CfP: Sexual Harassment and the Communication Conundrum

Journal of Communication: Media Watch Invites Papers on:

Sexual Harassment and the Communication Conundrum

Sexual harassment, a weapon in the arsenal of men to control the communicational interactions with women, is being challenged by its targets. ‘Media Watch’ Journal of Communication (https://www.mediawatchjournal.in/) believes communication scholars should join this public discuss. Therefore, the editors are inviting scholars to submit articles for our May, 2018 issue. The topics are wide ranging across the discipline:

Sexual harassment charges have occurred in the film industry, journalism, and television. Men long in charge now are under criminal investigation. Female stars are providing times and details. The mass media hierarchies are being challenged.
Much mediated communication would seem to place sexual harassment into the public agenda: pornographic, magazines that glorify fashion, beauty, and sexuality; advertisements; plot lines of movies and television shows, and lyrics from songs.
Definitions are unclear. Rape and physical force are generally agreed upon as means of ascertaining sexual harassment. However, are all hugs, kisses, touches, and sexual repartee inherently harassment? How about looks, behaviors, body language? When does a communication become sexual harassment?
The allegations have focused on men sexually harassing women, but do men sexually harass other men? Can women sexually harass men and how would that be different?
No doubt, culturally understood signifiers contribute to sexual harassment. How much of what we understand to be sexual harassment or not interpret as sexual harassment is contextual or based on our individual past experiences as we all play out gender roles and assumptions in our daily discourses with others?

No doubt, communication scholars can contribute on these topics and many more communicative aspects of sexual harassment. As a journal that seeks to bring the scholarship of communication to important topics, we invite a full range of interdisciplinary, communication theoretical approaches to the topic of sexual harassment.

Dr. Mark Goodman
Special Issue Guest Editor
Professor of Communication
Mississippi State University, USA

Deadline for submissions:

February 15, 2018

full name / name of organization:

Journal of Communication: Media Watch

contact email:

mediawatchjournal@gmail.com

Last date of Abstract submission: 31 December 2017

Last date of Full Paper submission: 15 February 2018

E-mail your submission to: editor@mediawatchjournal.in & mediawatchjournal@gmail.com

For more information visit: https://www.mediawatchjournal.in/call-for-papers-2/

About the Author

Aptly described by the Independent newspaper as “a man of many parts”, Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji is a Fulbright scholar, interdisciplinary researcher, university don, public affairs analyst, communication consultant, peace advocate, interfaith worker and public intellectual. He obtained his academic degrees from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, where he was a Professor of English (Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics) before his appointment as Vice Chancellor as the pioneer Vice Chancellor of Ahman Patigi, Nigeria, in February 2021. He started his academic career in 2000 at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, shortly after which he joined the services of his alma mater, the University of Ilorin. A man of eclectic academic background, Prof. Adedimeji was educated in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Markaz Shabaabil Islam, Iwo, Osun State and Markaz Ta’aleemil Araby, Agege, Lagos. He obtained advanced training in Education, Political Science, Communication and Media, Research and Peace Studies at the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) Virtual Institute for Higher Education Pedagogy (VIHEP); the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa (VIHEAF); Governors State University, University Park, Illinois, USA; University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana; and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, USA. Apart from serving as a cultural ambassador to the US under the auspices of the Institute of International Education (IIE), New York, Prof. Adedimeji had won or co-won the research and conference awards/grants of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) of the National Research Council, Nigeria, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). He has written extensively for a wide range of newspapers and periodicals including “Unilorin Bulletin”, “Unilorin Watch”, “DeLight”, “National Pilot”, “Daily Independent”, “Daily Newswatch”, “New York Parrot” and “New Telegraph”, among others. A versatile academic and award-winning scholar, Prof. Adedimeji has attended academic conferences and undertaken research in several universities across Nigeria as well as in Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Malaysia, Sierra Leone, Australia, France and United States of America, among others. His hundreds of academic, Islamic and general/opinion articles have been published across outlets in Nigeria and beyond. He has also facilitated and participated in seminars and workshops both nationally and internationally. A former Head of the Directorate of Corporate Affairs of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Adedimeji was the Director of the Centre for Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, between 2013 and 2017. Apart from serving as Rapporteur-General to the Presidential Committee that organised the 2017 Federal Executive Council’s Retreat on Education in Nigeria, he has consulted for the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Nigeria Inter-religious Council (NIREC), the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence and Corps (NSCDC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). For years, he was a Coordinator and Facilitator of the Executive Management Course of the Nigerian Army Education Corps (NAEC) and Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Peace, Security and Development”, University of Ilorin. He has also served as a resource person to agencies like the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Orientation Agency (NOA), National Institute for Security Studies as well as a number of Civil Society Organisations. He is a recipient of several awards and honours including those of the International Chartered World Learned Society, American Biographical Institute, National Congress of Nigerian Students (NACONS), Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin, the Nigerian Army Education Corps, Postgraduate Students Association, UNILORIN, Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), UNILORIN, Students’ Union, UNILORIN, and National Association of Osun State Students (NAOSS), just to mention a few. A Fellow of bodies like the International Association of Research Scholars and Administrators (FIARSA), Institute of Corporate Administration, Nigeria, (FICAN), Society for Peace Studies and Practice (fspsp) and World Institute for Peace (FWIP) , Prof. Adedimeji is a former Member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) and until recently a Member of the Executive Council of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria (ESAN). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Research in Pragmatics, journal of the Pragmatics Association of Nigeria (PrAN) and ANUJAT, an international multidisciplinary journal of the All Nations University, Koforidua, Ghana. He has about 15 books to his credit as author, co-author, editor and co-editor.