[Air-l] CFP for JCMC: 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. 

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)."

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

/Caroline Haythornthwaite




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 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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 Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn at uiuc.edu)
 Associate Professor,  Graduate School of Library and Information Science
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820
 phone: 217-244-7453     fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn
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