Call for Papers: Digital Citizenship and Activism

The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) has issued a CfP for a special issue on Digital Citizenship and Activism: Questions of Power and Participation Online.

“Nowadays, when citizens, activists and participants in social movements want to voice their opinions and negotiate their political identities they increasingly do so in hybrid media environments that are particularly suitable for mobilisation, organisation and discussion. With a massive increase in online social networking, digital infrastructures are lowering the threshold for political involvement. This, in turn, is considerably shifting the power dynamics of participation. Digital storytelling, for example, has become part of the strategies used by contemporary political activists. While strategies in the past revolved mainly around the attempts to influence the mass media and gatekeepers, today more and more citizens are becoming reporters and commentators themselves, often providing first-hand, real-time coverage of offline political activities.”

See the full call here, with many development-oriented possible topics. Submission deadline: 11 June 2012. JeDEM is an Open Access journal.