[Air-L] cfp - Social Media Use and Innovations

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

Please distribute to potentially interested colleagues and/or listserves,
etc.

Many thanks in advance,
- charles ess

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*CALL FOR PAPERS:*

Practitioners and researchers interested in social media for social or
commercial innovation, as well as evolving patterns of social media use,
are invited to submit manuscripts on their practical experience and
scientific research for consideration in a special issue, titled “Social
media use and innovations,” in *The Journal of Media Innovations*  (<
https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/>)*. *

Submission deadline: October 10, 2015.

*MOTIVATION AND KEY CHALLENGES:*

Social media is evolving rapidly. New social media platforms appear, and
established platforms are continuously modified in response to
technological opportunities and emerging user needs. Furthermore, as social
media is taken up by an ever-increasing range of users, new patterns of use
are appearing. Hence, social media innovation and social media use are
closely intertwined.

Interestingly, social media are also applied for a wide range of innovation
purposes of societal and commercial character.  Social media are used by
innovative companies for customer insight and involvement in product and
service development, as well as for new and emerging practices in sharing
and collaboration. This is, for example, seen in the use of social
platforms for, social sharing, knowledge sharing, ideation and open
innovation, and in the use of social networks for customer engagement in
innovation.

Social media are also used for social innovation to involve and inform
citizens in public sector change projects. Increasingly, political parties
use social media to engage and involve citizens in policy making. Formal
and informal interest groups and various organizations use social media to
generate civic engagement in causes aiming for social change.

In this special issue of *The Journal of Media Innovations* we call for
submissions that improve our insight in social media innovation, in terms
of how social media are taken up and used in innovative ways, how emerging
patterns of use affects social media platforms, and the use of social media
for both commercial and social innovation. In particular we aim for
submissions to target the following:

·       Emerging practices and patterns of use in social media, such as new
sharing and collaboration practices

·       Design and utilizing of social media to support social or
commercial innovation.

·       Social media and new forms of civic engagement among new groups of
users and citizens, such as youth and young adults, in social or commercial
innovation

·       Social media and service innovation.

*IMPORTANT DATES: *

October 10, 2015: Submission deadline (full paper)

November 25, 2015: Authors notified of editorial decision

December 20, 2015: Revised manuscripts due December 20, 2015:

Authors receive 2nd round of comments from reviewers (if necessary) January
15, 2016:

Final version of manuscript due February 1, 2016

Expected online publication date March 1, 2016

*SUBMISSION:*

Contributions may be submitted as 6000-8000 word following the author
guidelines in *The Journal of Media Innovations*
https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
. Deadline for contributions: October 10, 2015.

All submissions will be made subject to peer-reviewed by at least two
independent reviewers (double blind).

Manuscripts should be submitted via email before the indicated deadline
above to pbb at sintef.no Please use subject SOCIAL MEDIA USE & INNOVATIONS in
the email.

See CFP webpage: http://ism14.org


Warm wishes,

Charles Ess, Professor in Media Studies,

Department of Media and Communication (IMK),

University of Oslo (UiO)

Editor


Anders Olof Larsson, Postdoctoral Fellow, IMK, UiO
Editorial Assistant

Asbjørn Følstad, PhD & Petter Bae Brandtzæg, PhD.
Special Issue Editors - SINTEF

<http://www.sintef.no/home/about-us/>

*ABOUT THE JOURNAL:*

*The Journal of Media Innovations *is an open access journal that explores
changes in media technologies, media policies, organizational structures,
media management, media production, journalism, media services, and usages.
ISSN: 1894-5562
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