Call for Papers

Issue 1/2025

Social Work, Media and Digitalisation

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2024 via https://www.dime-sozial.de

Topic

Social Work, Media and Digitalisation is a newly founded open access journal with a focus on the challenges facing the profession and discipline of social work as a result of the digital transformation. The aim of the foundation is to provide a space for discourse to bundle the perspectives of Social Work on the topics of media and digitalisation. The disciplinary and professional debate on the topic of "Social Work, Media and Digitalisation" takes place from a variety of perspectives and approaches. These include discussions of social work theories, theoretical attempts to grasp digitalisation, theoretical discourses within social work as well as field of action or problem-related discussions or discussions with regard to the profession of social work.

Seelmeyer and Kutscher summarise this when they state:

"Digitality and digitalisation are now also much-thematised topoi in social work, however, a reflexive examination of the digitalisation discourse in social work in the sense of a self-observation of the profession and discipline of social work with regard to lines of discourse and ways of thematisation is still largely lacking." (Seelmeyer & Kutscher, 2021, 17)

Based on this realisation, the first issue of the journal focuses on the plurality of perspectives and topics. The range of approaches to these discourses will be discussed from a theoretical, empirical and professional perspective. The aim is not to provide an overview of the diverse discourses, but rather to bring together different positions within them as evidence of plurality. This goes hand in hand with the claim that the individual contributions are located in the context of digitalisation discourses within Social Work itself.

Contributions

Possible contributions can relate to the following subject areas:

• Basic theoretical discussions on the relationship between Social Work and digitalisation
• Profession-related discussions on the conditions and/or possibilities of professional action in relation to digitalisation
• Empirical contributions that deal with digitalisation in Social Work and systematically relate their results to the central discourses within Social Work.

Editors

• Prof. Dr Daniela Cornelia Stix, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
• Adrian Roeske, M.A., Institute for Information Management Bremen GmbH
• Prof. Dr Marc Witzel, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Dresden
• Prof. Dr Angelika Beranek, Munich University of Applied Sciences
• Julius Späte, M.A., Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
• Prof. Dr Thomas Pudelko, Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Education
• Prof. Dr Cordula Endter, Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences Berlin
• Max Haberstroh, M.A., Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg