[Air-L] CFP Transformation of CItizenship and Governance - extended deadline 15.5.2013

[Judith Schossboeck]

Call for Papers (Special Issue) - Deadline: 15.05.2013

Transformation of Citizenship and Governance - Asia Focus: The
Challenges of Social and Mobile Media
 Guest
 Editors: Marko M. Skoric (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
 Nojin Kwak (University of Michigan, USA), Ines Mergel (Maxwell School 
of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University), and Peter 
Parycek (Danube University Krems, Austria)
 The proliferation of 
social media and mobile phones over the last decade has spurred 
significant interest in their civic and political implications not only 
within the scholarly community, but also among journalists, 
practitioners, activists, policy-makers, and ordinary citizens. While 
the role of new media platforms in facilitating macro-level political 
changes has generally attracted most attention, these new communication 
tools are also actively utilized in more traditional civic and political
 processes, including community initiatives and electoral campaigns. 
Also important is people’s everyday use of new technologies, which 
research has uncovered as providing an opportunity to encounter public 
affairs news and discourse, enhance understanding of issues, and get 
involved in civic and political activities. Further to this, social and 
mobile media platforms have created new channels and means for citizens 
to interact with governments and other political institutions, monitor 
their functioning, and more actively participate in policy-making 
processes. There is little doubt that the emerging social and mobile 
media practices, including content generation, collaboration, and 
network organization, are changing our understanding of governance and 
politics.
 While the above changes are already widely debated in 
mature, developed Western democracies, there is an even greater need to 
address them in the context of rapidly developing Asian societies. 
Although countries in Asia vary greatly in terms of the levels of 
economic and political development, quality of information and 
communication infrastructure, as well as their cultural, political and 
religious traditions, the arrival of networked new media platforms has 
lead to some similar socio-political shifts. Those include an increasing
 diversity of voices in the public sphere, greater visibility of 
political discourse, increased demands for transparency and 
accountability, and a significantly improved capacity for decentralized 
civic and political action.
 This special issue is aimed at 
showcasing innovative scholarly works examining various subjects 
concerning the role of social media, mobile phones, and other new 
technologies in the formation of democratic citizenship and good 
governance in Asia. We seek studies that address relevant topics in a 
particular Asian country, and also welcome comparative research on Asian
 countries or Asian and non-Asian countries. A special section in the 
journal will cover those Asian cases, while we also encourage to submit 
authors covering the issues topic with a non-Asian focus to submit their
 work for a second section.
 The authors are encouraged to explore diverse topics, and possible
areas include (but are not limited to):
 Use of social media, mobile phones, and other new communication
technologies in electionsUse of social and mobile media by civic and
grassroots groupsInfluence of new media on citizen choices,
participation, and knowledgePatterns of new media use and civic and
political consequencesSocial media to engage citizens; smart & mobile
democracy Political elites’ use of social and mobile mediaSustainability
of e-participation Networks vs. traditional party-structures ICTs and
their use for governmental transformationOpen data initiatives
Transparency, participation and collaboration in government
Crowdsourcing for governanceService delivery via new communication
channels 
 Submission Guidelines 
 Articles submitted for consideration must be written in English.
 Length of paper: 7,500-12,000 words, inclu Please download the template and relevant guidelines at
http://www.jedem.org/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
  
 Important Dates
 Submission deadline: 15.5.2013
 Deadline for peer review: 15.6.2013
 Editorial decision: 30.6.2013
For more information please see www.jedem.org or contact
judith.schossboeck at donau-uni.ac.at



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Donau-Universität Krems
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A-3500 Krems
+43 2732 893 2309
judith.schossboeck at donau-uni.ac.at
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