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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear colleagues, we invite you to submit a paper to the panel
<b>“Policymaking, Digitization, and New Social Media”</b> at the International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Montreal, July 19-24, 2014,
<a href="http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/theme">Challenges of contemporary governance</a><span style="color:#1F497D">.
</span>The short description is here </span><a href="http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/montreal2014/panel/policymaking-digitization-and-new-social-media"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/montreal2014/panel/policymaking-digitization-and-new-social-media</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Below a longer description with more details.
<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Policymaking, digitization, and new social media
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Nasser Yassin (American University, Beirut, Lebanon) - Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Shahjahan Bhuiyan (The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt) – Vice chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Yola Georgiadou (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>– Convener and Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has given bureaucracies enormous opportunities to improve efficiency. During the past 25 years, electronic Government</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
(eGovernment) initiatives</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> have streamlined bureaucratic processes and perfected the delivery of electronic services to the ‘citizen as consumer’. A burgeoning network of
in</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">formation flows is now evolving across government levels, policy domains and public- private boundaries, unfettered by constraints (WRR, 2011). The principles of efficiency
and (post 9/11) security often outweigh citizens’ rights to privacy and freedom of choice, as well as process-based principles, such as accountability and transparency. Only very recently have governments around the world officially committed to more openness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Ironically, it is
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">the social-media icons from Silicon Valley (Google, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, etc) who first promoted unprecedented openness, free expression and dialogue for their
users, as well as opportunities for citizens to not only have their voices heard but also to topple repressive regimes. Social media have been used in the uprisings in the Arab World by non-state actors and civil society groups. The Syrian uprising<span style="color:#1F497D">,</span>
turned civil war<span style="color:#1F497D">,</span> is overwhelmingly on YouTube, to overcome the media ban imposed by the Syrian state. The internet and social media are increasingly the space in which policy is shaped, announced, contested, and evaluated.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">More empirical work is needed into the implications of unfettered eGovernment and into new modes of citizen influence enabled by the internet and social media.
This panel asks: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">How does the enormously increased use of information technologies (ict-organized bureaucratic agencies, social media use by citizens) impact on policy making?
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Papers are welcome on the following issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">how are ICT-based polities improving transparency and accountability and supporting the ‘citizen as citoyen’?;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">how were social media used in the uprisings in the Arab World and how they could be used in agenda setting as well as in advocacy for policy change<span style="color:#1F497D">?;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">how do apps by social engineers from Silicon Valley gamify and radically change traditional notions of citizenship?;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">what are the implications of the insatiable appetite of government for digital data (“surveillance state”) and of campaigns by internet companies to
datafy all aspects of daily life (“big data”)? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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