Dear colleagues, Please help us disseminate this Call for Papers. We specially welcome contributors from the Global South and emerging/junior scholars working in this field. Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Scopus Q1) *Special Issue on: * *Media Discourses of Poverty in the Global South: When Subaltern voices speak about social exclusion and inequality* For this Special Issue, the guest editors invite contributions that traverse disciplinary boundaries, engaging in critical inquiry into the construction and articulation of discourses and narratives on poverty and inequality within the public media spaces of the Global South. We seek to publish works examining traditional legacy media as well as new digital natives, including social media platforms and other media spaces. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Discourses of poverty and social exclusion in the media in the Global South - Representations and debates on inequality in media spaces - Intersectional discourses on poverty, environment, and migration - Social media platforms and poverty in the Global South - Representations of poverty in films and television - New media technologies and poverty discourses - Visual representation of poverty in the Global South - Digital media inequalities and reproduction of poverty - Class and ideology in the discourses on poverty - Algorithm recommendation systems and curation of discourses on poverty - Media/journalism ethics and the representation of poverty in the Global South *Submission Instructions* Authors are requested to indicate if their submissions address the special call. Authors must adhere to the journal’s guidelines. To be considered for the special issue, please submit an abstract of 250 words along with author biographies of 100 words by June 16, 2024. Potential authors will be invited to participate in an online seminar that will be held in January 2025 Successful authors must submit full articles (up to 7000 words) by May 16, 2025. *There are no submission fees, publication fees, or page charges for this journal* Abstract submissions and inquiries should be addressed to Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando and Mohamed Ben Moussa at simulticulturaldiscourse@gmail.com More details at: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/media-discourses-of-povert... <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthink.taylorandfrancis.com%2Fspecial_issues%2Fmedia-discourses-of-poverty-in-the-global-south-when-subaltern-voices-speak-about-social-exclusion-and-inequality%2F%3F_gl%3D1*18jfsxi*_ga*MjAzNDYwNjk3NC4xNTcwMDgzNzc3*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTcxNTEzNTU4My4xNDQ1LjEuMTcxNTEzNTg0OC42MC4wLjA.*_gcl_au*MzUyNzI2MDI3LjE3MTI1NjMyODUuNTI3MDI4MzcxLjE3MTI4MDgxNDAuMTcxMjgwODE3NQ&data=05%7C02%7Cmbenmoussa%40sharjah.ac.ae%7C143e9694af4a4fd4a3c008dc6f2559b6%7Ce0ba2eba54254d9bb24bf0f4845bcf62%7C0%7C0%7C638507453433095729%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bf9TzH%2BNpRQsLpepPJeNRg3mP6tJwqUOcD5kbYKftlY%3D&reserved=0> ..