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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 7(2)
The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Volume 7, Issue 2, April - June 2016
Indexed by: INSPEC
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-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom) and 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

Food, Photography and the Indian Pastoral

Aileen Blaney (Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, India)

This article focuses on the relationship between Kheti Badi – a series of images produced by photo-based artist Chinar Shah based on the online Facebook game FarmVille – and the contemporary context of image making, agriculture and food production. In today's digital culture, global perceptions and expectations of food stuffs are grounded less in first-hand knowledge than in images and digital video that circulate on the screens that are now everywhere around us. While photography continues to act in the role of an instrument used to record and classify, it has the power to feed back into the very processes through which science and technology shape food production, going far beyond producing images of a reality that is already out there. In the intersections between a multinational food industry, the global circulation of images of food and the predicaments of people farming the land in India, the author discusses the significance of Kheti Badi's conceptual investigation of photography's role in shaping perceptions of, engagements with and modifications to food.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/food-photography-and-the-indian-pastoral/152820

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152820

ARTICLE 2

Women Can't Win: Gender Irony and the E-Politics of The Biggest Loser

Michael S. Bruner (Department of Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA), Karissa Valine (Department of Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA), Berenice Ceja (Department of Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA)

This essay employs irony as a tool to make clearer the workings of one form of the e-politics of food, namely, the structural food oppression linked to the weight and shape of the female body. Arguing that the e-politics of the weight and shape of the female body is one of the most important incarnations of the e-politics of food and one of the most vigorously contested, this study examines the construction of the assumptions, the ideals, and the rules with which women must contend. The case of Rachel Frederickson, the oft-attacked winner of The Biggest Loser (2014), serves as the focus of the study. The critical rhetorical analysis finds some support for the Women Can't Win thesis. Finally, the authors offers some constructive suggestions for helping to escape the Catch-22 of fat-shaming/skinny shaming.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/women-cant-win/152821

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152821

ARTICLE 3

Embodying Trust in the Electoral System: The Role of Delegated Transferable Voting for Increasing Voter Choice and Representation of Small Political Parties in the Digital Age

Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea, UK), Mark Beech (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea, UK)

This paper proposes a new method for distributing votes in democratic elections in such a way that allows for the public to put their trust in independent candidates or those from small political parties. Using the case of a party founded by the authors called The Pluralist Party the paper presents primary data to evaluate the effectiveness of the method – called delegated transferable voting (DTV). Using an auto-ethnographical empirical study in which one of the authors plays a significant role as anthropologist, the paper finds that DTV is more likely to lead to the election of independent candidates over party political ones. Pluralism advocates the election of those who are independent of political party whips in order to best represent the people. The election of independent candidates or small parties is a model of pluralism that can achieve this. The empirical study, through investigating the campaigning methods used by The Pluralist Party, shows that putting effort into an election – whether money, materials or labour and however funded – can improve outcomes for political parties. Making use of official government data in addition to the collected data showed that a higher number of votes for the Pluralist Party was associated with a higher education level, more rooms in a household, a lower number of people not in education, employment or training, and a lower ‘knol,' which is a unit for measuring brain activity.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/embodying-trust-in-the-electoral-system/152822

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152822

ARTICLE 4

Self-Production through the Banal and the Fictive: Self and the Relationship with the Screen

Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)

The self is performed through the banal of the everyday on social media. The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms. Taking this as part of our performative lives in the digital economy, the paper looks at ways in which we co-produce the self through the banality of the everyday as well as a wider imagination and engagement with the world. These wider engagements are termed as ‘fictive' not because they are unreal but through a conceptual notion of how the self is performed and imagined through wider world events in digital platforms and screen cultures where convergence of technologies allow us to be constantly consumed through the screen as we live out our daily lives. The narration of our lives through the banal and the fictive constantly co-produces the self through a situated domesticity of the everyday and equally through the eventful. In the process it reveals our ongoing relationship with the screen as an orifice for the production of self and the construction of a social reality beyond our immediate domesticity.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/self-production-through-the-banal-and-the-fictive/152823

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152823

BOOK REVIEW

Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea, UK)

To obtain a copy of the Book Review, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=152824&ptid=131914&ctid=17&t=Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

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
     Cabell's Directories
     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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