June 2015 Newsletter June 2015 Editorial Dear colleagues, We are pleased share with you all the news from our research committee, including the activities of the past six months, and call for participation in the events to come this year. Starting with the former, this edition presents a short report on the activities of ISA members during the World Social Forum in Tunis, in March, and RC47 cooperation in the organization of the 47 Regional Conference “Social movements in Central and Eastern Europe”, which took place in Bucharest, last May. We also call attention to the possibility of joining or organizing a Working Group, which can be an excellent way to organize future events for the RC47 as well as conduct joint research projects and publications. Publications are the topic of the second section of this newsletter. And here we also have very good news. This year witnessed the launching of the project Open Movements, part of the website "Open Democracy", which has been very successful so far. More on that. A second exciting novelty is the launching of the first call for papers from the ISA47 new journal "Social Movements and Change" (SM&C). Philipp Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar and Jacob Mwathi Mati are organizing a special edition on "Social Movements of the Global South – Methodological and Theoretical Considerations". Their aim is to "bring together research on social movements worldwide that break with the Eurocentric bias of social movement theory and try to develop both theories and methodologies apt to understand action, discourse or outcomes of social movements in the Global South". Please circulate widely in your networks and among your students, as there will also be a PhD section. As in the last newsletter, this edition proudly presents a "publication of the term". This subsection is thought of as a means to give visibility to work developed as a result from an ISA activity. Therefore, the defining criteria for being included in this section is that the publication came out from a panel organized by RC47, a conference, a working group, etc. The idea behind this initiative is to encourage and support collective publications directly connected to ISA47 activities and to promote collective research within the network. This time the distinction goes to the special issue on “Social Media and Protest Identities”, published at the journal Information, Communication and Society. Paolo Gerbaudo and Emiliano Treré jointly organized a panel last year at the ISA World Congress in Yokohama, from which the participants transformed their papers into the articles of this special edition. The section ends with a number of publications from members of ISA47. The editors would like to clarify that the intent here is to exchange information among us about our work. It is important that before sending us your list of publications you assess whether it is pertinent to the topics of common interest to ISA47 and also that you follow the style guidelines. In what regards future activities, presented in Section III of the newsletter, we are looking forward to