Dear all,
I have had the go-ahead to organise two sessions on surveillance at the
Politics: Web 2.0 conference which will run from April 17-18 in London
(see details below). One session will be an invited panel (and I welcome
any swift nominations, self or other for this), and one will be a
session under the open call, which will consists of shorter more
polemical interventions, critical demonstrations of software or digital
media in the area and so on... Again I would welcome some expression of
interest, and ASAP, please!
David.
Dr David Murakami Wood
Trustee
Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
http://www.surveillance-studies.net
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Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference: Call For Papers
Hosted by the New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics
and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London.
http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk
April 17-18, 2008.
Call for papers
Has there been a shift in political use of the Internet and digital new
media - a new Web 2.0 politics based on participatory values? How do
broader social, cultural, and economic shifts towards Web 2.0 impact, if
at all, on the contexts, the organizational structures, and the
communication of politics and policy? Does Web 2.0 hinder or help
democratic citizenship? This conference provides an opportunity for
researchers to share and debate perspectives.
Confirmed keynote speakers
Stephen Coleman, Institute for Communications Studies, University of
Leeds; Rachel Gibson, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University
of Leicester; Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute; Micah Sifry,
Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Personal Democracy Forum and formerly
of The Nation; Michael Turk, Vice President of Industry Grassroots for
the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, formerly e-campaign
director, Bush-Cheney '04, and e-campaign director for the Republican
National Committee.
Conference Sponsor
Routledge Publishers.
Potential themes could include (in no particular order):
Theorizing Web 2.0.
Changes in political journalism, news production, and consumption.
Social networking (MySpace, Facebook) and election campaigning.
Citizen activism from the local to the transnational.
Blogs, wikis, and user-generated content.
Changing social, cultural, and political identities.
Social software and social media: design, technologies, tools, and
techniques.
Social network analysis.
Surveillance, privacy, and security.
Security, foreign policy and international communication.
Hacktivism.
Radical transparency.
The impact of online video.
E-government, web 2.0, and new models of public service delivery.
New models of social and political collaboration and problem-solving.
'Little brother' phenomena.
Political life in virtual worlds.
Netroots versus the war room model of election campaigning.
New challenges for media regulation.
Collaborative production of political knowledge networks.
Changing party, interest group, and social movement strategies.
Web 2.0 and political marketing.
Collective intelligence, smart mobs, crowdsourcing.
Fragmenting audiences, the long tail, and the political economy of web
2.0 media.
Civil society, civic engagement, and mobilization.
Web 2.0, ICT4D and the changing digital divide.
The politics of intellectual property.
Hyperlocalism.
The political aesthetics of Web 2.0.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics special issue
Conference presenters will be invited to submit their papers to a peer
review process for publication in a special issue of the new Journal of
Information Technology and Politics. http://www.jitp.net.
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