Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] CfP: Networking Democracy? New media
innovations in participatorypolitics
> >
> Call for Papers:
>
> Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics
>
> A three day Symposium to be held at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj,
> Romania
>
> 25-27 June 2010
>
> Website:
>
> http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/index.php?page=networking-democracy >
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> Democratic politics worldwide are increasingly being conducted and
> re-configured through the domain of digital communications networks.
> The
> socio-technical developments, such as Web 2.0, facilitating these
> media-saturated public spheres are in little doubt. What is highly
> contested however is the interpretation of what these profound changes
> offer for democratic governance in the twenty-first century. At its
> heart is the recognition that these new media networks are themselves
> the crucial site for a historical confrontation between opposing
> political and/or business interests and discourses intent upon forging
> new forms of social relations.
>
> We will address questions such as:
>
> What new forms and relations of power are produced in the digital
> network society?
>
> Who are the key social actors shaping the new public sphere and what
> are
> their respective strategies, framing, and repertoires of action?
>
> What is the democratic potential of Web 2.0 applications such as
> social
> networking, blogging and twittering?
>
> What empirical evidence do we have to understand and assess these
> developments?
>
> How is networked democracy influencing new democratic societies?
>
> What are its consequences for human rights, social sorting, migration,
> e-government, community politics, surveillance, protest,
> participation,
> culture, identity, mobilization, representation, nationalism,
> security,
> citizen journalism, trust, regulation, both exogenous and
> self-regulation and much more?
>
> Speakers include:
>
> W. Lance Bennett <http://depts.washington.edu/bennett/about.html>,
> University of Washington, USA
>
> Bruce Bimber <http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/bimber/>,
> University of
> California at Santa Barbara, USA
>
> Donatella Della Porta
> <http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/PoliticalAndSocialSciences/People/Professors/Profiles/todump/bioDellaporta.aspx > >,
> European University Institute, Italy
>
> William H. Dutton <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=1>,
> Oxford Internet Institute, UK
>
> Brian Loader <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/about/s_load.htm>,
> University of York, UK
>
> Rodica Mocan
> <http://www.plaxo.com/directory/profile/141734557021/4e737db5/Rodica/Mocan > >,
> Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
>
> We invite papers from all disciplines which have addressed these
> topics.
> The paper title, an abstract of up to 500 words, a short bio and
> contact
> details should be sent to Dan Mercea, Department of Sociology,
> University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, dmm505@???
> <mailto:dmm505@york.ac.uk> before 7 December 2009. Notifications of
> acceptance will be sent out by 15 January 2010. For more details visit
> http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/ >
> The event is supported by the Center for Political Analysis
> <http://www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/en/index.html>and the European
> Studies
> Department <http://www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/en/> (Babes-Bolyai University),
> the Science and Technology Studies Unit
> <http://www.york.ac.uk/res/satsu/> and the Department of Sociology
> <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/degrees/resscitech.htm>(University
> of
> York)
>
> Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special
> issue
> of the international journal Information, Communication and Society
> <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rics>
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES:
>
> Submission deadline: 7 December 2009
>
> Notifications of acceptance: 15 January 2010
>
> Symposium: 25-27 June 2010
>
> --
> Dan Mercea
> PhD Candidate
> Communication Studies
> Department of Sociology
> University of York
> E: dmm505@???
> T: +44(0)1904 433578
>
>
>
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