Apologies for cross-posting! Hope you can join us - we look forward to seeing you in San Benedetto del Tronto! Social Media Track @ EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 2-4 September 2019 Conference website: http://dgsoc.org/egov-2019/ Digital and social media are central for government, public administration, democratic and political processes and communication. One the one hand they are increasingly important interface between governments, the public sector and their respective publics, and on the other hand, they also play an important role for innovation in the public sector, improving public service delivery and providing opportunities for public participation. Social media applications and digital tools have also reshaped the nature of collaboration within public organizations, across governance networks, impacting political communication and campaigning. Whilst social media is extensively used in politics and by political figures, governments still struggle to understand how best to use social media and t4 Sepo develop a social media strategy, how to implement them for operational activities and the digital transformation of the organisation, improve services and achieve change and strategic goals. We invite relevant studies on social media in the public sector that draw on conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods. Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics: New theoretical perspectives and critical analyses of digital interactions; Strategies and policies for the planning and implementation of social media; Use and significance of social analytics in political communication and public organizations; Organizational issues relevant to the implementation of social media in democratic contexts and the transformation of public administration; Stakeholders and digital publics of government engagement on social media; Enterprise/organizational networking and knowledge sharing applications; Internal and informal digital networks in public administration; The role of social media in digital transformation; The use of technology and social media for co-production, crowdsourcing, citizen-sourcing, co-creation and other crowd-based models (e.g. in regulation, bottom-up initiatives, open source movements); Mobilisation, social movements and other forms of digital engagement enabled by social media; Social media in crisis and emergency management; Ethical, privacy, regulatory and policy issues related to social media; Evaluation of the impact of social media in various contexts; New methods, challenges and opportunities of social media data; Design methods and user experience in digital collaboration; Track Chairs: Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway Programme Committee: Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico Peter Bellström, Karlstad University, Sweden Alessio Maria Braccini, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy Eiri Elvestad, University of South-Eastern Norway Loukis Euripides, University of the Aegean, Greece Montathar Faraon, Kristianstad University, Sweden Mila Gasco, CTG Albany, USA Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece Evika Karamagioli, Uni Paris 8, France Azi Lev-On Ariel University, Israel Agnes Mainka, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany Yuri Misnikov, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Michael Räckers, University of Münster, Germany Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico Margit Scholl, TH Wildau, Germany Øystein Sæbø, University of Agder, Norway Ella Taylor-Smith, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom Jolien Ubacht - TU Delft, The Netherlands Elin Wihlborg, Linköping University Qinfeng Zhu, City University, Hong Kong Important Dates: (Hard) deadline for submissions: 17 March 2019 Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019 Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2019 Poster acceptance: 1 June 2019 Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2019 Conference: 2-4 September 2019 PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2019 Types of Submissions & Publications: We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as from business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their completed and ongoing research papers, reflections, posters as well as practitioner papers, panel or workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks. We also welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics. Accepted full research papers (max. 12 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) can be published (but do not need to be) in a special conference issue of the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference. Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. Noella Edelmann PhD Senior Researcher Danube University Krems Department for E-Governance and Administration Center for E-Government Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 A-3500 Krems Austria Tel. +43 (0)2732 893 2303 www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov