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[ecrea] Special issue on the “Politics of Digital Visual Cultures” – International Journal of E-Politics(IJEP)

Tue Jan 24 00:18:18 GMT 2012




It gives me great pleasure to share with you the contents of the latest issue of:

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*The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)*

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 3, Issue 1, January-March 2012

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1947-9131 EISSN: 1947-914X

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijep <http://www.igi-global.com/ijep>

Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore, Wayne State University, USA

Guest editor - Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

*GUEST EDITOR PREFACE*

Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

To view this preface, please click the link below and vist this issue of IJEP.

http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147

*PAPER ONE*

The Politics of Watching: Visuality and the New Media Economy

Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

What does it mean to consume and produce images non-stop in the new media economy? Images can be captured, uploaded, downloaded, and disseminated with ease in digital platforms, raising the need to understand how these acts of image capture and circulation are embedded into the familiar and everyday as well as the extraordinary where images can re-negotiate cognitive realities and re-frame notions of authenticity and truth. This new media visuality is characterised by new consumption rituals and practices which transgress the boundaries between private pleasures, personal memories, and voyeurism, on the one hand, and public communion, witnessing, and expose on the other. This paper examines the notion of visuality in digital platforms and its consequences for postmodernity in terms of subjectivity, new forms of engagement and disenfranchisement.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/politics-watching-visuality-new-media/63031

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63031

*PAPER TWO*

DIY Dying: Video Activism as Archive, Commemoration and Evidence

Tina Askanius, Lund University, Sweden

This article examines video activism in a context where ubiquitous camera technologies and online video sharing platforms are radically changing the media landscape in which demonstrations and political activism operates. The author discusses a number of YouTube videos documenting and narrating the recurring, anti-capitalist demonstrations in Europe in the past decade. With the death of Ian Tomlinson in London during the 2009 G20 protests as an empirical starting point, the author raises questions of how video documentation of this event links up with previous protest events by juxtaposing representations of ‘the moment of death’ (Zelizer, 2004, 2010) of protesters in the past. This article suggests that these videos work as (1) an archive of action and activist memory, (2) a site of commemoration in a online shrine for grieving, and (3) a space to provide and negotiate visual evidence of police violence and state repression. The author offers a re-articulation of the longstanding debate on visual evidence, action, and testimony in video activism. The results are suggestive of how vernacular commemorative genres of mourning and paying tribute to victims of police violence are fused with the online practices of bearing witness and producing visual evidence in new creative modes of using video for change.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/diy-dying-video-activism-archive/63032

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63032

*PAPER THREE*

Samizdat 2.0: The Dymovsky Case and the Use of Streaming Video as a Political Tool in Contemporary Russia

Beth Knobel, Fordham University, USA

Jonathan Sanders, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

This paper examines the case of Russian Police Major Aleksei Dymovsky, who took the unprecedented step of posting a video on the Internet in 2009 in which he exposed the corrupt practices of Russian law enforcement officials. When the video went “viral,” Dymovsky set off a national debate about corruption, but was quickly crushed by the authorities for whistleblowing. This paper uses the example of the Dymovsky affair to examine the power of streaming video as a political tool in Russia. It also examines the difference between the underground literature of the Soviet-era, samizdat, and the new-style video samizdat of the Internet era. The case of Dymovsky allows the power of the Internet in contemporary Russia to be examined and provides an opportunity to test current theories about the power of the Internet as an organizing force.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/samizdat-dymovsky-case-use-streaming/63033

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63033

*PAPER FOUR*

Mapping Culture and Compromised Art in the Era of Globalization

Paula Tavares, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Maria João Félix, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Pedro Mota Teixeira, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

This work presents an analysis of the cultural and artistic field, positively compromised with social and political questions. The authors start with the categorization of the idea of culture and move to vindication art movements. These movements, which followed the first vanguards and worked from the compromise with “otherness”, are at the origin of the contemporary denomination of political art. In this context, the authors approach the origins of activist art, referring to issues of gender, multiculturalism, globalization, and poverty. The different forms of presenting content are also an object of analysis: from art tradition to the contamination of daily life, from local to global, from street contact to digital.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/mapping-culture-compromised-art-era/63034

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63034

*BOOK REVIEW*

Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage Reviewed by Gil Toffell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

To obtain a copy of the entire book review, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/untimely-bollywood-globalization-india-new/63035

To read a PDF sample of this review, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63035

*INTERVIEW*

Interview with Catarina Carneiro de Sousa: Multimedia Artists and Art Educator

Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

To obtain a copy of the entire interview, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/untimely-bollywood-globalization-india-new/63035

To read a PDF sample of this interview, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63036

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the *International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "*InfoSci-Journals*" database: http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx. *****************************************************

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Mission of IJEP:

The mission of the *International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* is to define and expand the boundaries of e-politics as an emerging area of inter-disciplinary research and practice by assisting in the development of e-politics theories and empirical models. The journal creates a venue for empirical, theoretical, and practical scholarly work on e-politics to be published, leading to sharing of ideas between practitioners and academics in this field. IJEP contributes to the creation of a community of e-politics researchers by serving as a “hub” for related activities, such as organizing seminars and conferences on e-politics and publication of books on e-politics.

Coverage of IJEP:

The *International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* focuses on three major topic areas: the politics of information technology function and its role within organizations, the politics of virtual communities and social networking communities, and the role that electronic media plays in community activism and party politics at the local, national, and international levels. Within these major areas, specific topics of interest to be discussed in the journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

· E-voting and electronically enabled e-government

· Impact of globalization on the political role played by the IT unit within organizations

· Impact of race and gender on electronically enabled political manipulations

· Party politics and social activism

· Politics of diffusion of change within organizations

· Politics of social networking communities, including: learning communities, customers' communities, e-dating communities, gaming communities, support group communities, etc.

· Politics of the IT function and role in organizations

· Politics of virtual communities and social networking communities

· Politics of geographically based virtual communities

· Use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and harassment

· Use of electronic media in industrial and labor relations

· Utilization of electronic media for governance and politicking at the municipal, state, national, and international levels

· Utilization of electronic media for political debate, information sharing, political decision making, and fundraising

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/ijep <http://www.igi-global.com/ijep>.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore at (ak1667 /at/ wayne.edu) <mailto:%(20ak1667 /at/ wayne.edu)>




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