[ecrea] New issue of IJEP - campaigning, trolling and social networking

The latest issue of International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Volume 5, Issue 3, July - September 2014

Digital Teens and the ‘Antisocial Network': Prevalence of Troublesome 
Online Youth Groups and Internet trolling in Great Britain
Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and 
E-Learning Systems, Wales, UK)
A concern shared among nearly all generations of adults is that they 
must do something to tackle the problems in society caused by young 
people. They often forget that they were once young, and all too often 
blame young people for all of problems in their community. This paper 
challenges this view and shows how the blaming of Internet trolling on 
today's young people – called digital teens – is probably inaccurate. 
What might otherwise be called Troublesome Online Youth Groups (TOYGs), 
this paper looks at data collected from subjects in three UK regions 
(n=150 to 161), which includes young people who are not in education, 
employment or training (NEETs).
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=117788

Campaigning Online, Locally
Azi Lev-On (School of Communication, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel)
How do candidates for municipal office use the Internet in their 
campaigns, and are there differences between candidates according to the 
character of the constituencies and the races? This is the first a 
country-wide study of website usage in low-visibility political 
campaigns for municipal offices. To obtain a copy of the entire article, 
click on the link below.

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=117789

Leaders and Followers in Social Networking Environments: A Conceptual Model
Celia Romm Livermore (Department of Management and Information Systems, 
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA), Pierluigi Rippa (Department 
of Industrial Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy)
This conceptual paper focuses on understanding the characteristics and 
behaviors of leaders and followers in social networking communities. The 
study differentiates between four groups of actors: “Established 
Leaders”, “Emergent Leaders”, “Newbies”, and “Supporters”. Based on a 
review of the literature on leaders and followers in virtual groups, the 
Leader/Follower Behavior in Social Networking Environments model is 
presented.

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=117790

French Primary Elections and the Internet, the Social Network of the 
Socialist Party, the Coopol
Marino De Luca (Department of Social and Political Science, University 
of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy), Anaïs Theviot (Centre Emile Durkheim, 
Sciences Po Bordeaux, Pessac, France)
Beyond traditional places for exchanges within organizations (for 
example, ward or branch meetings), virtual communication forums give 
members of political parties an opportunity to express their opinions on 
line. The social network of the Parti Socialiste (PS) in France, the 
Coopol, was created on January 12, 2010, and seems to hold out new 
prospects for public debate. The information provided by this article 
makes it an important case study which explains in an empirical way the 
latest theoretical approaches within this research field.
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=117791

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA), 
Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)

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