[ecrea] cfP: Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet

> CfP Panel at the 6th ECPR General Conference, 25-27 August 2011 in 
> Reykjavik, Iceland.
>
> Panels: Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet
> Section: Internet and Politics: Bridging Current Research and 
> Outlining Future Directions
>
> Panel chairs: Johanna Niesyto, University of Siegen and Mayo Fuster 
> Morell, European University Institute.
> Discussant: Sigrid Baringhorst, University of Siegen
>
> 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 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?.
>
> Abstracts with a maximum of 500 words should be upload by 1 February 
> 2011 at the ECPR website: https://www.ecprnet.eu/myecpr/login.asp
>
> You can contact the panel chairs at Mayo Fuster Morell 
> <(mayo.fuster /at/ eui.eu)> and Johanna Niesyto <(Johanna.Niesyto /at/ uni-siegen.de)>.
>
> Further information on the panel at the conference is available at: 
> http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=517

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