[Air-l] Fwd: [CSL]: New Journal - Information Polity

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> From: John Armitage <john.armitage at UNN.AC.UK>
> Date: Mon Apr 29, 2002  03:40:15 AM US/Eastern
> To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [CSL]: New Journal - Information Polity
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> -----Original Message-----From: Whiteside Lynn 
> [mailto:L.Whiteside at gcal.ac.uk]
> Sent: 26 April 2002 16:12
> To: 'Armitage, John'
> Subject: New Journal - Information Polity
>
> Dear John
> Could you please considering including a flyer within Cyber Society for 
> the
> new journal I am editing - Information Polity: the international 
> journal of
> government and democracy in the information age.   This journal is 
> published
> by IOS Press in the Netherlands.
>
> The journal aims to publish work from academics that is both of top 
> quality
> and, equally, of high strategic relevance to practitioners. Equally, the
> journal is intent on publishing work undertaken by practitioners -
> professional, administrative and political - who are actively engaged 
> in the
> broad arenas of government and democracy, whether at local, regional,
> national or supra-national levels.
>
> The journal is both international and comparative in its perspectives 
> and
> welcomes articles from scholars and practitioners throughout the world.
>
> The journal is a tangible expression of the awareness that ICT, 
> including
> the Internet, is of  deepening significance for all polities as new 
> forms of
> government and democratic practice are sought throughout the world.
>
> The journal aims to publish articles on political, economic, legal,
> managerial, organizational and wider social themes and issues as they 
> relate
> to policy developments surrounding information & communications 
> technologies
> [ICT] in government and democracy. Examples of such themes and issues 
> are:
>
> *       The modernization of government and ICT;
> *       Consumer responsive government;
> *       Joined up government and ICT;
> *       The globalisation of government and ICT;
> *       Virtual government;
> *       Data privacy, protection and security;
> *       Democratic innovation and ICT;
> *       The citizen, the state and ICT;
> *       Changing ICT-supported democratic practices in the contemporary
> polity;
> *       Public policies for ICT development and adoption;
>
> Publishing in the Journal
> The journal is keen to receive well-written journal articles from its
> targeted authors on topics as stated above. Articles submitted for
> consideration must be written in English. Academic articles submitted 
> should
> normally not exceed 6000 words in length [including all footnotes]. 
> Articles
> in the form of authoritative, well-researched case studies will be 
> welcomed
> and will not normally exceed 4000 words. The journal will welcome 
> polemical
> articles as well as those deriving from research and practice. The 
> journal
> will also commission book reviews.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Professor John Taylor
> Editor-in-Chief
> Information Polity
> Tel - (0044) 141 331 3129
> Email - jta at gcal.ac.uk
>
>
>
> Lynn Whiteside
> Assistant Registrar
> Caledonian Business School
> Tel - 0141 331 8620
> Email - L.Whiteside at gcal.ac.uk
>
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jeremy hunsinger
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