[Air-l] Fwd: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in Online Communities

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> Call for submissions
> Deadline: 15/01/2005
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> Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual 
> Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power 
> in Virtual Communities''
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> Editors:
> Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto 
> Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia 
> Tech
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> Submissions due January 15, 2005
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> Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual 
> Communities
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> The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on 
> virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral 
> locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within 
> the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves 
> form mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online 
> communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant 
> forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of 
> researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have 
> heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as 
> LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount 
> the value of teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of 
> Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar 
> territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue 
> will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership 
> to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the 
> edges of the event horizon.
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> Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the 
> overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual 
> communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community; 
> hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the 
> value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism 
> of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten 
> virtual communities; and the code beneath the community - exploring 
> programmer and system administrative communities.
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> Submissions should be sent to both: jason.nolan at utoronto.ca and 
> jhuns at vt.edu Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup
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> Templates for SIGGroup submissions: 
> http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
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> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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