Hello CITASA members, Please find a CFP for a special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society (to appear summer 2010) that may be of interest to some of you. Please don't hesitate to approach Bernie or me with ideas or questions. Best, Anabel & Bernie CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on "Persistence and Change in Social Media" "You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you." Heraclitus. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society ISSN: 0270-4676 eISSN: 1552-4183 http://bst.sagepub.com/ Submission deadline: October 1, 2009 Scheduled Publication date: May 2010 Guest editors: Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario BSTS editor: Willem H. Vanderburg, University of Toronto TOPIC OUTLINE We seek papers for a special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society on the twin topics of persistence and change in social media. >From ICQ to IM, Six-degrees to Friendster to MySpace to Facebook to Twitter, change seems to be a recurrent theme in social media. Not only are users willing to try out new tools, but they also continue using existing media. In light of the seemingly endless novelty in social media, how can researchers build a theory of social media practice, rather than local theories on a per-site basis? Which insights from one site can we apply to another? Which ones are due to period and cohort effects and which ones relate to the structure of social media generally? For this issue we hope to publish papers that not only address a specific social media phenomenon, but also do so with an eye to the potential for constant change and the persistence in social media of trends and communication patterns. We will gladly accept papers studying a specific web site or online context, but we want to encourage submitters to frame their analysis in terms of wider shifts occurring theoretically, empirically or substantively. Topics include but are not limited to: - Comparative analyses of multiple social media - Pan-site theories of interaction, self-presentation, privacy, disclosure, boundaries, and media usage - Change in user behaviors over time - Global differences in social media use patterns - Meta-analyses of articles on specific media sites or social media-specific topics - Shifting public concerns in the usage of social media - Evolution of specific online memes, events or practices - Evolving practices in privacy, communication, social networks, and friendship formation - Development and maintenance of community in social media Methodologies include but are not limited to: - Multivariate statistical analysis - Virtual Ethnography - Social network analysis - Scholarly meta-analysis - Content analysis Typical social media tools include but are not limited to: - Interpersonal Tools (Instant Messaging and Voice-Call tools): ICQ, Windows Live, Skype, AIM, etc. - Business Tools (Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative): IBM Sametime, Oracle Collaboration Suite, etc. - Large-Scale Social Network Sites (Friendship and Community): Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster, Coach Potatoes, etc. Paper length: Papers should be between 5,000 and 7,500 words (excluding references, tables, and figures). Important dates: Papers due: October 1, 2009 Comments to authors: December 1, 2009 Final papers due: February 1, 2009 Expected publication date: Summer 2010 Submission Guidelines: Information about manuscript submission guidelines can be found online http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal200908. Formatting follows APA style. Please send questions and papers to Bernie Hogan (bernie.hogan@oii.ox.ac.uk) or Anabel Quan-Haase (aquan@uwo.ca). ********************************* Anabel Quan-Haase Assistant Professor Information and Media Studies/Sociology University of Western Ontario North Campus Building, Room 260 London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Tel: (519) 661-2111 x 81405 Fax: (519) 661-3506 http://www.fims.uwo.ca/ http://publish.uwo.ca/~aquanhaa/