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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 7(2) The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) Volume 7, Issue 2, April - June 2016 www.igi-global.com/ijep<http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147> ARTICLE 1 Food, Photography and the Indian Pastoral Aileen Blaney (Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, India) This article focuses on the relationship between Kheti Badi – a series of images produced by photo-based artist Chinar Shah based on the online Facebook game FarmVille – and the contemporary context of image making, agriculture and food production. In today's digital culture, global perceptions and expectations of food stuffs are grounded less in first-hand knowledge than in images and digital video that circulate on the screens that are now everywhere around us. While photography continues to act in the role of an instrument used to record and classify, it has the power to feed back into the very processes through which science and technology shape food production, going far beyond producing images of a reality that is already out there. To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152820<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152820> ARTICLE 2 Women Can't Win: Gender Irony and the E-Politics of The Biggest Loser Michael S. Bruner (Department of Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA), Karissa Valine (Department of Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA), Berenice Ceja (Department of Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA) This essay employs irony as a tool to make clearer the workings of one form of the e-politics of food, namely, the structural food oppression linked to the weight and shape of the female body. Arguing that the e-politics of the weight and shape of the female body is one of the most important incarnations of the e-politics of food and one of the most vigorously contested, this study examines the construction of the assumptions, the ideals, and the rules with which women must contend. The authors offer some constructive suggestions for helping to escape the Catch-22 of fat-shaming/skinny shaming. To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152821<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152821> ARTICLE 3 Embodying Trust in the Electoral System: The Role of Delegated Transferable Voting for Increasing Voter Choice and Representation of Small Political Parties in the Digital Age Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea, UK), Mark Beech (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea, UK) This paper proposes a new method for distributing votes in democratic elections in such a way that allows for the public to put their trust in independent candidates or those from small political parties. Using the case of a party founded by the authors called The Pluralist Party the paper presents primary data to evaluate the effectiveness of the method – called delegated transferable voting (DTV). Using an auto-ethnographical empirical study in which one of the authors plays a significant role as anthropologist, the paper finds that DTV is more likely to lead to the election of independent candidates over party political ones. To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152822<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152822> ARTICLE 4 Self-Production through the Banal and the Fictive: Self and the Relationship with the Screen Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK) The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms. Taking this as part of our performative lives in the digital economy, the paper looks at ways in which we co-produce the self through the banality of the everyday as well as a wider imagination and engagement with the world. These wider engagements are termed as ‘fictive' not because they are unreal but through a conceptual notion of how the self is performed and imagined through wider world events in digital platforms and screen cultures where convergence of technologies allow us to be constantly consumed through the screen as we live out our daily lives. To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152823<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=152823> BOOK REVIEW Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea, UK) To obtain a copy of the Book Review, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=152824&ptid=131914&ctid=17&t=Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?<http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=152824&ptid=131914&ctid=17&t=Trigger%20Warning:%20Is%20the%20Fear%20of%20Being%20Offensive%20Killing%20Free%20Speech?> 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. 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-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom) https://transientbodies.blogspot.co.uk/ Founder : 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. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. 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