Call For Papers

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES AND SYSTEMS

Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Guest editor:

Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu)

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts: optional but preferred, send to the special issue editor for comment

Full papers due: Sept. 1, 2004

Anticipated publication: Spring or Summer 2005.

This special issue addresses computer-mediated collaboration: how

it is practiced, what systems support it, and how computer-mediated

collaborative practice differs from or is the same as offline practice.

Papers are invited that explore what constitutes collaborative practice

and how technologies enable and support such practice, issues and

examples of social and technical design for collaboration and

collaborative groups, and studies of the effectiveness and usefulness

of collaborative systems.

This call for papers invites submissions that explore collaborative

activities in work groups, scientific research teams, management

teams, collaborative learners, or other collaborative endeavors, with

an emphasis on collaborative practices, distributed knowledge issues

and practices, social and technical design of collaborative systems,

and/or evaluation of systems that support such work. Systems include

those formally defined as collaboratories as well as knowledge

management systems, digital libraries, online learning environments,

other general online environments, and use of computer-mediated

communication, where the focus is on collaborative practices.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500 words

by May 1, 2003 to the issue editor Caroline Haythornthwaite

(haythorn@uiuc.edu). The proposal should indicate the theoretical

and/or empirical basis for the paper, the kind(s) of systems and

environments considered, preliminary themes and/or findings, and

key references. Earlier submissions and questions are encouraged.

Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited

to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by September 1,

2004. Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should

plan for papers that will be accessible to non-specialists, and

should make their paper relevant to this audience. Anticipated

publication date for the issue is Spring or Summer 2005.

Final submissions should be e-mailed to the special issue editor,

Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu).

Those interested in writing for this issue may also be

interested in submitting to the Hawaii International Conference on

Systems Science minitrack on "Information and Communication Technologies in

support of Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and

Organization Learning (KM/OM/OL)." (see the call for papers at

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/CFP_HICSS'05.html).

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