Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society
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Call for Papers - Special Issue on "Online and Offline Social
Movements: Critical
Perspectives"
guest-edited by
* Dr. Vasiliki Triga, University of Zurich, email
<<mailto:(vasiliki.trigka /at/ zda.uzh.ch)>(vasiliki.trigka /at/ zda.uzh.ch)>
Based on the premise that societies are in constant transformation,
social change is effectuated through
social protest. Within a turbulent global socio-economic and
political context, social protest becomes
more prominent though it takes a variety of forms. At the same time,
Information Communication
Technologies (ICTs) are becoming more widespread and sophisticated
in areas where transnational let
alone global problems are tackled. A range of empirical studies have
provided evidence for the
purported changing nature of social movements, both online and
offline. On the one hand, ICTs seem to
have a considerable effect on the amount and quality of information,
the way members and nonmembers
of movements interact online and the internal structure and form of
social movements
(SMOs). On the other hand, the online presence of SMOs' members and
activists has had an impact on
the organisation of traditional forms of mobilisation. However, the
crucial question that needs to be
addressed is whether social protest is effective in bringing social
change. Has the existing constellations
of power changed? To what extent has ICT influenced this process?
What kind of ideological dilemmas
drive and inform the discourses of social action? This special issue
aims at providing a critical analysis
of (new) social movements. The basic objective is to identify
innovative case studies based on a critical
theoretical framework in order to explore the goals of SMOs'
activities online and offline, their
ideological underpinnings and their effectiveness. Interdisciplinary
papers are especially welcomed.
The journal
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The Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society is a peer
reviewed journal, international in
readership and critical in approach and analysis. Genuinely
interdisciplinary in scope, the journal offers
a comprehensive locus to critical thinking as well as to dialectical
materialism about the most
significant tendencies, contradictions and key issues of our society.
Notes for Intending Authors
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Guidelines for Submission
All submitted papers will be subject to the initial screening of the
(guest) editor and once approved,
they will be automatically sent out for blind peer review by at
least two anonymous referees. The
author should not be identifiable from the text, and that
information about the author is provided in a
front page, separate from the text of the article. The papers should
not exceed the 8000 words. All
proposed papers should be sent electronically to the guest editor
(<mailto:(vasiliki.trigka /at/ zda.uzh.ch)>(vasiliki.trigka /at/ zda.uzh.ch)). More
specific information regarding the format of the submitted papers is
available at:
<http://journal.euc.ac.cy./guid_submission.php>http://journal.euc.ac.cy./guid_submission.php
Important Dates
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Deadline for paper submission: 1st May 2011
Paper Reviews until: 1st July 2011
Submission of revised manuscripts: 1st September, 2011
The special issue will be published in the Fall/Winter Issue of 2011.
