[Asis-l] CFP: JCMC special issue on Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and Systems

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

This is a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Computer
Mediated Communication on "Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and
Systems" which I am editing. The text is also available online at
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/cfp.html.

Those interested in writing for this issue may also be interested in
submitting to the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science
minitrack on "Information and Communication Technologies in support of
Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning
(KM/OM/OL)." (see the call for papers at
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/CFP_HICSS'05.html).

Please feel free to forward this CFP to other relevant lists, and to send
questions to me (haythorn at uiuc.edu).


CALL FOR PAPERS

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES AND SYSTEMS

Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Guest editor: Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn at uiuc.edu) Graduate School
of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts due: May 1, 2004 Full papers due: Sept. 1, 2004 Anticipated
publication: Spring or Summer 2005.

This special issue addresses computer-mediated collaboration: how it is
practiced, what systems support it, and how computer-mediated
collaborative practice differs from or is the same as offline practice.
Papers are invited that explore what constitutes collaborative practice
and how technologies enable and support such practice, issues and examples
of social and technical design for collaboration and collaborative groups,
and studies of the effectiveness and usefulness of collaborative systems.

This call for papers invites submissions that explore collaborative
activities in work groups, scientific research teams, management teams,
collaborative learners, or other collaborative endeavors, with an emphasis
on collaborative practices, distributed knowledge issues and practices,
social and technical design of collaborative systems, and/or evaluation of
systems that support such work. Systems include those formally defined as
collaboratories as well as knowledge management systems, digital
libraries, online learning environments, other general online
environments, and use of computer-mediated communication, where the focus
is on collaborative practices.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500 words by May
1, 2003 to the issue editor Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn at uiuc.edu).
The proposal should indicate the theoretical and/or empirical basis for
the paper, the kind(s) of systems and environments considered, preliminary
themes and/or findings, and key references. Earlier submissions and
questions are encouraged.

Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to
submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by September 1, 2004.
Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should plan for papers
that will be accessible to non-specialists, and should make their paper
relevant to this audience. Anticipated publication date for the issue is
Spring or Summer 2005.

Final submissions should be e-mailed to the special issue editor, Caroline
Haythornthwaite (haythorn at uiuc.edu).

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Associate Professor                                  phone: (217) 244-7453
Graduate School of Library and Information Science     fax: (217) 244-3302
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
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