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Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:24 AM<br>Subject: Call for Abstracts on the Politics of Digital Media in the Balkans and the Middle East<br>To: <a href="mailto:MESA-GSO@listserv.arizona.edu">MESA-GSO@listserv.arizona.edu</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Call for Abstracts on the Politics of Digital Media in the Balkans and the Middle East.</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Editors: Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University) and Zala Volcic (University of Queensland)</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We invite abstract submissions for an edited book on the creation, dissemination, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and the Middle East. The Balkan and Middle East contexts provide interesting case studies because of their overlapping patterns of national and regional identification combined with the tensions these create. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The overall goal of the edited volume will be to consider the relationship between a wide array of internet uses and forms of political deliberation, taking into consideration both the ways in which interactive media help to foster deliberation, discussion, and the coordination of collection action, and the ways in which they may thwart public sphere ideals of rational critical deliberation and public accountability. Our intent is to provide an overview of the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Contributors may come from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, attending to how political groups, practices, and communicative genres are underwritten and sustained via engagement with digital technology, as well as to how the political realm itself is transformed in the age of digital media.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The political uses of digital media</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The uses of digital media for purposes of organizing protest and dissent and for the construction of forums for political deliberation.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How activists and (political) groups have used the internet to hold state authorities accountable or challenge them, or to publish and circulate information.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The creation, dissemination and/or interpretation of digital media content by communities and individuals for political purposes</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The kinds of politics that are created/expressed in the digital media environment</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How mediated expressions and spaces connect to politics ‘on the ground’</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The kinds of political challenges that arise from digital media use in the regions</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The shifting relationship between digital media and journalism</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How population groups use the internet to connect with one another across national divisions (for example Serbs living in Bosnia, Serbia, and Montenegro; Palestinians living in Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria). </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Chapters may focus on different forms of digital media and spaces: internet cafes, social networking sites, bulletin boards, blogs, twitter, wikipedia, youTube, listservs, websites and other digital/social media.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Chapters may focus on one national context or sub-context, or may be comparative in scope. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">For the purposes of this project, the relevant geographic range of the Balkans and the Middle East includes the following: Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 22pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">-</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We particularly welcome contributions from scholars from the relevant regions. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Please send a <b>short bio, a publication list,</b> and a <b>500 word abstract</b> detailing the topic of your article, the overall context, your material, methodology, and theoretical argument by <b>March 1, 2010</b>. Authors will be notified by the 2<span style="COLOR: navy">5</span>th of March 2010 of the outcome of their submissions. If accepted, full papers, of a maximum of 6,000 words, should be submitted by<b> September 1, 2010</b>. Papers will then be reviewed individually by the editors and in the standard blind review process of the publisher.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Submissions and inquiries about this volume should be sent to both</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="mailto:helga@nyu.edu" target="_blank">helga@nyu.edu</a></span></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><a href="mailto:z.volcic@uq.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">z.volcic@uq.edu.au</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> -- <br>Helga Tawil-Souri <br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Media, Culture, and Communication<br>New York University <br><br>
<a href="mailto:helga@nyu.edu" target="_blank">helga@nyu.edu</a><br>1-212-992-9437<br><font color="#888888">--</font></span></p></div></div></div></div><br>