[AISWorld] CFP Special Issue on: “Collective Action, Social Movements and Digital Technology”

[Elizabeth Davidson]

(See full CFP at
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-organization/call-for-papers/special-issue-collective-action-social-movements
)

The purpose of this special issue is to develop understanding around the
roles of digital technologies in collective action and movement phenomena
and to contribute theoretical insights related to collective actions in the
digital age. We encourage submissions that explore the roles of digital
technology in collective action generally as well as those focused social
movement phenomena. In keeping with the aims and scope of *Information &
Organization*, we are particularly interested in papers that examine in
depth the social and material interplay of information technologies and
organizational and organizing phenomena.



Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

   - Online resource mobilization and digital opportunity structures for
   collective action
   - Social and material implications of digital activism
   - Fake news movements, propaganda diffusion and organizing responses
   - Corporate strategy / involvement in social movements to shape public
   policy
   - Botivists (web bot programmed for activism), online petitions, and
   other tools for digital protest and engagement
   - Digital marketing of social agendas
   - Empowerment / marginalization campaigns enacted in online digital
   technologies
   - Social media capabilities and facilitation of echo chambers
   - Media capabilities for voice-giving and perspective-shaping
   - Financing of social agendas through crowd funding or bitcoin exchanges
   - Crowd funding, bitcoin exchange or similar phenomena examined as
   social movements or collective actions
   - Privacy and ethical issues in researching online collective action
   - Methodological challenges in researching collective action and new
   digital technologies

*Special issue timeframe:*



Submission Deadline:   November 1, 2017

First round decisions:    March 1, 2018

Revisions due:                July 1, 2018

Second round review:    October 1, 2018

Final papers due:           December 1, 2018

Publication:                     Issue 1, 2019

*Special Issue Editors:*



Lisen Selander, University of Gothenburg

Amber Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill University

Elizabeth Davidson, University of Hawai’i


Elizabeth Davidson
W. Ruel Johnson Professor
Department of Information Technology Management
Shidler College of Business
Director, Communications and Information Science (CIS) Ph.D. Program (
http://www.hawaii.edu/cis/)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
Editor-in-Chief, Information and Organization
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-organization/) (
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14717727)