[csaa-forum] CFP: Chinese Social Media Today: Critical Perspectives. Abstracts Due 15 July 2015

[Mike Kent]

Dear list,

 

A few weeks ago I posted a call for help trying to find someone to help with
a chapter on Chinese social media for the book I am editing with Katie Ellis
- Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives. We received a very
enthusiastic response and I would like to thanks everyone who contacted us,
or passed the message along. Following this, and in consultation with the
perspective authors who contacted us, we are now looking at a second volume
that looks more broadly at Chinese language social media and hence this call
for papers. 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Mike

 

Dr Mike Kent

PhD Murd., Grad. Cert. Edu. (Adult & Tertiary) Murd., BA (Hons) Murd., BA
W.Aust.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Internet Studies School of Media, Culture and
Creative Arts

 

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http://www.cultware.com/current-research/chinese-social-media-today-critical
-perspectives-abstracts-due-15-july-2015 

 

Call For Papers:

Chinese Social Media Today: Critical Perspectives Edited by Dr Katie Ellis &
Dr Mike Kent, Internet Studies, Curtin University

 

Abstracts Due 15 July 2015

 

At the end of 2013 Chinese was the second most used language online with
nearly six hundred and fifty million users. It was also one of the fasted
growing language groups. Whereas with other language groups the ever growing
presence of Facebook, Twitter and the suit of Google social media has
encroached on, and in many cases supplanted, any native language specific
social media platform the restrictions placed by the Chinese government on
foreign access to its domestic internet population has led to the
development of many uniquely Chinese language platforms. Sina Weibo has more
than twice the number of users of Twitter. Platforms like Renren, Pengyou.
QQ and Youku also have significant user bases. Over time these platforms are
also attracting western organisations and celebrities as a way of developing
their profile in the Chinese language market Much of the critical writing
addressing social media has a very western facing and English language
focus. This is not at all surprising with social networking platforms from
the United States playing such a dominant role in this area globally.
However there is a significant gap in the literature - particularly in
English language publications - when it comes to this significant part of
this internet mediated phenomena. This book seeks to fill this gap by bring
together scholars from a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise to
address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media.

Areas of interest that chapters might address include

.             Specific case studies of social media use and social media
platforms

.             The role of social media in the Chinese diaspora

.             The role of Chinese social media in specific countries or by
specific communities

.             Political activism and social media

.             The role of more western focused social media platforms for
Chinese language users

     

Submission procedure:

Potential authors are invited to submit chapter abstract of no more than 500
words, including a title, 4 to 6 keywords, and a brief bio, by email to both
Dr Mike Kent <m.kent at curtin.edu.au> and Dr Katie Ellis
<katie.ellis at curtin.edu.au> by 15 July 2015. (Please indicate in your
proposal if you wish to use any visual material, and how you have or will
gain copyright clearance for visual material.) Authors will receive a
response by 15 August 2015, with those provisionally accepted due as
chapters of no more than 6000 words (including references) by 15 November
2015.

 

About the editors:

The editors are both from the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin
University. 

 

Dr Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Internet
Studies at Curtin University. Her research focuses on disability and the
media extending across both representation and active possibilities for
social inclusion. Her books include Disability and New Media (2011 with Mike
Kent), Disabling Diversity (2008), Disability, Ageing and Obesity: Popular
Media Identifications (2014; with Debbie Rodan & Pia Lebeck), Disability and
the Media (2015; with Gerard Goggin), and Disability and Popular Culture
(2015). 

 

Dr Mike Kent is a senior lecturer in the department of Internet studies.
Mike's research focus is in higher education and particularly online
education, as well as online social networking platforms. His edited
collection, An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World's
Largest Social Network, was released in 2014 through Routledge. His other
area of research interest is on people with disabilities and their use of,
and access to, information technology and the Internet. His edited
collection, with Katie Ellis, Disability and Social Media: Global
Perspectives will be available through Ashgate in 2016 and his book also
with Katie Ellis Disability and New Media was published in 2011.

 

 

 

 

Please feel free to redistribute this message and thanks again for all you
help.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Mike

 

Dr Mike Kent

PhD Murd., Grad. Cert. Edu. (Adult & Tertiary) Murd., BA (Hons) Murd., BA
W.Aust.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Internet Studies School of Media, Culture and
Creative Arts

 

Curtin University

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