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

Yishay Mor yishaym at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 16:49:21 PST 2015 

Doug,

Davinia, Muriel, Page (cc-ed) and myself are working on a paper on
"communities of design". We are also happy to review.

all the best,

Yishay



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On 6 January 2015 at 18:48, Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org>
wrote:

> 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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