[ecrea] new issue International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)

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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