[ecrea] Call for Papers - Imagining the Engaged Citizen and Public in the Age of Social Media

International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA)

Special Issue On: Imagining the Engaged Citizen and Public in the Age of 
Social Media

Submission Due Date
1/9/2017

Guest Editor
Dr. Marco Adria

Introduction
Scholars and practitioners with expertise and experience in the area of 
public engagement, involvement, and deliberation are cordially invited 
to submit a paper proposal for a forthcoming special theme issue of 
IJPADA on Imagining the Engaged Citizen and Public in the Age of Social 
Media, to be published in 2017.

The use of public-involvement methods, such as citizen juries, panels, 
and polling, has increased since their introduction in the 1970s. Policy 
areas that have benefited from these methods include electoral reform, 
land-use planning, environmental assessment processes, human 
reproductive technology development, and health care delivery. New 
opportunities and challenges are emerging as a result of the arrival of 
social media on mobile electronic devices.

In this context, questions arise concerning who and what the concepts of 
citizen and public are and should be for governments, civil society, and 
activitists using online networks for citizen engagement, involvement, 
and deliberation. Some of these many questions may be mentioned. Does 
the Habermasian deliberative citizen remain an appropriate model in the 
new context? Or is there an emergent model of the citizen to which we 
should attend? In what ways are citizens becoming more or less engaged? 
Are we witnessing the creation of new publics? If so, how should we 
understand and respond to them? What is the relationship of new concepts 
of the public to previously existing concepts? Is the new context 
contributing to more social and economic equality, or less? What are the 
prospects for democratic innovations in the age of social media?

Objective
The special issue will contribute to the scholarly and professional 
discourse about who and what the concepts of citizen and public are and 
should be for governments, civil society, and activists using online 
networks for citizen engagement, involvement, and deliberation. The 
international context of the topic will be emphasized, and studies from 
all political and cultural domains qualify for consideration. 
Qualitative multi-case or mixed-methods studies are encouraged, along 
with longitudinal studies using secondary data or original questionnaire 
surveys.

Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in the special issue may include, but are not 
limited to, the following:

* A new public or the old public revisited?
* Assessing models of civic engagement emphasizing electronic communication
* Comparing the polled citizen and the deliberative citizen
* Competing theories and theorists of democracy in the age of social media
* Increasing social and economic equality: Rhetoric and reality
* Citizen journalism and the future of broadcast news
* Changing conceptions of youth, minorities, women, and the aged as citizens
* Citizens united or citizens divided?
* Citizens as policy entrepreneurs
* Online deliberation and its effects
* The fate of Habermas’ theories of citizenship
* Re-emergence of the news gatekeeper
* Changing relationships between netizens and the public sphere

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit 500-word Paper 
Proposals for the special issue on or before January 9, 2017. All 
submissions must be original and may not be under review by another 
publication.

Authors of approved Paper Proposals will be invited to submit a full 
paper. Full papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review 
basis. Please see Important Dates below.

Paper Proposals must follow APA style for reference citations. Before 
submitting a Paper Proposal, you must consult the publisher’s submission 
guidelines: 
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ 
<http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/>.

Important Dates
January 9, 2017: Paper Proposal Submission Deadline (500 words)
January 23, 2017: Proposal Acceptance Notification
May 1, 2017: Full Paper Submission
July 3, 2017: Peer Review Results
September 4, 2017: Final chapter Submission
September 18, 2017: Final Acceptance Notification

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Send inquiries and Paper Proposals electronically to Dr. Marco Adria: 
(marco.adria /at/ ualberta.ca) 
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