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<p><strong style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Call for Papers: Indigenous innovation in social media<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Media International Australia
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Theme Issue:
<strong style="">Indigenous Innovation in Social Media<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Theme Issue Editors: Prof Bronwyn Carlson (Macquarie University), A/Prof Tanja Dreher (University of New South Wales)</span></p>
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<p><strong style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Abstracts due by 15 June 2017<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Despite often being stereotyped as somehow anti-technology, researchers have found that Indigenous people globally engage with social media at high rates—often higher than non-Indigenous
people (Callinan 2014). Indigenous people use social media for a great variety of ends, including connecting with family and community (Carlson 2013; O’Carroll 2013), mourning the death of loved ones (Carlson and Frazer 2015), and seeking and giving support
(Carlson et al. 2015). Over the last decade, an important body of scholarly work has emerged focusing on Indigenous peoples’ use of social media for political activities (Petray 2013; Tupper 2014; Carlson and Frazer 2016; Berglund 2016). The ability to create
international solidarity as well as elevating Indigenous issues to a global platform remain key strengths for Indigenous activism.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The theme of this Issue is ‘Indigenous innovation in social media’. It will foreground Indigenous voices on, and expertise with innovative uses of social media. Research and policy is
too often framed by a ‘deficit discourse’ regarding Indigenous people (Fforde et al. 2013). In contrast, this Theme Issue aims to showcase Indigenous excellence, innovation and achievement. We welcome contributions that focus on, for example, comedic resistance
on YouTube, Facebook-enabled cultural practices, campaigns such as #JustJustice, #IHMayDay and #IdleNoMore, new apps to stream Indigenous media and Deadly Bloggers, from social media activism to everyday social media creativity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The collection also encourages papers from presenters at several highly successful events convened by the Forum for Indigenous Research Excellence (FIRE) at the University of Wollongong
(UOW), including the symposiums, <em style="">Cultured Queer, Queering Cultures: Indigenous Perspectives on Queerness</em> and
<em style="">Reterritorialising</em> <em style="">Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up!
</em>(UOW 2015); #IHMayDay16 (UOW 2016) and the Indigenous panel ‘<em style="">Indigenous innovation in social media’
</em>(ANZCA 2016).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This Theme Issue privileges Indigenous voices, however non-Indigenous contributions will be considered if the primary author is Indigenous.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Support for less experienced Indigenous contributors, especially early career researchers and Post Graduate students, will be provided by facilitating opportunities to work with Indigenous
and/or non-Indigenous co-authors.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We are inviting proposals for contributions that address the broad themes of Indigenous innovation in social media.</span></p>
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<p><strong style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Timeline:</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">15 June 2017: abstracts due</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">15 July 2017: authors notified of decision</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">15 January 2018: paper due for refereeing</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">15 May 2018: revised papers due</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">November 2018: Theme Issue published by Media International Australia</span></p>
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<p><strong style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">About the editors:<br>
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<p><strong style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Prof Bronwyn Carlson (Macquarie University)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal woman who was born on and lives on D’harawal Country in NSW. She has been awarded two consecutive Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous grants
for her research on Indigenous people and social media. Aboriginal Studies Press has recently published her book,
<em style="">The politics of identity: who counts as Aboriginal today? </em>which includes a chapter on identity and community on social media. She is currently a Professor of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. She has previously co-edited themed issues
for the <em style="">Australasian Journal for Information Systems</em>, ‘Indigenous people and activism on social media’ Carlson, B., Wilson, A.& Sciascia, A. (2017) and
<em style="">AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, </em>‘Indigenous people, popular pleasure and the everyday’ Carlson, B. & Harris M. (2016).</span></p>
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<p><strong style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A/Prof Tanja Dreher (UNSW)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tanja Dreher is an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. Tanja’s research focuses on the politics of speaking and listening in the context
of media and multiculturalism, Indigenous sovereignties, feminisms and anti-racism. She has previously edited themed editions of
<em style="">Continuum</em>, <em style="">borderlands</em>, and <em style="">Transforming Cultures
</em>journals, as well as the book Dreher, T. and Ho, C. (eds) (2009), <em style="">
Beyond the Hijab Debates: New conversations on gender, race and religion </em>with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">For further details on the Theme Issue, or to submit an abstract for consideration, please email Tanja Dreher
</span><a href="mailto:t.dreher@unsw.edu.au"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">t.dreher@unsw.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> or Bronwyn Carlson
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Submissions should include a Title, abstract (200 words) and author bio (150 words). Please attach these details in a WORD document and send via email to the Editors by 15 June, 2017</span></p>
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