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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Media for Development: Outlining Debates, Theory and Praxis<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Journal of Information Technology for Development<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/titd20/current#.UhvYlD_OBc4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Special Issue guest editors
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Brian Nicholson, Yanuar Nugroho & Nimmi Rangaswamy<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Aims and Scope<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The special issue invites contributions on Social Media and Development with an emphasis on societal change including the dynamics of civic engagement
and the wider context of development objectives such as poverty alleviation. As mobile internet technologies rapidly penetrate everyday lives of the next billion, there is an acute need to study the transformations wrought by them at the level of society (macro),
organisations or institutions (meso) and the individual (micro). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mobile and fixed line web-based social media offer potential in developing countries to empower individuals and groups by supporting such applications
as citizen reporting, crowd sourcing and education. Social media may contribute to poverty alleviation by facilitating sharing of resources (time, expertise, support); information (job opportunities, benefits advice, influence); opportunities for capacity-building
(to develop skills or start an enterprise); and enables collective action and influence (improving a local area, social campaigning, ensuring a voice in local affairs). It can also reduce corruption and increase institutional transparency, thus improving the
effectiveness of state poverty reduction initiatives (Afridi 2011, Bertot et al., 2010). Importantly, social media afforded hitherto unavailable networked resources and identity creations building a virtual repository of expressive behaviours and social capital.
However there is also a dark-side of social media use, from cyber-bullying, to mindless ‘buzzing’ in the competition among business organisations, to organising riots and spreading hatred in the society. In addition the use of Social Media assumes the availability
of access to IT infrastructure that in some developing and emerging economies is still problematic as it is concentrated only in the most developed parts of the countries. In some emerging democracies, too, governments have different opinions in the way they
control the use of Internet and social media in terms of censorship and content monitoring. The aim of this special issue is to present these debates – to discuss the extent to which social media can contribute to development and what condition within which
the potential of this technology can be realised and harnessed for developmental purposes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Topics addressed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social media for alleviating poverty and capacity building<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social media for political activism<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social media, civil society, and civic engagement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To broaden the scope of ICT-enabled development models from a development 2.0 perspective. (E.g. Twitter, Blogs, Facebook
etc., countries for political activism e.g. Indonesia).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Case studies of social behaviours and practices of online life, among diasporic communities, multifarious interest groups
and social segments.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Exploring, analyzing and theorizing best practices of studying social media in development? Examples may include social
media and disaster relief, reducing corruption in developing countries; or use of particular social media
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Issues around development and empowerment, equalities and inequalities. Topics may include how beneficiaries of power are
redistributed: Does the fall of regimes in the so called Arab Spring for example provide examples of enlivened radicalism and empowered populations resulting from social media? Or is this explanation reflective of a naive technological determinism? Utopian
/ dystopian perspectives on social media effects<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Reflexivity between the studies of Social Media and Development: analysis of how discourses around social media affect
use of technology and how discourses of social media affect the study of development for example the role of language, ethnicity, technological shortfalls, ethics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Methodological approaches in social media studies e.g.; ethnographic, on-line research, big data mining etc. can inform
each other and contribute to social media studies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Links between social media in the developing world and development, for example the potential of social media for Open
Development.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Enquiries can be directed at any time to either of the co-editors</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Brian Nicholson
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Co-director, Centre for Development Infomatics (</span><a href="http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">),
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Manchester, UK</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="mailto:Brian.nicholson@mbs.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Brian.nicholson@mbs.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yanuar Nugroho
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Research Fellow in Technological Innovations and Social Change at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and core member of the Centre
for Development Informatics at the University of Manchester, UK.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="mailto:Yanuar.nugroho@mbs.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yanuar.nugroho@mbs.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nimmi Rangaswamy
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Adjunct Professor at Dept. of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="mailto:nimmir@iith.ac.in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">nimmir@iith.ac.in</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deadlines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deadline for submission: January 15, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Notification of initial acceptance: March 31, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deadline for revised papers: May 31, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Notification of final acceptance: July 31, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tentative publication date: December 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paper submission instructions and review<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers using the journal submission and reviewing web site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itd.
Detailed submission guidelines can be found at: </span><a href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0268-1102&linktype=44"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0268-1102&linktype=44</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submitted papers should follow the instructions for authors and indicate “Social Media for Development” special issue when uploading their papers.
Submissions to the special issue should be full research papers (maximum 21 pages or 9000 words) or practice papers (approximately 4000 words). Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed in the same manner as other submissions to the Journal of IT for Development.
Relevance, quality and originality of the contribution are the major acceptance criteria for each submission.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After initial screening, papers are reviewed by selected members of the editorial board and peers from an international pool for quality, consistency
and research contribution. Authors are welcome to nominate one of the special issue editors or preferred reviewers when submitting their paper where no conflict of interest exist (an existing business or professional partnership, past or present association
as thesis advisor or thesis student, and/or collaboration on a project or on a book/article/report/paper or co-editing of a journal, compendium, or conference proceedings constitutes a conflict of interest). Papers submitted to this journal must contain original
results and must not be submitted elsewhere while being evaluated. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When a duplication is discovered, papers are subject to rejection for that reason alone. Manuscripts that have already
appeared in publication will not be considered for this journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brian Nicholson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manchester Business School, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">44 161 275 4024<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">http://briannicholson.net<o:p></o:p></p>
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