[Air-L] Special Issue: E-Diasporas – Living Digitally

[Radhika G]

If anyone has questions about how we are defining "e-diaspora" please email
me directly.

I hope to include papers that take on a mostly critical, cultural studies
and political economy approach.

thanks,
r

Radhika Gajjala
*Co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender and New Media*
*http://adanewmedia.org <http://adanewmedia.org>*

*Fulbright Professor/Research Scholar in Digital Culture at University of
Bergen, August 1, 2015-July 31, 2016*
*__*

Professor
School of Media and Communication
and
American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio
http://www.radhikagajjala.org <http://www.cyberdiva.org/>

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Yasmin Ibrahim <y.ibrahim at qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> Special Issue: E-Diasporas – Living Digitally
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> SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 1 September 2015
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> PUBLICATION: International Journal of E-Politics
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> OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE:
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> With the growth of international (im)migration and work through digital
> space across time zones and in the last decade, the Internet and related
> wireless and mobile technologies have become crucial for members of various
> diasporic communities seeking to connect with both their countries of
> origin and their host nations. Connections are established not only through
> social media and email, but also through money transfers, philanthropy and
> business, gaming and related virtual environments.  For instance Internet
> use facilitates information gathering efforts of (im)migrants searching for
> potential host countries, assist (im)migrants’ acculturation practices
> after migration, and advance the socio-economic development of diasporic
> subjects and those they may have left behind. In addition, we also have new
> forms of digital diaspora that occur through offshore labor forces that
> have their bodies in their “home” nations but work in time zones and
> relational socio-financial and organizational spaces that exist “in
> diaspora.”
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> The co-editors of this special issue aims to understand the rhizomatic
> nature of migrant communities in a twenty-first century climate where the
> increasing use of online spaces influences the creation of diaspora
> politics, identity formation (or reclamation in the new nation), and the
> conception of new meanings of the terms ‘home’ and ‘homeland.’  Thus, this
> issue endeavors to expand ongoing conversations about dispersed global
> communities and the ways they relate with communications and information
> technologies. The International Journal of E-Politics is interdisciplinary
> so we welcome any disciplinary, theoretical or methodological approach.
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> Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
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> ?     Emerging or new definitions of ‘e-diasporas’
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> ?     Mobile money, financial investments, debt and e-diasporas
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> ?     The meaning of ‘home’ for dispersed populations
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> ?     The differences between ‘digital diasporas’ and ‘e-diasporas’
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> ?     Post-colonial and subaltern ‘e-diasporas’ (Dalit, Roma, etc.)
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> ?     Online communities for leisure or play (film viewing and discussions
> in online spaces, gaming, creating hobby guilds, etc.)
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> ?     Political participation in ‘e-diasporas’
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> ?     The use of online spaces to create (social and political)
> communities in the host nation
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> ?     Identity construction and the Internet
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> ?     Usage of social media to ‘click and connect’ with ‘home’
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> SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
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> Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with the online politics
> of food broadly defined are invited to submit papers for this themed issue.
> All submissions are due by September 1, 2015.
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> All queries to
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> Radhika Gajjala, radhik at bgsu.edu
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> Tori Arthur, tarthur at bgsu.edu
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> Full papers to be submitted electronically,
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> http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/
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> Editors-in-Chief:
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> Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business Administration, Wayne State
> University, Detroit, USA
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> Yasmin Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University
> of London.
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> Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
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> PUBLISHER:
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> The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global
> (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science
> Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science
> Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher,
> please visit <http://www.igi-global.com> www.igi-global.com<
> http://www.igi-global.com>.
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