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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Convergence<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica; "> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica; "> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Special issue on: New Media, Global Activism and Politics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Guest editors: Carolyn Guertin (University of North Texas at Dallas) and Angi Buettner (Victoria University of Wellington)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Deadline for refereed research articles:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">30 August 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoHeader"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Indignados. Arab Spring. #Occupy. The 99%. Idle No More. #Upsettler. GlobalNoise. Strike Debt. These are just some of the new terms to emerge from
the global mass protests of the last two years. They are part of a sea change as political engagement, citizen journalism and tactical media evolve as tools of protest and communication. These terms mark only one small part of a much larger shift in media
production and distribution that is the rise of user-generated content or social media. Within digital culture, the creative act has become a form of activism carried out through the repurposing of pre-existing materials and media for political change—and
it is a practice that has swayed policy, overturned governments and politicized subcultures and peoples on a global scale.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the crowd emerged as a new social force.
It was a force, it was argued, that shook the foundations of society and led individuals to commit irrational acts. In the 21<sup>st</sup> century, we have seen the power of crowds re-emerge as an ostensibly smarter and more nimble cultural force empowered
by mobile technologies, crowdsourcing methodologies and networked systems. How has activism changed as a result of new technologies? How are new media enlisted to assist in the planning and enactment of socio-political change? How are governments and political
candidates using social media? How has social media altered policies, elections and the democratic process?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Topics might include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Hacktivism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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