[ecrea] Call for Chapter Proposals Social Media in Politics: Case studies (2008-2013)

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 12, 2013

A book edited by Dr. Bogdan Patrut

Social Media in Politics: Case studies (2008-2013)

To be published by Springer in lately 2013 – early 2014
in the book series "Public Administration and Information Technology"


IMPORTANT DATES

April 7, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
April 14, 2013: Notification of Acceptance
May, 20, 2012: Full Chapter Submission
June, 20, 2012: Review Results Returned
July 20, 2012: Final Chapter Submission (exception: chapters about 
German federal election or Australian federal elections, 2013)
This book will explain how the social media tools and technologies 
changed the way in promoting political ideas among individuals, groups 
and organizations. We will discuss how Facebook, Twitter, politicians’ 
blogs, Youtube and other social media tools were or can be used in local 
and national electoral campaigns.
We are looking for authors interested in this project:
· senior and young researchers
· coming from different countries or cultures
· with thoretical expertise or practice in different scientific domains, 
in order to provide different perspectives on the topic.
Authors from or with experience in the political phenomena from these 
countries are expected to join the project: USA, Russia, UK, Germany, 
Spain, Italy, Australia, Romania, Israel, Czech Republic, Cyprus, 
Moldova, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran etc.
Authors from other areas can propose chapters discussing other recent 
case studies or new topics, not mentioned by us below.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
The book will try to answer to questions such:
- How politicians can use social media for their electoral marketing? 
(Some chapters can discuss how Facebook or blogging can be use in 
electoral campaign. Other chapters can deal with the uses of graph 
theory or natural language processing techniques to develop software and 
tools for politicians in order to improve their image/their campaign);
- How social networks can be used in order to mobilize people for a 
social revolution in a country? (We consider the last internationally 
political events such the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the Spanish 
Indignados movement and the Twitter Revolutions in Moldova (2009), Iran 
(2009-2010), Tunisia (2010-2011) and Egypt (2011) can be presented by 
large in separate chapters.);
- How photo and video sharing services (Flickr, Picasa Web Album, 
Pinterest, Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe etc.) can be used in order to 
present, manipulate or alter the perception of people from one 
geopolitical zone about the regime in other country? (A simple Youtube 
search as “truth about X” will provide different opinions from different 
users in order to present that country/regime/politician X as the evil 
or as the heaven.).
The book is addressed to PhD candidates, universities, researchers in 
social media and in political science, researchers in applied 
mathematics, politicians, candidates for local elections, and 
specialists in political marketing.
TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1. Introductory section
This will be a general introductory section that provides a theoretical 
framework on the ways social media is used in politics, and implications 
of this phenomenon.

Section 2. Using social media in electoral marketing
This section will describe how politicians and their staff uses social 
media for their electoral marketing. Three chapters will deal with the 
different types of elections in recent two years. Other chapter will 
deal with the uses of graph theory or natural language processing 
techniques to develop software and tools for politicians in order to 
improve their image/their campaign.
Chapter 1. Social media in local electoral campaigns
Case study 1: Wales 2012, UK
Case study 2: Bacau 2012, Romania
Chapter 2. Social media in parlamentary elections
Case study 1: Romania 2012
Case study 2: Germany 2013
Case study 3: Italy 2013
Chapter 3. Social media in presidential elections
Case study 1: USA, 2012
Case study 2: Russia, 2012
Case study 3: Czech Republic, 2013
Chapter 4. Computer science usage for analyzing the online political 
speeches of the candidates
Designing a graph theory software for analyzing the online political 
discourses
Using computational linguistics techniques for analyzing the political blogs

Section 3. Social media in mobilizing people for riots and revolutions
This chapter will present how social networks can be used to mobilize 
people for a revolution or a riot in a country. We will describe the 
using of web 2.0 tools in the last internationally political events such 
the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados movement 
and the Twitter Revolutions in Moldova (2009), Iran (2009-2010), Tunisia 
(2010-2011) and Egypt (2011).
Chapter 5. Twitter Revolutions
Case study: Moldova, 2009
Chapter 6. Occupy 2.0. The role of web 2.0 in Occupy movement
Case study: Melbourne, Australia, 2011
Chapter 7. Spanish Indignatos and ¡Democracia Real YA!
Case study: Madrid, 2011
Chapter 8. The role of social media in the Arab Spring movements
Case study: Tunisia, 2012

Section 4. Video-sharing websites and alterity problems
This section will try to answer the question "How video sharing services 
(Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe etc.) can be used in order to present, 
manipulate or alter the perception of people from one geopolitical zone 
about the regime in other country" (a simple Youtube search as “truth 
about X” will provide different opinions from different users in order 
to present that country/regime/politician X as the evil or as the heaven)
Chapter 9.How Youtube videos manipulate us

Researchers, and practitioners (including professors, teachers, 
lecturers, public relations and political advertising specialists, 
politicians, PhD students etc.) are invited to submit on or before April 
7, 2013, a 1-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and 
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals 
will be notified by April 14, 2013 about the status of their proposals 
and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted 
by May 20, 2013. In a full chapter, the contributor can extend the ideas 
and the topics presented in the 1-3 page proposal. The full chapters 
(containing 5,000 – 10,000 words and formatted accordingly with a 
template we will provide) must be written in 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.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word 
document) to:

Dr. Bogdan Patrut
EduSoft
Tel.: +40 234 20 60 90 GSM: +40 728 88 22 88
E-mail: (bogdan /at/ edusoft.ro)
Web: www.edusoft.ro/bogdan
Bogdan Patrut is associate professor in computer science at "Vasile 
Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania, with a Ph.D in computer 
science and a Ph D in e-learning in accounting. His recent domains of 
interest/research is computer science applied in social and political 
sciences. He published and edited more than 25 books and book chapters 
on social media, programming, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and 
e-learning. Recent publications include: "Social Media and the New 
Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges" and "Social Media in 
Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0" (editor, IGI Global, 2013) and 
the chapter "Using Graph Theory Software for Political Discourse 
Analysis" (in Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo (eds.) - "Politics and 
Policy in the Information Age" (Springer). He is also the organizer of 
SMART 2013 international conference (http://smart2013.edusoft.ro), the 
editor-in-chief of BRAND (Broad Research in Accounting, Negotiation, and 
Distribution) journal and software developer for EduSoft Romania.


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