[ecrea] 2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) Call for Submissions

Social Media, Activism, and Organisations (#SMAO15)


  6 November 2015, Goldsmiths, University of London


    Call For Papers <http://www.social--media.org/2015/05/12/cfp/>

*2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) Call
for Submissions*

Social media (from mainstream platforms such as Twitter to
organization-specific tools) have become increasingly pervasive. This is
exemplified by the diversity of uses ranging from Twitter and Facebook
use during the Arab spring to the use of Snapchat by highly surveilled
activist groups. Many social movements have increasingly seen social
media as a means to collaboratively crowdsource, to network and
communicate with diverse stakeholders. In large  organizations, social
media is often supported because the technology can help foster the
sense of a “digital village”, where individuals are able to “see” the
lives of others within their organization and feel closer to them.
However, the literature on social movements and social media has not
fully grasped just how much social media has fundamentally changed the
landscape of organizational communication, ranging from stakeholders
being able to directly mobilize resources to making grassroots
transnational social movements more organizationally feasible. *Social
Media, Activism, and Organisations (#SMAO15) *seeks to better our
understandings of how social media has shaped social movement
organizations and the organization of social movements.

The *Social Media, Activism, and Organisations *symposium**will be held
in London, England on November 6, 2015 at Goldsmiths, University of
London. The symposium is sponsored by The Sociological Review
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-954X>,
The Centre for Creative & Social Technologies at Goldsmiths
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/cast/>, and the Centre for the Study of Global
Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/global-media-democracy/>.

We invite you to submit short papers which explore the social
media-influenced intersections of social movements and organisations.
Full papers are not required for this conference, only short papers
(~2500 words, excluding references) related to the broad theme of
“*Social Media, Activism, and Organisations*”.

Papers should be submitted by *September 7, 2015* via Easy Chair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smao15> at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smao15 and there is no preset
template for submission. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to
give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the
symposium.

Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts may also be invited to submit full
papers to a special issue of The Sociological Review, published by Wiley.

*#SMAO15 TOPICS OF INTEREST *

•    Organisational communication and social media

•    Democratizing organisational structures via social media

•    Gender, social media, activism, and organisations

•    Activist knowledge aggregation techniques

•    Enterprise applications and social activism

•    Collaboration, social media, and activism

•    Virtual teams, social media and activism

•    Activist networks and organizational communication

•    Social media and organizational leadership

•    Communicating organizational messages via social media

•    Social media and advocacy organizations

•    Inter-movement organizational communication and social media

•   Visual social media and organisations

•    Implications of anonymous social media

*We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers and the symposium
seeks to showcase a variety of case studies to advance our
understandings of how social media has shaped social movement
organizations and the organization of social movements.*

Call For Papers Deadline: September 7, 2015





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