Recherches en communication ( bilingual special issue)
Deadline: April 6, 2025
https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/rec/announcement/view/1233
Special issue editors: Geoffroy Patriarche (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Victor Wiard (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), and Trisha Meyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
A whole area of media and communication research investigates how different inequalities shape, and are shaped by, the production, the circulation, the reception and the effects of news and other kinds of information. This bilingual (English and French) special issue in Recherches en communication aims to develop such lines of enquiry within the field of disinformation research.
We understand disinformation as deliberate and organized misinformation, usually with the aim of harming an individual, a group, an organization or a country. In turn, inequality is viewed as the situation in which certain social groups have less opportunities, resources and/or outcomes than others because of their gender, education, income, race, ethnicity, religion, living place, or any other structural or identity-based positions. In this special issue, we examine how disinformation shapes inequalities and vice versa.
Proposals are invited to address one or more of the following three research avenues: disinformation as a source of inequalities, disinformation as an outcome of inequalities, and inequalities in the mitigation of disinformation. Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract (in English) of 750 words all-inclusive by 6 April 2025.
This special issue is an initiative of EDMO BELUX 2.0, a multidisciplinary hub that brings together academics, fact-checkers, disinformation analysts, and media literacy organizations to monitor, analyze and contribute to the mitigation of disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg (https://belux.edmo.eu). EDMO BELUX 2.0 is one of the 14 national or regional hubs being coordinated by EDMO.eu, the European Digital Media Observatory (https://edmo.eu).
Link to the full text of the call: https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/rec/announcement/view/1233
