-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP E-Democracy – Online Youth Participation and Engagement - International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) Datum: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:08:18 +1000 Von: Mary-Anne Kennan maryanne.kennan@unsw.edu.au Antwort an: Mary-Anne Kennan maryanne.kennan@unsw.edu.au An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=33407 An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association- New in 2010 Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore, Wayne State University, USA Published: Quarterly

Call for Papers - Special Issue: Submission due date: August 15, 2009 Special issue on: E-Democracy – Online Youth Participation and Engagement The full call is at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=33407&v=callForPapersS...

E-democracy, also referred to as digital or cyber-democracy, encompasses an expanding range of participatory acts: from the development of electronic voting to the transformation of citizen involvement in democratic and deliberative processes enabled and mediated by information and communication technologies (ICT) (Coleman, 2008; Gronlund, 2003). Unlike broadcast media that disseminates news and information to be consumed by citizens, e-democracy utilizes the Internet and social networking technologies to enable more interactive modes of engagement and multidimensional information flows.

The use of ICT for participation and engagement has a particular appeal to young citizens. Disenchanted with traditional politics, well-versed in ICT and immersed in the Internet in their everyday lives, young people are at the forefront of online activism. Yet this activism seems to be disconnected from conventional modes of political engagement centered on governments. Youth civic disengagement is presented in this viewpoint as a challenge for the future of democracy.

The special issue aims to engage in existing debates and also move significantly beyond them by:

* Re-examining online youth participation in political and civic affairs from multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives * Promoting and contributing to cross-fertilization between theory and practice of e-democracy and youth participation.

Recommended Topics

We therefore invite authors with different disciplinary backgrounds and authors from both academia and practice to jointly contribute to this special issue and submit research papers that focus on:

* Adoption of Web 2.0, social networking, and other technologies by young people and the opportunities and challenges for extending this adoption for their engagement in deliberative civic processes * Assessing communicative and political action via the Internet from democratic theory perspectives * Examples of youth online participation and innovative practices of youth engagement in political and civic matters by governments, political parties, non-government organizations or groups of young people * How and why does technology enable/support one way of engagement rather than another: searching beyond technological and social determinism? * How does technology ‘produce’ social interaction and young people as participants in online consultation and engagement processes or alternatively how the participants (perhaps at the same time?) socially construct technology to serve their interests? * Reviews and critique of existing theoretical approaches, assumptions, and conceptualizations of e-democracy, youth online participation, and engagement in social matters; agendas for future research. * Studies investigating social, political, cultural, technological, and other conditions stimulating or obstructing young people’s participation and engagement in online debates and actions * Studies of practices and patterns of youth online activism, political action, and organizing as new emerging forms of e-democracy * Technology as politics or “the question of technology” – what motivates and informs the development and adoption of the Internet, web-based and other social technologies for youth civic online participation and engagement? * What is social technology and why does it matter in imagining and practicing e-democracy by young people? * Young people s’ roles, behaviors, identities, interaction, and contribution in electronic spaces; exploration of creation of meanings, construction of individual and group identities and trust (communities?), (re)visions of citizenship and citizenship education, relationships with governments, etc. * Youth engagement in e-democracy and the possibility of realizing theoretic (normative) proposals for democratic governance (e.g. Habermas’ public sphere)

Submission

All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. A paper should be between 5,500 to 8000 words in length. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of one of the guest editors:

Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, dubravka@unsw.edu.au Ariadne Vromen, a.vromen@usyd.edu.au Mary Anne Kennan, maryanne.kennan@unsw.edu.au The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann@wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.