EXTENSION OF SUBMISSIONS. NEW DEADLINE: 06/30/2023 | CALL FOR PAPERS Year 2023 - Dossier theme: “The role of scientific institutions in the consolidation of the communication field”

06/06/2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

Year 2023 - Number 43 (May-August)

Deadline for full paper submission: June 30th, 2023

Dossier theme: “The role of scientific institutions in the consolidation of the communication field”

 

PRESENTATION

The recent Covid-19 pandemic forced a large portion of the global population to adopt new work routines. The main one was to withdraw into isolation and work alone from home. However, for a professional category in particular, such a procedure was nothing new. Researchers from the academic world have always carried out their activities in solitude. The difference: solitary, but not isolated.
As Thomas Kuhn (1962) points out, even if science is put into practice by individuals, scientific knowledge is directly linked to the production of a group, that is, a scientific community. In addition, even without there being a consensus on the specificities of the field of Communication as a science, there is an understanding that there is a scientific community built around similar communicational objects and issues for at least seven decades. Pierre Bourdieu (1976), when conceptualizing the scientific field, emphasizes that this field can only be legitimized if there is, among other aspects, recognition, disputes on the part of peers and an institutionalization of the accumulation of knowledge generated within it.
In addition to some courses and research groups that were already dedicated to the field of communication since the first decades of the 20th century, the formal institutionalization of scholars in the field in scientific associations dates back to just over 70 years, with the creation of the International Communication Association ( ICA), in January 1950 – initially called the National Society for the Study of Communication (NSSC), until 1969 –; and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), created in 1957 under the auspices of Unesco.
The most precise conceptualization of such a process can be found in the words of Raúl Fuentes Navarro (1994, p. 17): “The institutionalization is the most 'objective' manifestation of the constitution of an academic field, when instances of social power assign the recognizes a specific place of production and reproduction of knowledge about a given area and, implicitly or explicitly, defines the orientation and the meaning (social function) that the work on that area in that place will need to fulfill to reinforce its legitimacy”.
At a time when people are increasingly isolating themselves, at the same time that social and political institutions are being more attacked, this issue of Revista da Alaic aims to highlight the importance of the congregation of ideas and ideals. The ideal place for this to happen is in congresses and scientific entities.
In this dossier, we want to rescue the role and strength of the academic community, emphasizing the importance of associations outside the hegemonic axis, such as Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, since 1977; Alaic – Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, since 1978; Amic - Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, y Felafacs - Federación Latinoamericana de Facultades de Communication Social, both since 1979; Aboic - Asociación Boliviana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, from 1981; Fadeccos - Federación Argentina de Carreras de Comunicación Social, from 1983; and many others, including co-sisters from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, which have been formed to legitimize and consolidate the community and the communication field over the years.


Suggested topics:

  • Association history
  • Main lines of research and actions developed
  • Theoretical-methodological approaches employed
  • Contributions to the scientific field in the region
  • Reference personalities
  • International insertion

REFERENCES 

Bourdieu, Pierre (1976). Le champ scientifique. Actes de Ia Recherche en Sciences Sociales, n. 2/3, p. 88-104.

Fuentes Navarro, Raúl (1994). La institucionalización del campo académico – un primer acercamiento comparativo. Revista Intercom, v. 17, n. 1, p. 10-32.

Kuhn, Thomas S. (1962). The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.


GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
Deadline for submitting articles: 06.30.23
The texts must follow the norms of the journal, which are available at: http://revista.pubalaic.org/index.php/alaic/about/submissions

GUESTS COORDINATORS OF THE DOSSIER
Edgard Rebouças, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil
Contato: edgard.reboucas@ufes.br
Helena Sousa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Contato: helena@ics.uminho.pt