[Air-L] CFP: Social Media and Society in India - Deadline March 10, 2025

[Joyojeet Pal]

The University of Michigan is hosting Social Media and Society in India
April 4-5, 2025. Each year, student papers are peer reviewed, presented,
and archived. Please see details of the conference
<https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu/> which is aimed at giving
academics a close interaction with people whose work is impacted by, and
impacts the use of social media including members of parliament, film and
television artistes, journalists, activists, political party workers, and
influencers in a range of domains. Please see the Call for Papers
<https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/smsi-cfp.html> below and consider
submitting.



*Call for Papers: Social Media and Society in India*

*Student Session 2025*

*Important Dates*

   - *March 10, 2025* : Submission Deadline
   - *March 17, 2025*: Acceptance Notification Deadline
   - *March 31, 2025*: Poster Deadline (Accepted Papers)
   - *April 4-5, 2025*: Student sessions at the symposium

All dates are in EOD (Anywhere on Earth)

*Submissions*

We invite student researchers who are interested in the intersection of
social media influencers, practices and democracy in India to submit short
papers and extended abstracts. The following themes are indicative of the
general interests of the conference:


   - Social media platforms and influencers’ practices in India, e.g.,
   patterns of behavior, i.e. how they use different social media platform
   features.
   - Influencer strategies and impact, i.e. how they gain and maintain
   popularity, how their influence gets operationalized.
   - Collaborative influencing; social media influencers’ impacts on the
   social, political, cultural, and economic landscapes in the regions.
   - Growth of the influencer industry and it's contribution to
   entrepreneurship, brand growth, gig-economy etc
   - The role of social media and influencers on democracy and civic
   engagement in India
   - Innovative methodologies for studying influencers, including novel
   approaches to audience engagement, content analysis, platform-specific
   strategies, and the sociocultural impact of digital influence

Those interested in participating are asked to submit a short paper (upto
4000 words without references) or an extended abstract (1500-2000 words
without references). The following format is required for submissions (MS
Word), and uploaded papers must be in a PDF format along with the source
files.

Archived papers from the 2023 conference are stored at the University of
Michigan’s Deep Blue Archive (*https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/7881*
<https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/7881>), and are available for public
consumption. Archives from the 2024 conference will be released soon.