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

[Ellen Rutten]

*Digital Icons no 3** - Call for Submissions*
*Between Big Brother and the Digital Utopia: e-Governance in
Post-Totalitarian Space <http://www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/>
*
Deadline: May 1, 2010 *Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and
Central European New Media <http://www.digitalicons.org>*'s 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 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 the **CfP
link*<http://www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/>
* on our **website* <http://www.digitalicons.org>*, or
**contact*<editor at digitalicons.org>
* the RC team.*

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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