Call for Chapters: Politics in the Information Age, Springer, Deadline
of Apr. 30, 2012

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for chapters to
anyone who might be interested.

Web site: http://polnetics.com

Politics in the Information Age is a set of book volumes being published
by Springer Springer Science+Business Media, LLC and being edited by
Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo. We are now taking submissions of
full chapters for review with or without prior chapter proposal
submissions. However, if you want to know if your chapter is relevant
to our book volumes, you can send us a short abstract for our evaluation
first, but you can directly submit chapters for review too now.

Purpose of Politics in the Information Age Set of Book Volumes to be
Published by Springer

Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes
in the realm of politics. Recent revolutions in many countries in the
Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social
networking Web sites like Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has
also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries. The
whistleblower Web site Wikileaks has had a tremendous impact in exposing
government corruption. Politicians and candidates use their own Web
sites and social networking profiles to get their message out. The
mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as
anybody can set up a blog or post a video online. Political activists
can network together online. Voting is often done using electronic
voting machines, which has created many problems. In the future, voting
will likely be done over the Internet, but there are many issues that
need to be worked out. Internet freedom and equal access are important
issues that have many facets. The Internet offers the means for greater
citizen input and interaction in government political processes. These
kinds of issues will be studied in the research book volumes Politics in
the Information Age being edited by A. M. G. Solo and J. Bishop and
being published by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Potential Topics

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Political Revolutions, Political Protests, and Other Citizen Activism in
the Information Age
-- role of social networking in political revolutions
-- role of social networking in political revolutions in the Middle East
and North Africa
-- role of social networking in political protests
-- online petitions
-- electronic civil disobedience
-- hacktivism
-- role of social networking in political riots in the United Kingdom
-- case studies
-- future research directions

Other Political Expression in the Information Age
-- editorial controls by political party hierarchies
-- political blogs
-- online political videos
-- political vlogs
-- parliamentary informatics
-- case studies
-- future research directions


Whistleblowing in the Information Age
-- Wikileaks
-- whistleblower Web sites
-- transparency
-- advantages and disadvantages of transparency
-- whistleblowing
-- whistleblower protection
-- whistleblower prosecution
-- whistleblower persecution
-- lawsuits against whistleblowers
-- case studies
-- future research directions

Internet Freedom
-- information freedom
-- global access to information
-- equal access to information
-- government restriction on access to Web sites
-- freedom to connect on the Internet
-- freedom to organize on the Internet
-- freedom from computer crime and abuse
-- net neutrality
-- privacy issues in the information age
-- right to privacy on the Internet
-- citizen surveillance on the Internet
-- warrantless wiretapping
-- freedom of expression in the information age
-- free speech in the information age
-- Internet censorship
-- super-injunctions
-- online piracy
-- freedom of religion on the Internet
-- netizen rights
-- domain name seizures without due process
-- disability accommodation in technology usage
-- Internet access in prisons
-- Internet abuse and data misuse
-- digital divide
-- case studies
-- future research directions

Political Campaigns in the Information Age
-- online campaigning
-- online campaigning using social networking
-- online campaigning using multimedia tools
-- political activism on the Internet
-- political debates on the Internet
-- guerilla politics (cyberbullying, satire)
-- virtual town hall
-- virtual war-room
-- case studies
-- future research directions

Voting in the Information Age
-- e-voting
-- remote e-voting over Internet
-- e-voting advantages and risks
-- electronic voting theft
-- stolen elections through e-voting
-- electronic instant results voting (IRV)
-- case studies
-- future research directions

Government Political Processes in the Information Age
-- e-democracy
-- digital democracy
-- collaborative e-democracy
-- e-participation
-- open-source governance
-- open politics
-- electronic rulemaking
-- interactive public docket
-- open government
-- hacking into government computers
-- online harassment of decision makers
-- case studies
-- future research directions

Information

Editors: Cllr Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo

Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer)

Publisher Web Site: http://springer.com

Web Site for Call for Chapters: http://polnetics.com

Email Address for Submissions: submissions@polnetics.com

Email Address for Inquiries: jbishop@polnetics.com

Chapter Submissions

Please email chapters to submissions@polnetics.com by April 30, 2012.
We are now taking submissions of full chapters for review with or
without prior chapter proposal submissions. However, if you want to
know if your chapter is relevant to our book volumes, you can send us a
short abstract for our evaluation first, but you can directly submit
chapters for review too now.

Extended Deadlines

Full chapter deadline: April 30, 2012
Chapter review deadline: June 30, 2012
Chapter revisions deadline: August 31, 2012
The books will be published in fall 2012.

Editors

Jonathan Bishop
Chartered IT Professional Fellow of BCS – The Chartered Institute for
IT
Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and
Commerce
Town Councillor for Treforest, Wales
Director of Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning
Systems, Swansea University
Founder, The Crocels Trolling Academy
Company Secretary at Glamorgan Blended Learning Ltd.
Mailing Address: Centre for Research into Online Communities and
E-Learning Systems, ILS Building, Swansea University, Singleton Park,
Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, U.K.

Ashu M. G. Solo
Fellow of British Computer Society
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician at Maverick
Technologies America Inc.
Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher at Solo Research Lab, Crocels,
Swansea University and Maverick Technologies America Inc.
Principal/Intelligent Systems and New Math Instructor at Trailblazer
Intelligent Systems, Inc.
City Committee Representative on Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race
Relations Committee
Former Platoon Commander Understudy in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry
Mailing Address: Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite 808, 1220
North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 U.S.A.

URL: http://polnetics.com