[Air-l] CFP - Understanding eParticipation - Special Issue of JITP

[Stuart Shulman]

Call for articles to be published in a special issue of the
Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP)

"Understanding eParticipation"

Special Issue Guest Editors:
Ann Macintosh – mailto:A.Macintosh at napier.ac.uk
Åke Grönlund – mailto:ake.gronlund at esi.oru.se

eParticipation describes efforts to broaden and deepen participation in
societal decision making processes by enabling citizens to connect with one
another, with public officials and with their elected representatives using
information and communication technologies. Processes involved include both
directly political ones such as petitioning and consultations and indirectly
political ones such as city planning processes.

eParticipation is an exciting and challenging research area, which requires
a novel combination of technical, social and political measures. This
special issue discusses the core and the borders of the research field by
means of theoretical and empirical contributions.

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Current and emergent eParticipation technological infrastructures;
* Current and emergent eParticipation methods;
* Criteria and methods for evaluation of eParticipation initiatives to be
undertaken in a systematic and standardised way;
* The business case of eParticipation: Drivers and barriers;
* Theories and contextual analysis of eParticipation.

Manuscripts should have significant theoretical and empirical roots,
preferably in both social/political science and IT, but should at least
contain significant content in both areas.

Submission
Authors must submit an article to the special issue editors by February 1,
2007. Submission will be double-blind reviewed by regular JITP reviewers.
Notification of review results will be sent out by March 30, 2007. Authors
may be asked to revise their paper. Revised and copy-edited manuscripts must
be submitted by May 1, 2007. For formatting and writing guidelines, please
consult the JITP author guidelines at
http://www.jitp.net/files/instructions.pdf.

The Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP) publishes
individually- and jointly-submitted research papers of exceptional quality
from any disciplinary background focused on topics related to the interface
between information technology (IT) and politics. Research papers are
theory-driven manuscripts, focusing on an important intersection of politics
and IT and reporting substantial findings of interest to a broad community
of researchers, practitioners, and students. We seek in particular
manuscripts that provide cutting-edge theories, methods, and findings for
the study of IT and politics. For more information, see: http://www.jitp.net
.


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Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Assistant Professor
School of Information Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program
http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu
University Center for Social and Urban Research
University of Pittsburgh
121 University Place, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f)
http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu
Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
http://www.jitp.net