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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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
Editor-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
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Founder : Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA)