Confirmed keynote speakers

    * Stephen Coleman, Institute for Communications Studies, University
of Leeds.
    * Rachel Gibson, Professor of Political Science at the Institute for
Social Change, University of Manchester.
    * Robin Mansell, Department of Media and Communications, London
School of Economics and President, International Association for Media
and Communication Research.
    * Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute.
    * Micah Sifry, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Personal Democracy
Forum and formerly of The Nation.
    * Michael Turk, Vice President of Industry Grassroots for the
National Cable & Telecommunications Association, formerly e-campaign
director, Bush-Cheney '04, and e-campaign director for the Republican
National Committee.

Conference Sponsors

    * Routledge Publishers
    * Polity Press

Potential themes could include (in no particular order):

    * Theorizing Web 2.0.
    * Changes in political journalism, news production, and consumption.
    * Social networking (MySpace, Facebook) and election campaigning.
    * Citizen activism from the local to the transnational.
    * Blogs, wikis, and user-generated content.
    * Changing social, cultural, and political identities.
    * Social software and social media: design, technologies, tools, and
techniques.
    * Social network analysis.
    * Surveillance, privacy, and security.
    * Security, foreign policy and international communication.
    * Hacktivism.
    * Radical transparency.
    * The impact of online video.
    * E-government, web 2.0, and new models of public service delivery.
    * New models of social and political collaboration and
problem-solving.
    * 'Little brother' phenomena.
    * Political life in virtual worlds.
    * Netroots versus the war room model of election campaigning.
    * New challenges for media regulation.
    * Collaborative production of political knowledge networks.
    * Changing party, interest group, and social movement strategies.
    * Web 2.0 and political marketing.
    * Collective intelligence, smart mobs, crowdsourcing.
    * Fragmenting audiences, the long tail, and the political economy of
web 2.0 media.
    * Civil society, civic engagement, and mobilization.
    * Web 2.0, ICT4D and the changing digital divide.
    * The politics of intellectual property.
    * Hyperlocalism.
    * The political aesthetics of Web 2.0.

Journal of Information Technology and Politics special issue

Conference presenters will be invited to submit their papers to a peer
review process for publication in a special issue of the new Journal of
Information Technology and Politics. http://www.jitp.net.