<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>thought this CfP would be interesting and maybe even useful in thinking about collaborative writing projects.</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Carolyn Guertin <<a href="mailto:carolyn.guertin@gmail.com">carolyn.guertin@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[MEA] CFP: New Media, Global Activism and Politics Vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2014)</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 4, 2013 10:49:48 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:MEA@lists.ibiblio.org">MEA@lists.ibiblio.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:MEA@lists.ibiblio.org">MEA@lists.ibiblio.org</a><br></span></div><br><div>*Convergence*<br><br>The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies<br><br><br><br>Call for Papers<br><br><br><br>Special issue on: New Media, Global Activism and Politics<br><br>Vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2014)<br><br><br><br>Guest editors: Carolyn Guertin (University of North Texas at Dallas) and<br>Angi Buettner (Victoria University of Wellington)<br><br><br><br>*Deadline for refereed research articles: *30 August 2013<br><br>Indignados. Arab Spring. #Occupy. The 99%. Idle No More. #Upsettler.<br>GlobalNoise. Strike Debt. These are just some of the new terms to emerge<br>from the global mass protests of the last two years. They are part of a sea<br>change as political engagement, citizen journalism and tactical media<br>evolve as tools of protest and communication. These terms mark only one<br>small part of a much larger shift in media production and distribution that<br>is the rise of user-generated content or social media. Within digital<br>culture, the creative act has become a form of activism carried out through<br>the repurposing of pre-existing materials and media for political<br>change—and it is a practice that has swayed policy, overturned governments<br>and politicized subcultures and peoples on a global scale.<br><br>In the 19th century, the crowd emerged as a new social force. It was a<br>force, it was argued, that shook the foundations of society and led<br>individuals to commit irrational acts. In the 21st century, we have seen<br>the power of crowds re-emerge as an ostensibly smarter and more nimble<br>cultural force empowered by mobile technologies, crowdsourcing<br>methodologies and networked systems. How has activism changed as a result<br>of new technologies? How are new media enlisted to assist in the planning<br>and enactment of socio-political change? How are governments and political<br>candidates using social media? How has social media altered policies,<br>elections and the democratic process?<br><br><br><br>Topics might include:<br><br>- Hacktivism<br><br>- Wikileaks<br><br>- Arab Spring<br><br>- #occupy<br><br>- Indignados<br><br>- Idle No More<br><br>- #upsettlers<br><br>- Global Noise<br><br> Strike Debt<br><br>- Crowdsourcing<br><br>- Lobbying<br><br>- Flashmobs, smart mobs or network armies<br><br>- Riot simulation or protest modeling<br><br>- Microblogging as a form of protest<br><br>- Protest apps, including geolocative ones<br><br>- Eco-activism<br><br>- Activism in education<br><br>- Gaming and new media activism<br><br>- New media and the environment<br><br>- Politics and new media<br><br>- Activist or protest art<br><br>- Appropriation, subvertising, culture jamming or memes<br><br>- Slacktivism<br><br>- Clicktivism<br><br>- Cyberfeminism<br><br>- DIY culture<br><br>- Prototyping<br><br>- Global protest networks<br><br>- Participatory culture<br><br>- eDemocracy<br><br>- Government sponsored social media<br><br>- Public media initiatives<br><br>- Elections and social media<br><br><br><br>*Queries may be directed to the guest editors, Carolyn Guertin at *<br><a href="mailto:carolyn.guertin@gmail.com">carolyn.guertin@gmail.com</a>* or *Angi Buettner at <a href="mailto:Angi.Buettner@vuw.ac.nz">Angi.Buettner@vuw.ac.nz</a><br><br><br><br>*Convergence* is published by Sage and all contributors must consult<br>the*guide to manuscript submission at:<br>*<br><a href="http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201774#tabview=manuscriptSubmission">http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201774#tabview=manuscriptSubmission</a><br>* for details of house style.*<br>-- <br>Carolyn Guertin, PhD<br>Languages and Communications, University of North Texas<br>author of *Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art<br>*(Continuum,<br>2012)<br><br>Website: http://carolynguertin.com/<br>Email: carolyn.guertin@gmail.com<br>Skype: carolyn_guertin<br>_______________________________________________<br>MEA mailing list<br>MEA@lists.ibiblio.org<br>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/mea<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>