[ecrea] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Social Media, Design and Creative Citizenship

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Call for Papers

The journal Digital Creativity is seeking contributions for a special 
issue on Social Media, Design and Creative Citizenship

Guest Editor: Henry Mainsah (The Oslo school of Architecture and Design)


The attributes and goals of citizenship are currently being transformed 
as a result of emerging digital culture. Terms such as “hacktivism[1]", 
“critical making”, “DIY citizenship[2]”, “vernacular creativity[3]”, 
“silly citizenship[4]” and “digital activism” have become buzzwords for 
describing emerging forms of citizenship enacted by a variety of new 
actors. They sometimes include networks of actors such as computer 
programmers, designers, crafters, scientists, artists, bloggers, and 
community organizers.

Creative citizenship has been associated with a range of phenomena in 
research literature varying from cultural activism and participation in 
the public sphere to everyday acts of creativity. It describes creative 
and collaborative approaches to addressing civic challenges often 
involving the use of digital and social media but it is not limited to 
the realm of the digital. Creative citizenship has been used to describe 
mundane forms of creativity such as photo sharing, digital storytelling, 
sharing of sewing and knitting patterns online, graffiti art, urban 
gardening, cooking and community-led design. Due to the visibility and 
connectedness of digital media, locating such activities in these 
contexts might enable certain civic benefits, often in ways not imagined 
by their initiators. Framing these activities as forms of citizenship 
signals the ways in which the individuals and groups that engage in them 
understand such activities as transformative. These are often activities 
that challenge traditional hierarchies of authority and power and that 
provide contexts for reflecting on how such power is constituted by 
infrastructures practices and institutions.

This special issue of Digital Creativity seeks research that examines 
the potentials and limitations of digitally mediated forms of creative 
citizenship. We look for papers that propose analytical and 
methodological frameworks for understanding digital and creative 
practices that constitute citizenship. We are interested in projects 
that explore how digital technologies are appropriated co-developed and 
used creatively as a form of activism and participation in the public 
sphere.

[1] Yang, G. (2009). The power of the Internet in China: Citizen 
activism online. New York: Columbia University Press.
[2] Ratto, M., Boler, M., & Deibert, R. (2014). DIY Citizenship; 
Critical Making and Social Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[3] Burgess, Jean (2006) ‘Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, 
Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling’, Continuum: Journal of 
Media & Cultural Studies, 20 (2): 201-214.
[4] Hartley, J. (2010). Silly citizenship. Critical Discourse Studies, 
7(4): 233-248.

Submission Requirements

Initial proposals should be submitted as abstracts of 800–1200 words, 
exclusive of references and biographies.

The extended abstract should include:

1) Name of author(s) with email addresses and affiliation, if applicable;
2) Title of the paper;
3) Body of the abstract;
4) Preliminary bibliography;
5) Author(s)’s short bio(s); and
6) Indication of whether the submission will be a short or a long paper.

Following acceptance of the abstract by the editors, the full articles 
will be accepted subject to a double-blind peer review process. Typical 
forms are short articles (2500–3500 words) and long articles (5000–7000 
words), inclusive of references. More information about the formatting 
is available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/NDCR

Important Dates

Abstracts due: May 20
Full papers due: July 15
Expected publication: Spring 2017

Send the abstract as PDFs to Henry Nsaiszeka Mainsah

Editorial information

• Guest Editor: Henry Nsaiszeka Mainsah ((Henry.Mainsah /at/ aho.no))
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