[CITASA] CFP: Persistence and Change in Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, IM, YouTube, Digg)

[Anabel Quan-Haase]

Hello CITASA members,

Please find a CFP for a special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology
and Society (to appear summer 2010) that may be of interest to some of you.
Please don't hesitate to approach Bernie or me with ideas or questions. 

Best, Anabel & Bernie

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Issue on "Persistence and Change in Social Media"

 

"You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing
on to you." Heraclitus.

 

Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 

 

ISSN: 0270-4676 eISSN: 1552-4183

http://bst.sagepub.com/

 

Submission deadline: October 1, 2009

Scheduled Publication date: May 2010

 

Guest editors:

Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute

Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario

 

BSTS editor:

Willem H. Vanderburg, University of Toronto

 

 

TOPIC OUTLINE

 

We seek papers for a special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology
and Society on the twin topics of persistence and change in social media.
>From ICQ to IM, Six-degrees to Friendster to MySpace to Facebook to Twitter,
change seems to be a recurrent theme in social media. Not only are users
willing to try out new tools, but they also continue using existing media.
In light of the seemingly endless novelty in social media, how can
researchers build a theory of social media practice, rather than local
theories on a per-site basis? Which insights from one site can we apply to
another? Which ones are due to period and cohort effects and which ones
relate to the structure of social media generally? 

 

For this issue we hope to publish papers that not only address a specific
social media phenomenon, but also do so with an eye to the potential for
constant change and the persistence in social media of trends and
communication patterns. We will gladly accept papers studying a specific web
site or online context, but we want to encourage submitters to frame their
analysis in terms of wider shifts occurring theoretically, empirically or
substantively.

 

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Comparative analyses of multiple social media

- Pan-site theories of interaction, self-presentation, privacy, disclosure,
boundaries, and media usage

- Change in user behaviors over time

- Global differences in social media use patterns

- Meta-analyses of articles on specific media sites or social media-specific
topics

- Shifting public concerns in the usage of social media

- Evolution of specific online memes, events or practices

- Evolving practices in privacy, communication, social networks, and
friendship formation

- Development and maintenance of community in social media

 

Methodologies include but are not limited to:

- Multivariate statistical analysis

- Virtual Ethnography

- Social network analysis

- Scholarly meta-analysis

- Content analysis

 

Typical social media tools include but are not limited to:

- Interpersonal Tools (Instant Messaging and Voice-Call tools): ICQ, Windows
Live, Skype, AIM, etc.

- Business Tools (Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative): IBM Sametime,
Oracle Collaboration Suite, etc.

- Large-Scale Social Network Sites (Friendship and Community): Facebook,
Twitter, MySpace, Friendster, Coach Potatoes, etc.

 

Paper length: 

Papers should be between 5,000 and 7,500 words (excluding references,
tables, and figures). 

 

Important dates:

Papers due: October 1, 2009

Comments to authors: December 1, 2009

Final papers due: February 1, 2009

Expected publication date: Summer 2010

 

Submission Guidelines:

Information about manuscript submission guidelines can be found online

http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal200908.

Formatting follows APA style.

 

Please send questions and papers to Bernie Hogan (bernie.hogan at oii.ox.ac.uk)
or Anabel Quan-Haase (aquan at uwo.ca).

*********************************

 

 

Anabel Quan-Haase

Assistant Professor

Information and Media Studies/Sociology

University of Western Ontario

North Campus Building, Room 260 
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 
Tel: (519) 661-2111 x 81405
Fax: (519) 661-3506 
http://www.fims.uwo.ca/ 
http://publish.uwo.ca/~aquanhaa/

 

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