Social Media R/evolution

Editor: Barış Çoban

“Social media” is a shiny new buzzword and defined as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).” The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Different types of social media may be listed as: “social networking sites, blogs and microblogs, content communities, collaborative projects, Internet forums, wikis, podcasts, video/photo sharing sites, review sites, virtual social worlds, virtual game worlds”. Social media platforms have become inseperable element of contemporary life in the r/evolutionary process of communication and correspondingly social media has changed/transformed social, political, economic life of people. Social media has also changed everything about the way people communicate and work together, as well as the way we find information, communicate, network, and shop. Social Media has changed the way people connect, discover, and share information, i.e. social media empowered the people and communities to participate in social and political life and to express their thoughts and opinions and share them with others.

This study aims to contribute to the study of social media. I invite submissions that collectively implement diverse methodological approaches, cut across various disciplines, including communication and media studies, cultural studies, politics, economics, sociology, social anthropology. Authors are invited to submit original conceptual and empirically grounded papers, including but not limited to the following topics:

. New media and social media . Social media: A new era of journalism . Social media and social change: Evolution . Social Media: Revolution- “Arab Spring, Occupy movements” . Social media and trade-unions . Social Media: Surveillance society, electronic panopticon . Social media and social networking . Social Media: e-government, e-democracy . Social Media: Politics and Social Campaigns . Political economy of social media . Social Media: e-business . Social Media: Public Relations and advertising . Social Media: Law and ethics . Social Media: Hacking and cyberattacks . Social Media: Privacy issues . Social Media: Transformation of education

Please submit your abstract in English or Turkish, maximum 300 words until February 20, 2013. The acceptance of abstracts will be notified by e-mail by March 20, 2013. The deadline for submission of full manuscript is October 1st, 2013. The book is going to be published in Turkish by Yeni Hayat Publisher in 2013. Barış Çoban Associate Professor of Communication Sciences Doğuş University E-mail: barishc@gmail.com bcoban@dogus.edu.tr