Call for Book Chapters | Communication and Presence in Higher Education

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Call for Book Chapters | Communication and Presence in Higher Education

Scientia Global Editions: CLAEC e-Books

Scientia International Press, en colaboración con Editora CLAEC (Centro Latino-Americano de Estudos em Cultura), announces the Convocatoria de capítulos para el volumen colectivo:

Communication and Presence in Higher Education: mediations, bonds, and formative experiences

Este libro forma parte de la Scientia Global Editions: CLAEC e-Books collection and invites scholarly contributions on communication, higher education, institutional belonging, student engagement, academic mediation and formative experiences in contemporary university contexts.

Sobre el libro

Communication has become a central dimension of higher education experiences. In contemporary academic life, the ways students, faculty members and institutions interact are increasingly shaped by digital culture, virtualized relationships, hybrid learning environments and new forms of academic presence.

Communication and Presence in Higher Education: mediations, bonds, and formative experiences brings together studies, experience reports, expanded abstracts and scientific articles dedicated to the analysis of the relationships between communication, higher education and academic formation in contemporary contexts.

The volume approaches communication not only as an instrumental resource for transmitting information, but as a constitutive dimension of university experiences. Communication participates in the construction of bonds, institutional belonging, student engagement, welcoming practices and mediations among students, faculty and institutions.

In dialogue with the challenges posed by digital culture, the virtualization of relationships and the expansion of digital learning and academic interaction environments, the book seeks to examine strategies of humanization, connection and presence in university contexts.

The volume aims to contribute to an interdisciplinary debate on how communication shapes and transforms formative processes in higher education, with attention to institutional practices, pedagogical mediation, academic belonging and the experiences that organize contemporary university life.

Ejes temáticos (no exhaustivos)

Communication and higher education
Communication as mediation in academic contexts
Institutional belonging and university experience
Student engagement and academic participation
Welcoming practices in higher education
Humanization of institutional relationships
Digital culture and academic interaction
Virtualization of relationships in higher education
Digital learning environments
Presence, connection and formative experiences
Relationships among students, faculty and institutions
Communication, academic formation and contemporary university life
Experience reports on communication in higher education
Interdisciplinary approaches to communication and education

Organizer

Ma. Vanessa Calvo Guerra (Latin American Center for Studies in Culture – CLAEC, Brazil)

Quién puede presentarse

Autores con un grado académico mínimo de Maestría, con o sin afiliación institucional
Chapters may include co-authorship with PhD candidates, Master’s students or undergraduate students, provided at least one author holds a Master’s degree and assumes legal responsibility for the submission
Máximo de cinco autores por capítulo

Languages and Bilingual Publication

Submissions may be written in Portuguese or Spanish
Todos los capítulos aceptados se publicarán en formato bilingüe portugués-español.
La traducción a la segunda lengua de la obra se llevará a cabo con el apoyo de inteligencia artificial y revisión editorial, sin costo adicional para los autores.
Cada capítulo recibe un DOI individual
Each chapter receives multilingual metadata in up to six languages
El libro electrónico recibirá un ISBN registrado en Brasil.

Submission Guidelines

Length: 8 to 15 pages, including references
Font: Arial, size 12
Spacing: 1.5
Margins: 3 cm
Style: APA 7th edition
Alignment: justified
Required structure: title, author names, institutional affiliation, short bio of up to 5 lines, ORCID link, abstract of 100 to 150 words, 3 to 5 keywords, main body, references, captions for images and tables, block quotations and numbered footnotes

Required Documents

Chapter file in .doc or .docx format
Copyright and image use assignment form, when applicable

Modelo de publicación y calendario

Flujo continuo de publicaciones
Approved chapters may be published on the Scientia International Press OMP platform with their own DOI, multilingual metadata and open access
Approved chapters may be individually published within up to 15 business days after publication fee payment and submission of the final version
Al finalizar el período de presentación, todos los capítulos aprobados se recopilarán en la versión consolidada final del libro electrónico
El volumen consolidado completo será publicado a más tardar el 31 de diciembre de 2026.

Tasas de publicación (por capítulo aprobado)

Instituciones en Brasil: R$ 400,00
Instituciones fuera de Brasil: €250.00

The fee applies per approved chapter, regardless of the number of authors, based on the location of the main author’s affiliated institution or, in the case of independent authors, according to their country of residence.

Payment must be made within 5 business days after editorial acceptance. Requests for fee waivers or discounts must be made exclusively at the time of submission.

Evaluation

Chapters will be evaluated in continuous flow by the organizer and/or invited reviewers, considering:

Adherence to the theme of the call
Originality and scientific contribution
Clarity, cohesion and argumentative consistency
Theoretical and methodological quality, when applicable
Compliance with editorial guidelines
Textual and bibliographic quality
Relevance to the thematic field

The evaluation result may indicate acceptance, acceptance subject to revisions, request for a new round of corrections or rejection.

Fechas clave e información

📅 Publication of the call: May 14, 2026
📅 Fecha límite de presentación: 14 de noviembre de 2026
📅 1st editorial cycle: chapters received by June 30, 2026
📅 2nd editorial cycle: chapters received by August 31, 2026
📅 3rd editorial cycle: chapters received by October 31, 2026
📅 Final evaluation: chapters received by November 14, 2026
📅 Individual publication of approved chapters: within 15 business days after payment and submission of the final version
📚 E-book consolidado final: antes del 31 de diciembre de 2026
Publicación bilingüe de acceso abierto
📄 Licencia: Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0)