Dear Colleagues (with apologies for any unavoidable cross-posts): My doctoral student, Sarah Parker Ward, and I are guesting editing a special issue for the peer reviewed, open access journal *Social Sciences*. The complete call and submissions instructions are available here http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Streaming_Television and summarized below. Please feel free to message me directly with any questions. Always On Anywhere: Streaming Television and Its Effects The rise of television streaming and online video have made dynamic media consumption easier than ever, prompting a slow burn on the total hours dedicated to traditional television watching, particularly among younger age brackets. From this shift, entirely new consumption patterns continue to emerge including binge watching, public television consumption, multi-screening experiences, and even self-guided consumption experiences of single narratives. At the same time, algorithmic solutions are now assisting in shaping media exposures on platforms such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTubeTV, among others. This special issue seeks to explore this evolving role of television streaming - and all of the moving parts therein - on health, politics, and civic discourses. We invite participants to consider how the nature or consumption of television streaming is affecting human engagement with these areas at the individual or societal level Possible areas for focus include, but are not limited to: - How are streaming behaviors affecting physical and mental health, particularly among adolescents and young adults? - Do algorithmic recommendations create or break information silos, either improving or restricting civic dialogue? - What relationships exist, if any, between specific television streaming platforms and the ideologies of the content housed therein as it relates to mental health and civic discourse? - How do interactive streaming experiences cultivate collaboration or community among viewership? - How has streaming television changed or impacted our expectations of and behaviors related to civic discourse? - Does prolonged exposure via binge watching engender deeper connectivity between viewer and content? Submission deadline is October 1, so plenty of time to wrap up summer research projects and submit :) Thanks, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Associate Professor of Emerging Media Studies Senior Fellow, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy <http://www.bu.edu/ihsip/> Associate Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies <http://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/> Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology <http://www.joctec.org/>* Founding Member, Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_centre_for_media_communication_and_culture/> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en> 857-615-4709