We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Special Issue “Mediating Migration: Representation, Inequality, and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Communication Environments,” to be published in Media and Communication.
This thematic issue seeks to bring together international and interdisciplinary research examining how migration, migrants, refugees, and human mobility are represented, mediated, negotiated, and contested across contemporary communication environments. We particularly welcome contributions addressing legacy news media, digital platforms, social media, visual communication, AI-mediated communication, synthetic content, and hybrid media ecologies.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, media framing of migration and refugees; representations of borders, asylum, irregularity, and belonging; racism, xenophobia, hate speech, and symbolic discrimination; misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, synthetic content, and anti-migrant discourse; migrant voices and self-representation; platform governance and algorithmic amplification; public opinion and the politics of belonging; media literacy; ethical journalism; counter-narratives; and communicative, civic, institutional, or policy-oriented interventions against exclusionary narratives.
The Special Issue aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars working at the intersection of migration studies, media and communication research, digital cultures, public discourse, and social inequalities.
Scholars interested in contributing are warmly invited to submit an abstract through the journal’s online submission system between 1 and 15 February 2027.
Media and Communication is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, and currently ranked Q1 in both Journal Citation Reports and SCImago Journal Rank. Article processing charges apply to accepted manuscripts. Corresponding authors affiliated with Cogitatio institutional members do not incur any article processing fee for articles up to 8,500 words.
Abstract submission: 1–15 February 2027
Full paper submission: 15–31 August 2027
Publication: January–June 2028