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InMediaciones de la Comunicación
Volume 18 / N° 2 (July-December 2023)

We are pleased to inform that the call for papers is open to publish articles and/or reviews in the Volume 18 / Nº 2 (July-December 2023) of InMediaciones de la Comunicación, academic journal published since 1998 by Universidad ORT Uruguay.
The purpose is focused on the publication of original and unpublished articles and/or reviews and the dissemination of interviews, essays and research reports that take place in the field of communication and its related disciplines, with special attention to the processes of social mediatization and the study of contemporary media phenomena. Its content is aimed at researchers, professors, undergraduate and postgraduate students and people with an interest in all areas of communication. Before publication, the manuscripts are reviewed, in the first instance, by the Associate Editors and the Academic Committee, made up of experts from different countries, the Guest Editor of each number, and then they are evaluated through the double-blind system with the intervention of external referees.
The journal carries out an open access policy, receives contributions written in Spanish, English and Portuguese and the authors do not have to pay any cost for the processing or publication of the manuscripts. InMediaciones de la Comunicación is published in paper and digital format with the aim of promoting the open publication of manuscripts that are the result of the work carried out by the researchers and of giving impetus to the approach of the most diverse topics and problems that cross the communication field. Over the years, it has had the contribution of researchers and academic referents with a recognized professional track record, who provide their views on the debates raised by the permanent renewal of the communication phenomena in Latin America and the world.

Thematic of Volume 18 / N° 2 (July-December, 2023)

COMMUNICATION AND TRANS IMAGINARIES
Narratives and interactions in the digital ecosystem

Fundamentals of the Call

“The trans” appears as an epochal sign. Transgender, transhumanism, transmedia are some of the words on a long list in an attempt to give a name to living in a society of profound and unprecedented social changes. The trans would be the name of some of the changes found in communication, in narratives and in ways of connection, expression and discussion, a space that fosters new challenges. The imagination has been shaken by the force of a crisis that we believe is unprecedented, giving rise to the most diverse social imaginaries and narratives that explore new forms of expression that serve to reflect and project the fears and hopes of society at the present time. The trans prefix seems to condense the ideas and sensations of an epoch diagnosis whose concerns, uncertainties, longings and desires herald a movement of profound transformation. A society where global crises are causing a new awareness about the position and coexistence of human beings in time and space.
There are many transformations: on the one hand, the transformation of historical and biographical temporality has definitively broken the causal ties of the present with the future horizon. A historicity that delves into the sensation of inhabiting a continuous, uncertain and ambivalent present. On the other hand, the transformation of spatiality is leading to a different awareness of inhabiting the territories. The care industries, so developed in this century, are quite a symptom. The cities show and demand transformations of use, of coexistence, of communication; especially before a planet whose profound climate change is evident and becomes more palpable to the senses and to coexistence every day. Undoubtedly, the transformation of traditional identity by the voices and struggles of new possibilities of gender and sexuality are the most evident revolutionary engines at this stage. New ways of being, new subjectivities and subjects emerge and claim their space and recognition. Moreover, the transformation of coexistence makes visible and extreme the inequalities of class, ethnicity, race and gender, but it has also been developing, in recent times, new forms of relationships that are changing the established order and generating new communities.
These transformations have as their stage and central actor a system of media communication in which the traditional media format interact with the universe opened by the Internet and by other platforms. Digital technologies have radically changed social communication. A change that is probably at the level of the social and cultural transformation caused by writing, millennia ago.
In the midst of this situation, we invite you to submit articles that are the result of research that addresses, in and from communication, the profound concerns of today's society: new and old narratives and images; the role of connections and interactions on screens; digital social networks and human communication; the need for a critical theory of the new media system; transhumanist, transmodern, transgender, transsexual and transmedia approaches; the exclusions linked to the problems on the pairs coloniality/indigenousness and race/ethnicity; gender; global geopolitics in a changing world.

Axes for the presentation of articles

- Definitions and conceptualizations of communication in the new digital media system (technologies, economy, communication and information).
- Analysis of content narratives and excluded or relevant approaches to communication in relation to a world in crisis and transformation.
- Social, historical and geopolitical analysis from communicational and decolonial perspectives of platforms and networks.
- Analysis of or from the social imaginaries that enable or derive different meanings from cultural transformations.
- Studies of the communicational and legal treatment of public initiatives and processing of LGTTBI + laws.
- Studies that link communication with social struggles, gender, sex, ethnic groups, races, indigenism.
- Analysis of participation, content and communication structures in digital networks.

GUEST EDITORS: Dr. María Angulo Egea - Dr. Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri

María Angulo Egea. Doctor in Journalism from Universidad de Málaga (Spain) and Doctor in Philosophy and Letters (Philology) from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Professor of Journalism at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Has worked in various Spanish and American universities. Her interests are mainly focused on new narratives: narrative journalism and research journalism. Has published several collaborative books, including: Literary Journalism –with Jorge Rodríguez– (2010, Fragua) and Feminine Singular Article –with Teodoro León Gross– (2011, APM Editions), coordinated Chronicle and look (2014, K.O. Books) and is the author of Immersions. Travel Chronicle and Undercover Journalism (2017, Univesitat de Barcelona Editions). She currently researches and publishes articles on “crisis narratives” and analysis of feminist discourses in the field of narrative journalism. In this line of research, she has coordinated Issue 18 of the journal Información y Comunicación (2021, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) dedicated to the theme: Images, imaginaries and new narratives in crisis contexts. And together with Daniel Cabrera Altieri she has published the work: “The imaginary of algorithmic narratives” (2021, Perspectivas de la Comunicación). She has worked on the stories and interventions of writers and journalists in the media and on networks. A chapter stands out, together with Maite Gobantes Bilbao, entitled: “From generation to genealogy: feminist criticism of contemporary literary production” (2022, Interruptions. Narratives, technologies and criticism of fascism –book compiled by Cabrera Altieri, Sierra Caballero & Silva Echeto, and published by Social Communication–). She also wrote the prologue “Work and care. The configuration of public space from feminist journalism” for the volume by June Fernández entitled Open the cantaloupe (2020, K.O. Books). In 2023, an anthology of current Hispanic American chroniclers will be published for which she has been working with Professor Marcela Aguilar Guzmán. She is the director of the cultural and narrative journalism magazine Zero Grados (zgrados.com) of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).

Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri. Doctor in Communication. Professor of Journalism, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Currently in a research stay at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC, Madrid (Spain), financed by the European Union-NextGenerationEU. He has been a professor of Contemporary Sociological Theories at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico). He was Coordinator of the Degree in Journalism at Universidad de Zaragoza and Coordinator of the PhD in Communication at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Has been guest professor at several universities from Colombia, Mexico, Chili, Spain, Argentina and Cape Verde. Among his recent publications we can mention the articles “The textile imaginary: an alternative interpretation in communication studies” (2022, History of Media Studies 2) and “The algorithm as social imaginary” (2020, Zer Magazine), in addition to the book Technology as reverie. Essays on the techno-communicational imaginary (2022, Universidad de la Frontera Editions). He has coordinated Confusing Things. Understand technologies and

communication (2019, Tirant Humanities) and, together with Sierra Caballero and Silva Echeto, the book Interruptions. Narratives, technologies and criticism of fascism (2022, Social Communication).

DEADLINE FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSION: February 10th, 2023

DATE FOR JOURNAL PUBLICATION: July 1st, 2023

Characteristics that the postulated articles must present:
https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/inmediaciones-de-la-comunicacion/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Contact emails:
cossia@ort.edu.uy / inmediaciones@ort.edu.uy / lcossia@yahoo.com.ar /

Academic Committee
InMediaciones de la Comunicación
Universidad ORT Uruguay