[ecrea] Electronic Citizenship from a Comparative Perspective, PSA 2010 Conference

>  Electronic Citizenship from a Comparative Perspective
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> Citizenship studies has become an established multidisciplinary 
> arena of academic study in the last 20 years. The problem with the 
> contemporary debate on citizenship, however, is that it tends to 
> ignore the role of technology in shaping the experience of 
> citizenship. Contemporary ICTs, and especially the internet, create 
> new and different opportunities for practising citizenship. Papers 
> might address questions such as:
>    * How should we rethink theories of citizenship in the light of new ICTs?
>    * What kind of new citizenship practices are introduced by the ICTs?
>    * How do ICTs affect existing citizenship practices such as 
> voting and other ways of political participation, taxpaying and 
> military service?
>    * Does the Internet have certain features to support any of the 
> recent trends in citizenship?
>    * How does the Internet contribute to denationalization of citizenship?
>    * What are the implications of ICTs for citizenship as status, 
> as rights and obligations and as identity?
>    * How do electronic citizenship practices vary across different 
> cultural and institutional contexts?
>    * To what extent cultural citizenship based on recognition of 
> differences (ethnic, religious, gender) is nurtured with the use of ICTs?
>    * How can we link the literatures on citizenship studies and 
> electronic democracy?
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> However these questions are indicative and not meant to preclude 
> other papers that fit within the general theme. We already have one 
> paper on this theme with the following provisional title and so hope 
> to run a panel with two or three additional papers:
>
>  Rabia Karakaya Polat and Lawrence Pratchett, Citizenship in the 
> Age of the Internet: A Comparative Analysis of Britain and Turkey
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> Please submit a title and abstract to 
> <mailto:(rabia /at/ isikun.edu.tr)>(rabia /at/ isikun.edu.tr), ideally by Oct 9 at 
> the latest so that we can build a proposal for a panel.

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