cc: Caribbean ICT virtual community CIVIC <[email protected]>,
The Digital Divide Network discussion group <[email protected]>
FYI. I don't know that I'll have time for this one, but I certainly have
ideas.
Taran Rampersad
jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>> sorry for crossposting
>>
>> Call for submissions
>> Deadline: 15/01/2005
>>
>>
>> Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual
>> Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of
>> Power in Virtual Communities''
>>
>> Editors:
>> Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto
>> Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia
>> Tech
>>
>> Submissions due January 15, 2005
>>
>> Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual
>> Communities
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Submissions should be sent to both: [email protected] and
>> [email protected] Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup
>>
>> Templates for SIGGroup submissions:
>> http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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