Hello everyone, The call for book proposals for the CPCP series is out. For 2026, the main topic is: Hybrid Media Worlds: Practices, Actors, and Cultural Negotiations. 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. Proposals may address, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Hybrid forms of media production: between professionalization, platformization, and informal creativity - Consumption as participation, labour, and identity performance - The blurring of roles: audiences, users, producers, prosumers, influencers, and cultural intermediaries - Hybrid cultural economies: visibility, reputation, data, affect, and monetization - Platform cultures and the reconfiguration of creative and communicative practices - Media hybridization across genres, formats, and industries (journalism, entertainment, art, activism, education) - Algorithmic mediation and its impact on practices of recognition and self-positioning - Hybrid publics, communities, and networked forms of belonging - Methodological hybridization in media and communication research - Power, inequalities, and exclusions in hybrid media practices Interdisciplinary approaches drawing from communication and media studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and related fields are strongly encouraged. Two submission rounds are planned for 2026: - February 28, 2026 - July 31, 2026 Book proposals (series or monographs) should include a working title, an abstract, a detailed table of contents, information on the intended audience, and a short bio of the author(s) or editor(s). We look forward to receiving proposals that critically engage with the complexities of hybrid media worlds and contribute to advancing debates on communication processes and cultural practices. For inquiries and abstract submissions, please contact: culturalpractices_proposal@writeupbooks.com alessandra.micalizzi@unipegaso.it To download the call visit the website: https://www.writeupbooks.com/communication-processes-cultural-practices/ The publication is open access. The book series has the ISBN and ISSN code and we are going to be indexed on Scopus. Best wishes AM -- Alessandra Micalizzi ------------------------------------------------- cell. 3492928386 http://iulm.academia.edu/AlessandraMicalizzi http://www.linkedin.it/AlessandraMicalizzi *************************************************************** Ai sensi del d.lgs. 196/2003, si comunica che le informazioni contenute in questa e-mail e negli eventuali allegati sono rivolte esclusivamente al destinatario in indirizzo e possono contenere informazioni riservate e/o coperte da segreto professionale, il cui utilizzo, comunicazione e diffusione sono vietati. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, siete dunque pregati di segnalarlo immediatamente al mittente e di distruggere quanto ricevuto senza farne copia.