[Air-L] Special Issue of Cultural Science - Deadline Extended

[Axel Bruns]

G'day !

Forwarding this:

> ***Deadline for submissions extended: 31 October 2010***
> 
> Special Issue Cultural Science:
> Internet Research Methods as Moments of Evolution
> 
> Editor: Thomas Petzold, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and
> Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
> 
> Call for Papers
> 
> This special issue of Cultural Science explores Internet research methods at
> the intersection of socio-cultural and evolutionary research. It invites
> contributions that combine innovative research design on the Internet with an
> evolutionary treatment of socio-cultural change to reconsider the dynamics of
> institutions, identities, and socio-cultural relations. By doing so this
> special issue seeks to identify and further develop discussions of specific
> methods as well as wider considerations of underlying propositions that deal
> with evolutionary approaches to culture.
> 
> Methods as moments of evolution relates to phenomena Internet researchers
> seek to unravel by using specific approaches and techniques as well as to the
> more general idea that Internet research methods must be understood as part
> of an evolutionary process of scientific working and thinking.
> 
> For this special issue, contributions are welcome that take methods and
> concepts from disciplines previously unrelated or but marginally related to
> cultural research and the humanities and apply, adapt and adjust these to
> Internet related research into structural and dynamic changes. Such an
> approach, it is expected, shares methods with other emerging disciplines and
> fields such as computational social sciences (Lazer et al 2009), digital
> humanities (Schreibman, Siemens and Unsworth 2004), and web science (Berners-
> Lee, Hall, and Hendler 2006).
> 
> This special issue welcomes case studies as well as broader methodological
> analyses of:
> 
> * Internet research methods and instruments exploring evolutionary processes
> of
> Internet related issues in general,
> 
> * the dynamics and structural change of culture and language on the Internet
> in
> particular,
> 
> * the challenges and limits of both visualising large data sets and/or small
> nuances of micro-case studies, and asks
> 
> * what it means for Internet researchers to consider methods as moments of
> evolution.
> 
> Prospective authors are asked to submit contributions (full papers, essays,
> visualisations, think pieces, in PDF or Word format, with references in
> Harvard style) of up to 8000 words to Thomas Petzold (t.petzold at qut.edu.au),
> Henry Li (s1.li at qut.edu.au) and Woitek Konzal (woitek.konzal at qut.edu.au) by
> 31 October 2010. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Early-career
> researchers and doctoral students are encouraged to contribute to this
> special edition. Accepted papers will be published in December 2010.
> 
> 
> Special Issue of Cultural Science: http://cultural-science.org/journal/
> 
> Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2010
> Publication: December 2010
> 
> -----
> References
> 
> Berners-Lee, T., W. Hall and J.A. Hendler. 2006. A Framework for Web Science.
> Now Publishers Inc.
> Lazer, D. et al. 2009. Computational Social Science. Science 323: 721-3.
> Schreibman, S., R. Siemens and J. Unsworth. 2004. A Companion to Digital
> Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell.


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ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation  http://cci.edu.au/
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