Dear AOIR list members, Please find below the final call for papers for this forthcoming conference, the deadline for which is November 2. I would be grateful if you could please distribute this among your colleagues. Thanks for your help. Andy Chadwick ------------- [Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely.] Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference: Call For Papers Hosted by the New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London. http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk April 17-18, 2008. http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/ Paper proposals DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 2, 2007 Has there been a shift in political use of the Internet and digital new media - a new Web 2.0 politics based on participatory values? How do broader social, cultural, and economic shifts towards Web 2.0 impact, if at all, on the contexts, the organizational structures, and the communication of politics and policy? Does Web 2.0 hinder or help democratic citizenship? This conference provides an opportunity for researchers to share and debate perspectives. Confirmed keynote speakers * Stephen Coleman, Institute for Communications Studies, University of Leeds. * Rachel Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester. * Robin Mansell, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and President, International Association for Media and Communication Research. * Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute. * Micah Sifry, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Personal Democracy Forum and formerly of The Nation. * Michael Turk, Vice President of Industry Grassroots for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, formerly e-campaign director, Bush-Cheney '04, and e-campaign director for the Republican National Committee. Conference Sponsors * Routledge Publishers * Polity Press Potential themes could include (in no particular order): * Theorizing Web 2.0. * Changes in political journalism, news production, and consumption. * Social networking (MySpace, Facebook) and election campaigning. * Citizen activism from the local to the transnational. * Blogs, wikis, and user-generated content. * Changing social, cultural, and political identities. * Social software and social media: design, technologies, tools, and techniques. * Social network analysis. * Surveillance, privacy, and security. * Security, foreign policy and international communication. * Hacktivism. * Radical transparency. * The impact of online video. * E-government, web 2.0, and new models of public service delivery. * New models of social and political collaboration and problem-solving. * 'Little brother' phenomena. * Political life in virtual worlds. * Netroots versus the war room model of election campaigning. * New challenges for media regulation. * Collaborative production of political knowledge networks. * Changing party, interest group, and social movement strategies. * Web 2.0 and political marketing. * Collective intelligence, smart mobs, crowdsourcing. * Fragmenting audiences, the long tail, and the political economy of web 2.0 media. * Civil society, civic engagement, and mobilization. * Web 2.0, ICT4D and the changing digital divide. * The politics of intellectual property. * Hyperlocalism. * The political aesthetics of Web 2.0. Journal of Information Technology and Politics special issue Conference presenters will be invited to submit their papers to a peer review process for publication in a special issue of the new Journal of Information Technology and Politics. http://www.jitp.net. Submitting a proposal 300-word paper proposals should be submitted via the secure online form: http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/web-2-0-conference-form/ Full panel proposals are also welcome. If you would like to propose a panel of three papers on a common theme, with or without a discussant, please email the proposal to the Conference Convenor: Dr. Andrew Chadwick (Andrew.Chadwick@rhul.ac.uk). Deadline for all proposals: November 2, 2007. Details of registration and accommodation packages will be released early in 2008.