CfP: Digital citizenship and local development

Francisco Sierra Caballero (Universidad de Sevilla) calls for contributions to an edited book on Digital citizenship and local development: Outlines for rethinking mediation.

Traditionally, Iberamerican communication studies have devoted little attention to the issue of new technologies. This adds to rather deficient official policies in the funding of critical and humanistic research on the social use and appropriation of digital networks in relation to processes of empowerment, sustainability and local development. The present state of affairs demands, therefore, a collaborative knowledge promoted by scholars worldwide whose areas of research focus on the topics, methodologies and applied research in this field of particular social relevance. Intended goals for the volume, both short- and long- term, point at the definition of the nature and economic status of local and peripheral cultures within the increasing globalizing process of new systems of information and knowledge processing. …

Read the full call here.