Emerald Studies in Media and Communications (ESMC) is edited by series co-editors Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, and Jeremy Schulz.
ESMC publishes volumes that capitalize on the series’ sponsorship by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS).
ESMC welcomes self-nominations from scholars interested in editing a volume on any aspect of media, communication, information technologies, digital sociology, etc.
CURRENT CALLS
Innovative Teaching and Learning
Lead Editor Dr. Katia Moles
Contact Email: digital.sociology.editorial@gmail.com
This volume welcomes submissions that contribute to any facet of teaching innovation engaging media, digital tech, etc. If you are interested in publishing please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Dr. Moles by October 15th, 2025. If selected, authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts by January 15th, 2026.
Communication, Health, and Care Work
Editor Dr. Cara Chiaraluce
Contact Email: cchiaraluce@scu.edu
This volume welcomes submissions that contribute to any facet of healthcare or care work that engages with communication, digital technology, or media. If you are interested in publishing please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Dr. Caraluce by October 15th, 2025. If selected, authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts by January 15th, 2026.
Media Sociology Symposium
Corresponding Editor Dr. Jeremy Schulz
Contact Email: Media Sociology mediasociologysymposium@gmail.com
Have you presented at the Media Sociology Symposium or the ICA Media Sociology Postonference? Or do you plan to present in 2025 or 2026? This volume will highlight submissions from researchers at one of these events and welcomes submissions that contribute to any facet media sociology writ large. If you are interested in publishing please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Dr. Schulz by October 15th, 2025. If selected, authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts by January 15th, 2026.
Guest Editors: Edit Your Own Volume
Corresponding Editor Dr. Laura Robinson
Contact Email: laurarobinsonscu@gmail.com
If you are interested in guest editing please contact Dr. Robinson at any time to receive proposal instructions. For Guest Editors, given the breadth of the fields contributing to the study of media and communication, the parameters are set as broadly as possible. As long as the research speaks to the theme(s) identified in each call for submissions, the series aims to encompass research on emergent phenomena, as well as studies with a historical or longitudinal dimension. Although the submissions must be written in English, we particularly welcome submissions with an international, comparative, and/or global angle of vision. Submissions may be empirical, theoretical, or methodological–using any method or approach. Within the themes set by each volume’s editors, contributions on a wide variety of topics on [digital] media, ICTs, and communication are welcome from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Questions? Please contact laurarobinsonscu@gmail.com
CITAMS@30: Two Volumes with Emerald Studies in Media and Communications to Celebrate CITAMS’ Thirty-Year Anniversary
Two ESMC volumes also to celebrate the section’s thirtieth anniversary. Since the beginning of CITASA’s sponsorship of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications (ESMC), the series has published research by CITAMS members and contributed to the section’s intellectual community. More recently, ESMC has also enjoyed sponsoring the Media Sociology Preconference and organizing closing plenary sessions of that annual event. Given these fruitful relationships, as the thirty-year anniversary of CITAMS approached, it seemed only natural to invite the CITAMS past chairs and community to contribute to a special volume celebrating the event. We invited current section chair Wenhong Chen and past chairs Barry Wellman, Shelia Cotten, and Laura Robinson to join forces with Casey Brienza, founder of the Media Sociology Preconference. Their mission was simple: find the best current scholarship highlighting the present of our dynamic field or seek out analysis on the growth and history of the section with an eye to the future. To our delight, overwhelming response produced not one, but two volumes. Barry Wellman leads the first of the two volumes– Networks, Hacking, and Media–CITAMS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow–showcases field analysis from past CITAMS chairs, as well as a feast of interdisciplinary scholarship on networks and relationships. Casey Brienza leads the second of the two volumes–The M in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology–probing the relationships between inequalities and media, as well as a scintillating array of scholarship on cultural production and consumption. Both volumes highlight some of the best of the vibrant, interdisciplinary scholarship in communication, information technologies and media sociology.
Networks, Hacking, and Media–CITAMS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow
Editors: Barry Wellman, Laura Robinson, Casey Brienza, Wenhong Chen, and Shelia R. Cotten, and Aneka Khilnani (Associate Editor)
Foreword: CITAMS@30 By: Wenhong Chen
Networks, Hacking, and Media–CITAMS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow By: Barry Wellman, Laura Robinson, Casey Brienza, Wenhong Chen, and Shelia R. Cotten, and Aneka Khilnani
Section 1: Field Analysis: CITAMS Past Chairs
CITAMS at Thirty: Learning from the Past, Plotting a Course for the Future By: Deana Rohlinger and Jennifer Earl
Section Membership and Participation in the American Sociological Review Publication Process By: James C. Witte, Roberta Spalter-Roth, and Yukiko Furuya
How Information Technology Transforms the Methods of Sociological Research By: Edward Brent
Section 2: Field Analysis: Relationships and Networks
In Sync, but Apart: Temporal Symmetry, Social Synchronicity, and Digital Connectedness By: Mary Chayko
Break-ups on Facebook: A Typology of Coping Strategies By Anabel Quan-Haase, Andrew Nevin, and Veronika Lukacs
Long Ties as Equalizers By: Yotam Shmargad
Black-Hat Hackers’ Crisis Information Processing in the Darknet: A Case Study of Cyber Underground Market Shutdowns By: K. Hazel Kwon and Jana Shakarian
I click, Therefore I am: Predicting Clicktivist-like Actions on Candidates’ Facebook Posts During the 2016 U.S. Primary Election By: Marc Esteve Del Valle, Alicia Wanless-Berk, Anatoliy Gruzd, and Philip Mai
Afterword: Reflections on My Path to CITASA/CITAMS and the Future of Our Section By Shelia R. Cotten
The M in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology
Editors: Casey Brienza, Laura Robinson, Barry Wellman, Shelia Cotten, Wenhong Chen and Aneka Khilnani (Associate Editor)
Foreword: CITAMS@30 By: Wenhong Chen
The M in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology By: Aneka Khilnani, Laura Robinson, Casey Brienza, Barry Wellman, Shelia Cotten, and Wenhong Chen
Section 1 Inequalities and Media
Closing the Digital Divide: Justification for Government Intervention By: Lloyd Levine
Public Knowledge and Digital Divide: the Role and Impact of China’s Media By: Mingli Mei, Ru Zhao, and Miaochen Zhu
Changing Politics of Tribalism in I am Legend and its Remakes By: Jeremiah Morelock
A Niagara of Intemperance and Vice: Newspaper Reports on Immigrant New York 1800-1900 By: Saran Ghatak and Niall Moran
Liberalism without the Press: 18th century Minas Geraes and the Roots of Brazilian Development By: Heloisa Pait
Section 2: Cultural Production and Consumption
Openness as a Means to Closure in Cultural Journalism By: Philippa K. Chong
The Attractions of “Recoil” TV: The Story-World of Game of Thrones By: Carmen Spanó
From the Raja to the Desi Romance: A Sociological Discourse on Family, Class and Gender in Bollywood By: Tanni Chaudhuri
Affective (Im)Mediations and the Communication Process By: Ana Ramos
Afterword: Reflections on My Path to CITASA/CITAMS and the Future of Our Section By Shelia R. Cotten
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