[ecrea] new book digital citizenship and local development

Francisco SIERRA CABALLERO (Ed.)
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
Outlines for rethinking mediation




EDITORIAL GEDISA
Colección Comunicología Latina
Grupo Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Comunicación, Política  y Cambio Social
(COMPOLITICAS-SEJ456)
FACULTAD DE COMUNICACIÓN
Calle Américo Vespucio, s/n
Isla de la Cartuja 41092 SEVILLA
www.compoliticas.org
E-mail: (fsierra /at/ us.es)
+34 676 692 764








PRESENTATION


Traditionally, Iberamerican communication studies 
have devoted little attention to the issue of new 
technologies. This adds to rather deficient 
official policies in the funding of critical and 
humanistic research on the social use and 
appropriation of digital networks in relation to 
processes of empowerment, sustainability and 
local development. The present state of affairs 
demands, therefore, a collaborative knowledge 
promoted by scholars worldwide whose areas of 
research focus on the topics, methodologies and 
applied research in this field of particular 
social relevance. Intended goals for the volume, 
both short- and long- term, point at the 
definition of the nature and economic status of 
local and peripheral cultures within the 
increasing globalizing process of new systems of 
information and knowledge processing.


For the reasons mentioned above, we are 
addressing the international scholarly community 
to contribute to a compilation that attempts at 
promoting knowledge in order to provide solutions 
to issues related to the implementation of 
e-Government and citizen participation in the new 
scenario of the technological modernization of 
urban spaces. A kind of social knowledge on this 
particular object of study is sought. This same 
purpose is also shared by the R+D project 
coordinated by the editor of the volume, ?New 
Information Technologies and Citizen 
Participation? (Ministerio de Ciencia e 
Innovación. Gobierno de España), which seeks to 
define the valorization dynamics at work in the 
interaction between digital information, citizenship and local development.

Main goals of the volume are:

-	To provide high level knowledge on the relation 
between new technologies, public space, citizenship and local development.

-	To analyze significant issues in cultural 
policies, as well as the quality of the exchanges 
taking place in cultural fronts and other hybrid 
spaces of our current postmodern late capitalist 
culture. These exchanges may provoke an 
alteration and/or enrichment of symbolic 
universes and are closely connected to the use 
and appropriation of new technologies in projects 
such as urban planning or the valorization of cultural heritage.

-	To discuss critically the hypothesis and 
theories on ciberdemocracy from the perspective 
of the techno and transcultural implications of new digital communications.

-	To characterize the limits of knowledge on the 
creation of new tendencies towards social change 
in order to satisfy the demands of local agents. 
Also, to bring some theoretical insight into the 
contribution of new technologies to mobilize 
resources in favor of local development.


Prospective areas and themes of interest:

-	EXOMEMORY AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES ON DIGITAL NETWORKS.

-	COMMUNICATION, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL 
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN THE CONTEXT OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.

-	NEW CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP.

-	NETACTIVISM AND SOCIAL NETWORKS.

-	E-GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT.

-	SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND COLLECTIVE APPROPIATION OF NEW INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

-	THEORY AND CRITIQUE OF DIGITAL MEDIATION.

-	CIBERDEMOCRACY AND THE NEW LOGICS OF POLITICAL ENUNCIATION.

-	URBAN POLICIES, LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEW MEDIA.



   Contributors should submit original texts 
between 15-35 pages long (1.5 line spaced) 
following the APA style, before August 1st 2011:

Contact address:

Prof. Dr. Francisco SIERRA CABALLERO
Director Observatorio Iberoamericano de Ciudadanía Digital
Grupo Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Comunicación, Política y Cambio Social
UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA. Facultad de Comunicación. Despacho D7
Américo Vespucio, s/n, Isla de la Cartuja 41092 Sevilla
ESPAÑA
www.compoliticas.org
E-mail: (fsierra /at/ us.es)
Telf. : +34 676 692 764

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 1st 2011.
LENGTH: 15-35 pages long. 1.5 line spaced.
APA style.



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