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

[Joyojeet Pal]

This is a topic that has been discussed in each of the symposia (and this
year as well there is a speaker talking on food influencers).

See talks at the Michigan conf by Liver Doc on the impact of viral
messaging on traditional medicine and influencer-driven quackery on the work
of hepatologists <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhiA6nxMq1s>.

On online conversations and stigma around sexual and reproductive health
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGW5F8-4Lmg> by an Obgyn who runs her own
social media channels.

On the work of vascular surgeons and how they talk about
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhyOzhDLkk> it on social media.



On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM Rakesh Biswas <rakesh7biswas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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