[ecrea] Call for Abstracts on the Politics of Digital Media in the Balkans and the Middle East

> Call for Abstracts on the Politics of Digital Media in the Balkans 
> and the Middle East.
>
> Editors: Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University) and Zala Volcic 
> (University of Queensland)
>
>
>
> We invite abstract submissions for an edited book on the creation, 
> dissemination, interpretation, and role of digital media for 
> political purposes in the Balkans and the Middle East. The Balkan 
> and Middle East contexts provide interesting case studies because of 
> their overlapping patterns of national and regional identification 
> combined with the tensions these create.
>
>
>
> The overall goal of the edited volume will be to consider the 
> relationship between a wide array of internet uses and forms of 
> political deliberation, taking into consideration both the ways in 
> which interactive media help to foster deliberation, discussion, and 
> the coordination of collection action, and the ways in which they 
> may thwart public sphere ideals of rational critical deliberation 
> and public accountability. Our intent is to provide an overview of 
> the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions.
>
>
>
> Contributors may come from a range of disciplinary and 
> methodological perspectives, attending to how political groups, 
> practices, and communicative genres are underwritten and sustained 
> via engagement with digital technology, as well as to how the 
> political realm itself is transformed in the age of digital media.
>
>
>
> Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:
>
> -         The political uses of digital media
>
> -         The uses of digital media for purposes of organizing 
> protest and dissent and for the construction of forums for political 
> deliberation.
>
> -         How activists and (political) groups have used the 
> internet to hold state authorities accountable or challenge them, or 
> to publish and circulate information.
>
> -         The creation, dissemination and/or interpretation of 
> digital media content by communities and individuals for political purposes
>
> -         The kinds of politics that are created/expressed in the 
> digital media environment
>
> -         How mediated expressions and spaces connect to politics 
> 'on the ground'
>
> -         The kinds of political challenges that arise from digital 
> media use in the regions
>
> -         The shifting relationship between digital media and journalism
>
> -         How  population groups use the internet to connect with 
> one another across national divisions (for example Serbs living in 
> Bosnia, Serbia, and Montenegro; Palestinians living in Israel, 
> Lebanon, Jordan and Syria).
>
>
>
> -         Chapters may focus on different forms of digital media and 
> spaces: internet cafes, social networking sites, bulletin boards, 
> blogs, twitter, wikipedia, youTube, listservs, websites and other 
> digital/social media.
>
> -         Chapters may focus on one national context or sub-context, 
> or may be comparative in scope.
>
> -         For the purposes of this project, the relevant geographic 
> range of the Balkans and the Middle East includes the following: 
> Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, 
> Kosovo, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Jordan, 
> Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Kuwait, 
> UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen.
>
> -         We particularly welcome contributions from scholars from 
> the relevant regions.
>
>
>
> Please send a short bio, a publication list, and a 500 word abstract 
> detailing the topic of your article, the overall context, your 
> material, methodology, and theoretical argument by March 1, 2010. 
> Authors will be notified by the 25th of March 2010 of the outcome of 
> their submissions. If accepted, full papers, of a maximum of 6,000 
> words, should be submitted by September 1, 2010. Papers will then be 
> reviewed individually by the editors and in the standard blind 
> review process of the publisher.
>
>
>
> Submissions and inquiries about this volume should be sent to both
>
> <mailto:(helga /at/ nyu.edu)>(helga /at/ nyu.edu)
>
> <mailto:(z.volcic /at/ uq.edu.au)>(z.volcic /at/ uq.edu.au)
>
>
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>
>
> --
> Helga Tawil-Souri
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
> New York University
>
> <mailto:(helga /at/ nyu.edu)>(helga /at/ nyu.edu)
> 1-212-992-9437
> --

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