Hello Fellow CBSM Section Members!
Here are some important announcements for early May. Please pay close attention to the call from the CBSM Mentoring Committee for tenured volunteers. Also, please vote in the ASA elections, if you have not already. My great thanks to the Nominations Committee for producing an excellent slate of candidates and to the candidates for agreeing to serve the section!
1. CBSM Mentoring Committee, Call for Tenured Volunteers–Jose Munoz.
2. New Mobilizing Ideas Dialogue–Grace Yukich, David Ortiz, Rory McVeigh, and Dan Myers.
3. CFP, “Social Media and Social Movements”– Galina Selivanova.
All the best,
Edwin
1. CBSM Mentoring Committee, Call for Tenured Volunteers–Jose Munoz.
To all CBSM members:
The CBSM Mentoring Committee will be contacting each participant in the coming weeks, to announce mentor-mentee matches.
We need additional mentor volunteers. If you are a tenured scholar in the section, and new to the mentoring program, we encourage you to sign up as a mentor. If you have served as a mentor in the past, we would appreciate if you once again would consider taking part in the program. The commitment is a relatively small one, but it can really make a difference to young scholars and, through their development, to the vitality of the section.
If you are interested in serving as a mentor, please fill out the attached Excel file sent to the section with this announcement. You can send the excel file to munoz@csusb.edu.
Sincerely yours,
The 2014 CBSM Mentoring Committee
2. New Mobilizing Ideas Dialogue– Grace Yukich, David Ortiz, Rory McVeigh, and Dan Myers.
New Mobilizing Ideas Essay Dialogue: Violent State Repression
Mobilizing Ideas‘ May essay dialogue is our second round on violent state repression. We have asked contributors to reflect on some classic questions in light of contemporary cases: How does repression affect future protest? How do states decide to engage in violent repression? What responses are available to protestors? And, does the type of protestor or the cause matter for who is repressed? Contributors have also been encouraged to discuss the gaps in our understanding of the dynamics of political activism and state repression, and how ongoing events may fuel future research on this topic.
Contributors to the second round of essays on this topic are the following: Dana M. Moss(University of California, Irvine), Sharon Erickson Nepstad (University of New Mexico), and Peter B. Owens (University of California, Irvine).
Our goal is to stimulate scholarly debate and discussion around this important topic, so please share your reactions to these posts in the comments section.
Thank you for supporting Mobilizing Ideas.
Editors in Chief,
Grace Yukich, David Ortiz, Rory McVeigh, and Dan Myers
3. CFP, “Social Media and Social Movements”– Galina Selivanova.
Laboratory for Internet Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
“Social Media and Social Movements”
September 18-19, St. Petersburg, Russia
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Laboratory for Internet Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for its second conference on the Internet and social media, titled “Social Media and Social Movements,” to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 18-19, 2014.
The rise of social media simultaneously opened new opportunities for “traditional” (face-to-face) social movements and proved a platform for online movements that have weak (if any) offline activities. The relationship between social media and social movements calls for revision of ‘classic’ research topics that have been studied by social movement scholars (e.g. the role of social media in mobilization, protest and coalitions building), as well as a reflection on completely new questions that have resulted from the emergence of online movements (e.g. what is the social space of online-movements, what are the forms of virtual activities).
The conference is aimed at the emerging – and vibrant – interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in digital society – a society where social life is embedded in rapidly developing communication technologies and media. This year, we focus on how social movements have been transformed by user-generated online activities and what impact these transformed movements have had on broader social processes. Specifically, we plan to discuss the impact of social media on social movements with regards to resource mobilization, collective action frames, construction of collective identities, and (possible) radicalization. Other topics include but are not limited to social media and political participation, the role of social media in street protests, global social movements, repertoires of online activism, social media and social movement outcomes, the social space of online movements, and methodological developments in research on social media and social movements.
We welcome abstracts on any of the above topics, and any other topics that analyze relationships between social media and social movements. Abstracts of proposed papers should be no more than 300 words in length. Abstracts must include the name of the proposer, title, his/her affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses.
Keynote speakers
Robert Ackland, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks, Australian National University
Maria Petrova, Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona
Keynote of practice: (to be announced)
Program committee:
Sandra Gonzales-Bailon, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Earl, Center for Information Technology and Society, University of Arizona
Peng Hwa Ang, Singapore Internet Research Center
William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute (to be confirmed)
Ivan Klimov, Center for New Media and Society, New Economic School, Moscow
Benjamin Lind, Department of sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Nikita Basov, Centre for German and European Studies, St. Petersburg State University (to be confirmed)
Peter Meylakhs, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Olessia Koltsova, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Local program and organizing committee:
Peter Meylakhs (Chair),Olessia Koltsova, Svetlana Bodrunova, Sergey Nikolenko, Sergei Koltcov, Nora Kirkizh, Galina Selivanova, Daria Yudenkova.
Requirements for submission can be found at the Registration page.
Deadline for submissions is May 20, 2014.
Notifications of acceptance: June 16, 2014
Extended abstracts of three pages (to be published on the conference website) should be submitted by August 16, 2014
The conference website: http://linisevents.hse.ru/
Home page of Laboratory for Internet Studies: http://linis.hse.ru/
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Best Regards,
Galina Selivanova,
Member of Organizing Committee