[AISWorld] Abstract Announcement for International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 7(1)

[Celia R. Livermore]

The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Volume 7, Issue 1, January - March 2016
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1947-9131; EISSN: 1947-914X;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
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Editor-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom) and Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA)

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

ARTICLE 1
Interacting with Whom?: Swedish Parliamentarians on Twitter during the 2014 Elections
Jakob Svensson (Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden), Anders Olof Larsson (Faculty of Management, Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication & Technology, Oslo, Norway)
This article explores Swedish Parliamentarians' Twitter practices during the 2014 general elections. For individual candidates, the political party is important for positions within the party and on the ballot, especially in a party-centered democracy. A previous qualitative (n)ethnographic research project during the previous elections in 2010, in which one campaigning politician was studied in-depth, found that her social media practices to a large extent were inward-facing, focusing on the own party network. But does this result resonate among all Swedish Parliamentarians? Specifically, the authors ask: is Twitter primarily used interactively, for intra-party communication, to interact with strategic voter groups or voters in general? By analyzing all Parliamentarians tweets two weeks up to the elections the authors conclude that retweeting was done within a party political network while @messaging was directed towards political opponents. Mass media journalists and editorial writers were important in Parliamentarians' Twitter practices, while so-called ordinary voters were more absent.
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ARTICLE 2
Challenger Networks of Food Policy on the Internet: A Comparative Study of Structures and Coalitions in Germany, the UK, the US, and Switzerland
Barbara Pfetsch (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Daniel Maier (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Peter Miltner (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Annie Waldherr (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
In times of genetically modified food, globalized production and distribution chains, food safety is a major issue in public policy. Although industrial actors have traditionally had remarkable influence on political decision-making in this area, challenger organizations from civil society have gained influence by mobilizing support and shaping public discourse on the Internet. The authors' study analyzes online issue networks concerning food safety in order to assess the actor constellations and coalitions that may serve as an opportunity structure for the mobilization of the issue. By comparing the US, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, the authors investigate the differences in policy settings between pluralist and corporatist democracies. They find that the mobilization structures related to food safety issues are actively promoted by the challengers themselves. In countries where challengers do not find support within national politics, the challengers' online communication refers to mass media as witnesses to legitimize their concern in public debates.
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ARTICLE 3
Conflict as a Barrier to Online Political Participation?: A Look at Political Participation in an Era of Web and Mobile Connectivity
Francis Dalisay (University of Guam, Mangilao, GU, USA), Matthew J. Kushin (Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, USA), Masahiro Yamamoto (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA)
This study extends understanding of conflict avoidance's (CA) potential of inhibiting online political participation. Specifically, the authors examine whether CA has a direct negative relationship with traditional online political participation and online political expression, and an indirect negative relationship with these two forms of participation as mediated by political interest and internal political efficacy. A survey of young adult college students living in a U.S. Midwestern battleground state was conducted weeks prior to the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Results showed that CA has a direct negative relationship with both traditional online political participation and online political expression. Also, CA is negatively associated with political interest and internal political efficacy, which in turn, are positively associated with traditional online political participation and online political expression. Implications are discussed.
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ARTICLE 4
The Illusion of Democracy in Online Consumer Restaurant Reviews
Morag Kobez (School of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology, New Farm, Australia)
Food has long served as a form of cultural capital, and historically it was an elite few food critics who held the power to ascribe status to dining experiences. The rise of social and digital media arguably allows anybody to adopt the role of critic. Lowered barriers associated with digital technologies, coupled with the contemporary ‘foodatainment' boom have opened the floodgates for amateurs to weigh into the critical culinary discourse. The tendency for contemporary high-status dining experiences to include casual, rustic and simple foods suggests that the age of food snobbery is in the past. However, this notion of ‘omnivorousness' can be viewed as an alternative means of establishing rules surrounding high-status foods. Johnston and Baumann's US research reveals two frames used in food writing to valorise foods in an omnivorous age: authenticity and exoticism. In this project, Johnston and Baumann's methodology is developed and applied to Australian professional and amateur reviews. Results show that Australian professional reviews frequently employ frames of distinction whereas amateur reviews do not; it concludes that the contribution by amateurs to the critical culinary discourse is limited.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IJEP:
The mission of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) is to define and expand the boundaries of e-politics as an emerging area of inter-disciplinary research and practice by assisting in the development of e-politics theories and empirical models. The journal creates a venue for empirical, theoretical, and practical scholarly work on e-politics to be published, leading to sharing of ideas between practitioners and academics in this field. IJEP contributes to the creation of a community of e-politics researchers by serving as a “hub” for related activities, such as organizing seminars and conferences on e-politics and publication of books on e-politics.
Indices of IJEP:

  *   ACM Digital Library
  *   Bacon's Media Directory
  *   Cabell's Directories
  *   DBLP
  *   Google Scholar
  *   INSPEC
  *   JournalTOCs
  *   MediaFinder
  *   Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS International)
  *   The Index of Information Systems Journals
  *   The Standard Periodical Directory
  *   Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
  *   Worldwide Political Abstracts (WPSA)
Coverage of IJEP:
The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) focuses on three major topic areas: the politics of information technology function and its role within organizations, the politics of virtual communities and social networking communities, and the role that electronic media plays in community activism and party politics at the local, national, and international levels. Within these major areas, specific topics of interest to be discussed in the journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

  *   E-voting and electronically enabled e-government
  *   Impact of globalization on the political role played by the IT unit within organizations
  *   Impact of race and gender on electronically enabled political manipulations
  *   Party politics and social activism
  *   Politics of diffusion of change within organizations
  *   Politics of social networking communities, including: learning communities, customers' communities, e-dating communities, gaming communities, support group communities, etc.
  *   Politics of the IT function and role in organizations
  *   Politics of virtual communities and social networking communities
  *   Politics of geographically based virtual communities
  *   Use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and harassment
  *   Use of electronic media in industrial and labor relations
  *   Utilization of electronic media for governance and politicking at the municipal, state, national, and international levels
  *   Utilization of electronic media for political debate, information sharing, political decision making, and fundraising
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Dr. Celia Romm Livermore (PhD)

Professor of Information Systems
Mike Ilitch School of Business
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, 48202, USA