print)<strong> ISSN: </strong>2312-9247 (Online)</p> <p><strong>Founded in</strong> 1996. <span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><strong style="color: #000000;"><strong>Publication frequency</strong></strong>:</span> quarterly</p> <p><strong>PUBLISHER</strong>: <a href="http://eng.rudn.ru/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</a></p> <p><strong style="color: #000000;">Open Access</strong>: <img src="/files/journals/1//OA.png" alt="" width="68" height="25">. <strong>APC</strong>: no article processing charge.</p> <p><strong>Peer-Review</strong>: double blind. <strong>Publication language</strong>: Russian, English</p> <p><strong>Indexation</strong>: Russian Index of Science Citation, Scopus, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat, East View, Dimensions, ResearchBib, Lens, Research4Life, JournalTOCs, British Library, Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford), Ghent University Library</p>https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/announcement/view/427Call for Papers2023-09-14T05:11:08+00:00RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism<p>Like political landscapes across the globe, African politics has been marked by a series of intriguing developments since many nations on the continent gained independence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. From Western to Eastern, and Southern to Northern countries, the African populace has borne witness to diverse forms of governance, resulting in both shared and disparate historical outcomes. Notably, the dynamics of democratic governance, encompassing responsiveness to citizens' needs, and economic and political issue resolution, have exhibited both commonalities and distinctions across countries of the region in recent times. This has, in certain instances, led to the return of military takeovers and sparked protests, new dimensions of conflicts and advocacy groups' activities by dissatisfied citizens in the region.</p> <p>The breakdown of state structures has often precipitated the emergence of populist uprisings, conflicts, and other multifaceted crises that challenge democratic structuring and restructuring (Allen, 1995; Monga, 1997; Bates, 2019; Thomson, 2022; Kasfir, 2023). Recent instances of coups in Sudan, Egypt, and West African nations like Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger underscore the persistent hurdles in establishing sustainable democracy, owing to ongoing economic and political uncertainties that foster discontent and disillusionment among both the military and civilian populations (Iyanda, 2023).</p> <p>Simultaneously, as various actors pursue divergent interests in the pursuit of individual or collective gains, media stands as a strategic information tool. In theory, parties and stakeholders, all the actors, are expected to communicate accurate information through media channels to enhance comprehension of ambiguous matters and facilitate the resolution of socio-economic and political uncertainties. However, owing to information asymmetry and the manipulation inherent in information warfare, these parties and stakeholders often wittingly or unwittingly engage in information pollution. This manifests in multiple forms, including fake news, disinformation, hate speech, deepfakes, and satire, aimed at misleading unsuspecting parties and stakeholders. This trend has permeated African elections and conflicts (Wasserman & Madrid-Morales, 2018; Moyo, Mare & Mabweazara, 2020; Madrid-Morales, et al., 2020, Mustapha, 2022, Mustapha, 2023), facilitated by a media ecosystem that obscures meaningful information for individuals and groups (Kuehn, 2023).</p> <p>Amidst these ongoing challenges as academia and other spheres continue to analyse African politics, we aim to contribute to the discourse on African politics and the media ecosystem, particularly concerning the surge of conflicts.</p> <p>In this special issue the researchers will analyse diverse aspects of this theme, utilizing innovative research methodologies to critically examine existing theories and analytical frameworks, both from within and beyond the continent's political philosophy.</p> <p>The submissions will leverage alternative media, extending beyond both traditional and contemporary media forms, shedding light on the intricate interplay between African politics and the evolving media landscape on the following topics:</p> <ul> <li>Investigating the political and economic dimensions of emerging media ecosystems during elections/conflicts.</li> <li>The interplay between protests, media, and democracy.</li> <li>Analyzing the connection between media, democracy and coup d'états.</li> <li>The intersection of mediated politics and economics in coup d'états.</li> <li>Exploration of African media, politics and conflicts in the post-truth era.</li> <li>Examination of fake news, misinformation, and disinformation in African political crises/elections.</li> <li>Exploring the impact of misinformation and disinformation on religious, ethnic and national conflicts.</li> <li>Innovative strategies for mitigating information pollution during elections/conflicts.</li> <li>Sustainability of fact-checking organisations in managing conflicts caused by information pollution.</li> <li>The role of African media in changing regional politics during conflicts.</li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>The Editors</strong></p> <p>Isaac Bazié, Professor (Canada, Burkina Faso)<em>, Université du Québec à Montréal</em>, <em>Director of Laboratoire des Afriques Innovantes, President of Canadian Association of African Studies, Chief Editor of Journal Afroglobe/African Issues, in local and global Perspectives</em></p> <p>Mustapha Muhammed Jamiu, PhD (Russia, Nigeria)<em> RUDN University, Executive Director, Center for Research on Development of African Media, Governance and Society</em></p> <p>Marina G. Shilina, Professor (Russia),<em> the Special Issue Editor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, the African-Asian and International Studies Institute (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) and Group of Research on Identities and Cultures (Université le Havre, Normandie, France) scientific board member</em></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>2023-09-14T05:11:08+00:00https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/announcement/view/426Call for Papers2023-09-14T05:07:57+00:00RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism<p>The growth of conflicts, crisises and their media representations provokes new effects of mediatization (Couldry, Hepp, 2017; Vartanova, 2022). According Google Trends, in 2023, the media audience interest to conflicts appeared as a top priority around the world, and its dynamics confirms the users’ interest to the topic (Google Trends, 2023). On the other hand, conflicts and crises of all the levels are on demand in media news agendas (McQuail, 2013). The essence of media and crisis interactions is diverse. Media as a social space, public sphere and industry could act as a part of the conflict - as its mediator or even a conflict booster (Budka, Brauchler, 2020).</p> <h2>Studying media and crisis interrelations might help to understand how media influence public sphere, political and social processes through crisis mediatization. Conflict studies traditionally put the research focus on conflicts themselves rather than on media effects (Habermas, 2006). Last decade, the interrelations between media and crisis, conflict and media have become an emerging field of media studies. The study of media and crisis concerns the variety of conflict types, their levels and formats (Baychik, 2020). Digitalization of media is broaden the space of conflicts representations. In the context of these reversible realities, and deep (Hepp, 2019), AI-driven (Hepp et al., 2023) and transgressive mediatization (Shilina, 2021) a new field of interdisciplinary research of media crisisology is needed.</h2> <h2>What are the triggers of escalation of crisis which evaluate media? Or is it media which deepens the conflict? What is the nature of such reversible paradigms?</h2> <p>In this special issue, we propose to find the characteristics of this new area of practices and theoretical knowledge. The researches would be focused on the realities of two countries of the New Global South - Philippines and Russia.</p> <p>The submissions will be focused on the following topics:</p> <h2>l Theoretical and methodological approach to the analysis of media crisis</h2> <p>l Interrelations of media and crisis as a new multidisciplinary field of researchl Management of crisis mediatizationl The national media system, media policy and regulation in times of crisisl Media channels in crisis mediatizationl Crisis media representation (political, ideological, ethno-cultural factors, etc.)l Forms and factors of crisis media coverage l Media content representing and analyzing crisisl Social and personal effects of crisis media coveragel Persons, groups, online communities engaged in media crisis</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The Editors</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Rowena Capulong Reyes,</strong> Ph.D. Faculty Dean, Department of Communication, Far Eastern University, Philippines</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Norberto D. Bana, III</strong>, Ph.D., Professorial Lecturer, Far Eastern University, Philippines</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Marina G. Shilina,</strong> Dr.Sc., Professor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, the Thematic Issue Editor</p>2023-09-14T05:07:57+00:00https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/announcement/view/423Call for Papers2023-09-11T17:06:14+00:00RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism<p>Media activates political-social communication between people, society, and the state in any political system. In a democracy like India, media is a crucial form of feedback, reflection and self-critique from a participatory society and responsive state. However, the traditional structure of mass communication in the political context has changed in India. Democratic processes are fostered through digital media usage, which is also instrumental in creating social capital. Predicting people’s social capital, choices, and civic and political participatory behaviours through their digital media usage (Chadwick 2006; Gil De Zúñiga et al. 2012) is increasing in India, as elsewhere. Similarly, the popular culture of India captures a big part of this participation-response cycle. It is both deeply political and symptomatic of the social-political-economic health of the nation, as well as a conduit to seek alternatives.</p> <p> </p> <p>Popular culture has been understood from various perspectives. On the one hand, it is the aesthetic products which are created and sold by profit-seeking firms in the global/local entertainment markets (Grazian, 2010) where it represents the acceptance of the capitalist mode of consumption generated by industrial mass media (Adorno, Horkheimer, 2002). On the other hand, popular culture is also understood as a factor behind social cohesion that binds social imagination across many layers of distinctive identities (Durkheim, 1912/1995; Durkheim, 1893/1997). Either way, the mediatisation of popular culture represents the sedimented impacts of media (Hepp et al., 2023), which ‘increasingly come to saturate society, culture, identities and everyday life’ (Fornäs, 1995:1) and even transgress it (Shilina, 2021). As popular culture is often understood as being linked to mass media, it is implicated in the idea of mediatisation (Fornäs, 2014: 283). In a mediatised popular culture, the agenda is to capture the popular imagination and frame moral-ethical values that contour the cultural-political-economic framework of the society. The ownership and control of information and communication is for agenda setting, which, in this case, is via popular culture. Popular culture helps media to transcend its old limitations where media ‘[could not] tell you what to think, only what to think about’ (McCombs and Shaw, 1972). With AI, global capital and social media increasingly set the choices for the popular (Esposito, 2022; Hepp, 2019; Hepp et al., 2023).</p> <p> </p> <p>This special edition aims to contribute to the new discourse on Indian popular culture and its mediatisation. We invite cutting-edge research exploring various aspects of this topic, which employ eclectic methods and theoretical frameworks. The submissions may draw upon the Indian context and philosophical premises to present analyses of the interplay between media and Indian popular culture. In this backdrop, the new research may capture the nature, form, and impact of the mediatisation of popular culture in India, where:</p> <p> </p> <ol> <li>Norms of political communication are shaped, modified and transformed in popular culture.</li> <li>Multiple political communities and political consciousness emerge via popular culture.</li> <li>The relationship patterns between the people, state, bureaucracy, and governance get sedimented in popular culture.</li> <li>Elections, democracy, nationalism, resistance, and protest are deeply enmeshed in popular culture.</li> <li>Fake news, fact-checking platforms, propaganda, image-building, political advertising, celebrityhood, leadership charisma and populism intertwine in popular culture.</li> <li>Roles of multinational corporations, global capital and national capital become evident in popular culture.</li> <li>Gender, caste, religion, ethnicity, language, and class find mainstream and alternate expressions in popular culture.</li> <li>Constitutional and political values are tested/re-examined via popular culture.</li> <li>Ecological and economic worldviews collide and create a variety of claims over the popular.</li> <li>Media and popular culture's political, social, and economic ecosystems show contradictions and concurrence.</li> <li>The ‘social’ in popular culture transforms in terms of the public, private, and in-between.</li> <li>Popular culture reflects specific aesthetics and psyche/emotions like power, hurt, control, hate and love.</li> <li>Art, literature, cinema, and myriad new forms of expression intervene at both the collective societal and individual levels via popular culture.</li> <li>AI, data, privacy, intellectual property rights and information exchanges are reflected/debated/challenged in popular culture.</li> <li>Alternative, contemporary, and traditional media forms vie for influence over popular culture.</li> <li>Expressions on the foreign affairs of India, its image, and its role in world politics emerge in popular culture.</li> <li>Variants of security rationales emerge and consolidate or slide in popular culture.</li> <li>The binaries of international/global/cosmopolitan and national/domestic/local merge in popular culture.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p>We look forward to receiving contributions that delve into these topics and outline the complexities and trends of the mediatisation of popular culture in India.</p> <p> </p>2023-09-11T17:06:14+00:00https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/announcement/view/406Журнал в Scopus2023-03-10T08:25:26+00:00RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2023-03-10T08:25:26+00:00