[ecrea] call for papers: "Social Media R/evolution"

*Social Media R/evolution *

Editor: Bar?s, Çoban

“Social media” is a shiny new buzzword and defined as “forms of 
electronic communication (as
Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users 
create online communities to
share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as 
videos).” The term Social Media
refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn 
communication into an interactive
dialogue. Different types of social media may be listed as: “social 
networking sites, blogs and
microblogs, content communities, collaborative projects, Internet 
forums, wikis, podcasts, video/photo
sharing sites, review sites, virtual social worlds, virtual game 
worlds”. Social media platforms have
become inseperable element of contemporary life in the r/evolutionary 
process of communication and
correspondingly social media has changed/transformed social, political, 
economic life of people. Social
media has also changed everything about the way people communicate and 
work together, as well as
the way we find information, communicate, network, and shop. Social 
Media has changed the way
people connect, discover, and share information, i.e. social media 
empowered the people and
communities to participate in social and political life and to express 
their thoughts and opinions and
share them with others.

This study aims to contribute to the study of social media. I invite 
submissions that collectively
implement diverse methodological approaches, cut across various 
disciplines, including communication
and media studies, cultural studies, politics, economics, sociology, 
social anthropology. Authors are
invited to submit original conceptual and empirically grounded papers, 
including but not limited to the
following topics:

. New media and social media
. Social media: A new era of journalism
. Social media and social change: Evolution
. Social Media: Revolution- “Arab Spring, Occupy movements”
. Social media and trade-unions
. Social Media: Surveillance society, electronic panopticon
. Social media and social networking
. Social Media: e-government, e-democracy
. Social Media: Politics and Social Campaigns
. Political economy of social media
. Social Media: e-business
. Social Media: Public Relations and advertising
. Social Media: Law and ethics
. Social Media: Hacking and cyberattacks
. Social Media: Privacy issues
. Social Media: Transformation of education


Please submit your abstract in English or Turkish, maximum 300 words 
until February 20, 2013.

The acceptance of abstracts will be notified by e-mail by March 20, 2013.

The deadline for submission of full manuscript is October 1st, 2013.

The book is going to be published in Turkish by Yeni Hayat Publisher in 
2013.

Bar?s, Çoban

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences

Dog(us, University


E-mail:
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