Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Call for papers - 6th ECPR General Conference
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>>>
>>> Call for Papers: "New frontiers in studying online
>> politics"
>>>
>>> 6th ECPR General Conference, University of Iceland,
>> 25th - 27th Aug. 2011
>>>
>>> Deadline for submission of paper abstracts: February
>> 1, 2011
>>>
>>> Panel presentation
>>> During the past decade online politics has become an
>> important field of
>>> studies, which has grown dramatically. However, the
>> attention for
>>> methodological aspects has often been weak and
>> unsystematic. Our goal thus
>>> lies in illuminating such issues, both in term of
>> theoretical paradigms
>>> and research techniques. As for the former, we will
>> consider both more
>>> consolidated theory-guided paradigms and emerging and
>> explorative
>>> perspectives. As for the latter, we will address both
>> quantitative and
>>> qualitative methods. Especially since the emergence of
>> web 2.0, scholars
>>> of political participation are getting more and more
>> interested in online
>>> politics. We need to understand what such research
>> tells us about the
>>> second generation of web applications in order to
>> understand if these
>>> phenomena are at all new. As a new portion of the
>> public sphere, we are
>>> especially interested in the discursive dynamics
>> taking place in
>>> cyberspace and in the new research tools developed to
>> study dialogical
>>> processes. Some of the questions we want to raise are
>> as follows: are
>>> explorative perspectives (i.e. grounded theory
>> approach) able to uncover
>>> new political phenomena in cyberspace that go beyond
>> our existing
>>> theoretical lenses? Are
>>> consolidated theoretical paradigms of political
>> participation capable of
>>> shedding light on the black box of online politics?
>> Which are pros
>>> and cons of different research techniques applied to
>> online politics?
>>>
>>> Panel Chair: Lorenzo Mosca (University of Roma Tre)
>>>
>>> For more information on the panel and submission of
>> paper abstracts,
>>> please visit
>>>
>>> http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=421 >>>
>>> _______________________________________
>>> Lorenzo Mosca
>>> University of Roma Tre
>>> Department of Communication and Entertainment
>>> Via Ostiense 139 - 00154 Roma
>>> Tel. ufficio: (+39)06-57334051
>>> http://www.dicospe.com >>>
>>>
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