[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Social Media in Public Sector: A Middle Eastern Perspective - A special issue of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA)

Nahed Azab nazab at aucegypt.edu
Sun Jun 23 20:14:59 EDT 2013


*Call for Papers*

*Social Media in Public Sector: A Middle Eastern Perspective*

A special issue of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA)

*Guest Editors*

Dr. Gohar Feroz Khan, Korea University of Technology & Education, email:

gohar.feroz at kut.ac.kr

Dr. Nahed A. Azab, The American University in Cairo, email:
nazab at aucegypt.edu

*Key Dates*

Extended Abstract Submission: 30 August, 2013

Full Paper Submissions: 30 October, 2013

First Review Due: 30 December, 2013

Revised Version Due: 30 January, 2013

Acceptance: 30 February, 2014

Special Issue Published: Spring 2014

*Introduction*

Social media is becoming an integral part of life in contemporary society
and has changed

the creation, sharing, and consumption of information. There are countless
stories related

to the role of social media in the contemporary society either in the
entertainment industries

where it propelled Psy (a Korean rapper) to worldwide fame through the
spread of his

“Gangnam Style” YouTube video or its role in political landscape commonly
called as the

“Arab Spring” or “Facebook revolution.”

Social media consists of a variety of tools and technologies that includes
collaborative

projects (e.g., Wikipedia and wiki-spaces), Blogs (e.g., WordPress) and
micro-blogs

(e.g., Twitter), content communities (e.g., YouTube), social networks or
social networking

sites (e.g., Facebook and Cyworld), folksonomies or tagging (e.g.,
delicious), virtual game

worlds (e.g., World of Warcraft), virtual social worlds (e.g., Second Life),
and all other

internet-based platforms that facilitate the creation & exchange of UGC
(Khan & Swar,

2013).

Due to its inherited characteristic (i.e., openness, participation, and
sharing) social media

seems to be an emerging medium for interaction between governments,
government &

citizens, and other governmental agencies & businesses (Sandoval-Almazan
and Gil-Garcia,

2012). Government that is driven by social media is called Government 2.0
(Eggers, 2005),

collaborative government (McGuire, 2006; Chun et al., 2012), do-it-yourself
government

(Dunleavy and Margetts, 2010), government as a platform (O'Reilly, 2010),
Open

Government (Patrice, 2010), Social Government (Khan et al., 2013, 2012), or
we-

Government (Linders, 2012).

While the literature on social media in public sector is emerging, limited
attention has been

paid to the social media dynamics in the Middle Eastern region. Leveraging
social media in

public sphere in the Middle Eastern countries requires a deep understanding
of the unique

economic, social, political, and cultural values. The special issue of JCEA
aims to

investigate and understand these unique aspects of social media in public
sector in the

Middle Eastern region. All lenses of inquiry, including strategic,
organizational,

behavioural, legal, economic, and technical are encouraged. Areas to
address include, but

are not limited to, those listed below:

 Social media in public sphere: government 2.0, e-democracy,
e-participation, and epolitics

 The role of social media in social change and collective action

 Social media for public sector information dissemination and knowledge
sharing

 Social media for mass collaboration and crowdsourcing

 Social media for development

 Social media adoption/diffusion and use behavior

 Social media governance and policy

 Legal considerations and risks of using social media

 Social media as a disaster management tool

 Social media for transparency, openness, and sharing

 Risk and benefits associated with social media

 Role of social media in development

 Social media for community building

The above areas are just indicative and this special issue would welcome
papers discussing

other topics relevant to social media in public sector in the Middle
Eastern region.

*Submission Guidelines*

Original manuscripts should be prepared according to the JCEA author
guidelines available

at: http://eastasia.yu.ac.kr/documents/call_for_papers.html

*Send inquiries and manuscripts to *Dr. Nahed, email: nazab at aucegypt.edu and
Dr. Khan,

email: gohar.feroz at kut.ac.kr

*About JCEA*

JCEA is a refereed biannual e-publication devoted to the study of current
political, social

and economic trends in East and Southeast Asia. JCEA also accepts studies
related to

Internet research, Triple Helix, social network analysis, and cyber
communication. The

editors welcome manuscripts based on original research or significant
re-examination of

existing literature. For more details please visit the Journal website:

http://eastasia.yu.ac.kr/

*References*

Dunleavy, P., & Margetts, H. Z. (2010). The second wave of digital era
governance. *APSA*

*2010 Annual Meeting Papers*.

Chun SA, Luna-Reyes LF and Sandoval-Almazán R. (2012) Collaborative
e-government.

*Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy *6: 5 - 12.

Eggers, W. D. (2005). *Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve
Education, Cut Red*

*Tape, Reduce Gridlock, and Enhance Democracy*. Lanhma, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield

Publishers.

Khan, G.F. and Swar, B., (2013), Government 2.0: Utilization Model,
Implementation

Scenarios, and Relationships, accepted for presentation *at Pre-ECIS (21st
European*

*Conference on Information Systems) workshop: **E-Government 2.0: Case
studies and*

*experience reports *June 4, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Khan, G. F., Yoon, H. Y., & Park, H. W. (2012). *Social Media Use in Public
Sector: A*

*comparative study of the Korean & US Government *Paper presented at the
ATHS panel

during the 8th International Conference on Webometrics, Informatics and

Scientometrics & 13th COLLNET Meeting, 23-26 October 2012, Seoul, Korea.

Khan, G. F. Young, H., Kim, J., & Park, H. W. (2013). From E-government to
Social

Government: Government Use of Social Media in Korea,Online Information
Review*,*

*forthcoming*

Linders, D. (2012). From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology
for citizen

coproduction in the age of social media. *Government Information Quarterly,
29*(4),

446-454. doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2012.06.003

McGuire, M. (2006). Collaborative public management: Assessing what we know
and how

we know it. *Public Administration Review, 66*, 33-43.

O'Reilly, T. (2010). Government as a Platform (Chap 2). In D. Lathrop & L.
Ruma (Eds.),

*Open government: Collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice
*: O'Reilly

Media.

Patrice, M. (2010). Building open government. *Government Information
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401-413. doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2010.07.002

-- 
Nahed A. Azab, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems
Department of Management
School of Business
The American University in Cairo
www.aucegypt.edu/business
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