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[ecrea] Call for Chapter Proposals Social Media in Politics: Case studies (2008-2013)

Tue Mar 12 05:14:15 GMT 2013





CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 12, 2013

A book edited by Dr. Bogdan Patrut

Social Media in Politics: Case studies (2008-2013)

To be published by Springer in lately 2013 – early 2014
in the book series "Public Administration and Information Technology"


IMPORTANT DATES

April 7, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
April 14, 2013: Notification of Acceptance
May, 20, 2012: Full Chapter Submission
June, 20, 2012: Review Results Returned
July 20, 2012: Final Chapter Submission (exception: chapters about German federal election or Australian federal elections, 2013) This book will explain how the social media tools and technologies changed the way in promoting political ideas among individuals, groups and organizations. We will discuss how Facebook, Twitter, politicians’ blogs, Youtube and other social media tools were or can be used in local and national electoral campaigns.
We are looking for authors interested in this project:
· senior and young researchers
· coming from different countries or cultures
· with thoretical expertise or practice in different scientific domains, in order to provide different perspectives on the topic. Authors from or with experience in the political phenomena from these countries are expected to join the project: USA, Russia, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, Romania, Israel, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Moldova, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran etc. Authors from other areas can propose chapters discussing other recent case studies or new topics, not mentioned by us below.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
The book will try to answer to questions such:
- How politicians can use social media for their electoral marketing? (Some chapters can discuss how Facebook or blogging can be use in electoral campaign. Other chapters can deal with the uses of graph theory or natural language processing techniques to develop software and tools for politicians in order to improve their image/their campaign); - How social networks can be used in order to mobilize people for a social revolution in a country? (We consider the last internationally political events such the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados movement and the Twitter Revolutions in Moldova (2009), Iran (2009-2010), Tunisia (2010-2011) and Egypt (2011) can be presented by large in separate chapters.); - How photo and video sharing services (Flickr, Picasa Web Album, Pinterest, Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe etc.) can be used in order to present, manipulate or alter the perception of people from one geopolitical zone about the regime in other country? (A simple Youtube search as “truth about X” will provide different opinions from different users in order to present that country/regime/politician X as the evil or as the heaven.). The book is addressed to PhD candidates, universities, researchers in social media and in political science, researchers in applied mathematics, politicians, candidates for local elections, and specialists in political marketing.
TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1. Introductory section
This will be a general introductory section that provides a theoretical framework on the ways social media is used in politics, and implications of this phenomenon.

Section 2. Using social media in electoral marketing
This section will describe how politicians and their staff uses social media for their electoral marketing. Three chapters will deal with the different types of elections in recent two years. Other chapter will deal with the uses of graph theory or natural language processing techniques to develop software and tools for politicians in order to improve their image/their campaign.
Chapter 1. Social media in local electoral campaigns
Case study 1: Wales 2012, UK
Case study 2: Bacau 2012, Romania
Chapter 2. Social media in parlamentary elections
Case study 1: Romania 2012
Case study 2: Germany 2013
Case study 3: Italy 2013
Chapter 3. Social media in presidential elections
Case study 1: USA, 2012
Case study 2: Russia, 2012
Case study 3: Czech Republic, 2013
Chapter 4. Computer science usage for analyzing the online political speeches of the candidates Designing a graph theory software for analyzing the online political discourses
Using computational linguistics techniques for analyzing the political blogs

Section 3. Social media in mobilizing people for riots and revolutions
This chapter will present how social networks can be used to mobilize people for a revolution or a riot in a country. We will describe the using of web 2.0 tools in the last internationally political events such the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados movement and the Twitter Revolutions in Moldova (2009), Iran (2009-2010), Tunisia (2010-2011) and Egypt (2011).
Chapter 5. Twitter Revolutions
Case study: Moldova, 2009
Chapter 6. Occupy 2.0. The role of web 2.0 in Occupy movement
Case study: Melbourne, Australia, 2011
Chapter 7. Spanish Indignatos and ¡Democracia Real YA!
Case study: Madrid, 2011
Chapter 8. The role of social media in the Arab Spring movements
Case study: Tunisia, 2012

Section 4. Video-sharing websites and alterity problems
This section will try to answer the question "How video sharing services (Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe etc.) can be used in order to present, manipulate or alter the perception of people from one geopolitical zone about the regime in other country" (a simple Youtube search as “truth about X” will provide different opinions from different users in order to present that country/regime/politician X as the evil or as the heaven)
Chapter 9.How Youtube videos manipulate us

Researchers, and practitioners (including professors, teachers, lecturers, public relations and political advertising specialists, politicians, PhD students etc.) are invited to submit on or before April 7, 2013, a 1-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 14, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 20, 2013. In a full chapter, the contributor can extend the ideas and the topics presented in the 1-3 page proposal. The full chapters (containing 5,000 – 10,000 words and formatted accordingly with a template we will provide) must be written in English. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:

Dr. Bogdan Patrut
EduSoft
Tel.: +40 234 20 60 90 GSM: +40 728 88 22 88
E-mail: (bogdan /at/ edusoft.ro)
Web: www.edusoft.ro/bogdan
Bogdan Patrut is associate professor in computer science at "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania, with a Ph.D in computer science and a Ph D in e-learning in accounting. His recent domains of interest/research is computer science applied in social and political sciences. He published and edited more than 25 books and book chapters on social media, programming, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and e-learning. Recent publications include: "Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges" and "Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0" (editor, IGI Global, 2013) and the chapter "Using Graph Theory Software for Political Discourse Analysis" (in Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo (eds.) - "Politics and Policy in the Information Age" (Springer). He is also the organizer of SMART 2013 international conference (http://smart2013.edusoft.ro), the editor-in-chief of BRAND (Broad Research in Accounting, Negotiation, and Distribution) journal and software developer for EduSoft Romania.


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