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Title: Life in Portuguese

Subtitle: Memory, Identity e Citizenship in the digital age

Editors: Murilo Guimarães e Silvia Valencich Frota

Institutional Affiliations: Centre for Comparative Studies - School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Project Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

 

 

A sphere of conviviality based on the digital world has arisen through new systems of communication and information. Everyday life was replicated on the worldwide web, which has posed methodological and theoretical challenges to researchers from distinct fields, focused on the comprehension of the social, political, and cultural impacts of such innovations. 

 

“Life in Portuguese” will be one of the outcomes of the Project Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021), sponsored by FCT, and coordinated by Elsa Peralta, from the School of Arts and humanities of the University of Lisbon. It will gather empirically grounded theoretical analyses which led to a better understanding of such transformations, concerning especially to the production of individual and collective identities, the hole of memory over these processes, and the new patterns of citizenship, which have turned into new practices of belongings, inclusion, or exclusion, in Portuguese speaking countries.

 

Transdisciplinary approaches will be prioritized, emphasizing studies about culture, communication and media, critical speech studies and digital ethnographies, which has been shown to be effective in understanding interpersonal relations mediated by new technologies. Since this volume results from the Project Constellations of Memory, contributions guided by the comprehension of human flows and its developments in contexts historically    marked by colonialism, namely that related to the Portuguese imperialism, will be taken into special account.

 

It will be accepted proposals about the following topics, though not limited to them:

 

·       Production and consumption of memories on digital networks;

·       Friendship, trust and betrayal in the digital world;

·       Celebrities, microcelebrities and digital influencers;

·       Memories in transit or in diaspora: the uses of digital media and networks by refugees, migrants and retornados from former Portuguese colonies;

·       Artificial intelligence: risks and opportunities;

·       Impacts of pervasive technology, hiperconnectivity, ubiquitous communication in the contemporaneity;

·       Big data, digital cities and latifundio: metaverses and surveillance capitalism; 

·       Identities, artistic creation in and for the digital, and performances;

·       Electoral campaigns in the digital: mediation, representation and accountability;

·       Populism, fake news and strategies of propagation of political ideas and agenda in the digital age;

·       Lusotropical religiosity and spirituality in social networks;

·       Decolonial movements and struggles on digital platforms: feminism, anti-patriarchalism, antiracism, anti LGBTphobia, and antifascism;

·       Digital media, representation and identity in the hyperconnectivity age;

·       New media: citizenship, nationalism an identity;

·       Digital and media literacy and citizenship;

·       Digital culture, identity and identification;

·      Infocracy, surveillance capitalism and digital citizenship.

 

Interested researches must submit a 450 to 500 word abstract, accompanied by a biography of up to 250 words, both of them written in Portuguese, indicating the institution to which they are affiliated, if any, by June 08, to the email mrguimaraes@edu.ulisboa.pt

 

Authors will be informed about the acceptance of their proposals up to June 29. Complete chapters of u to 50 thousand characters and according do APA regulations must be submitted up to September 14. It should be emphasized that the acceptance of the proposal does not condition the publication of the respective chapter in the final version of the volume.

 

Timeline

Undertaking – Due date

 

Proposal Submission – June 08, 2023

Decision on publication (acceptance or refusal) – June 29, 2023

Chapters submission – September 14, 2023

Conclusion of the peer revision and sending revised texts to the authors to any adjustments – November 09, 2023

Submission of the final version of the chapters – November 23, 2023.

 

Click this link for further information (in Portuguese).