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International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) Volume 6, Issue 4, October - December 2015 Special issue on ICTS in Latin America edited by Toby Miller GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE Special Issue on ICTs in Latin America Toby Miller (Loughborough University London, London, UK) To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=139773&ptid=118715&ctid=15&t=Special Issue on ICTs in Latin America<http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=139773&ptid=118715&ctid=15&t=Special%20Issue%20on%20ICTs%20in%20Latin%20America> ARTICLE 1 Gender Dimension of ICTs in Latin America Aimée Vega Montiel (Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (CEIICH-UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico) The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action posed strategies to have in media and information technologies an ally for gender equality. “Chapter J” identified core areas for this agenda: content and representation, access of women to decision-making positions at media and ICTs, gender mainstreaming in communication policy, access and use of women to media and ICTs. These strategies were reinforced by the World Summit on Information Society, that pointed out the prominent role of ICTs in women's human rights. The aim of this paper is to contribute to a constructive debate on gender and ICTs, by presenting some of the most significative trends in Latin America. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/gender-dimension-of-icts-in-latin-america/139777<http://www.igi-global.com/article/gender-dimension-of-icts-in-latin-america/139777> To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139777<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139777> ARTICLE 2 Influence of Social Networks in the Decision to Vote: An Exploratory Survey on the Ecuadorian Electorate Daniel Barredo Ibáñez (Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi, Manta, Ecuador), Carlos Arcila Calderón (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain), Jesús Arroyave (Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia), Roxana Silva (FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador) The popularization of the Internet and the adoption of social media have brought major changes in the way of doing politics and managing the public arena. There is extensive scientific literature confirming the relationship between the use of new media and electoral political participation (Willnat et al, 2013; Lee and Shin, 2014; Ceron et al, 2014.). The aim of this study is to determine the mechanism by which using social networks influences the decision to vote. Ecuadorian citizens (n= 3,535) took part in an exploratory survey during the first half of 2013. The authors tested the measures and scales included in the questionnaire for validity and reliability; and they used a moderated mediation model (Hayes, 2013) based on regression. Results show that positive influence of using social networks on the decision to vote is not given directly, but rather through the search for information and need for political deliberation. In this mediation process, the indirect effect is in turn negatively moderated by age (the effect is stronger in young people). It is argued that despite the influence that networks may have on the behavior of voters, traditional factors related to the search for political information in more conventional means (e.g. radio or TV) seem to have a more significant effect. The authors explain both theoretical and practical implications. Finally, they address the study's limitations regarding the representativeness of the sample and suggest testing the model in other political and cultural contexts. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/influence-of-social-networks-in-the-decision-to-vote/139778<http://www.igi-global.com/article/influence-of-social-networks-in-the-decision-to-vote/139778> To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139778<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139778> ARTICLE 3 No, it did Not Grow Up because of the Internet: The Emergence of 2011's Student Mobilization in Chile Jorge Saavedra Utman (Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK) While there is a general agreement on the contribution that Internet has implied for social mobilisation regarding information and networked sociability, there is a strand sustaining that the web and new technologies of communication have the power to liberate people, introduce democracy and democratize nations. In this paper, the author deals with these perspectives with a special focus on Latin America and Latin American quests for democracy. Taking the case of the Chilean students movement of 2011, he describes and analyses a set of “old” and basic communicative practices located within the walled intimacy of houses, occupied schools and assemblies. This description and analysis brings to the fore mediations that being at the very emergence of the movement, underlies and exceeds the Internet, providing elements to light up what technological determinisms shadow: the senses and sensibilities displayed in practices looking for voice, participation and recognition in the middle of neoliberal democracies. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/no-it-did-not-grow-up-because-of-the-internet/139779<http://www.igi-global.com/article/no-it-did-not-grow-up-because-of-the-internet/139779> To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139779<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139779> ARTICLE 4 Reading Online: Young University Students' Experience with Internet Reading Rosalía Winocur (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico) The popularization of mobile devices in the everyday life of Mexico City's broad socio-cultural sectors, particularly the cell phone, calls attention to the fact that young people read and write permanently, from the moment they wake up to the time they go to bed. They receive and answer dozens of messages throughout the day, and they search and publish all kinds of information. Nonetheless, surveys that measure reading practices leave out questions about these experiences, and subjects, when questioned about their reading habits and preferences, don't mention nor recognize them in their answers. These observations led us to ethnography traditional and emergent reading and writing practices and representations that young people studying Communication in a public university have. Its main results are reviewed in this paper. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/reading-online/139780<http://www.igi-global.com/article/reading-online/139780> To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139780<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=139780> ________________________________ For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.igi-global.com/isj<http://www.igi-global.com/e-resources/infosci-databases/infosci-journals/>. ________________________________ 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. Indices of IJEP: * ACM Digital Library * Bacon's Media Directory * DBLP * Google Scholar * INSPEC * JournalTOCs * MediaFinder * Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS International) * The Index of Information Systems Journals * The Standard Periodical Directory * Ulrich's Periodicals Directory * Worldwide Political Abstracts (WPSA) 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/calls-for-papers/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147> Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom) and Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. 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