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<p class=""><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Call for Papers</span></i></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Social
Media in Public Sector: A Middle Eastern Perspective</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">A
special issue of </span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Tahoma">Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
(JCEA)</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Guest Editors</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Dr. Gohar Feroz Khan, Korea University of Technology &
Education, email: <a href="mailto:gohar.feroz@kut.ac.kr">gohar.feroz@kut.ac.kr</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-repeat:initial initial">Dr. Nahed A. Azab, The American University
in Cairo, email: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:nazab@aucegypt.edu">nazab@aucegypt.edu</a></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Key Dates
</span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Extended Abstract Submission:
30 October, 2013 (extended deadline)</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">Full Paper Submissions: 30 November, 2013</span><br>
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">First Review Due: 30 January, 2014</span><br>
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">Revised Version Due: 30 February, 2013</span><br>
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">Acceptance: 30 March, 2014</span><br>
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">Special Issue Published: Spring 2014</span></span></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Introduction </span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social media is </span><span lang="EN-CA">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.” </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social media consists of a variety of tools and technologies that
includes <span style="color:black">collaborative projects (e.g.,<span class=""> </span><span class="">Wikipedia</span><span class=""> </span>and<span class=""> </span><span class="">wiki-spaces</span>), Blogs (e.g.,<span class=""> </span><span class="">WordPress</span>) and micro-blogs (e.g.,<span class=""> </span><span class="">Twitter</span>), content communities (e.g.,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube">YouTube</a>), social networks or social
networking sites (e.g., Facebook and Cyworld), folksonomies or tagging (e.g.,
delicious), virtual game worlds (e.g.,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft">World of<span class=""> </span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft">Warcraft</a>), virtual
social worlds (e.g.,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life">Second Life</a>), and all other internet-based<span class=""> </span>platforms<span class=""> </span>that facilitate the creation &
exchange of UGC (Khan & Swar, 2013).</span></span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Due to its inherited characteristic (i.e., <span style="background-repeat:initial initial">openness, participation, and sharing) social media seems to
be </span>an emerging medium for interaction between governments, government
& citizens, and other governmental agencies & businesses </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_45" title="Sandoval-Almazan, 2012 #8"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Sandoval-Almazan
and Gil-Garcia, 2012</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">. Government that is driven by social media is called Government 2.0
</span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_14" title="Eggers, 2005 #62"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Eggers, 2005</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">, collaborative government </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_38" title="McGuire, 2006 #30"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">McGuire, 2006</span></a>;
<a href="#_ENREF_9" title="Chun, 2012 #39"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Chun et al., 2012</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">, do-it-yourself government </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_13" title="Dunleavy, 2010 #29"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Dunleavy and
Margetts, 2010</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">, government as a platform </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_40" title="O'Reilly, 2010 #28"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">O'Reilly,
2010</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">, Open
Government </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_43" title="Patrice, 2010 #1"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Patrice, 2010</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">, Social Government </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_29" title="Khan, 2012 #13"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Khan et al., </span></a>2013,
2012)</span><span lang="EN-CA">, or
we-Government </span><span lang="EN-CA">(<a href="#_ENREF_34" title="Linders, 2012 #25"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Linders, 2012</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA">.<span style="color:black"></span></span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">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 <span style="background-repeat:initial initial">requires a deep understanding of the
unique economic, social, political, and cultural values.</span> 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:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social
media in public sphere: government 2.0, e-democracy, e-participation, and e-politics</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">The role
of social media in social change and collective action</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social
media for public sector information dissemination and knowledge sharing</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social
media for mass collaboration and crowdsourcing</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social
media for development </span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Social media adoption/diffusion and
use behavior</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></li>
<li class="" style="color:black">Social
media governance and policy</li>
<li class="" style="color:black">Legal
considerations and risks of using social media</li>
<li class=""><span style="color:black">Social media as a </span><span lang="EN-CA">disaster management tool</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social
media for transparency, openness, and sharing</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Risk and
benefits associated with social media</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Role of
social media in development</span></li>
<li class=""><span lang="EN-CA">Social
media for community building</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA">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. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-CA">Submission Guidelines</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-repeat:initial initial">Original manuscripts
should be prepared according to the JCEA author guidelines available at: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://eastasia.yu.ac.kr/documents/call_for_papers.html">http://eastasia.yu.ac.kr/documents/call_for_papers.html</a>
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></strong></p>
<p class=""><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Send inquiries and manuscripts to </span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-repeat:initial initial">Dr. Nahed, email: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:nazab@aucegypt.edu">nazab@aucegypt.edu</a></span></span>
and Dr. Khan, email: <a href="mailto:gohar.feroz@kut.ac.kr">gohar.feroz@kut.ac.kr</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0cm 0cm 4.8pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">About J</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">CEA</span></h1>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">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
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<p class="" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Indexing and Abstracting</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline">EBSCO Publishing</li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline">Scopus (under evaluation)</li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline">SSCI (in preparation)</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> </span></p>
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<p class=""><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">References </span></strong></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dunleavy, P.,
& Margetts, H. Z. (2010). The second wave of digital era governance. <i>APSA
2010 Annual Meeting Papers</i>. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:36pt"><a name="_ENREF_9">Chun SA,
Luna-Reyes LF and Sandoval-Almazán R. (2012) Collaborative e-government. <i>Transforming Government: People, Process and
Policy</i> 6: 5 - 12.</a></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Eggers, W. D.
(2005). <i>Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape,
Reduce Gridlock, and Enhance Democracy</i>. Lanhma, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Khan, G.F. and Swar, B.,
(2013), Government 2.0: Utilization Model, Implementation Scenarios, and
Relationships, accepted for presentation <i>at<span class=""> </span>Pre-ECIS (21st European Conference on
Information Systems) workshop:<span class=""> </span><span class="">E-Government 2.0: Case studies and experience reports</span></i><span class=""> </span>June 4, Utrecht, Netherlands.</span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Khan, G. F., Yoon,
H. Y., & Park, H. W. (2012). <i>Social Media Use in Public Sector: A comparative
study of the Korean & US Government </i>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.</span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Khan, G. F. Young, H., Kim, J.,
& Park, H. W. (2013). From E-government to Social Government: Government
Use of Social Media in Korea,<span class="">Online Information Review</span><em>, forthcoming</em></span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Linders, D.
(2012). From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen
coproduction in the age of social media. <i>Government Information Quarterly,
29</i>(4), 446-454. doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2012.06.003</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">McGuire, M.
(2006). Collaborative public management: Assessing what we know and how we know
it. <i>Public Administration Review, 66</i>, 33-43. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">O'Reilly, T.
(2010). Government as a Platform (Chap 2). In D. Lathrop & L. Ruma (Eds.), <i>Open
government: Collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice</i>:
O'Reilly Media.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Patrice, M.
(2010). Building open government. <i>Government Information Quarterly, 27</i>(4),
401-413. doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2010.07.002</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:18pt"><strong><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Nahed A. Azab, PhD<br>Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems<br>Department of Management<br>School of Business<br>The American University in Cairo<br><a href="http://www.aucegypt.edu/business" target="_blank">www.aucegypt.edu/business</a>
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