THIS BOOK SERIES IS IN PRESS. ALL OF THE MANUSCRIPTS WERE SENT TO THE PUBLISHER, SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC (SPRINGER), IN JANUARY 2013. A DELAY WAS NEEDED AS A RESULT OF SOME AUTHORS REQUIRING MORE TIME TO COMPLETE THEIR CHAPTERS.
Politics and Policy in the Information Age is a set of multiple book volumes being edited by Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo and being published by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. This site is for researchers to find out more information and take part in this project. It would be appreciated if you could provide the link for this Web site to anyone who might be interested in this set of book volumes.
Final manuscripts should be single spaced, not double spaced.
Call for Chapters: Politics and Policy in the Information Age, Springer, Extended Deadline of June 15, 2012 (due to numerous requests for extensions)
We are now taking submissions of full chapters for review with or without prior chapter proposal submissions. However, if you want to know if your chapter is relevant to our book volumes, you can send us a short abstract for our evaluation first, but you can directly submit chapters for review too now.
We have received so many chapter proposals (over 150) related to politics and policy in the information age that the chapters will be divided into multiple book volumes with different titles and focuses in the Politics and Policy in the Information Age set to be published by Springer. Because there will be multiple book volumes, feel free to submit more chapters for review, even if you have already submitted one or more chapters or chapter proposals to us.
Purpose of Politics and Policy in the Information Age Set of Book Volumes to be Published by Springer
Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes in the realm of politics. Recent revolutions in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social networking Web sites like Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries. The whistleblower Web site Wikileaks has had a tremendous impact in exposing government corruption. Politicians and candidates use their own Web sites and social networking profiles to get their message out. The mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as anybody can set up a blog or post a video online. Political activists can network together online. Voting is often done using electronic voting machines, which has created many problems. In the future, voting will likely be done over the Internet, but there are many issues that need to be worked out. Internet freedom and equal access are important issues that have many facets. While the Internet has numerous benefits, it has also started new kinds of crime and abuse. The Internet offers the means for greater citizen input and interaction in government political processes. Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to politics or public policy. These kinds of issues will be studied in the research book volumes Politics and Policy in the Information Age being edited by A. M. G. Solo and J. Bishop and being published by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Information
Editors: Cllr Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer)
Publisher Web Site: http://springer.com
Springer Editorial Advisor: Hector Nazario
Web Site for Call for Chapters: http://polnetics.com
Email Address for Submissions: submissions@polnetics.com
Email Address of Ashu M. G. Solo for Inquiries: amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us
Email Address of Jonathan Bishop for Inquiries: jbishop@polnetics.com
Potential Topics
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Political Revolutions, Political Protests, and Other Citizen Activism in the Information Age
• role of social networking in political revolutions
• role of social networking in political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa
• role of social networking in political protests
• online petitions
• electronic civil disobedience
• hacktivism
• role of social networking in political riots
• case studies
• future research directions
Whistleblowing in the Information Age
• Wikileaks
• whistleblower Web sites
• transparency
• advantages and disadvantages of transparency
• whistleblowing
• whistleblower protection
• whistleblower prosecution
• whistleblower persecution
• lawsuits against whistleblowers
• case studies
• future research directions
Political Campaigns in the Information Age
• online campaigning
• online campaigning using social networking
• online campaigning using multimedia tools
• political activism on the Internet
• political debates on the Internet
• virtual town hall
• virtual war room
• case studies
• future research directions
Online Political Expression in the Information Age
• political blogs
• online political videos
• political vlogs
• parliamentary informatics
• case studies
• future research directions
Voting in the Information Age
• e-voting
• remote e-voting over Internet
• e-voting advantages and risks
• electronic voting theft
• stolen elections through e-voting
• electronic instant results voting (IRV)
• case studies
• future research directions
Internet Freedom
• information freedom
• global access to information
• equal access to information
• government restriction on access to Web sites
• freedom to connect on the Internet
• freedom to organize on the Internet
• net neutrality
• privacy issues in the information age
• right to privacy on the Internet
• citizen surveillance on the Internet
• warrantless wiretapping
• freedom of expression in the information age
• free speech in the information age
• Internet censorship
• freedom of religion on the Internet
• netizen rights
• domain name seizures without due process
• disability accommodation in technology usage
• Internet access in prisons
• digital divide
• case studies
• future research directions
Internet Crime and Abuse
• Internet regulation
• hacking into government computers
• hacking into other organizational computers
• Internet election theft
• data misuse
• spam law
• online defamation law
• super-injunctions
• cyberbullying law
• online harassment law
• trolling law
• online piracy
• case studies
• future research directions
Government Political Processes in the Information Age
• e-democracy
• digital democracy
• collaborative e-democracy
• e-participation
• open-source governance
• open politics
• electronic rulemaking
• interactive public docket
• open government
• case studies
• future research directions
Political and Public Policy Engineering
• political engineering (application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to politics)
• computational politics (application of computer science or mathematics to politics)
• public policy engineering (application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to public policy)
• computational public policy (application of computer science or mathematics to public policy)
Note: These new interdisciplinary fields were defined by Ashu M. G. Solo in a published research paper that can be seen here.
• network politics (communication networks and politics)
• case studies
• future research directions
Chapter Submissions
Please email chapters to submissions@polnetics.com by June 15, 2012. We are now taking submissions of full chapters for review with or without prior chapter proposal submissions. However, if you want to know if your chapter is relevant to our book volumes, you can send us a short abstract for our evaluation first, but you can directly submit chapters for review too now.
Extended Deadlines
Full chapter deadline: June 15, 2012
Chapter review deadline: October 15, 2012 (if you need a review earlier, let us know)
Chapter revisions deadline: Get them in as soon as possible.
The books will be published in late 2012.
Target Audience
The prospective audience for the book volumes in the Politics and Policy in the Information Age set includes, but is not limited to, researchers, political campaign managers and staff, politicians and their staff, political and public policy analysts, political scientists, engineers, computer scientists, journalists, professors, students, and individuals working in the fields of politics, e-politics, e-voting, e-government, new media and communication studies, cyber-cultures and techno-cultures, Internet marketing, and cyber-law.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Editors
Ashu M. G. Solo
Author, Editor, or Associate Editor of 432 Publications
Originator of Public Policy Engineering and Computational Public Policy
Originator of Political Engineering and Computational Politics
Fellow of British Computer Society
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician at Maverick Technologies America Inc.
Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher at Solo Research Lab, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
Principal/New Fields Instructor at Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.
Member or former member of 191 conference program committees
Member of IEEE Neural Networks Technical Committee Task Force on Applications and Task Force on Education
Former Representative on City of Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee
Former Representative on Living in Harmony Ad Hoc Subcommittee of City of Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee
Publicity Chair of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP)
IT Partner at Labour Market Opinions
Former Platoon Commander Understudy in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry
U.S. Address: Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 U.S.A.
Cdn. Address: Maverick Technologies Inc., 510 Saskatchewan Crescent East, Saskatoon, SK S7N 4P9 Canada
Email Address: amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us
Jonathan Bishop
Chartered IT Professional Fellow of BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT
Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Former Town Councillor for Treforest, Wales
Director of Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, Swansea University
Founder of The Crocels Trolling Academy (promoting safety and sociability in cyberspace)
Company Secretary at Glamorgan Blended Learning Ltd.
Research Associate at Information Systems, Technology, and People Group, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
Mailing Address: Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, ILS Building, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, U.K.
Email Address: jbishop@polnetics.com
About the Editors
Ashu M. G. Solo is an interdisciplinary researcher, electrical engineer, computer engineer, intelligent systems engineer, political and public policy engineer, mathematician, progressive political writer, entrepreneur, and former infantry platoon commander understudy. Solo has over 425 research and political commentary publications. This includes published research book chapters, research journal papers, research conference papers, patents, conference proceedings books, forewords, political op-ed articles, and political poems. Solo defined the new interdisciplinary fields of public policy engineering, computational public policy, political engineering, and computational politics, all of which are published. Solo is the principal of Maverick Technologies America Inc. and Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc. He is the director of Solo Research Lab at Maverick Technologies America Inc. Solo was a representative on the City of Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee and its Living in Harmony Ad Hoc Subcommittee. He has served on 191 international program committees for research conferences. Solo is a fellow of the British Computer Society. He won two Outstanding Achievement Awards, two Distinguished Service Awards, and two Achievement Awards from research conferences. He has been listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012, Who’s Who in the World 2011, Who’s Who in America 2011, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century 2011, Canadian Who’s Who 2011, Who’s Who in the World 2010, and Who’s Who in America 2010. Solo previously served honorably as an infantry officer and platoon commander understudy in the Cdn. Army Reserve. For fun, he likes doing an extremely wide variety of combat sports, extreme sports, and extremely intense physical conditioning. He can be reached at amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us.
Jonathan Bishop is a researcher, information technology executive, and writer. He is a former town councillor on Pontypridd Town Council and at present is a school governor for a primary school in that locality. He is known for founding the Classroom 2.0 initiative, which links education establishments to homes, mobile technologies and other institutions, while at the same time providing tailored education to students. He also regularly writes articles and does research in the areas of Internet trolling, digital teens and gamification. Jonathan is the founder of the Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems (Crocels) at Swansea University. He has gone on to found firms like Crocels CMG CYF and The Crocels Press Limited as well as related initiatives like Crocels News and the Crocels Trolling Academy. Jonathan holds three masters degrees, in e-Learning, European Union Law and information systems. He has fellowships from the Royal Society of Arts and BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT. He can be reached at jbishop@polnetics.com.
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