[ecrea] cfp Panel: "Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet"

>CALL FOR PAPERS ABSTRACTS
>Panel: "Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet"
>Section Internet & Politics - ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik in 2011
>
>Deadline first round of call for papers abstracts: 30st August 2010
>Send papers proposal to: mayo.fuster(at)eui.eu
>
>Panel abstract: So far, political science research has focused on the
>use of the Internet by collective political actors that had their main
>operational base in the offline realm. First studies on the Internet
>and politics mainly concentrated mostly on well-established and
>traditional actors such public administration and political parties.
>Then the cope of research widened to include interest groups, NGOs and
>social movements looking at the impact of the Internet and the type of
>Internet use carried out by those groups. In particular, given the
>growing importance of political campaigns and other forms of
>collective action that are launched and carried out by networks of
>political actors, that mainly, if not completely operate and mobilize
>for their issues online, the debate on the Internet and politics could
>benefit further from considering actors who mainly operation with an
>online base. Interestingly, the emergence of collective action in
>online environments apparently follows new forms of "networked" forms
>of action and collaboration that are said to be different from
>political actors with a mainly offline base. The panel "Digital
>politics" aims to iniciate a discussion on the main organizational and
>democratic logic of the collective action born in and from the
>Internet addressing questions such as: What are the main
>characteristics of participation in online base collective action? How
>are boundaries drawn between the individual and the collective in such
>forms? How can we deal with the dialectics of individualization on one
>hand and the effects of de-personalization on the other hand that are
>inscribed in online spaces? How is the online space governed and how
>does its architecture structure online interaction? Finally, which
>methods are best suited to analyze the practices and dynamics of
>collective action online adequately?
>
>Co-chairs: Mayo Fuster Morell (European University Institute) and
>Johanna Niesyto (University of Siegen)
>Discussant: Sigrid Baringhorst (University of Siegen)
>
>About the co-chairs:
>
>Mayo Fuster Morell did a doctoral research on â¬SThe Governance of
>platforms of participation for the building of digital commons⬝
>supervised by Prof. Donatella della Porta at the European University
>Institute. She explores the democratic logic of the Internet in
>knowledge-making processes and the relationship between governance
>model and community growth. She compares World Social Forum, Flickr,
>Wikihow and Wikipedia governance models
>(http://www.onlinecreation.info). Last year she was visiting
>researcher at the School of Information ⬠UC Berkeley and provided
>teaching assistance at the Communication Department ⬠Stanford
>University. She co-wrote the books â¬SRethinking political organisation
>in an age of movements and networks⬝ (XL Editorial: Rome 2007);
>â¬SActivist research and social movements⬝ (Spanish) (El Viejo Topo:
>Barcelona 2005); and â¬SGuide for social transformation of Catalonia⬝
>(Catalan) (Edicions Col.lectives: Barcelona 2003). Mayo Fuster Morell
>is promotor of the International forum on free culture and access to
>knowledge (www.fcforum.net) and Networked Politics Collaborative
>research (http://www.networked-politics.info).
>
>Johanna Niesyto is PhD student in political sciences. She works as
>research fellow in the project â¬ÜChanging Protest and Media Culturesâ¬"
>at the Collaborative Research Centre â¬ÜMedia Upheavalsâ¬" at the
>University of Siegen (Germany). Her key interests cover globalization,
>public spaces, democracy, political campaigns, contentious politics,
>political consumerism, cyber culture and social web. In her thesis she
>looks at Wikipedia as translingual public space of political knowledge
>production. Johanna is co-editor and author of "Politik mit dem
>Einkaufswagen" (Politics with the shopping trolley) and "Political
>Campaigning on the Web". Also, she has helped organizing several
>conferences such as CPOV (http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/). For
>more information see: http://transnationalspaces.wordpress.com
>
>About the discussant:
>
>Sigrid Baringhorst (Prof. Dr. phil.) is working as professor at the
>department of social sciences in the field of comparative political
>studies and political sociology. She is director of the research
>project â¬"Changing Protest and Media Culturesâ¬" at the Collaborative
>Research Centre â¬ÜMedia Upheavalsâ¬" at the University of Siegen
>(Germany). Her key interest cover political communication, social
>movement studies and politics and policies of migration. She is
>co-editor and author of numerous publications such as "Politik mit dem
>Einkaufswagen" (Politics with the shopping trolley), "Political
>Campaigning on the Web" and "Politik als Kampagne" (Politics as
>campaign).
>--
>Mayo Fuster Morell
>E-mail: (lilaroja /at/ gmx.net)
>Skype: mayoneti
>
>http://www.onlinecreation.info
>http://www.openelibrary.info
>http://www.openesf.net
>http://www.networked-politics.info
>http://www.euromovements.info

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