[spectre] SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in Online Communities

[Andreas Broeckmann]

(x-posted from [Reader-list])

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: jason.nolan at utoronto.ca and 
jhuns at vt.edu 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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jeremy hunsinger
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