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- What definition of emotion appears adequate for research in digital media landscapes?
- What understanding of emotion manifests in media production by professional stakeholders (journalists, filmmakers, game developers, etc.) and non-professional stakeholders (users, influencers, etc.)?
- How can the significance of emotion as a component part of media content ranges be identified conceptually and empirically and at the same time as a dimension in experiencing media?
- What role does emotion play in the process of creating content?
- What is the influence of emotion on the selection and curation of content (page design, program design, algorithmic selection)
- How can emotions be identified in visual communication?
- What is the role of feeling rules in peer communication via (digital) media content ranges and in dealing with media?
- How can emotional involvement be utilized in learning processes? Can “affective media practices” (Lünenborg et al., 2021) be conceptually useful?
- How is the knowledge of (our own) emotions changed by interaction with media?
- What is the impact of social context on the genesis of emotions?
- How do social media affect the emotional experience of young media users (digital stress, self-expression, digital health)?
- Does permanent networking give rise to new forms of “digital affect culture” (Döveling & Seyfert, 2023) and if so, how can these forms be empirically identified?
- To what extent are emotions taken into account in modeling media literacy?
- What is the significance of emotional experience in media appropriation concepts?
Submissions focusing on specific emotions (e. g. vicarious embarrassment, schadenfreude) and their connection to
media content ranges and types of media use are also welcome.
Abstracts with a maximum length of 750 words can be submitted to the merz-editorial team (merz@jff.de) until
January 13, 2025. Please upload your abstracts at https://www.merz-zeitschrift.de/about/submissions. Submissions
should follow the merzWissenschaft layout specifications, available at https://www.merz-zeitschrift.de/
manuskriptrichtlinien/. The length of the articles should not exceed a maximum of approximately 4,000 words.
Please feel free to contact Susanne Eggert, Fon: +49.89.68989.152, E-Mail: susanne.eggert@jff.de
DEADLINES AT A GLANCE
- 13 January 2025: Submission of abstracts to merz@jff.de
- 3 February 2025: Decision on acceptance/ rejection of abstracts
- 19 May 2025: Submission of articles
- May/June 2025: Assessment phase (double-blind peer review)
- June/July 2025: Revision phase (multi-phase when appropriate)
- End of November 2025: merzWissenschaft 2025 published