Apologies for cross-posting. This Call for Papers may be of interest to some on this list. The Journal of Creative Communications (JoCC) is a double blind peer reviewed journal published by Sage Publications. It announces its special issue on Social Media: Issues and challenges in marketing and education to be published in 2014, Vol 9 (1) Social media has now become a well-known phenomenon. It is so widespread that it has impacted two most important domains of human life: education and market place. With its increasing use among students and educators for sharing their ideas, documents and projects, there are benefits as well as dangers in using the social media. Likewise, promotion of products and services by marketers through this media has almost become indispensable. This special issue aims at examining social media and their increasingly important role in the fields of education and marketing by studying the possible issues and challenges in them and diverse contexts within them. Authors are invited to submit original conceptual and empirical papers, addressing areas such as those listed below: 1. Social media in education – curriculum 2. Wikis in education 3. Informal learning with social technologies 4. Use of social media in academics and research 5. Using video sharing for education 6. The future of Virtual Learning Environments 7. Social media tools for schools and universities 8. Effective implementation of social media in teaching/marketing 9. Role of social networking sites in marketing 10. Social media and market research 11. Impact of social media on word-of-mouth marketing 12. Marketing of products/services using social media 13. Use of social media to influence consumer attitudes and behaviour 14. Privacy issues 15. Copyright issues 16. Issues of misrepresentation of facts 17. Regulation for social media The above list is indicative and JoCC welcomes papers in areas relevant to the special issue theme. Deadline for submitting the manuscript is 15 September 2013. Paper may be send to: jocceditor@micamail.in For Submission Guidelines and other details about the journal, please follow the link: http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201766/ -- Regards Shobha Vadrevu http://mrsv.wordpress.com <http://www.twitter.com/shobhav>