[Edling] Social Media in Africa: Call for chapters

[David Balosa]

Dear Colleagues,

 interest in *social media in Africa *research is an interdisciplinary
interest that appeals to chapters that address various perspectives in
which social media in Africa may be playing a significant role in either a
transformational mindsets towards a participatory democracy for the
development  and inclusion of Africa in the global order  or, in the
retrograde direction, may be revealing practices of social injustice, that
is, cultural, social and  political elites' resistance to "greatest
happiness" for the common good of common humanity (Troyer, 2003; Wilde,
2013; Canclini, 2014). It should be encouraged to recognize that the
understanding of  "the imperative of integration" for a genuine
communication, hence genuine democratic globalization needs to embrace
popular power embedded in popular culture and incarnated in social media
today ( Fanon, [1952] 2008; Anderson, 2010). The interest in Africa in this
endeavor is a contribution to a transformational interculturality within
the global solidarity perspective.

If interested in contributing a chapter to this volume, please read the
details below and pass this call for chapter  to someone you think might be
interested.

International Social Media Trilogy

Vol. 1: Social Media in Asia, coedited by Cui Litang, Tan Kha Kee College,
Xiamen University, and Michael H. Prosser, Professor Emeritus, University
of Virginia and Shanghai International Studies University; Dignity Press,
2014, 668 pages. ISBN 978-1-937570-36-1. This volume has been nominated for
the outstanding 2014 edited or coedited scholarly book award for the
International and Intercultural Communication Division, [US] National
Communication Association.

Vol. 2: Social Media in the Middle East, coedited by Michael H. Prosser and
Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran, Dignity Press, forthcoming early
2016.

Vol. 3. Social Media in Africa, coedited by Michael H. Prosser and David
Balosa, Arcadia University, Dignity Press, estimated publication early 2017.

Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. is a founder of the academic study of
intercultural communication,  a Fellow of the International Academy for
Intercultural Research and its Life-time achievement award recipient, June
2015, Bergin, Norway. He is editor or author of 20 books, most recently for
Dignity Press: with Mansoureh Sharifzadeh of Tehran and Zhang Shengyong of
Dezhou University: Finding Cross-cultural Common Ground (2013); with Cui
Litang, Social Media in Asia (2014); with Li Mengyu of Ocean University
of China: Chinese Communicating Interculturally (2014), and A Journey to
the East: Asia in Focus (2015).

David M. Balosa, MS.Ed, MA. Ed, an Angolan native, is an adjunct Professor
of Reading and Composition in the English Language Institute (ELI) at
Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. His research
interests include: intercultural communication and cultural exchange,
moral, social and political philosophy, political discourse analysis, Fanon
studies, sociolinguistics,  and Lusophone Africa Studies. David is pursuing
in doctoral degree in the Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) Ph.D
program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

Dignity Press encourages, where possible in its published books, an
emphasis on dignity, peace, human rights, social justice, gender equality,
and overcoming humiliation. A founder of the Press and Human Dignity and
Humiliation Network, Evelin Lindner, Ph.D., MD, has been nominated for the
2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

>Guidelines for submitting proposals for scholarly chapters for Social
Media in Africa.

200-300 word proposals and resumes due before October 1, 2015. Notifications
identified as accepted in progress.
Completed scholarly chapters with APA sixth edition citations and
references,  22-25 pages, plus biographies and thumbnail photos, February
1, 2016.
Estimated publication: early 2017.

Please send appropriate materials to michaelhprosser at hotmail.com and
dbalosa1 at umbc.edu
 or balosad at arcadia.edu.
-- 
*David M. Balosa, MS.Ed/TESOL, MA.Ed
*Doctoral Student, PhD Program in Language, Literacy and Culture (LLC)*

Interculturalists GSO President 2012-2013
*University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
**1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250*


The world would be a better place if we all strive for solidarity and human
dignity.
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