<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>I hope this mail finds you well.</div><div><br></div><div>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). </div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.65pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.65pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Special Collection Call for Papers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 5.95pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Doing Family<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Online</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(In)formal Knowledge Circulation, Information Seeking Practices and Support Communities</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-2021" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 5.95pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Individuals and families are increasingly reliant on<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="gmail-lang-en"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">information and communication technologies<i> </i></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Family Relations</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Drawing on the scholarship of online networks and communities<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(i.e.: Proulx & Latzko-Toth 2000; Reingold 2000; Beaulieu 2010, Ammari and Schoenebeck 2016; Vivienne 2016; Geoffrion 2021), our objective is threefold:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1)<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2)<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3)<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>We also seek manuscripts that examine the interrelation between online counselling and more formal associative and institutional family support and related legal services.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Areas to be addressed include, but are not limited to</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">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);</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">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<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">online and offline realities;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">legal and administrative advice-seeking practices (e.g.: divorce, adoption for same-sex partners, child custody, immigration formalities, domestic violence, surrogacy, etc.);</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">knowledge-building and circulation, the interaction between formal and informal expertise,<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>online experts’ recognition processes,</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>activism and its impact on policy makers and public policies;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">how online discussion forums and networks reproduce, display or challenge inequalities due to race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and generation.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please send a letter of intent of up to 500 words (</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">theoretical/conceptual<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">framework</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">context,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">empirical research methods</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">or<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">research</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">/</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">policy review</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) and a short author’s biography to<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:laura.odasso@college-de-france.fr" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">laura.odasso@college-de-france.fr</span></a></span><span class="gmail-object"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:karine.geoffrion@ant.ulaval.ca" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">karine.geoffrion@ant.ulaval.ca </span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">by<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><b>10 December, 2021</b>.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<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Family Relation</i><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>authors’ guidelines are expected by<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><b>1 June, 2022.</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.406665802001953px;color:rgb(237,92,87)"> </span></p><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Best wishes, </div><div><br></div><div>Laura Odasso and Karine Geoffrion</div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">______________________</span></em></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ph.D</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Research Assistant, Chaire "Migrations et Sociétés", Collège de France, Paris</span></em></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="1">Collaborative Institute on Migration Fellow, Paris</font></span></em></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><em>Temporary Lecturer, Droit, Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord</em></span><br><em><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Research</span></em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> Associate at </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">MESOPOLHIS, UMR 7064, Aix-Marseille université-CNRS-Sciences Po Aix</span></em><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">, Aix-en-Provence</span></em></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><em style="font-family:georgia,serif">Page</em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">: </span><a href="https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francois-heran/quipe.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family:georgia,serif">https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francois-heran/quipe.htm</a><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></em></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="1"><em>Blog:</em> <a href="https://lauraodasso.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lauraodasso.wordpress.com</a></font></span></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>------------------------------------<br>"Il viaggio non finisce mai. Bisogna vedere quel che non si è visto, vedere di nuovo quel che si è già visto, vedere in primavera quel che si è visto in estate, vedere di giorno quel che si è visto di notte" (Saramago)<br></div></div></div></div>