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

[Rakesh Biswas]

Got it! I guess there's too much of user driven healthcare then and we need
a break!

:-)

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025, 00:31 Joyojeet Pal, <joyojeet at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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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>>