Following their ECREA pre conference last year, Christian Schwarzenegger, Erik Koenen and Niklas Venema are editing a special issue of the German journal Publizistik : “From emancipation to disinformation? Public dissent and its evaluation in change”. The deadline for abstracts is November 30, 2023. Full papers must then be submitted by April 30, 2024. There are no charges or fees for authors or publication.
You can find the call for papers here: https://link.springer.com/collections/jajfeabafh

Special issue of Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society
(editors of the special issue: Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards & Janet Abbate)

This call for papers will take stock of the historical entanglement of gender and the Internet/Web. Facing a critical juncture both in terms of the technological development of the Internet (e.g., the nascent Web 3.0, radical decentralization, the integration of AI and machine learning) and also in terms of sociopolitical struggle on the part of women and gender-linked identity groups on local and global levels, we ask: How can we root the analysis of gender and the Internet on a historical level? How can histories that integrate gender and the Internet/Web help us comprehend the sociological, cultural, and political meaning and dimensions of each? 

This special issue will explore these questions and many others through a diachronic approach that includes global, transnational, national, regional, and local histories.