Eben habe ich einen Call for Papers für eine Konferenz in London am 17. und 18. April 2008 bekommen. Deutlich sichtbar wird bei der Auswahl der möglichen topics die enge Verbindung von Citizen Journalism, User Generarted Content und politischer Beteiligung. Ganz ähnlich ist ja die Fragestellung bei www.civilmedia.eu im November 2007 in Salzburg.
http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/
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.
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 organization.
– ‘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.