POLNETICS 2012 - Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Politics in the Information Age

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Deadline: April 30, 2012 | Date: August 31, 2012

Venue/Country: Online, Online

Updated: 2012-02-05 17:35:20 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

of Apr. 30, 2012

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for chapters to

anyone who might be interested.

Web site: http://polnetics.com

Politics in the Information Age is a set of book volumes being published

by Springer Springer Science+Business Media, LLC and being edited by

Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo. We are now taking submissions of

full chapters for review with or without prior chapter proposal

submissions. However, if you want to know if a chapter is relevant to

our book volumes, you can send us a short abstract for our evaluation

first, but you can directly submit chapters for review now too.

Purpose of Politics in the Information Age Set of Book Volumes to be

Published by Springer

Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes

in the realm of politics. Recent revolutions in many countries in the

Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social

networking Web sites like Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has

also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries. The

whistleblower Web site Wikileaks has had a tremendous impact in exposing

government corruption. Politicians and candidates use their own Web

sites and social networking profiles to get their message out. The

mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as

anybody can set up a blog or post a video online. Political activists

can network together online. Voting is often done using electronic

voting machines, which has created many problems. In the future, voting

will likely be done over the Internet, but there are many issues that

need to be worked out. Internet freedom and equal access are important

issues that have many facets. The Internet offers the means for greater

citizen input and interaction in government political processes. These

kinds of issues will be studied in the research book volumes Politics in

the Information Age being edited by A. M. G. Solo and J. Bishop and

being published by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Potential Topics

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

Political Revolutions, Political Protests, and Other Citizen Activism in

the Information Age

-- role of social networking in political revolutions

-- role of social networking in political revolutions in the Middle East

and North Africa

-- role of social networking in political protests

-- online petitions

-- electronic civil disobedience

-- hacktivism

-- role of social networking in political riots in the United Kingdom

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Other Political Expression in the Information Age

-- political blogs

-- online political videos

-- political vlogs

-- parliamentary informatics

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Whistleblowing in the Information Age

-- Wikileaks

-- whistleblower Web sites

-- transparency

-- advantages and disadvantages of transparency

-- whistleblowing

-- whistleblower protection

-- whistleblower prosecution

-- whistleblower persecution

-- lawsuits against whistleblowers

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Internet Freedom

-- information freedom

-- global access to information

-- equal access to information

-- government restriction on access to Web sites

-- freedom to connect on the Internet

-- freedom to organize on the Internet

-- net neutrality

-- privacy issues in the information age

-- right to privacy on the Internet

-- citizen surveillance on the Internet

-- warrantless wiretapping

-- freedom of expression in the information age

-- free speech in the information age

-- Internet censorship

-- super-injunctions

-- online piracy

-- freedom of religion on the Internet

-- netizen rights

-- domain name seizures without due process

-- disability accommodation in technology usage

-- Internet access in prisons

-- digital divide

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Political Campaigns in the Information Age

-- online campaigning

-- online campaigning using social networking

-- online campaigning using multimedia tools

-- political activism on the Internet

-- political debates on the Internet

-- virtual town hall

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Voting in the Information Age

-- e-voting

-- remote e-voting over Internet

-- e-voting advantages and risks

-- electronic voting theft

-- stolen elections through e-voting

-- electronic instant results voting (IRV)

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Government Political Processes in the Information Age

-- e-democracy

-- digital democracy

-- collaborative e-democracy

-- e-participation

-- open-source governance

-- open politics

-- electronic rulemaking

-- interactive public docket

-- open government

-- hacking into government computers

-- case studies

-- future research directions

Information

Editors: Cllr Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo

Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer)

Publisher Web Site: http://springer.com

Web Site for Call for Chapters: http://polnetics.com

Email Address for Submissions: submissionspolnetics.com

Email Address for Inquiries: jbishoppolnetics.com

Chapter Submissions

Please email chapters to submissionspolnetics.com by April 30, 2012.

We are now taking submissions of full chapters for review with or

without prior chapter proposal submissions. However, if you want to

know if a chapter is relevant to our book volumes, you can send us a

short abstract for our evaluation first, but you can directly submit

chapters for review too now.

Extended Deadlines

Full chapter deadline: April 30, 2012

Chapter review deadline: June 30, 2012

Chapter revisions deadline: August 31, 2012

The books will be published in fall 2012.

Editors

Ashu M. G. Solo

Fellow of British Computer Society

Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician at Maverick

Technologies America Inc.

Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher at Solo Research Lab, Crocels,

Swansea University and Maverick Technologies America Inc.

Principal/Intelligent Systems and New Math Instructor at Trailblazer

Intelligent Systems, Inc.

City Committee Representative on Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race

Relations Committee

Former Platoon Commander Understudy in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry

Mailing Address: Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite 808, 1220

North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 U.S.A.

Jonathan Bishop

Chartered IT Professional Fellow of BCS ? The Chartered Institute for

IT

Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and

Commerce

Town Councillor for Treforest, Wales

Director of Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning

Systems (Crocels), Swansea University

Company Secretary at Glamorgan Blended Learning Ltd.

Mailing Address: Centre for Research into Online Communities and

E-Learning Systems, ILS Building, Swansea University, Singleton Park,

Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, U.K.

URL: http://polnetics.com