[Asis-l] The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC)

[Dr. Susheel Chhabra]

The contents of the latest
issue of:

International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC)

Volume 1, Issue 2, April - June 2014

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 2328-5494; EISSN: 2328-5508; 

Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijcesc



Editor(s)-in-Chief: Susheel
Chhabra (Periyar Management and Computer College, India)



Note: There are no submission
or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of
Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC). All manuscripts are accepted based
on a double-blind peer review editorial process.


ARTICLE 1



Web Platform for Public
E-Participation Management: A Case Study



Carlos Quental (Polytechnic
Institute of Viseu, Viseu, Portugal), Luis Borges Gouveia (University Fernando
Pessoa, Porto, Portugal)



The e-participation can be
considered an area under constant focus. This paper presents a brief analysis
of e-participation and e-democracy, and proposes a platform for electronic
participation based on social media principles, designed to gather teachers and
unions in a shared deliberative space. Interaction and collaboration are
supported through questions, answers, suggestions, comments, votes, surveys and
live debates. This proposal is intended to narrow the communication gap between
teachers and unions and encourage teachers to become involved and participate
in educational debates and important topics about the profession. The platform
presented enables effective participation in formal and informal
decision-making processes via the Internet, either as standalone or widgets
with full integration into any Website. It is under constant development and
will be improved along with this project. The actors in this study were chosen
from the National Federation of Teachers due to its representativeness
regarding associate teachers and provide an opportunity to assess the platform
potential to support participation in a union context. The platform will be
used in a trade union linked to teachers of several grade levels to understand
their participation in this organization.



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entire article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/article/web-platform-for-public-e-participation-management/120711



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this article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=120711



ARTICLE 2



>From Facebook to WhatsApp:
The Changing Mood of Social Networking in India



Faizia Siddiqui
(International Institute for Special Education, Lucknow, India), Mohammed
Iftikhar Alam (International Institute for Special Education, Lucknow, India),
Roshan Lal Raina (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India)



Social networks have
witnessed phenomenal growth over the past decade, across the world. These
networks have given a global platform to people—to connect and express. They
have rewritten the laws of social communication and interaction; limitless
expression, cross-border association, and free sharing of text, pictures and
videos. Somewhere during the journey, the networking sites seem to have lost
their charm and appeal. Inroads made by newer and more user-friendly
applications like WhatsApp seem to have made matters worse. In addition, the
failure of the site owners—at checking and curbing the misuse of users'
profiles and personal data, and obscene/malicious misrepresentations of
individuals—is leading to a state of ‘complete avoidance'. As a cumulative
effect, social networking is fast losing steam, and if predictions and
apprehensions are to be believed, in about five years' time, the likes of
Facebook and Twitter would only be found in books of History. This study aims
to analyze the changing ‘social networking scenario' in India, majorly focusing
on the young population; the main subscribers. This research is based on the
facts analyzed after a comprehensive survey conducted on a sample picked up
from four Indian metro cities. It takes into account factors that have resulted
in ‘interest loss among the youngsters.



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entire article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/article/from-facebook-to-whatsapp/120712



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this article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=120712



ARTICLE 3



Mottos and Ethical
Statements of Internet-Based Organizations: Implications for Corporate Social
Responsibility



Jo Ann Oravec (University
of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, USA)



Many Internet-based
businesses have emerged and gained prominence in past decades; growing numbers
of them have developed moral declarations in the form of mottos or ethical
statements. For example, the corporate motto “don't be evil” (linked with
Google) has generated considerable controversy, and Twitter and Facebook have
comparable ethical pronouncements. The article analyzes how these ethical
expressions have played roles in discourse on organizational activities,
exploring their use in discussions of particular research, marketing, and operations
situations. After addressing the origins of these mottos and statements, this
article positions them in contrast with the more finely-detailed ethical codes
and related initiatives that have been associated with some high-tech
organizations over past decades. The article analyzes the potential influences
of ethical expressions generated by organizations on corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiatives. It projects the future of such ethical
manifestations in light of critically-important privacy, security, and economic
concerns faced in high-tech arenas.



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entire article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/article/mottos-and-ethical-statements-of-internet-based-organizations/120713



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this article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=120713



ARTICLE 4



Feminist Jurisprudence in
India with Reference to Individual Freedom of Women vis-a-vis State's Duty to
Protect Them



Pallavi Gupta (JEMTEC and
School of Law, GGSIP University, New Delhi, India)



In the history of mankind
‘equality' and ‘freedom' evaded women in comparison to men. Women always
suffered subordinate status and were assigned a purely functional role in every
society or civilisation of the world. Over the period this unequal status of
women being offensive to human dignity and human rights steered to develop
feminist jurisprudence. This research paper reflects the perspective of
feminist jurisprudence with reference to individual freedom of women, its
expansion under other various issues and State's / employer's duty to protect
women's individual freedom and to empower them. This research paper exclusively
deals with that feminist jurisprudence which has been developed by judicial
decisions in India.



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entire article, click on the link below.

www.igi-global.com/article/feminist-jurisprudence-in-india-with-reference-to-individual-freedom-of-women-vis-a-vis-states-duty-to-protect-them/120714



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www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=120714










For full copies of the above
articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Civic
Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) in your institution's library. This
journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals"
database: www.igi-global.com/isj.









CALL FOR PAPERS



Mission of IJCESC:



The mission of the International
Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) is to discuss and
explore value driven civic engagement practices, processes, and frameworks to
bring social change for effectively managing socioeconomic resources for
individuals and society. The journal promotes cutting edge research on various
issues of civic engagement as an integrated platform for researchers, scholars,
academic institutions, and civic society. IJCESC achieves its mission through
research, exemplary cases, smart processes and competencies, development of
frameworks, and collaborations, suggesting standards and benchmarks worldwide.



Coverage of IJCESC:



Topics to be discussed in
this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: 




 Civic engagement and political reforms for
     development
 Civic engagement and rural development
 Civic engagement and urban development
 Civic engagement for development and social
     change
 Civic engagement for organization
     development
 Civic engagement reforms and capacity
     building
 ICTs engagement and social change
 Leadership cases for civic engagement
 Preservation of natural resources
 Public policy and social change
 Role of administrative competencies for
     civic engagement
 Smart governance practices
 Smart regulatory frameworks for civic
     engagement
 Social accountability for individuals,
     government, and corporate sectors
 Social networks and collaborations for
     bringing social change
 Standards and benchmarks for civic
     engagement
 Value-driven civic engagement
 Women and child development



Interested authors should
consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-civic-engagement-social/75851



 		 	   		  
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