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[ecrea] CfP New Media and Democracy

Thu Jan 09 09:05:02 GMT 2014



Call for papers


New Media and Democracy


A special issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace to be published in autumn 2014.


Edited by Monika Metykova (University of Sussex, UK) and Pablo Sapag Muñoz de la Peña (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)


Low voter turnout, ‘boredom’ with politics, disengagement from democratic processes have all been used to characterize the state of affairs in actually existing democracies. Recently in the UK the actor and celebrity Russell Brand made news headlines when he admitted not voting after being unimpressed with politicians. A UK poll not long after suggested that it was anger rather than boredom that discouraged the electorate from exercising their right to vote.


Explorations of the role of new media in empowering ordinary citizens, in enabling their participation in democratic processes and in re-invigorating democratic politics at various levels have been ongoing. Studies dealing with the use of new media by political and other elites and the impact of such use on democratic processes and political communication have received increased attention. Young people, their disengagement from institutional politics and the potential of new media in remedying the situation appear to be some of the most recent foci of research on new media and democracy.


This special issue invites papers that build our understanding of these phenomena, it focusses broadly on the roles of new media in democratic processes with a particular interest in empirical case studies that use interdisciplinary innovative approaches. Questions addressed by papers suitable for the special issue could include the following:

· Have new media provided political elites with renewed democratic opportunities or rather enabled an elitist shift?

· Do new media enable ordinary citizen’s sustained meaningful civic engagement?

· In which areas of institutional politics and life-style values do new media play a role in various countries?

· What is the relationship between online and offline civic engagement?

· Has the migration of ‘old’ media online enabled new ways in which ordinary citizens engage with political discourse?


Expressions of interest should be submitted to both guest editors, Monika Metykova ((m.metykova /at/ sussex.ac.uk)) and Pablo Sapag Muñoz de la Peña ((pvsapag /at/ pdi.ucm.es)) as an e-mail attachment by no later than February 28, 2014. Please include a 500-word abstract, full contact information, and a biographical note (up to 75 words) on the author(s). Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by March 15, 2014 and will then be invited to submit a full paper to the guest editors. Manuscripts should be between 7,000 to 8,000 words, including notes and references, follow Cyberpsychology style guidelines, and be submitted by June 15, 2014. All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission.


Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focusses on social science research about cyberspace. The journal is interdisciplinary, publishing works written by scholars of psychology, media studies, sociology, political science, nursing, and also other disciplines. The journal is indexed with SCOPUS, EBSCO Academic Search Complete, the Directory of Open Access Journals and the Czech Database of Scientific Journals. For further information see http://www.cyberpsychology.eu


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