Call for papers: Challenges for Proximity Communication
Revista Comunicando invites you to submit papers for the thematic section «Challenges for Proximity Communication: Sustainability, Participation and Connections with the Community«.
Thematic editors: Miguel Midões (Polytechnic Institute of Viseu/Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal) and Giovanni Ramos (Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal).
In this thematic section, we would like to receive works that show the reality of proximity media and proximity in the media, as well as those that analyse the relationship between the media and communities and the impact that technological advances, new publishing platforms, and current production and distribution models have on this relationship.
Topics of interest for this section include, but are not limited to:
- Local media and technological advances
- New publishing platforms
- Old and new forms of funding and/or business models
- Local and community media, democracy, and strengthening communities
- Public sphere: traditional journalism versus new social media dynamics
- Media and the hinterland: production, distribution, and use of local news
- Local media: independence, political and financial control
- Co-operation strategies in local and regional media
- Local media, disinformation, and fake news
- Alternative media and collaborative journalism
The works in the thematic section will be published between July and December 2025, in a continuous edition.
All papers are subject to a double-blind peer review process. There are no associated publication fees (article processing fees or APCs).
FULL TEXT SUBMISSION PERIOD: until 21 April 2025
LANGUAGES: Portuguese, English, or Spanish
SECTIONS: articles, interviews, reviews, and experience reports
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/about/submissions
Revista Comunicando is an open-access academic journal dedicated to the area of Communication Sciences and its interfaces with Social and Human Sciences. Created in 2012 as part of the Young Researchers Working Group, it is one of the scientific journals of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences.
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