[ecrea] CFP - mini track digital citizenship and activism - ECEG 2013, Como, Italy, June 13-14

CFP: mini-track on Digital Activism and Citizenship at the 13th European 
Conference on eGovernment ECEG 2013 Como, Italy, June 13-14th

Feel free to send in an abstract and please spread it among your contacts


The long-raging debate over the potential of the Internet and new media 
to invigorate citizens’ participation in politics is not a matter of 
theoretical speculation any more, but an acutely practical affair. 
Nowadays, when citizens want to voice their opinions and define their 
political identities they increasingly do so on social networks online. 
Slowly but surely, these environments exhibit exciting new possibilities 
for mobilization, organization and discussion, offering citizens new 
channels for speaking and acting together and thus lower the threshold 
for political participation. This, in turn, changes the power dynamics 
of participation. However, some have questioned the notion of social 
networking platforms as tools for social change and/or horizontal power 
structures, in particular in relation to issues of surveillance, data 
privacy and corporate ownership of social networks. Also very few 
movements have succeed through mediated activism alone.
Hence, on the one hand we are witnessing how increasing access to the 
internet has resulted in an array of new strategies and success stories 
for contemporary activism, in particular with regards to mobilisation. 
On the other hand, we are still groping in the dark when it comes to 
understanding the place of digital activism in the shifting landscapes 
of power. For this mini-track we invite scholarly research to shed light 
on these issues.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

    *
      Contemporary activist and citizenhsip practices
    *
      Power and participation among activists and citizens using online 
platforms
    *
      Networked individualism and collective action
    *
      New discourses of activism and citizenship
    *
      Intersections of offline and online participation
    *
      Issues of surveillance and privacy in online participation



Submission details

All submission types require a 300-500 word abstract in the first 
instance, to be received by 22 November 2012. Please read the guidelines 
at  http://academic-conferences.org/abstract-guidelines.htm
Only accepted by online form submission at  
http://academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2013/eceg13-abstract-submission.htm

Jakob Svensson, Ph. D.

Director HumanIT ( www.kau.se/en/humanit)
Ass. Prof. in Media and Communication Studies
Karlstad University
65188 Karlstad - Sweden

+ 46 (0) 54  700 1893
(jakob.svensson /at/ kau.se)


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