[ecrea] CfP Gender and digital media: Friend or foe in times of change

*Call for papers*
*Gender and digital media: Friend or foe in times of change*
*Special issue: Social Science Computer Review*


Edited by:
Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University
Karolina Koc-Michalska, Audencia Business School
Thierry Vedel, SciencesPo Paris


Deadline for the manuscripts January 15, 2019
Desk rejection January 30, 2019
Accepted manuscripts published as online first ~ August 2019

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Call for papers
Gender and digital media: Friend or foe in times of change
Special issue: Social Science Computer Review
Edited by:
Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University
Karolina Koc-Michalska, Audencia Business School
Thierry Vedel, SciencesPo Paris
Time’s Person the Year (2017) was the Silence Breakers. The award 
recognizes efforts across
the globe to raise gender issues including those related to sexual 
violence. This movement
aligns with other movements challenging the ways in which women's voices 
are silenced or
dismissed, as represented by the rise in discussions about mansplaining. 
This special issue
will highlight the role of digital media in these movements as well as 
more generally the
relationship between gender and digital media.
Sometimes digital media enables, other times it limits or impedes. For 
example, #metoo raises
awareness of sexual violence, but using the hashtag makes people 
vulnerable to further
victimization from trolls. Pointing out incidents of mansplaining can 
help raise awareness of
this issue, but is social media able to support reasoned discussion that 
can inform social
change? Is the online sphere able to support a complex discussion about 
(gender, race, class,
sexuality-based) inequality in our society and do those discourses yield 
practical solutions to
this problem?
Social media affordances can enable large scale mobilization, which may 
help the women’s
movement as well as counter-movements, such as the men’s rights 
movement. While digital
media can help produce large, diffuse networks, does it produce the 
strong ties required to
sustain a movement? Tweeting at a protest event helps cultivate one’s 
civic identity, but it
also enables government and police surveillance of these events. How are 
feminist
organizations and groups responding to the challenges and opportunities 
presented by digital
media?
We encourage a broad range of papers covering digital media’s advantages 
and disadvantages
along two main research dimensions:
- Gendered political uses of digital media, such as
o Women's use of digital media for civic or political purposes
o Gendered discourses in political and social environments
o Changing repertoires for online activism
o Gender dynamics of trolling (perpetrators, targets)
o Gender and digital inequality (skills, capital-enhancing uses) across 
the globe
- Gendered organizations and social movements, such as
o Studies of #metoo and similar movements across the globe
o Role of social media in protest events, such as the Women’s March
o Adoption or rejection of the digital tools by movements seeking gender
equality
o The challenges of creating and cultivating an online collective 
identity that
balances similarity and diversity
o Interactions between gender-oriented movements and their counter-movements
and states
We invite submissions from research conducted across the globe. We 
encourage qualitative,
quantitative and mixed methods approaches. Cross-national and 
longitudinal studies are
especially welcome. As per Social Science Computer Review guidelines, 
all manuscripts must
be empirical (must include data).
Manuscripts should be a maximum of 8,000 words (all included).
All manuscript will go through a double-blind peer review process.
Important dates:
Deadline for the manuscripts January 15, 2019
Desk rejection January 30, 2019
Accepted manuscripts published as online first ~ August 2019
The manuscript and all additional documents should be send to:
(sscr.gender /at/ gmail.com)
All questions about the special issue should be directed to this email 
address, not to SSCR.

Author/s must submit in one email:
1. Manuscript in Word .doc or .docx format (all items as one file 
ordered as follows: title,
abstract, keyword list, body, references, and endnotes (if any), tables, 
then figures).
2. Permission form:
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/SSCORE/SSCR_Copyright_Form.pdf
The lead author must fill out, sign, and email a pdf file of the 
original form. Scanning the
signed forms to pdf and emailing is optional if digitally signing is 
impossible at your
location, but this will slow processing. Please do this not waiting for 
final peer review as it
expedites handling if the paper is accepted. For multiple-author papers, 
the lead author
may sign for all authors.
3. Information Form: 
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/sscore/Author%20Form.pdf
4. Title page with brief Author(s) Biographical Note with email address
5. Statement about data availability (it may refer to the website where 
the anonymized data
are available; a statement that the data are available from an author at 
a given email
address; or another method for accessing the data).
Please consult the SSCR guidelines below concerning formatting of the 
paper. Without it we are not
able to start the peer-review process.
Quick style guide:
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/SSCORE/SAGE%20Quick%20Ref%20for%20SSCR.pdf
Style guide: http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/SSCORE/sage_guide_2011.pdf


The points below, some of which you may have met, are for your reference.
1. The abstract should contain study conclusions in as much detail as 
consistent with abstract brevity,
not just name study topics.
2. Send a final copy, without markup. Do not have the title page or 
author bios in separate files. We
do anonymization on our end. Do not have a running header, but do have 
page numbers. Do not
have line numbering. Do not send in "read only" format.
3. APA style references (see the guide, above). In the body, cite 
references by name (e.g.,(Smith,
2016)). The reference list should be alphabetical by last name and 
should not be numbered.
4. Endnotes for comments only, not citations. No footnotes at all.
5. All tables and figures must be on separate pages at the end, numbered 
and with captions. In the
text, all tables and figures must be referred to and all must have 
call-outs (" [Figure 1 about
here]"). Have call-outs in the body (“[Figure 1 about here]”). Do not 
embed figures and tables in
the body.
6. We can support online supplements and appendices. These are printed 
only in the online version.
Send the supplement in one file (.zip if necessary, but with the zip 
file containing only the online
supplement file or files) under the filename beginning with the lead 
author name, such as
“Smith_Online_Supplement.docx”. Then in the body of the article, enter 
text such as “see
Appendix B [located in the Online Supplement to this article]”. Material 
in online supplements
does not count toward the word count for the manuscript.
The main article should be readable in its own right, with the reader 
having the option to consult
more information in the supplement if desired. The essential tables and 
figures should remain in
the main article, with callouts in the body and then appearing on 
separate pages at the end with
captions. These essential tables and figures should be marked with 
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about here]".
Non-essential figures and tables, along with other supplementary 
material, should be in the
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have call-outs. Rather there
should be some reference to the additional material in the online 
supplement. For example, "For
the breakdown of the sample by demographic group, see Table S2 in the 
online supplement
accompanying this article." Then in the online supplement, have a Table 
S2 marked as such, with
caption.
7. Everything must be double-spaced, even references, except tables are 
not double-spaced.
8. Do not use columns or any other special formatting.
9. Use 12 point font (this is needed for page count purposes). 
Manuscripts over 50 pp. are usually
required to be shortened.
10. Left justify only.
11. Please cite articles from the Social Science Computer Review where 
appropriate. You can search
at this page: http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/sscore/contents.htm
12. Do use page numbering.
13. In the "Author Information" section, each author must include his or 
her email address.
14. Replication and critique is at the heart of social science. You must 
have a note citing where the
data may be obtained. We do not publish papers based on proprietary, 
classified, or otherwise
unavailable data. If absolutely necessary, the availability date may be 
as much as one year in the
future, dating from the date of your original manuscript submission. 
Data availability information
should be in a short "Data Availability" section following the "Author 
Information" section.
The data availability statement may refer to the url of an archive 
through which the
anonymized data are available; a statement that the data are available 
from an author at a given
email address; or that the data are available for use under controlled 
conditions by applying to a
board/department/committee whose charge includes making data available 
for replication; or that
the data may be purchased at a non-prohibitive price from a third party, 
whose contact information
is given. Replication includes any statistical exploration of variables 
in the model or dataset, not
limited to approaches taken by the author, and may involve publication 
of findings. There is no
point to replication kept secret from the scholarly community.
The relatively new NSF policy is our lead in this matter. That policy 
states "Investigators are
expected to share with other researchers, at no more than incremental 
cost and within a reasonable
time, the primary data, samples, physical collections and other 
supporting materials created or
gathered in the course of work under NSF grants. Grantees are expected 
to encourage and
facilitate such sharing." (https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp). 
By extension, it is the
responsibility of researchers and review boards to comply with this 
policy. Though your work may
not be NSF-funded, we believe this should be a general principle in 
support of the scientific
process. The alternative, ultimately, would not be having no data 
availability statement but rather a
statement from SSCR that the data are unavailable for replication and 
consequently findings based
on inference from the data should be viewed as unverifiable.
15. If not specified in the body, there must be "Software Availability" 
section detailing with some
specificity what software was used to arrive at reported results and 
where it may be obtained. In
the case of author-originated code (e.g., in R, Stata, SAS), we welcome 
an appendix or online
supplement containing the code. This appendix may be designated for 
online publication only,
particularly if length is an issue.
16. We MUST have the permission forms and author information forms as 
noted above. Send these in
immediately, not waiting for the final manuscript. Submission of signed 
forms does not constitute
acceptance but does expedite manuscripts if accepted.
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• Manuscript guidelines: 
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelines
(note SSCR policy may override general Sage policy; for instance, we do 
not accept LaTeX
submissions)
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guidelines-for-authors
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