Hybrid Media Worlds: Practices, Actors, and Cultural Negotiations

Contemporary media environments are increasingly shaped by complex and uneven processes of hybridization that operate at technological, cultural, economic, and social levels. Digitalization, phantomization, datafication, and the globalization of media industries have profoundly transformed the conditions under which communication takes place, producing overlapping logics rather than stable or clearly separable domains. As a result, distinctions that once structured media research—such as production versus consumption, professional versus amateur, online versus offline, cultural versus economic value—are no longer sufficient to account for current media dynamics. This Call for Book Proposals for the Communication Processes and Cultural Practices series invites scholars to explore hybridization as a key analytical lens for examining contemporary media practices. We welcome proposals that critically investigate hybrid forms of consumption and production, shifting modes of participation and recognition, and the cultural, social, and political implications of living and acting within hybrid media environments. The series welcomes both single-authored monographs and edited collections that offer original theoretical perspectives, robust empirical research, or innovative methodological approaches. Deadline: 28 febbraio 2026
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