[ecrea] Call for contributors: edited collection on ICTs,,governance and peace building in Africa

New information technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones hold great
potential to affect peacebuilding, statebuilding, governance,
transparency, and accountability in Africa. ICTs ubiquity and ability to
interact with older media enables citizens to experiment with innovative
ways of influencing politics. Despite strong assertions in the existing
research regarding the usefulness of ICTs (and media more generally) in
political and post-conflict transition, governance, and development, there
is very little understanding of how people and communities in Africa
actually use these ICTs, and how these uses contribute to governance and
peacebuilding.

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
and the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of
Oxford are currently seeking papers for a forthcoming workshop and an
edited volume. Authors are asked to provide critical analyses of how the
public uses, makes sense of, and engages with ICTs, and the relationship
between ICTs, the public, and governance or peacebuilding. Strong
preference will be given to chapters that provide empirical evidence for
the arguments put forth. Analyses should be applicable to Africa, and
chapters focused on Eastern Africa are especially welcome. Academics from
African universities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Funding will be provided for successful authors to attend the workshop,
which will be held either in New York, USA or Oxford, UK in July
2014.

For chapters incorporating empirical research, we are particularly
interested in qualitative methodologies (case studies, ethnography,
interviews, etc.) but all approaches are acceptable.

Contributions may focus on, but are not limited to:
· The use of crowd-sourcing in conflict-affected regions
· The role of ICTs in accountability or transparency initiatives
· Local perspectives on citizen Œvoice¹ and the use of ICTs
· The use of ICTs in transitional justice processes
· The intersection or merging of old and new technologies to
impact peacebuilding or governance
· ICT innovation at the grassroots level
Abstracts (max. 2000 words) and author biography (max. 100 words) are due
by March 6, 2014.

Please send abstracts, as well as any questions, to Libby Morgan at
(lmorgan /at/ asc.upenn.edu).
Notification of selected authors: March 20, 2014
Deadline for submission of rough papers in APA format: June 15, 2014
Deadline for submission of final papers in APA format (6,000-8,000 words):
August 15, 2014
This book is being funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New
York and is part of a multi-year research project on ICTs, Statebuilding
and Peacebuilding in Eastern Africa.


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Dr Nicole Stremlau
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
University of Oxford
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk
http://pricemootcourt.socleg.ox.ac.uk


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