[Air-l] Call for Book Chapters: Designing for Networked Communications

[simonhei at ruc.dk]

Hello Bryan,
we will welcome your proposal. To-day and tomorrow we are making status of the
call. We may decide to extend the deadline - I will inform you Tuesday at the
latest. Otherwise: as sson as possible.

Best wishes,

Sisse & Simon

Quoting bryan carter <bc69 at mac.com>:

> Hello Simon, I just received this email from a colleague and If it is
> not too late, I would like to submit a proposal for a chapter. Please
> let me  know if one can still be submitted and by when you would need
> it at the very latest...thank you for your consideration...
>
> bryan carter
>
> On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:51 AM, simonhei at ruc.dk wrote:
>
> > [Apologies for cross-posting]
> >
> > CALL FOR CHAPTERS
> > Submission Deadline: April 30, 2005
> >
> > Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development
> > A book edited by Simon B. Heilesen and Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Roskilde
> > University, Denmark.
> >
> > INTRODUCTION
> >
> > Designing for Networked Communications is to be a book about how we
> > plan, use
> > and understand the products and the dynamic social processes or tasks
> > upon
> > which depend some of the most vital innovations - social as well as
> > technological - in the knowledge society.
> >
> > Networked communication is proliferating. To-day, not only are
> > existing mediated
> > forms of communication being remediated in electronic form, but also
> > hitherto
> > direct forms of communication in complicated social settings are being
> > supplemented or even replaced by computer mediated communication
> > (CMC). We are
> > coming to depend on CMC-products. As a result, the way they function
> > and the
> > way we use them inevitably influences or even determines how we
> > communicate and
> > how we think about communication.
> >
> > Designing products for CMC may be seen as a cycle, where tasks require
> > the
> > creation of artefacts, and where artefacts condition modifications of
> > tasks.
> > The tasks that we wish to examine are processes of communication
> > between
> > individuals by means of computer networks (within and across
> > organizations) as
> > well as the dissemination of information from a sender to a target
> > group. The
> > artefacts include physical networks, hardware, software as well as the
> > manipulation of symbols in the act of communicating. Designing is to be
> > understood in a broad sense as (1) the underlying scheme for the
> > planning,
> > functioning and development of an artefact, (2) the actual arrangement
> > and
> > functionality of various elements of the artefact, (3) the development
> > of
> > strategies and adaptations required for performing tasks by means of
> > the
> > artefact in the given social context and subject to certain basic
> > conditions,
> > and (4) the development of creative strategies for social innovation
> > and the
> > identification of new tasks to be performed by means of a redesign of
> > existing
> > artefacts or with new artefacts.
> >
> >
> > THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
> >
> > The book is meant to further our understanding of ICT-design processes
> > by
> > identifying strategies employed both by developers and users in the
> > dynamic
> > processes of creating and using artefacts. The various chapters will
> > present
> > and reflect on relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical
> > research findings in the area. Bridging the fields of HCI-design in
> > Computer
> > Science and Computer-mediated Communication in Communication Studies,
> > the book
> > will represent an interdisciplinary approach that is valuable for
> > stimulating
> > unconventional thinking and a creative exchange in and across two
> > important
> > academic and professional fields.
> >
> > THE TARGET AUDIENCE
> >
> > Professionals, researchers and students working in the fields of
> > Communication,
> > Computer Science (in particular HCI and system development),
> > E-learning and
> > Computer Supported Collaborative Work.
> >
> > RECOMMENDED TOPICS include but are not limited to the following
> > -	Theories and models of designing,
> > -	Overall strategies and methodologies,
> > -	Creative and/or sense making strategies and methodologies,
> > -	Social innovation strategies and methodologies,
> > -	Negotiation of meaning and collaboration,
> > -	Learning strategies and environments,
> > -	Organizational learning and learning cultures,
> > -	Organizational games and role plays,
> > -	Problem solving and decision making,
> > -	Workplace communication,
> > -	Distributed organizations/ workplaces,
> > -	Team work and team building,
> > -	Project management and leadership,
> > -	Knowledge sharing and knowledge management,
> > -	General communication for stationary and mobile users,
> > -	Dissemination of information and information searching,
> > -	E-publishing and Web-publishing.
> >
> > SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
> >
> > Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April
> > 30, 2005,
> > a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and
> > concerns of
> > the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified
> > by May 31,
> > 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
> > organizational
> > guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 31,
> > 2005. All
> > submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers on a
> > blind review
> > basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc.,
> > http://www.idea-group.com/, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing,
> > Information
> > Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group
> > Reference
> > imprints.
> >
> > Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
> > document) or by
> > mail to both editors:
> >
> > Simon B. Heilesen, E-mail: simonhei at ruc.dk, Tel. (+45) 4674 3785
> > Sisse Siggaard Jensen, E-mail: sisse at ruc.dk, Tel. (+45) 4674 3771
> > Fax: (+45) 4674 3075
> >
> > Institute of Communication Studies, Journalism and Computer science
> > Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
> >
> > For additional information on the project, please visit the Designing
> > for
> > Networked Communications web site: http://www.ruc.dk/~simonhei/dnc/
> >
> >
> >
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