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[ecrea] IJEP 6(2) Abstract Announcement

Tue May 05 17:20:10 GMT 2015


Abstract Announcement for International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 6(2)

The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Volume 6, Issue 2, April - June 2015
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1947-9131; EISSN: 1947-914X;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijep

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom), Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA) Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

ARTICLE 1

ICTs: Convenient, Yet Subsidiary Tools in Changing Democracy

Kerill Dunne (Independent Researcher, Dublin, Ireland)

Within Western democracies there has been a growing demand to use ICT to enable citizens to get more involved with local political issues. Western local governments have claimed that ICT can empower citizens and strengthen local democracy. This paper will focus on one aspect of this and examine the provision of online direct democracy and whether citizens do indeed have the opportunity to vote more in local policy decision making. Using Michel Foucault's concepts of power and domination this research will explore if local governments and their citizens, through strategies of power, use one type of ICT, online forums, to change local representative democracy. In order to examine whether online forums can increase direct democracy for citizens, a quantitative data collection method was implemented in this study which produced a data set of 138 online forums. This article argues that online forums do not increase direct democracy, because citizens along with local governments use ICT to maintain the political status quo online?

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/icts/127686

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=127686

ARTICLE 2

When SNS use Doesn't Trigger e-Participation: Case Study of an African Authoritarian Regime

Wairagala Wakabi (Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden), Åke Grönlund (Örebro University Business School, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden)

Numerous scholars have concluded that there is a correlation between use of social network sites (SNS), particularly for news and information acquisition or community building, and the likelihood for e-Participation. This paper examines how the use of Facebook affects the participative behaviours of individuals active in political and interest organizations and those not active in organized politics. Through focus group discussions involving 56 Ugandans, we conclude that in low internet use, authoritarian contexts, the Civic Voluntarism Model and the benefits Facebook brings to participation in Western democracies are turned on their head. Besides overwhelming detachment from politics, even for politically-inclined citizens, low belief in citizens' online actions influencing change and fear of reprisals for criticizing an authoritarian president in power for 29 years, severely dulled the appetite for e-Participation. This high cost of participation means Facebook is growing citizens' civic skills but it is hardly increasing online participation even for politically interested citizens.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/when-sns-use-doesnt-trigger-e-participation/127687

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=127687

ARTICLE 3

The Politics of e-Learning: A Play in Four Acts

Celia Romm Livermore (Department of Management and Information Systems, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA), Mahesh Raisinghani (School of Management, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, USA,), Pierluigi Rippa (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy)

The goal of this research is to study the political strategies utilized in the context of e-Learning. The paper is based on the e-Learning Political Strategies (ELPoS) model. The model is based on two dimensions: (1) the direction of the political strategy (upward or downward), and (2) the scope of the political strategy (individual or group based). The model assumes that the interaction between these dimensions defines four different types of e-Learning political strategies, which, in turn, lead to different outcomes. The model is discussed in the context of the literature on e-Learning and is accompanied with a case study that is divided into four parts (“acts”). Each of the four acts provides an example of each of the four strategies in the model. The discussion and conclusions section integrates the findings from the case study, outlines the rules that govern the utilization of political behavior in the context of e-Learning, and lists the practical conclusions that can be drawn from a better understating of the politics of e-Learning.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/the-politics-of-e-learning/127688

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=127688

ARTICLE 4

Communicative and Persuasive Strategies in the Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections 2014

Ognyan Seizov (University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany)

The field of political communication has long cast its eye on the Internet and beyond its traditional US-American focus. Nevertheless, research into the Web's full palette of expression means as well as across a wider, non-Western territory, remains modest. This paper analyzes how five major Bulgarian political parties presented themselves on the Web in one of the most heated and controversial elections since the fall of the totalitarian regime in 1989/1990. To shine a light on Bulgarian political communication, the paper takes the October 2014 parliamentary election campaign in Bulgaria, which took place amid unprecedented society-wide discontent and tension. It takes a close look at five major parties' online platforms. It applies a multimodal content-analytical framework to a total of N=64 webpages. Distinct visual, textual, and multimodal persuasive strategies flesh out, and their relationships to each party's background and poll performance are explored.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/communicative-and-persuasive-strategies-in-the-bulgarian-parliamentary-elections-2014/127689

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=127689

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: www.igi-global.com/isj.

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.

Indices of IJEP:

    ACM Digital Library
    Bacon's Media Directory
    DBLP
    Google Scholar
    INSPEC
    JournalTOCs
    MediaFinder
    Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS International)
    The Index of Information Systems Journals
    The Standard Periodical Directory
    Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
    Worldwide Political Abstracts (WPSA)

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/calls-for-papers/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147
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