Call for papers -- community networks

[Doug Schuler]

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-- Doug


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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:41:34 -0600
To: DOUGLAS at scn.org
Subject: EJC/REC Call for papers
From: "Joe Schmitz" <schmitzja at webzone.net>

                         Call for papers

A special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communications/La
Revue Electronicque de Communication [EJC/REC] will examine
community [electronic] networks.  

While community networks are being created at an exponential
rate, scholarly research about them remains quite sparse. 
Although much has been written about the Internet, fewer
researchers have studied community networks.  The rapid
development of these distinctive and diverse new communication
systems invites study, analysis, and interpretation.  We seek
contributions that are theoretically grounded and
methodologically introspective--from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives.  Papers with quantitative and/or qualitative
analyses are particularly welcome.  We especially seek papers
that contribute developing theories that link electronic media to
geographically-centered communities and address the multiple
levels of analysis that "community" entails.  Specific topics
might include but are not limited to:

þ    Exemplars of theoretical and/or methodological approaches to
     study community networks
þ    Technological and social determinants of community networks
þ    Community networks, social structure, community outcomes
þ    Democracy, equity, and community networks
þ    Community networks, information outcomes, and social change
þ    Political processes, stakeholder interests, and community   networks
þ    Community network as alternate communication systems
þ    Legal, policy, and normative issues for community networks
þ    Community network comparisons

This special issue is scheduled for publication during mid 1999. 
Submissions are requested by August 15, 1998 that they may
undergo blind review.  Manuscripts should follow either the APA
Manual [4th ed.] or the MLA Handbook [3rd ed.].  Send manuscripts
for review in 4 paper copies to either of the following
coeditors.  Both editors welcome inquiries regarding this call
for papers.  Authors might review the EJC/REC at:
http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm.

Joseph Schmitz                Lori Collins-Jarvis
schmitzja at utulsa.edu          collinsj at usc.edu
Faculty of Communication      Annenberg School of Communication
University of Tulsa           University of Southern California
600 S. College Ave.           3502 Watt Way
Tulsa OK 74104-3189           Los Angeles, CA 900-0281

Joseph Schmitz, Ph.D.
University of Tulsa
918 631-3810
918 631-3809 [fax]

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