Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Book Series (UWP, ed.
Christian Fuchs): New Call for Open Access Book Submissions
https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2023/01/30/call-for-book-proposals-for-the-critical-digital-and-social-media-studies-series-now-open/
Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established open access
book series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs (Paderborn University)
and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP):
https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies/
The Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series publishes books
that critically study the role of the internet, digital and social media
in society and make critical interventions. Books in the series analyse
how power structures, digital capitalism, ideology, domination and
social struggles shape and are shaped by digital and social media. They
use and develop critical theories, are profoundly theoretical and
discuss the political relevance and implications of the topics under
scrutiny.
The Series has published 24 books since its launch in 2016. UWP is a
non-profit open access publisher of Humanities and Social Science
research, based in the UK, with a global reach. We support ‘diamond’
open access and most of our publications are made available without fees
to either authors or readers.
With funding from the Jisc Open Access Community Framework (OACF), which
provides financial support allowing us to publish without author-facing
fees or book processing charges, we are inviting submissions for book
proposals that fall within the scope of the series, and fit the criteria
as set out below. Books in the series are published open access online
in ePUB, Mobi and PDF formats and simultaneously as affordable
paperbacks. They are published using a Creative Commons licence (we use
CC-BY-NC-ND as our standard licence but can discuss other options), and
copyright in the work is retained by the author.
The series is a critical theory forum for internet and social media
research that makes critical interventions into contemporary political
topics in the context of digital and social media. It is interested in
publishing work that, based on critical theory foundations, develops and
applies critical social media research methods that challenge digital
positivism, as well as digital media ethics that are grounded in
critical social theories and critical philosophy. The series’
understanding of critical theory and critique is grounded in approaches
such as critical political economy and Frankfurt School critical theory.
CALL DETAILS
All books must be between 35,000-90,000 words in length, with a
preference for projects that can submit a full draft typescript within
the next 6-12 months. Single and co-authored works as well as edited
collections are accepted. We have a preference for monographs but will
also consider suggestions for collected volumes.
The submission deadline is March 15, 2023, 23:59 GMT.
Submissions of proposals and a sample chapter should be made via email
to Philippa Grand, Press Manager at University of Westminster Press at
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Submissions should include a proposal form, which can be downloaded here:
https://service-zipper.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wup/files/UWP+CDSMS+Book+Proposal+Form.docx
Submissions should also include the author/editor CVs and one sample
chapter.
Topics that we are interested in receiving proposals on include but are
not limited to:
digital capitalism, digital labour, the political economy of digital and
social media, digital and informational capitalism, ideology critique in
the age of social media, the political economy of fake news and
post-truth on the Internet, digital fascism, digital authoritarianism,
digital warfare, digital socialism, Marxist theory in the digital age,
the public service Internet, the digital public sphere and digital
democracy, new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and
social media, critical studies of advertising and consumer culture
online, critical social media research methods, critical digital and
social media ethics, working class struggles in the age of social media,
the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and
social media, critical analysis of the implications of Big Data, cloud
computing, digital positivism, the Internet of Things, predictive online
analytics, the sharing economy, location based data and mobile media,
the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social
media, platform co-operatives, the digital commons, critical studies of
the Internet economy, online prosumption, sujectivity, consciousness,
affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social
media, digital art and culture in the context of critical theory,
environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism, digital
consumer culture, algorithmic discrimination, critical studies of
digital surveillance, state power in the digital age, activism in the
digital age, digital (in)justice.
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