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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2011

Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges

A book edited by Dr. Bogdan Patrut, Dr. Monica Patrut, and Dr. Camelia 
Cmeciu
"Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau and "Danubius" University of 
Galati, Romania

To be published by IGI Global:
http://redir.ec/SocialMediaBook

Introduction
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile 
technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Social 
media are a collection of Internet-based applications based on the 
ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, as A. Kaplan and 
M. Haenlein observed. These applications enable the creation and 
exchange of user-generated content. In fact, the social media represent 
the media for social interaction, as a superset beyond social 
communication.
Social media include Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, 
microblogging, wikis, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating 
and social bookmarking. There are different types of social media: 
collaborative projects (e.g. Wikipedia), blogs and microblogs (e.g. 
Twitter), content communities (e.g. Youtube), social networking sites 
(e.g. Facebook), virtual game worlds (e.g. World of Warcraft), and 
virtual social worlds (e.g. Second Life) (Kaplan & Haenlein). 
Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, blogs, wall-postings, 
email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over 
IP, to name a few.
Besides commercial and entertainment applications, the social-media 
services and technologies have entered nowadays in educational areas as 
well. In recent years, social media have become scholar media, new means 
by which scholars communicate, collaborate, and teach. There are a lot 
of research studies that reveal the importance of using social networks, 
wikis, virtual communities in teaching and learning.

Objective of the Book
This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the 
latest empirical research findings in the area of social media, directly 
concerning the pedagogical challenges of the recent years. It will be 
written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the 
strategic role of social media at different levels of the education in 
the information and knowledge society. So, it will present social media 
at the level of the learning centered on student, at the level of 
teaching courses and seminars/labs, at the level of the research 
activity of the academic staff, and also, at the level of the management 
and collaboration between the academic networks and organizations, of 
teams and work groups, of information systems and, finally, at the level 
of individuals as actors in the postmodern educational process.
The ultimate goal is to produce a high-quality publication that will 
make its mark in its field and provide professional recognition for 
every contributor.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and 
researchers working in the field of social science, education sciences, 
computer science, information and communication sciences, and knowledge 
management in various disciplines, e.g. teaching, e-learning, 
management, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, adult education, computer 
science, and information technology. Moreover, the book will provide 
insights and support executives in educational institutions concerned 
with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and 
organizational development in different types of academic communities 
and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Academic applications for podcasting
o Academic events through social-media (Eventful, The Hotlist, 
Meetup.com, Upcoming, Eventseer, AllConferences)
o Analytics for social media
o Budgeting for social media in academic organizations
o Case studies for successful social media commuting and presenting
o Communication, both internal and external.
o Diagramming and visual collaboration in educational institutions
o Document Managing and Editing Tools: Docs.com, Dropbox.com, Google 
Docs, Syncplicity
o Executive and employee social media education and training.
o How do universities deal with social media obstacles/shortcomings
o Impact of social media on the quality of the didactic process
o Integrating social media and traditional media within the academic 
environment
o Livecasting for education
o Location-based social networks (Facebook places, Foursquare, Geoloqi, 
Google Latitude, Gowalla, The Hotlist)
o Mobile social media and mobile teaching/learning
o Photography and art sharing (deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, 
SmugMug, Zooomr) and the new education
o Social bookmarking (or social tagging): CiteULike, Delicious, Diigo, 
Google Reader, StumbleUpon, folkd
o Social media tools for schools and universities
o Social networking used in the new academic environment (ASmallWorld, 
Bebo, Cyworld, Diaspora, Facebook, Google+, Hi5, Hyves, IRC, LinkedIn, 
MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Plaxo, Tagged, Tuenti, XING, Yammer)
o Social news: Digg, Mixx, Social i my2i, Newsvine, NowPublic, Reddit
o Teaching through presentation sharing (Prezi, scribd, SlideShare)
o The use of Content Management Systems for education (Drupal, Joomla, 
Plone, Siteforum, Wordpress)
o The advertising of universities using social media
o Using blogs (Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Open Diary, WordPress, 
Xanga) for educational purposes
o Using microblogging (Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Twitter) for 
communicating academic events
o Using video sharing for education (Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico 
Douga, Openfilm, sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube)
o Using wikis (PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, Wikimedia, Wikispaces) in 
Science Classes

Submission Procedure
Researchers, and practitioners (including professors, teachers, 
lecturers, public relations and advertising specialists, students, PhD 
students etc.) are invited to submit on or before October 30, 2011, a 
2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of 
his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be 
notified by Novemver 15, 2011 about the status of their proposals and 
sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 
February 28, 2012.  In a full chapter, the contributor can extend the 
ideas and the topics presented in the 2-3 page proposal. The full 
chapters (containing 8,000 - 12,000 words and formatted accordingly with 
a template we will provide) must be written in American English. All 
submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. 
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by the IGI Global (formerly Idea 
Group Inc.), a prestigious international publisher of the "Information 
Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information 
Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering 
Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the 
publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is 
anticipated to be released in 2012.

Important Dates
October 30, 2011:    Proposal Submission Deadline
November 15, 2011:    Notification of Acceptance
February, 28, 2012:    Full Chapter Submission
May 15, 2012:        Review Results Returned
June 15, 2012:        Final Chapter Submission
July 15, 2012:        Final Deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word 2003 
document) or by mail to:

Dr. Bogdan Patrut
Department of Mathematics, Informatics, and Education Sciences
"Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania
Tel.: +40 234 20 60 90  GSM: +40 728 88 22 88, +40 741 63 81 82
E-mail: (bogdan /at/ edusoft.ro)
Web: www.edusoft.ro/bogdan

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