MedieKultur: 2nd Call: Media, Empowerment
and Democracy in the Global South

The spring 2012 thematic issue of MedieKultur is to be edited by Ørecomm participants Poul Erik Nielsen (Aarhus University) and Norbert Wildermuth (Roskilde University). Submission deadline: 1 September, 2011.

With the advent of web 2.0 and with the spread of mobile phones on a global base, conditions for and processes of citizen participation, public debate and social critique are changing. Information and Communication Technologies’ potential role in articulating citizen actions has been discussed in reference to recent events, such as the oppositional demonstrations in Tibet, Burma and Iran. However, while the use of social media and mobile phones in these events has received global attention, their de facto scope for democratic empowerment is contested and in need of further exploration. /…/

Read the full call for papers here.