[ecrea] CFP: Changing democracy: Journalism, civic participation and,ICTs

Call for Papers Medien Journal. Zeitschrift für Kommunikationskultur
Vierteljahreszeitschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für
Kommunikationswissenschaft (ÖGK) Heft 4/2011

Special Issue: „Changing democracy: Journalism, civic participation and
ICTs“ Deadline Full Papers: June 30, 2011

This special issue of the Medien Journal, the peer-reviewed quartely journal
of the Austrian Communication Association (OGK), is published on the
occasion of a symposium which is jointly organized by the Euromedia Research
Group, the Department of Communication and the ICT&S Center, both University
of Salzburg, and open to the scientific community in the field. This issue
of the journal will embrace selected papers from the symposium combined with
submissions from a broader community.
The topic: The latest wave of Internet development, the so-called
participatory technologies, embracing user/citizen-enabling tools like
wikis, blogs, social media and social networks (Web 2.0-technologies),
challenge traditional forms of representative democracy, lead to a revival
of ideas about a new (digital) civil society and/or to a digital public
sphere. Will the hopes for a more democratic and balanced society
materialize, or will those developments follow the same paths of
professionalization and commercialization like many other media and
communication revolutions in the past?
We encourage submissions covering the broad scope from challenges for
professional journalism/traditional mass media and the development of public
or citizen journalism or communities/networks, diverse modes of civic
participation from bottom-up and grassroots initiatives to collaborative
government on open data basis, to new participatory ICT- applications and
their contribution to democratization. Are participatory technologies
sustainable and reliable allies in the struggle for more and better
democracy? What are the social, economic, political, and technological
frames and conditions for certain developments, can we observe a shift of
power from the political elite to the citizen? Which capabilities are
required to benefit from those developments?
Which theories and methodological approaches are available to adequately
inquire the reshaping of democracy by the means of participatory
technologies? How can we overcome the classic shortcomings of the highly
acclaimed trans-, multi-, or interdisciplinary research and move towards
real disciplinary cooperation?
Papers, adressing the above mentioned problems, both theoretical and
empirical, are welcomed. Especially, interdsiciplinary approches,introducing
diverse subjects and disciplines into the core-field of communication are
appreciated.

Criteria for submissions:
•  The submitted texts must not be published in this form in other media
  (original texts only)

•  Papers are supposed to range between 3000 and 4.500 words
•  Submissions must contain a 10-lines abstract and a 3-lines
biographical note for each author
•  The formal criteria for the submission must follow APA style guides
(see www.apastyle.org)
•  Texts can be submitted in English or German language. German
texts must follow the citation guidelines published under www.ogk.at
(http://www.uni-salzburg.at/portal/page?_pageid=1947,815605&_dad=portal&_sch
ema=PORTAL)

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2011 Please send submissions to

Jo Trappel Dept. Of Communication University of Salzburg
(josef.trappel /at/ sbg.ac.at)

Ursula Maier-Rabler ICT&S Center University of Salzburg
(ursula.maier-rabler /at/ sbg.ac.at)

Manuscripts which have been submitted to Medien Journal must not be
published elsewhere until the peer-review process is finished.


   Ass. Prof. Dr. Thomas Steinmaurer
  ________________________________


  Fachbereich Kommunikations-
  wissenschaft
  Abteilung Kommunikationstheorien
  und Mediensysteme


  Vorsitzender der Österreichischen Gesellschaft
  für Kommunikationswissenschaft (ÖGK)


  Rudolfskai 42
  5020 Salzburg
  Tel +43 662 8044 4164
  Fax +43 662 6389 4164
  www.uni-salzburg.ac.at
  www.ogk.at





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