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

[Rakesh Biswas]

I wonder why no one talks about health care social media influences inspite
of participatory medicine through online user driven healthcare being so
rampant globally?

Is it because of more focus on celebrity influencers than on those that are
influenced and yet lie largely at the bottom of the pyramid too small to be
noticed?

regards,

rb-2025


On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, 07:17 Joyojeet Pal via Air-L, <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:

> 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.
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