[ecrea] CeDEM12 conference and the latest call for papers of JeDEM

In this e-mail you find the detailed conference programme of CeDEM12 and 
the latest call for paper of JeDEM.


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Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
    3 - 4 May 2012
    www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem
    REGISTER NOW !


KEYNOTES

* Ralph Schroeder:  The Internet, Science, and Transformations of
Knowledge
* Arthur Lupia:  Evolving Technologies and the Human Dimension of
Attempts to Increase Civic Competence
* Anke Domscheit-Berg:  tba


PRESENTATIONS

Session: E-Participation
* eParticipation that works
* Real Name Policy in E-Participation
* Speaking Danish in Japan: Good practice lessons to learn and emulate


Session: Bottom-Up Movements
* What kind of activist are you?
* SADproject.tv
* Role of social media in political mobilization in Russia

Session: Citizens Inclusion
* Bringing Citizens Opinions to Members of Parliament
* Towards budget transparency and improvement in the South Kivu
Province
* The impact of public transparency in fighting corruption: A study in
Brazilian municipalities e-government Province

Session: E-Politics and E-Campaigning
* Mobilizing Effects of Online Campaigning
* Social Media and the Arab Spring
* Jobbik on Web. Right-wing extremism in Hungary
* Mapping the Austrian political Twittersphere

Session: Government 2.0
* The necessity of metadata for open linked data and its contribution
to policy analyses
* Internal data monitoring for Open Government
* A Temperature Check on Open Government. Accessing parliamentarians
attitude towards democratic concepts

Session: E-Democracy
* Founding an E-government in Algeria by 2014: Prospects and
Constraints for Implementation
* The Largest Democracy - India - Poised for Open, Transparent,
Accountable, Responsive and Sensitive - OTARS - eDemocracy
* DualVote: A Generic User Interface Demonstrating High Usability with
Prêt à Voter

Session: Lightning Talks
* E-Participation Declined? Constituency Boundary Commission Review in
Ireland
* Social computing potential for citizen engagement in public sector
services
* How the New Social Media are changing the Social and Political
Landscape in Romania and Serbia
* The OurSpace project, connecting young people and decision makers
* Implications of open access and e-participation on democracy in
Nigeria
* E-democracy in Bulgaria* Open Nuts! Open Government Data activities
in Austria
* Performance Measurement of MEMS Elements for Information Security of
G-Cloud Channels
* The fitness of OGD for the creation of public value


WORKSHOPS

* Open Access and Preservation in eGovernment
* E-Policy Making
* Open linked governmental data for citizen engagement
* Open Governmental Data


FURTHER INFORMATION

www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem


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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: JeDEM Vol. 4 (1)
Theme: Digital Citizenship and Activism: Questions of Power and
Participation Online
http://www.jedem.org

Guest Editors
* Dr. Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary, Canada)
* Dr. Jakob Svensson (Karlstad University, Sweden)
* Dr. Marko M. Skoric (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Nowadays, when citizens, activists and participants in social
movements
want to voice their opinions and negotiate their political identities
they increasingly do so in hybrid media environments that are
particularly suitable for mobilisation, organisation and discussion.
With a massive increase in online social networking, digital
infrastructures are lowering the threshold for political involvement.
This, in turn, is considerably shifting the power dynamics of
participation. Digital storytelling, for example, has become part of
the
strategies used by contemporary political activists. While strategies
in
the past revolved mainly around the attempts to influence the mass
media
and gatekeepers, today more and more citizens are becoming reporters
and
commentators themselves, often providing first-hand, real-time
coverage
of offline political activities.
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 and data privacy.
These
sorts of critical views have been voiced in public debates on the
implications of corporate ownership of social networks. Another
question
that has been raised is whether clicktivism is eroding the physical or
embodied participation constituting traditional offline activism. It
must be also taken into account that 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 participatory activities in the
shifting landscapes of power in late modernity. For this special issue
of JeDEM, we invite scholarly research to shed light on the issues of
power and participation online.

Important Dates
* Submission deadline 11.06.2012
* Editor decision 16.07.2012
* Camera ready paper 06.08.2012

http://www.jedem.org


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Kind Regards,
  Center for E-Governance
  Danube University Krems


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