[Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good

Fri Jan 16 11:31:07 PST 2015

Hi Doug, and everyone,

Aldo and I are working on a co-authored paper that we would like to submit. It will make up for me not being able to attend the conference a bit!

I’m also very happy to help with reviewing. 

Cheers,

Sarah

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Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good

Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds interesting!  Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along.

Thanks!!

— Doug (and Fiorella and Anna)

Call for Contributions (First Notice) 

AI & Society

Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication

http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146

Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good

Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo

Introduction 

We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. 

In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help organize their papers.

With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work and/or help integrate the various aspects. 

Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses.

Topic Areas

The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are relevant. 

*	Theory of collective intelligence for the common good 
*	Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good 
*	Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good 
*	Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that
*	Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good
*	Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. 
*	Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good
*	Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good
*	Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good
*	Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good

The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a topic is relevant, then it probably is!

All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both collective intelligence and to the common good. 

Development Plan 

Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the journal or make other plans for the papers. 

Please consult the statement or principles (http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network) to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. 

Submission Types

Works may be submitted in one of the following categories:

1. Full Papers (3,000 words)

2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words)

3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other issues

Statement of Interest

A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. 

Deadlines

February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due

April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest

May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted at least mostly within our group)

July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author

August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be conducted at least partially within our group)

October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection 

November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due

Open Access Publication Fees

Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the preprints of the article widely available. 

AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications.  Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications.

Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file not exceeding 5MB.

Submissions/Correspondence:

Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor

The Evergreen State College

The Public Sphere Project

douglas at publicsphereproject.org 

Douglas Schuler

douglas at publicsphereproject.org

@doug_schuler

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Public Sphere Project

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Creating the World Citizen Parliament

     http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament

Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) 

     http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> 

Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book)

     http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601> &tid=11601

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