[Euromixproject.rch] Special Collection Call for Papers Doing Family Online: (In)formal Knowledge Circulation, Information Seeking Practices and Support Communities

[Laura Odasso]

Dear all,

I hope this mail finds you well.

I am happy to circulate this call for papers for a Special issue of Family
Relations, titled "Doing Family Online: (In)formal Knowledge Circulation,
Information Seeking Practices and Support Communities" that I co-edit with
Karine Geoffrion (UniLaval, Quebec, Canada).

The call is not specific on migration, we are in fact seeking interesting
and diverse contributions from less covered family topics worldwide. I am
sure that many of you have inspiring empirical evidence from their
fieldworks or theoretical reflections to propose!



*Special Collection Call for Papers*

*Doing Family **Online**: **(In)formal Knowledge Circulation, Information
Seeking Practices and Support Communities* <https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-2021>



Individuals and families are increasingly reliant on information and
communication technologies for their daily needs, activities, and
socialization. Apart from rapid push to Internet-based communication
brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, all levels of government have been
‘dematerializing’ administrative procedures for some time. Couples,
parents, children, and other family members use the Internet to navigate
certain formalities and get access to practical information regarding, for
example, heath care, schooling, or marriage. This multidisciplinary special
issue of *Family Relations* examines the role of the Web as a human and
bureaucratic-legal support tool for “doing family” and providing services
for families around the world. Drawing on the scholarship of online
networks and communities (i.e.: Proulx & Latzko-Toth 2000; Reingold 2000;
Beaulieu 2010, Ammari and Schoenebeck 2016; Vivienne 2016; Geoffrion 2021),
our objective is threefold:

1)    We seek to understand how online communities, networks and discussion
forums shape contemporary families’ and couples’ everyday life,
sociability, and relations online and offline. More specifically, we are
eager to receive manuscripts that explore the social dynamics created by
the increasingly important place online information-seeking practices hold
for parents — future, new or seasoned — as they search for reassurance
about their parenting strategies, tips, and information regarding health,
childcare, juridical-legal issues such as divorce or child custody,
education, procreation, immigration, etc.

2)    Apart from using Internet-based groups and discussion forums for
practical information, family members find emotional support online. We
seek manuscripts that document how interactions with like-minded parents,
for example, provide a space to build connections, show empathy and support
and draw on the experience of peers in similar or different situations.

3)    We aim to document how formal and less formal expertise and trends in
family matters — e.g., rights, services, and best practices — circulate and
get recognition online; and how such knowledge is mobilized by couples,
parents, children and other family members online and offline. We also seek
manuscripts that examine the interrelation between online counselling and
more formal associative and institutional family support and related legal
services.

Areas to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

1.   the role of online communities in emotional support exchanges and
guidance for couples and parents (e.g., fathers, expecting mothers,
adoptive parents, binational couples, parents of children with
disabilities);

2.   parents’ patterns of information-seeking behavior (e.g., regarding
health, schooling, social services), the circulation of information in
parents’ online communities and the articulation of online and offline
realities;

3.   legal and administrative advice-seeking practices (e.g.: divorce,
adoption for same-sex partners, child custody, immigration formalities,
domestic violence, surrogacy, etc.);

4.   knowledge-building and circulation, the interaction between formal and
informal expertise, online experts’ recognition processes, activism and its
impact on policy makers and public policies;

5.   how online discussion forums and networks reproduce, display or
challenge inequalities due to race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and
generation.

Please send a letter of intent of up to 500 words (theoretical/conceptual
framework, context, empirical research methods or research/policy review)
and a short author’s biography to laura.odasso at college-de-france.fr and
karine.geoffrion at ant.ulaval.ca  <karine.geoffrion at ant.ulaval.ca>by *10
December, 2021*.Notification of acceptance of proposed manuscript idea and
invitation to submit a manuscript for peer review will be sent by 20
January, 2022. Complete article manuscripts in line with *Family
Relation* authors’
guidelines are expected by *1 June, 2022.*

Best wishes,

Laura Odasso and Karine Geoffrion
*______________________*
*Ph.D*
*Research Assistant, Chaire "Migrations et Sociétés", Collège de France,
Paris*
*Collaborative Institute on Migration Fellow, Paris*
*Temporary Lecturer, Droit, Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Université
Sorbonne Paris Nord*
*Research Associate at MESOPOLHIS, UMR 7064, Aix-Marseille
université-CNRS-Sciences Po Aix**, Aix-en-Provence*
*Page*: https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francois-heran/quipe.htm
*Blog:* https://lauraodasso.wordpress.com


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