[ecrea] Special issue on the “Politics of Digital Visual Cultures” – International Journal of E-Politics(IJEP)

It gives me great pleasure to share with you the contents of the latest 
issue of:

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*The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)*

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 3, Issue 1, January-March 2012

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1947-9131 EISSN: 1947-914X

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijep <http://www.igi-global.com/ijep>

Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore, Wayne State University, USA

Guest editor - Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

*GUEST EDITOR PREFACE*

Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

To view this preface, please click the link below and vist this issue of 
IJEP.

http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147

*PAPER ONE*

The Politics of Watching: Visuality and the New Media Economy

Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

What does it mean to consume and produce images non-stop in the new 
media economy? Images can be captured, uploaded, downloaded, and 
disseminated with ease in digital platforms, raising the need to 
understand how these acts of image capture and circulation are embedded 
into the familiar and everyday as well as the extraordinary where images 
can re-negotiate cognitive realities and re-frame notions of 
authenticity and truth. This new media visuality is characterised by new 
consumption rituals and practices which transgress the boundaries 
between private pleasures, personal memories, and voyeurism, on the one 
hand, and public communion, witnessing, and expose on the other. This 
paper examines the notion of visuality in digital platforms and its 
consequences for postmodernity in terms of subjectivity, new forms of 
engagement and disenfranchisement.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/politics-watching-visuality-new-media/63031 


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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63031

*PAPER TWO*

DIY Dying: Video Activism as Archive, Commemoration and Evidence

Tina Askanius, Lund University, Sweden

This article examines video activism in a context where ubiquitous 
camera technologies and online video sharing platforms are radically 
changing the media landscape in which demonstrations and political 
activism operates. The author discusses a number of YouTube videos 
documenting and narrating the recurring, anti-capitalist demonstrations 
in Europe in the past decade. With the death of Ian Tomlinson in London 
during the 2009 G20 protests as an empirical starting point, the author 
raises questions of how video documentation of this event links up with 
previous protest events by juxtaposing representations of ‘the moment of 
death’ (Zelizer, 2004, 2010) of protesters in the past. This article 
suggests that these videos work as (1) an archive of action and activist 
memory, (2) a site of commemoration in a online shrine for grieving, and 
(3) a space to provide and negotiate visual evidence of police violence 
and state repression. The author offers a re-articulation of the 
longstanding debate on visual evidence, action, and testimony in video 
activism. The results are suggestive of how vernacular commemorative 
genres of mourning and paying tribute to victims of police violence are 
fused with the online practices of bearing witness and producing visual 
evidence in new creative modes of using video for change.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/diy-dying-video-activism-archive/63032

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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63032

*PAPER THREE*

Samizdat 2.0: The Dymovsky Case and the Use of Streaming Video as a 
Political Tool in Contemporary Russia

Beth Knobel, Fordham University, USA

Jonathan Sanders, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

This paper examines the case of Russian Police Major Aleksei Dymovsky, 
who took the unprecedented step of posting a video on the Internet in 
2009 in which he exposed the corrupt practices of Russian law 
enforcement officials. When the video went “viral,” Dymovsky set off a 
national debate about corruption, but was quickly crushed by the 
authorities for whistleblowing. This paper uses the example of the 
Dymovsky affair to examine the power of streaming video as a political 
tool in Russia. It also examines the difference between the underground 
literature of the Soviet-era, samizdat, and the new-style video samizdat 
of the Internet era. The case of Dymovsky allows the power of the 
Internet in contemporary Russia to be examined and provides an 
opportunity to test current theories about the power of the Internet as 
an organizing force.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/samizdat-dymovsky-case-use-streaming/63033

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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63033

*PAPER FOUR*

Mapping Culture and Compromised Art in the Era of Globalization

Paula Tavares, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Maria João Félix, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Pedro Mota Teixeira, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

This work presents an analysis of the cultural and artistic field, 
positively compromised with social and political questions. The authors 
start with the categorization of the idea of culture and move to 
vindication art movements. These movements, which followed the first 
vanguards and worked from the compromise with “otherness”, are at the 
origin of the contemporary denomination of political art. In this 
context, the authors approach the origins of activist art, referring to 
issues of gender, multiculturalism, globalization, and poverty. The 
different forms of presenting content are also an object of analysis: 
from art tradition to the contamination of daily life, from local to 
global, from street contact to digital.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/mapping-culture-compromised-art-era/63034

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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63034

*BOOK REVIEW*

Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage 
Reviewed by Gil Toffell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/untimely-bollywood-globalization-india-new/63035

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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63035

*INTERVIEW*

Interview with Catarina Carneiro de Sousa: Multimedia Artists and Art 
Educator

Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

To obtain a copy of the entire interview, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/untimely-bollywood-globalization-india-new/63035

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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=63036

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*International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* in your institution's 
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"*InfoSci-Journals*" database: 
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Mission of IJEP:

The mission of the *International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* is to 
define and expand the boundaries of e-politics as an emerging area of 
inter-disciplinary research and practice by assisting in the development 
of e-politics theories and empirical models. The journal creates a venue 
for empirical, theoretical, and practical scholarly work on e-politics 
to be published, leading to sharing of ideas between practitioners and 
academics in this field. IJEP contributes to the creation of a community 
of e-politics researchers by serving as a “hub” for related activities, 
such as organizing seminars and conferences on e-politics and 
publication of books on e-politics.

Coverage of IJEP:

The *International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* focuses on three major 
topic areas: the politics of information technology function and its 
role within organizations, the politics of virtual communities and 
social networking communities, and the role that electronic media plays 
in community activism and party politics at the local, national, and 
international levels. Within these major areas, specific topics of 
interest to be discussed in the journal include (but are not limited to) 
the following:

· E-voting and electronically enabled e-government

· Impact of globalization on the political role played by the IT unit 
within organizations

· Impact of race and gender on electronically enabled political 
manipulations

· Party politics and social activism

· Politics of diffusion of change within organizations

· Politics of social networking communities, including: learning 
communities, customers' communities, e-dating communities, gaming 
communities, support group communities, etc.

· Politics of the IT function and role in organizations

· Politics of virtual communities and social networking communities

· Politics of geographically based virtual communities

· Use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and harassment

· Use of electronic media in industrial and labor relations

· Utilization of electronic media for governance and politicking at the 
municipal, state, national, and international levels

· Utilization of electronic media for political debate, information 
sharing, political decision making, and fundraising

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission 
guidelines www.igi-global.com/ijep <http://www.igi-global.com/ijep>.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore at (ak1667 /at/ wayne.edu) 
<mailto:%(20ak1667 /at/ wayne.edu)>