Call for Papers — Issue #38: COMMUNICATION, ART, AND TERRITORY

Posted on 2026-08-19

Special Issue:

COMMUNICATION, ART, AND TERRITORY

 

Co-Editing Institution for this Issue:

Dr. Paula Simonetti 

Universidad Nacional de San Martín -Argentina

Universidad de la República - Uruguay

 

Presentation

Contemporary transformations in communication and culture across Latin America reveal a landscape shaped by deep tensions surrounding the production of meaning, modes of representation, and the material conditions of cultural life. In a context marked by the expansion of digital platforms, algorithmic cultures, the precarious nature of creative labor, and disputes over visibility, artistic and communicative practices emerge as strategic spaces for constructing social imaginaries, forms of resistance, and processes of territorial transformation.

This special dossier invites reflection on the relationships between communication, art, and territory from a critical, inter-, and transdisciplinary perspective to understand the multiple mediations shaping contemporary cultural ecosystems. It seeks to problematize both the digital dynamics reorganizing cultural circulation and professional identities, as well as the community and collective experiences disputing hegemonic meanings from the margins.

The call pays special attention to the conditions of artistic and cultural labor in Latin America, recognizing that contemporary creative industries are intersected by structural forms of job insecurity, multiple employment, and instability. In this scenario, the increasing hybridization of roles leads artists, creators, and cultural workers to act as permanent managers, producers, distributors, and administrators of their own visibility, particularly within environments mediated by digital platforms and attention economies.

Furthermore, we welcome analyses on how algorithms and socio-digital platforms function as new mediators and gatekeepers of symbolic production, reconfiguring forms of cultural recognition, circulation, and legitimation. Specifically, the issue aims to explore how youth and historically subalternized subjects develop strategies of communicative and artistic appropriation—shifting from being "objects" of representation to actively narrating, editing, and contesting their own reality through audiovisual, radio, editorial, literary, digital, and transmedia devices.

From this perspective, the issue calls for research addressing the intersections of communication, creation, sociocultural policies, and the sustainability of cultural life; as well as studies on collective management, solidarity economies, cultural mediation, intersectional inequalities, and the construction of alternative imaginaries across diverse territories in Latin America.

Thematic Tracks

  • Communication, Territory, and Disputes over Imaginaries: We invite research on community, popular, and alternative communication experiences; situated artistic practices; processes of communicative appropriation and territorial narrative construction; as well as studies on historically subalternized subjects and collectives using audiovisual, radio, literary, or digital tools to challenge hegemonic meanings and produce alternative forms of cultural and political representation.

  • Digital Mediations, Platforms, and Algorithmic Cultures: This track welcomes submissions focused on analyzing digital platforms, algorithms, socio-digital networks, and streaming services as new mediators of contemporary cultural circulation. Research is expected on attention economies, emotional labor, image self-management, digital visibility, and the transformation of professional identities, particularly among young creators and cultural workers.

  • Artistic Work, Job Insecurity, and the Sustainability of Cultural Life: We invite papers examining the material conditions of cultural and creative labor in Latin America, including structural precarity, multiple employment, career trajectories, economic sustainability, informality, and tensions among creation, the market, and digital platforms. Papers addressing new organizational forms of cultural labor and the growing hybridization of roles in contemporary creative industries are also welcome.

  • Collective Management, Sociocultural Policies, and Solidarity Economies: This track gathers research on cooperation networks, cultural mediation, public policies, collective management, and solidarity economy models aimed at sustaining cultural and communicative projects. Studies on territorial initiatives, collaborative processes, and experiences linking communication, culture, and community organization for the construction of alternative collective imaginaries and futures are expected.

 

Call for Papers Closing Date:

October 17, 2025

To review the author guidelines and manuscript templates, please visit:

https://revistas.uniminuto.edu/index.php/med

For further information, please contact:

mediaciones@uniminuto.edu