CFP: CyberOrient - “The Net Worth of the Arab Spring”
**apologies for cross posting** “The Net Worth of the Arab Spring” Call for Papers - Special Issue CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Ines Braune Submission deadline: 31 May 2012 Aim As the first anniversary of the “Arab Spring” nears, several long-standing dictators have been toppled, protests still continue in other countries and new governments are being formed. Arguably, throughout this last year digital media have played an important, if not defining, role through Twitter, Facebook, blogs and the extensive news coverage in cyberspace. This is a call for papers across disciplines aiming for critical and evidence-based evaluation of the use of social media in the Arab Spring, the coverage of the Arab Spring in cyberspace and beyond, and the remediation and appropriation between social media and traditional media outlets, including satellite TVs and the press. First-person and ethnographic accounts are welcomed, but CyberOrient welcomes contributions from any field. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. The articles will be published online with free access in early autumn, 2012. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Ines Braune (ines.braune@uni-marburg.de) and Vit Sisler (vsisler@gmail.com). -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/
Hi all Please see below the details of a new and exciting book on Wikileaks which might be of interest to some people on the list. Best wishes, Shani "WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era" by Charlie Beckett (Polity, January 15th 2012) This is the first full-length analysis of WikiLeaks that examines its significance from its inception in 2006 to the final leaks of late 2011 and Julian Assange's legal battle with the authorities. Written with former WikiLeaks researcher and now Guardian journalist James Ball it gives the history of WikiLeaks and sets out its challenge to mainstream media and politics. It examines WikiLeaks' ethical, editorial and political relationship with its mainstream collaborators as an example of networked journalism. It sets WikiLeaks within the wider context of changing political communications and the role of social media in recent protest and revolutionary movements and asks whether WikiLeaks is a sustainable or desirable model for disruptive journalism. Charlie Beckett was a journalist at the BBC and ITN's Channel 4 News before becoming the director of Polis, the LSE's journalism think-tank. He is the author of SuperMedia (Blackwell, 2008) Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer
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