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  • Discourses in and about Latin America

    2024-02-06

    Since the arrival of Europeans on the continent they began to call America, in 1492, this part of the globe has been the target of countless interpretations that aimed to construct the specificities of the people, flora and fauna existing here, under the aegis of the exploratory system. European colonial. From the independence processes that took place in the 19th century, such specificities were rethought by the Eurocentric Creole elites, with a view to the formation and legitimization of their respective national states. In the 20th century, marked by intense ideological cleavages, Latin Americans once again sought to reformulate the bases of the political pacts responsible for maintaining the “imagined communities” created by nationalism since emancipation from the Europeans.
    Bearing in mind these and other layers of time and historical meanings, the call for the next Extraprensa Magazine Dossier will focus on the communication strategies employed by the most different social agents, such as: political party leaders, representatives of social movements, collectives of minority groups, intellectuals, with a view to forming an ideology about Latin America, capable of explaining its singularities compared to other peoples and continents. In short, what is left of the idea of nationalism responsible for the creation of Latin American identities? How to (re)think Latin America and its discourses about itself based on what is common and different to us at the same time?
    We invite researchers, students and the entire academic and scientific community in Brazil and Latin America to send their articles, essays and ongoing research on the proposed topic.

    Deadlines and Contact
    Articles, with a maximum of 20 pages, following Extraprensa's editorial standards (https://www.revistas.usp.br/extraprensa/about/submissions), must be sent in Word format to: https://www.revistas .usp.br/extraprensa until June 3, 2024.
    More information: extraprensa@usp.br

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  • Southern Digital Ecologies

    2023-09-08

    The call for the next Extraprensa Dossier is related to issues of communication, management and responsible innovation, the digital humanities, new forms of designing solutions, as well as various areas that are linked to complexity, in the face of new approaches that reflect E we help the goals of sustainable development, linked to a digital world that also needs new epistemologies and ecologies to maintain the 2030 Agenda for the 17 SDGs addressed by the UN, keep it united and reduce the damage of the drastic socio-environmental impacts.
    The following topics are part of this call:
    1. Decrease;
    2. Circular Economy;
    3. Sustainability;
    4. Demarketing;
    5. Decoloniality;
    6. Education and sustainability;
    7. Epistemologies of the South;
    8. Cyberculture and Social Technologies;
    9. Digital Humanities;
    10. Connected media cities;
    11. Global Compact and Companies in Latin America;
    12. Digital ecologies;
    13. Brand activism.
    We invite researchers, students, the entire academic and scientific community in Brazil, Latin America and other interested parties to submit their articles, essays and ongoing research.
    Deadlines and Contact
    The articles, with a maximum of 20 pages, following the editorial rules of Extraprensa (https://www.revistas.usp.br/extraprensa/about/submissions), should be sent in Word format to: https://www.revistas .usp.br/extraprensa on November 30, 2023.
    More information: extraprensa@usp.br
    Happy Productions!

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  • Culture platforming: creation, production, work and fruition in times of digitization of the economy

    2022-07-19

    The development of digital platforms has profoundly changed the way we carry out our daily activities. Whether activities related to leisure and education or tasks related to work, there will almost always be an application available on Google Play or the Apple Store to mediate our actions and the way we relate to the world. This insertion of platforms in social practices has been called platformization (HELMOND, 2015). One of the main promises is that the more integrated we are with the applications, via computer, cell phones, watches or other “gadgets”, the better the intelligent systems will perform and, therefore, the more productive, creative and satisfied we will be. Over the years, however, the negative aspects of the platform economy are increasingly worrisome.
    In the creative and cultural industries, this phenomenon of the insertion of digital platforms has had an impact on the way of producing/creating, distributing, marketing and consuming cultural goods and services. Thomas Poell, David B. Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy (2022) call this process the platformization of cultural production, that is, the integration of digital platforms, with their economic, governmental and infrastructural dimensions in the various sectors of the creative and cultural industries, as well as in the organization of work practices, creativity and participation.
    In order to understand how this phenomenon is transforming the processes of creation, production, organization, consumption and participation of artists, producers, institutions and audiences in the cultural field, as well as raising the new challenges in the formulation of public policies for culture, the Extraprensa magazine invites the community of researchers interested in the subject to contribute by writing a scientific article for the dossier: Platformization of culture: creation, production, work and fruition in times of digitization of the economy.

    The works can deal with the following axes:


    New technologies and digital structures in the field of cultural and creative production
    • This axis intends to reflect on how the new communication and information technologies are affecting the structural dynamics of the environments of creation, production, distribution, promotion and consumption of symbolic production in contemporary times


    Platformization and the new management, governance and organization processes of the cultural and creative sectors

    • This axis intends to discuss how the platforming of cultural production is changing the processes of management, governance and organization of networks of agents, companies and cultural institutions to understand the new asymmetries and relations of power and dependence of large technology companies.


    Platformization and changes in the market and in the socioeconomic organization of cultural production

    • This axis seeks to present articles on the impacts of platform organization of the cultural and creative sectors to understand how digital platforms are changing the dynamics of production and consumption and redesigning cultural markets.
    The platforming of cultural production and the creation processes• We will seek to gather texts on this axis that discuss how digital platforms are changing the dynamics and creative processes of different artistic languages ​​such as music, the performing and visual arts, among others.


    The platformization of cultural production and work
    • This axis aims to identify, survey and analyze how digital platforms are impacting the processes of creation, production, distribution, promotion and consumption and the socioeconomic organization of work in the field of cultural production.


    The platformization and democratization of culture
    • This axis intends to bring together articles that discuss the new dialogues and challenges between the new communication and information technologies and their digital platforms and human rights, addressing topics that present the impacts of the platformization of cultural production ways of accessing: information, freedom of expression, diversity, privacy, commitment to the truth, combating hate speech and discrimination.

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  • Migrations, communication and debates about human displacement in the 21st century

    2022-02-18

    The migratory experience always implies challenges and learning in relation to oneself and to the other. It involves not only the migrant subjects, but can also affect the social groups that remained at the origin and those at the destination.
    At times, leaving one's origins is a decision based on personal choice or job opportunity. In others, migration may be prompted by wars, natural tragedies, or political persecution.
    If cultural differences between regions can be obstacles for those who migrate within the same country, for those who change nations or continents, eventual differences in language and political organization are added. All these aspects have consequences for communication and the media agenda. Although some of them value narratives about human rights, in some spaces stereotypes and prejudices are still reproduced.
    This issue of Extraprensa intends to reflect on migrations on a regional scale and in the geopolitical context of the first decades of this century, highlighting its developments in the area of communication. This issue becomes more relevant when, on the one hand, local conflicts and international crises lead citizens to abandon their origins, and, on the other, xenophobic and intolerant far-right forces are advancing around the world.

     

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  • Paulo Freire's thought and its intersection with culture and communication.

    2021-08-19

    This edition of the Extraprensa Journal will receive articles, essays or research reports that deal with the interface of concepts developed by the Brazilian thinker Paulo Freire with the areas of communication and culture. How ideas such as the culture of silence, cultural action for freedom, education as a dialogical practice and, mainly, the commitment to social transformation intersect with the theoretical debates in the field of communication and culture, particularly in the Latin American scenario. And, also, contributions to reflect on the dilemmas of the construction of interdisciplinary fields between the area of communication and education. The publication of this issue of Extraprensa is a tribute to the birth centenary of the great Brazilian educational thinker.

     

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