OPEN CALLS FOR PAPERS

Conexión, a journal of the Academic Department of Communications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, invites you to submit articles of original and unpublished content in research and essays on journalism, advertising, communication for development, audiovisual communication, political communication, communication policies, new media, activism, subjectivities, and related areas, for possible publication and dissemination among the academic community and the specialized public, after double-blinded evaluation by referees selected for this purpose.

The Editorial Team will filter the manuscripts at different stages of the editorial process to detect possible plagiarism, duplicate publication, and other issues. Before sending your original manuscripts, please ensure compliance with all the indications and instructions regarding the submission of articles. Papers not complying with the established rules will be returned to the authors before starting the evaluation process.

The articles proposed for publication in the journal must follow its editorial line. We welcome submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Submissions must comply with our editorial guidelines, which you can access at the following link: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/conexion/normas_autores.

The call and reception of articles is open all year round, and these are published considering the date of submission by the authors, as well as the peer reviewers´ reports, and the raising of observations by the authors, if applicable.

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Telling About the Global South with Narratives that Convey Stories from Journalism, Artificial Intelligence, Images, and Art
Issue 24
(December 2025)

Call for papers starts: December 12, 2024
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025

This Call for Papers seeks to highlight new creative digital storytelling projects that explore the universes of societies in the Global South as the most neglected areas by the media in the Western world, as is the case with regions and continents like Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This does not imply that this monograph can make comparisons with countries of the Global North (such as the European or North American countries). Consequently, we call for a more inclusive perspective, given that academic, journalistic, and narrative perspectives usually comprise gaps between worlds: North and South—with more access to information or fewer possibilities for education—reporting on what is done in the North, while a large part of what is done in the Global South is ignored. In other words, we call for an involvement of different areas of Communication, including Journalism, Communication for Development, Political Communication, Activism, New Media, Artificial Intelligence, Photojournalism, or the Arts.
As a guide, some of the more specific issues may include:

- New media: Content, consumption, innovation, and creation. Projects in the field of journalism that use new digital narratives to cover social, political, cultural, or economic aspects in regions of the southern hemisphere that have not been reported on or are underrepresented, such as the Amazon, climate change, indigenous peoples in forgotten regions, human migrations and armed conflicts, new feminisms, political polarization, gender-based violence, cultural or social movements that advocate for human rights and that need to be more visible and taken into account by the mass media in Western countries.
The impact of Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, new digital platforms to cover issues of public interest: Communication initiatives that use digital narratives to impact areas related to Social Development within the Global South in regions such as Latin America, Asia, or Africa.
- New narratives in journalism, audiovisual production, and cultural industries: Case studies, projects, documentaries, news products that use digital narratives and whose stories are born with the aim of humanizing and shedding light on stories about the Global South with original and propositional approaches, in an audiovisual, visual, sound, transmedia or creative manner.
- Creative and analytical social construction narratives of reality: Public opinion studies, consumer behavior and political participation, political election studies, behaviors that incite polarization or promote the most radical discourses, in the settings related to the Global South countries that need to construct themselves under the stigma conditioned by the international media of the Global North.
* Politics of memory in post-conflict societies
- Platforms and projects that fight disinformation and seek other formulas for fact-checking or verifying content in order to tell the story: Platforms or digital media from the Global South that inform, verify content, and serve as good practices to bring us closer to human stories, using new narratives, data journalism, big data that tell and shape the stories of the countries most forgotten by the Global North, using creative comparisons or specific case studies.
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We welcome unpublished and original contributions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. For the submission of papers, please consult the rules in the following links:

● Guidelines for Authors
● Guidelines for Graphic Elements

For editorial inquiries about this issue, please contact Fátima Martínez (fatima.martinez@pucp.edu.pe, fatimamargu@gmail.com), Joseph Crawford (jcrawford@pucp.edu.pe), Yánder Castillo (ycastillos@pucp.edu.pe), or Ana Sedeño (valdellos@gmail.com), editors of Conexión thematic issue 25 (please, cc conexion@pucp.pe).

 

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Memory, Subjectivity, and Cinematographic Representations of Armed Conflict in Latin America
Issue 23
(July 2025)

Call for papers starts: August 1, 2024
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2025
(if necessary, the deadline can be extended until February 28, 2025)

Beyond its entertainment function, contemporary cinema still plays an important role in our approach to and interpretation of historical events, even more so in Latin America where the narratives and tensions surrounding our recent past are diverse.
The armed conflicts that have ravaged our countries during the second half of the twentieth century are one of the most represented topics in Latin American cinema. We have identified a significant corpus of production which, despite the passage of time, continues to be present in our cinema, complexifying and diversifying its forms of representation in recent years.
Today, in Latin America, we find new voices and memories that access film production to represent their gaze. The democratization of technology and the presence of right-wing governments with strong popular support in recent times have contributed to this diversity of voices.
This call for papers seeks to make visible the way diverse subjectivities involved in every film production, as well as its interference in the political life of our countries, the tensions it generates within right-wing populist governments, and its dissemination and exhibition process manifest through film.
Along these lines, the twenty-third issue of the journal Conexión, an academic publication of the Academic Department of Communication of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will bring together research works, essays, or reflection papers in the field of communications and other related disciplines that explore the following thematic axes:

* Subjectivities
* Fictional cinema
* Documentary / non-fiction / post-documentary cinema
* Audiovisual representations of political violence
* Politics of memory in post-conflict societies
* Official history vs. family memory
* Experimentation and the search for new forms of representation
* Tensions with families or audience, when representing (giving voice to) the perpetrator or collaborator.

This list in no way limits or excludes other proposals framed within the topic of memory, subjectivity, and cinematographic representations of armed conflicts in Latin America.

Submissions will be received between August 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025. The articles received will be peer-reviewed and those accepted will be published in issue 23 of the journal Conexión, scheduled for July 2025.

We welcome unpublished and original contributions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. For the submission of papers, please consult the rules in the following links:

● Guidelines for Authors
● Guidelines for Graphic Elements

For editorial inquiries about this issue, please contact Mauricio Godoy (mauricio.godoy@pucp.edu.pe) and María Claudia Huerta Vera (mchuerta@ucdavis.edu), editors of Conexión thematic issue 23 (please cc conexion@pucp.pe).

 

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