Dear Colleagues,
we would like to bring to your attention a call for paper for a Special Issue in the Journal "Quality & Quantity" on "Methodologies, Technologies and Paradigmatic Shifts in Political Culture Research".
The journal constitutes a point of reference to discuss instruments of methodology for more rigorous scientific results in the social sciences. The call reads as follows:
Methodologies, Technologies and Paradigmatic Shifts in Political Culture Research
Quality & Quantity - International Journal of Methodology (Springer)
Guest Editors:
Camelia Florela Voinea Martin Neumann
University of Bucharest, Romania Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Description:
The dynamics of political phenomena prove an ever increasing complexity. The impact of the new information and networking technologies has revealed the role played by the socializing networks as well as the web and mobile phones communication technologies in the changing of political phenomenology covering almost everything from political mobilization to political violence, from political attitudes to political participation, from keen solidarity to armed conflict. Big data technologies, web semantics, data mining, or content analysis and socializing networks research have contributed to the development of emotional phenomenology research, sentiment analysis, and web semantics research. Moreover, the latest developments in the political culture research methodology cover advanced technologies and innovative approaches which employ agent-based and complex adaptive systems covering issues from individual values to governance ethics, from ideology to political power, elite and leadership, from individual behaviours to political attitudes. The challenge has been so powerful that the consequences reveal theoretic and methodological paradigmatic shifts determined by the need to tackle the tremendously huge amounts of data, and also the data diversity and sensitivity to multiple factors.
In the light of these developments a methodological clarification is strongly needed: getting scattered methodological research approaches together might prove unexpected changes at the theoretical level. The point we want to make is not just a methodological one, but also epistemological and ontological. Our special issue formulates an essential question in political culture research about whether all such developments represent a proof of an enhanced ability to tackle conceptual constructions by means of advanced technologies or just reveal a novel framework of political methodological research?
This Special Issue aims at identifying the impact of the new research methodologies and technologies on the political culture research outcomes, quality and performances. We welcome research papers which present long-standing research projects as well as ongoing research work with interesting methodological contributions able to answer the inquiries on the potential emergence of a computational dimension of political culture research in much the same way the computational sociology, to give but one example, has fundamentally transformed the classic domain by methodological and technological means.
1.1 Q&Q Special issue is interested in political culture and connected research areas (but not limited to):
political attitudes, beliefs (ideologies), behaviours and identity, political partisanship, political loyalty, voting behaviour, value theory and its relationship to political culture, corruption and political clientelism, polity dynamics, polity change, political power dynamics, political elite, citizenship
1.2 Q&Q Special issue is interested in research methodologies & technologies (but not limited to):
big data and web technologies, social networks, semantic networks, knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligent systems, cognitive systems, artificial life systems: agent-based systems, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, chaotic systems, far-from equilibrium systems, complexity-based systems, social collective intelligent systems, machine learning, data mining, socializing networks, social media, bots, trolls, echo chambers, etc.
Deadline for paper submission: 25 September 2018
Anybody working on subjects related to the issues covered in this special issue is highly welcome to submit a manuscript! Certainly you are also welcome to forward the call to interested colleagues.
kind regards,
Martin Neumann
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