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[ecrea] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Social Media, Design and Creative Citizenship

Tue Apr 26 11:04:31 GMT 2016





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Call for Papers

The journal Digital Creativity is seeking contributions for a special issue on Social Media, Design and Creative Citizenship

Guest Editor: Henry Mainsah (The Oslo school of Architecture and Design)


The attributes and goals of citizenship are currently being transformed as a result of emerging digital culture. Terms such as “hacktivism[1]", “critical making”, “DIY citizenship[2]”, “vernacular creativity[3]”, “silly citizenship[4]” and “digital activism” have become buzzwords for describing emerging forms of citizenship enacted by a variety of new actors. They sometimes include networks of actors such as computer programmers, designers, crafters, scientists, artists, bloggers, and community organizers.

Creative citizenship has been associated with a range of phenomena in research literature varying from cultural activism and participation in the public sphere to everyday acts of creativity. It describes creative and collaborative approaches to addressing civic challenges often involving the use of digital and social media but it is not limited to the realm of the digital. Creative citizenship has been used to describe mundane forms of creativity such as photo sharing, digital storytelling, sharing of sewing and knitting patterns online, graffiti art, urban gardening, cooking and community-led design. Due to the visibility and connectedness of digital media, locating such activities in these contexts might enable certain civic benefits, often in ways not imagined by their initiators. Framing these activities as forms of citizenship signals the ways in which the individuals and groups that engage in them understand such activities as transformative. These are often activities that challenge traditional hierarchies of authority and power and that provide contexts for reflecting on how such power is constituted by infrastructures practices and institutions.

This special issue of Digital Creativity seeks research that examines the potentials and limitations of digitally mediated forms of creative citizenship. We look for papers that propose analytical and methodological frameworks for understanding digital and creative practices that constitute citizenship. We are interested in projects that explore how digital technologies are appropriated co-developed and used creatively as a form of activism and participation in the public sphere.

[1] Yang, G. (2009). The power of the Internet in China: Citizen activism online. New York: Columbia University Press. [2] Ratto, M., Boler, M., & Deibert, R. (2014). DIY Citizenship; Critical Making and Social Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [3] Burgess, Jean (2006) ‘Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 20 (2): 201-214. [4] Hartley, J. (2010). Silly citizenship. Critical Discourse Studies, 7(4): 233-248.

Submission Requirements

Initial proposals should be submitted as abstracts of 800–1200 words, exclusive of references and biographies.

The extended abstract should include:

1) Name of author(s) with email addresses and affiliation, if applicable;
2) Title of the paper;
3) Body of the abstract;
4) Preliminary bibliography;
5) Author(s)’s short bio(s); and
6) Indication of whether the submission will be a short or a long paper.

Following acceptance of the abstract by the editors, the full articles will be accepted subject to a double-blind peer review process. Typical forms are short articles (2500–3500 words) and long articles (5000–7000 words), inclusive of references. More information about the formatting is available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/NDCR

Important Dates

Abstracts due: May 20
Full papers due: July 15
Expected publication: Spring 2017

Send the abstract as PDFs to Henry Nsaiszeka Mainsah

Editorial information

• Guest Editor: Henry Nsaiszeka Mainsah ((Henry.Mainsah /at/ aho.no))
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