ConnectIST

Istanbul University

Journal of Communication on Science

Dr. Peddiboyina Vijaya Lakshmi (vijaya.cj@gmail.com)

(Professeor, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam, India)

Dr. Nezih Orhon (nezihorhon@gmail.com)

(Professeor, Anadolu University, Türkiye)

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:

October 26, 2024

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE:

March 04-05, 2025

FINAL PAPER SUBMISSION:

July 13, 2025

PUBLICATION DATE:

December, 2025

e-ISSN 2636-8943 | Period Biannually | Founded:1992 | Publisher Istanbul University

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This call for papers is for publication of a special issue of Connectist. It is combined with a call for submissions to a virtual conference on the same theme, which may precede publication.

Participants in the virtual conference on Health Communication will benefit from feedback and an opportunity to refine or develop work, prior to submission to the associated journal. Also, it will be a great opportunity to network with other researchers from different parts of the world to open a discussion on various emerging topics, compare practices in different communities, and develop research networks.

Successful submission to the journal does not depend upon participation in the conference, and nor does participation in the conference guarantee publication, but we aim that these two activities will support each other, and our participants, as they develop work for publication in the Connectist special issue

If you would like to be considered as a participant for the virtual conference, please submit a word document containing:

- title of the project

- author(s) name

- author(s) affiliation(s)

- author(s) organization(s)

- 500-word abstract.

Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences is an open access, peer-reviewed and international journal, which has been indexed by ProQuest, EBSCO, Erihplus, TrDizin, DOAJ, SOBIAD and ranked Q4(WoS). There will not be a registration fee to attend the virtual conference or Article Processing Fee (APC) to publish in the journal. ConnectIST is published biannually and uses double-blind peer review for all articles it publishes.

"We are not just fighting the pandemic; we are fighting the infodemic"

Health has perhaps become a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed together with many different concepts and developments than ever before. Within this requirement, basic concepts such as health communication and health literacy began to need to be evaluated with more up-to-date research and definitions. We see that the concept of communication, technology, cultural diversity, individualized tools and many other topics is prominently included in the evaluation of health-related issues. Traditional definitions need to be framed once again with current approaches, handled together with new concepts and even new definitions need to be put forward.

When we look at Health Communication, we see that it is a discipline that examines the health-related information exchange and interaction of individuals, societies and health professionals.

While this field covers topics such as the prevention and treatment of diseases and the promotion of healthy lifestyles; Health communication aims to understand and improve health-related communication processes by bringing together scientific, cultural and ethical dimensions.

Health communication is a discipline that has a wide scope and includes various communication areas. This scope includes health-related information exchange, health service communication, patient-relative communication, communication of health policies and other dimensions. Interactive and effective management of each area is important for health communication to be successful.

On the other hand, it also includes concepts such as transparency, empathy and cultural sensitivity, which are expected to be carefully maintained between people. It is also seen that it creates the basic values of health communication by encouraging effective communication between individuals.

Health literacy includes the ability to access correct information and services and to use this information and services in order to improve both one's own and the public's health. It also strengthens the correct use of resources, the creation of quality conditions in health services, and thus the individual's competence over his own health and public health to the extent that he can change his lifestyle. For quality healthcare, patients must first be able to describe their complaints accurately and describe the symptoms as they are.

Ideally, patients are expected to ask appropriate questions about the subject and understand medical recommendations and treatment instructions. Therefore, low levels of health literacy can negatively affect people's health and therefore their personal, social and cultural development. Indirectly, starting from the individual, it can also gain a social dimension. In this context, people need to be sufficiently health literate. In order to define the level of health literacy, the framework of health literacy is drawn by taking into account basic factors such as education, health and society.

The concepts of health communication and health literacy have become much more diverse, comprehensive and much more interdisciplinary with the new developments (pandemics, crises and the like), concepts (infodemic, disinformation and others) and especially technological developments (digital health, skin technologies and others) needs to be discussed together with transdisciplinary and intersectional approaches. In this regard, the aim of this issue is to present current approaches, discussions and research in the field within these dimensions and variables.

Television in the Global South
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences and Online Conference
Guest editors: Yesim Kaptan (Associate Professor, Kent State University, Ohio) & Ece Algan (Professor, California State University, San Bernadino)

Deadline for abstracts: October 17, 2023
Online Conference: March 14-15, 2024
Publication Date: December 2024


After the neoliberalization of television in the 1990s, the late 2000s proved to be the start of the next important transformative phase for world television marked by the widespread use of personal digital media devices and increased access to the internet. This contemporary phase has witnessed rapid technological developments in television, such as the digitalization and platformization of television services and the expansion of television consumption via social media. These developments have also transformed the ways in which content is created by national media industries, is distributed by both local and global media companies, and is consumed by audiences worldwide. As a result, the experience of television production, distribution, and consumption has been redefined not just for the countries of the affluent West, but also for those in the global South. This special issue aims to investigate the transformations in contemporary television in the Global South and the influence of non-western television production and consumption on the global media landscape.
Today, audiences are exposed to a plethora of both global television content and local productions due to rapid transnational media flows in multidirectional ways across regions and countries. Moreover, social media affordances coupled with easier access to satellite and platforms offer an opportunity to view and discuss television content everywhere in the world including small towns and rural areas. In an era of increased permeability of television content, technologies, trends, and genres, we believe that any study of global television should take into consideration how the global television landscape affects the local, national and/or regional contexts of production and consumption and vice versa. This also necessitates a questioning of Western-centric theories and their applications to various local and national contexts. Therefore, one of the aims of this special issue is to globalize, de-westernize, and decolonize television studies.
In this special issue, we invite submissions which critically examine television in the Global South from various methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives. We encourage submissions from underrepresented regions as well as from scholars in the Global North who study television in the Global South. We look forward to submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:
• The impact of digitalization and/or platformization on local, national and/or regional TV cultures and industries
• The rise of non-Western culture industries (e.g., Bollywood, Nollywood, Hallyu, Turkish, etc.) and the global popularity of their television exports
• Political economy of television in local, national, regional, intra-regional, trans-regional, and global contexts
• Changing dynamics of network and platform television production, distribution and consumption
• The politics of TV remakes and formats
• Television labor, precarity and the unionization of television workers
• TV representations, identities and audience reception
• TV consumption and broadcasting via social media (e.g., news outlets on the internet and social media, fans sharing and viewing TV series on YouTube, short videos of TV content on TikTok)
• Content sharing as resistance to big television and neoliberalization
• Nation-states’ influence on television production, distribution and exhibition (e.g., censorship, new laws and regulations, governmental control of TV outlets, platforms, TV outlets, platforms, and social media broadcasting channels)
• Permeability and exchanges of television trends, content, and genres
• South-to-South comparisons of case studies on television
• Contemporary television advertising and promotional culture in trans-local, national, intra-regional, trans-regional, and global contexts
Please submit abstracts (400-500 words) and a short bio to: connectist@istanbul.edu.tr by October 17, 2023.
Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences is an open access, peer-reviewed and international journal, which has been indexed by ProQuest and EBSCO among others and ranked Q4. Authors whose abstracts are accepted for the special issue of Connectist are expected to present their papers at the Television in the Global South Online Conference on March 14-15, 2024 before they submit their manuscripts for publication. There will not be a registration fee to attend the online conference or Article Processing Fee (APC) fee to publish in the journal. Connectist is published biannually and uses double-blind peer review for all articles it publishes.
Please contact the special issue guest editors Yesim Kaptan (ykaptan@kent.edu) and Ece Algan (ealgan@csusb.edu) should you have any questions.

Important Deadlines:
Abstract Submission: October 17, 2023
Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2023
Online Conference: March 14-15, 2024
Final Paper Submission: July 1, 2024