Reminder CfP Digital Icons 3: e-Governance in Post-Totalitarian Space

[Ellen Rutten]

REMINDER/LAST CALL

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
Call for Submissions No 3 "Between Big Brother and the Digital Utopia:
e-Governance in Post-Totalitarian Space"
Deadline: May 1, 2010
Link: http://www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/

Digital Icons is an online peer-reviewed academic journal. Its third
issue invites submissions on all aspects of new media use in the region, as
well as submissions on the topic of e-governance that will form the cluster
of the issue.

The use of information and communications technology to overcome traditional
difficulties associated with the interaction of the state and its citizens
represents a double-edged sword in post-totalitarian space. For many, the
coming of digitised governance heralds an end to needless bureaucracy,
countless hours wasted in queues, and access to hitherto unavailable
government services. For others, however, the expansion of the state into
the virtual realm is a harbinger of a dystopian future where the panopticon
is always watching, and even the most private thoughts of citizens are
monitored and recorded by the state. This issue of Digital Icons aims to
examine the inherent tension between these two extremes. We are interest in
research exploring the evolution and impact of e-governance in the Russian
Federation and other post-Soviet states; however, we also invite submissions
on digitised government in post-Communist Central Europe (Poland, Bulgaria,
etc.), as well as comparative essays on other countries (particularly the
People's Republic of China) that include analysis of states within the
former Soviet bloc. While articles on e-governance will form a thematic
cluster in this issue, submissions on other topics are encouraged, too.

This message serves as a last call for submissions - the deadline for which
is May 1, 2010. For more information, including a more extensive
thematic outline, guidelines and contact information, please visit our CfP
link, http://www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/, or contact the RC team at
editor at digitalicons.org.

Best regards,

The editors

Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)
Ellen Rutten (Bergen/Amsterdam)
Robert A. Saunders (New York)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Vlad Strukov (Leeds/London)

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