[acc-cca-l] CFP: Counter Data Mapping

[Sandra Jeppesen]

[△EXTERNAL]


Hi all,

We would like to invite CCA members and followers to submit papers to the special thematic issue of Media and Communication outlined below on the topic of "Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance."

MaC is open access, high impact, and has a publishing fee. We strongly encourage authors from the global south and early career researchers to submit their work and will work with accepted authors to offset and minimize these fees to the extent possible.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

All the best,
Sandra Jeppesen and Paola Sartoretto.

Title:
Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance


Editor(s):
Sandra Jeppesen (Lakehead University) and Paola Sartoretto (Jonkoping University)

Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 February 2025
Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 July 2025
Publication of the Issue: January/June 2026

Information:

This thematic issue will explore how counter-data and counter-maps are being used by diverse global communities to visually construct new social realities that support their social justice aims (see Jeppesen & Sartoretto, 2023), both contesting data power and engaging the counter-power of map-making practices beyond cartographic representation (Calvo & Candón-Mena, 2023).

Communities may engage in resistant data appropriation, either reappropriating big datasets and/or creating community datasets (Ricaurte, 2019). Counter-data maps produced by diverse marginalized groups can reveal hidden inequalities, enhance communities’ visibility, and support calls for intersectional justice. They may express a community’s demands, contesting top-down categorizations imposed by states and corporations, and engage in counter-mapping as a form of data power embedded in notions of experienced spatiality and relationality.

We invite contributions that interrogate community data mapping practices and consider practices of data visualization and visual communication that contest the narratives of big data produced in hegemonic data mapping by states and corporations.

Potential contributors should address dimensions of counter-mapping that might include:

  *   Data mapping practices;
  *   Collaborative mapping;
  *   Inclusive dashboard design;
  *   Mapping ecologies and flows;
  *   Data visualizations;
  *   Map interactivity;
  *   Data mapping imaginaries;
  *   Data justice;
  *   Territorial justice;
  *   Data sources for counter-mapping;
  *   Community objectives and imaginaries in counter-mapping;
  *   Uses and capacities for digital mapping;
  *   Map production by diverse communities;
  *   Community ownership of data and maps, etc.

Contributors may also consider how communities, activists, and grassroots groups are appropriating data and/or data maps to address:

  *   Data colonialism;
  *   Racialized data and maps;
  *   Gendered data and maps;
  *   Rural mapping (or rural exclusions);
  *   Regional representations;
  *   Hegemonic data and mapping processes;
  *   Data mapping imaginaries;
  *   Queering data maps;
  *   Mapping disabilities;
  *   Accessibility to data mapping technologies;
  *   Mapping poverty or food deserts;
  *   Eviction mapping;
  *   Mapping ecologies;
  *   Mapping alternative economies;
  *   Intersectional mapping, etc.

We encourage contributors to de-centre Western epistemological frameworks and integrate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches. We also specifically invite contributions from lower-income countries, the Global South, and communities underrepresented in the scholarly literature.

References

Calvo, D., & Candón-Mena, J. (2023). Cartografías tecnopolíticas: Propuesta para el mapeo colaborativo desde la investigación-acción participativa. Cuadernos.info, 54, 23–44.

Jeppesen, S., & Sartoretto, P. (2023). Cartographies of resistance: Counter-data mapping as the new frontier of digital media activism. Media and Communication, 11(1), 150–162.

Ricaurte, P. (2019). Data epistemologies, the coloniality of power, and resistance. Television & New Media, 20(4), 350–365.

Instructions for Authors:
Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (here<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/abstracts>). When submitting their abstracts, authors are also asked to confirm that they are aware that Media and Communication is an open access journal with a publishing fee if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review (corresponding authors affiliated with our institutional members do not incur this fee).


Open Access:
Readers across the globe will be able to access, share, and download this issue entirely for free. Corresponding authors affiliated with any of our institutional members<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/institutionalmembers> (over 90 institutions worldwide) publish free of charge. Otherwise, an article processing fee will be charged to the authors to cover editorial costs. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and encourage them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open access publication costs. Further information about the journal's open access charges can be found here<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicies#publicationFees>.
In appreciation,
Sandra
Dr Sandra Jeppesen (pronouns she/her)
Professor
Media, Film, and Communications program
Interdisciplinary Studies department
Social Justice Studies MA program
Media Action Research Group<http://www.mediaactionresearch.org/>
Counter Data Mapping Project<https://www.mediaactionresearch.org/counter-mapping-covid-grassroots-visualizations-of-data-on-the-margins/>
Critical EDI Work Project<https://www.mediaactionresearch.org/research/race-gender-diversity/>
Research Centre for Sustainable Communities<https://www.lakeheadu.ca/research-and-innovation/facilities-centres/research-centre-for-sustainable-communities>
Smart[er] Cities Research Network

Recent Journal Article
Cartographies of Resistance: Counter-data mapping as the new frontier of digital media activism<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6043>

News Media
Performance Crime at the Capitol riots
<https://theconversation.com/the-jan-6-insurrection-showed-that-performance-crime-is-becoming-increasingly-popular-186102>

Books
The Capitol Riots: Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack <https://routledge.pub/The-Capitol-Riots> (Routledge, 2022)
Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter<https://www.ubcpress.ca/transformative-media> (UBC Press, 2021)

Land Acknowledgment
Lakehead University Orillia is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. The Anishinaabeg include the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.

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