Call for Papers
Themed Issue of New Media and Society: ‘10 years of
Facebook’
Guest editors: Siân Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores
University, UK and Brady Robards, Griffith University, Australia
In early 2014 Facebook will have been online for ten years.
Over the past ten years, Facebook has accumulated over a billion users
globally, has achieved an estimated market value of over $100 billion, and has
consistently been the most used social network site when compared to its
competitors to the point of ubiquity. For many, Facebook has transformed the
ways in which we communicate with each other in practically every aspect of our
lives. Facebook has also attracted harsh criticism from users for its approach
to privacy and transparency, and is regularly at odds with governments and
other institutions over regulation and control. Facebook blurs traditional
lines between what is private and what is public, while often complicating
social relations by naming them and making them visible. The implications
associated with the social network’s rise to dominance are complex and
sometimes challenging, from both the micro levels of the individual through to
the macro levels of society more broadly.
In this themed issue ‘10 years of Facebook’ we wish to
explore the current ‘state of play’ with regards to the social, cultural and
political significance of Facebook. Our aim is to bring together current
academic debates surrounding this ubiquitous social network site to assess how,
after ten years in existence, Facebook has made its mark on contemporary
society as a space for social, cultural and political interactions. In
addition, we wish to explore new and emerging approaches to the study of
Facebook that interrogate the often complex relationships between the site, its
users and everyday contexts.
We welcome short 250 word abstracts that reflect on ‘10
years of Facebook’, taking stock of the impact the site has had on contemporary
social life. While attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also
need to address a more specific theme. Potential themes include, but are not
limited to, the following:
- Identity
- Performance and representation
- Youth cultures and subcultures
- Privacy
- Friendship
- Relationships
- Fandom
- Age/ageing
- Before life and after life
- Political activism
- Social movements
- Regulation and control
- Trolling
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to
Siân Lincoln (s.lincoln@ljmu.ac.uk)
by Wednesday 10th April 2013. On the basis of these short abstracts, invitations
to submit full papers (of no more than 8000 words) will then be sent out in
late April. Full papers will be due by August 31, and will undergo the usual
New Media & Society peer review procedure. Invitation to submit a full
paper in no way guarantees acceptance into the issue.
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