DIGITHUM: THE HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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Issue 14 call for papers (English, Catalan and Spanish)

Download call for papers: http://www.onlinecreation.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/digithum-call-for-papers-november11-en1.pdf

Deadline for submission of originals: 1 March 2012

Publication date: May 2012

Subject: Academic research into Wikipedia: Beyond English Wikipedia and towards comparative perspectives

This year saw the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia. In 2011, following its creation 10 years ago, Wikipedia became one of the world’s 10 most visited
websites and one of the most active virtual communities. It currently has around 20 million articles – 3.7 million of which are in English: the most popular version. It has
some 365 million regular readers, around 90,000 regular editors – all voluntary – and hundreds of thousands of people who contribute anonymously.
Wikipedia is one of the numerous examples of mass online collaboration projects to follow in the footsteps of open-source software production and its modus operandi.
Some authors see this new type of collaboration as representing an innovative form of social production, given that it operates on the edges of the market and its rules,
functions successfully without many hierarchical organisational structures or command management systems and is developed thanks to the cooperation of thousands – or, in
some cases, millions – of geographically dispersed people working voluntarily and without expecting any direct remuneration. The term commons-based peer production
was proposed recently to conceptualise this practice (Benkler, 2006).
Since about 2005, there has been growing interest from the scientific community, and in particular from the field of social and human sciences, in researching this historically
unprecedented phenomenon. A recent review of the scientific bibliography on Wikipedia has identified over 2,100 scientific articles and 38 doctoral theses with Wikipedia and/or its sister projects as their object of analysis. However, this volume of scientific production has focused excessively on the English version of Wikipedia when
Wikipedia is now available in 279 different languages. Consequently, the current bibliography does not pay sufficient attention to the dynamics and peculiarities of versions of Wikipedia in other languages, which makes a comparative analysis showing the contrasts and similarities between the different communities difficult.
The aim of this Digithum issue is to bring together articles that explore all aspects of Wikipedia – and other related projects – which may prove relevant from a social and
human science research perspective. As well as the subjects that have been the focus of the scientific studies to date – motivation and type of participants, organisation and
governance, regulatory structure, publishing dynamics, content quality and reliability, teaching uses, the role of technology, etc., (Okoli 2009) – proposals for new problems
and objects of analysis will also be welcome. The theory and discipline may be linked to any field of social and humanistic research: political science, sociology,
anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), economics, etc.
Articles should have an empirical basis and use established qualitative or quantitative research methods in social and human sciences. Papers whose empirical focus is on
versions other than those in English will be especially welcome and, in particular, those that present comparative studies showing contrasts and similarities between different
size projects and/or projects in different languages, including Catalan. However, we will not be excluding papers about the English version.

Bibliography

Benkler, Y. 2006. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.Yale University Press: Yale.
Lovink, Geert and Nathanel Tracz (eds.). 2011. Critical Point of View. A Wikipedia Reader. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam.
Okoli, C., 2009. A Brief Review of Studies of Wikipedia in Peer-Reviewed Journals. In: 2009 Third International Conference on Digital Society. p 155–160.

Issue coordinators

Eduard Aibar, lecturer, Arts and Humanities department, and IN3 researcher, UOC
Mayo Fuster Morell, postdoctoral fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

Publication guidelines

Articles must not exceed 5,000 words and must contain the following information:
+ Title
+ Abstract (200 words) containing the basic aspects and results of the paper.
+ Keywords (between 4 and 6)
+ Body of the article, divided into sections and subsections
+ Bibliography
To ensure a blind review of articles, the following documents should be submitted
separately:
+ Author’s details (name and surname, professional affiliation, professional postal address, e-mail)
+ Brief CV (100-200 words) and photograph
Articles may be submitted in Catalan, Spanish and English.
For more information, please visit the Author Guidelines section of the website
(http://www.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/about/submissions#authorGuidelines).

REVISTA COMUNICAÇÃO & CULTURA

O Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura da Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa publica uma revista semestral, com peer-review, intitulada Comunicação & Cultura.

O nº 14 da Revista Comunicação & Cultura será dedicado ao tema “Media e Crime”.

Segue, abaixo, o Call for Papers para submissão de artigos

REVISTA COMUNICAÇÃO & CULTURA

Tema: Media e Crime(s)

Coordenação: José Manuel Paquete de Oliveira e Verónica Policarpo

Número: 14 (Outono – Inverno 2012)

Data-limite para a recepção de originais: 30 de Abril de 2012

Em relação aos media, é comum dizer-se que «o crime vende», «o crime faz audiências». Por outro lado, não obstante a generalização que muitas vezes se estabelece da existência de um nexo causal entre media, (sobretudo pelo modo especulativo no tratamento das notícias), e a propagação do crime, raramente os estudos e a investigação científica conseguem provar esta correlação. Porém, uma constatação pode ser verificável: sempre que aumenta o crime violento, as notícias sobre estes actos enchem as páginas de muitos jornais e telejornais. Constrói-se assim uma segunda realidade sobre o fenómeno social da violência, nas suas múltiplas expressões, desde os actos de violência doméstica especialmente sobre mulheres e crianças, às práticas de roubo e vandalismo com marcas de crescente ferocidade. Nem tão pouco a máxima corrente entre a opinião pública portuguesa de que «Portugal é um país de brandos costumes» tem suavizado a dimensão deste fenómeno global. Acresce ainda que a prolongada e crescentemente agravada situação de crise económica, financeira e social, vivida quer a uma escala nacional, quer internacional, torna a consideração deste assunto mais palpitante.

Atenta e interessada à reflexão, estudo e investigação científica sobre as problemáticas que tangem a sociedade actual, e mais concretamente a sociedade portuguesa, na correlação específica ou derivada do campo dos media, Comunicação & Cultura vai dedicar um dos seus próximos números a este tema.

Aceitam-se artigos sobre os seguintes tópicos, entre outros:

 A mediatização do crime e a percepção das pessoas face à sociedade em que vivem.

 Crise, Media e Crime. Em que medida o modo de tratamento das notícias sobre a crise financeira e económica influencia o aumento dos comportamentos desviantes?

 Liberdade de informação e o respeito pelo direito à vida privada dos cidadãos.

 A revelação mediática de «segredos de justiça» face à garantia da aplicação da Justiça através dos Tribunais.

 A representação social do crime através dos media.

 Os media fautores de sentimentos de medo entre a população.

 A mediatização do crime dinamizadora de prevenção cívica e social.

 Imagens e contra-imagens da Justiça através dos media.

 Imagens e contra-imagens das Polícias através dos media.

 As crianças como sujeitos e objectos de crime nas notícias.

 Maus tratos e crimes de violência doméstica nos media.

 O tratamento noticioso do crime como estratégia comercial face a concorrência entre os diferentes media.

 O crime informático em difusão nas redes sociais e no mundo digital.

Apresentação de artigos:

• Todos os artigos correspondendo às exigências e padrões de Comunicação & Cultura são submetidos a double blind peer review.

• Os artigos devem ter espaçamento de 1,5 em todo o texto e não exceder o limite de 40.000 caracteres, incluindo notas e bibliografia, um resumo de 100-150 palavras e seis palavras-chave.

• Por favor envie o artigo como anexo a uma mensagem electrónica para comunicultura@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt, juntando uma folha, separada do texto, com identificação, endereços postal e electrónico e com números de telefone.

CATaC¹12 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) ­ Call for Papers

Conference theme: Beyond the digital/cultural divide: in/visibility and new
media.

The conference will take place June 18-20, 2012, at Aarhus University,
Aarhus, Denmark. A pre-conference field trip will help us explore local
sites of historical and contemporary significance in the development and
deployment of diverse communication technologies. The conference dinner will
feature some of the best of new Scandinavian cuisine at Nordens Folkekøkken,
Aarhus ().

Keynote speakers
* Dr. Rasha Abdullah (Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism & Mass
Communication Department, The American University in Cairo). Provisional
title: ³Lessons from Egypt: the roles and limits of social media in
political activism and transformation.²

* Dr. Randi Markussen (Associate Professor and Head of Group, ³Technologies
in Practice,² IT University of Copenhagen). Provisional title: ³E-Voting
and Public Control of Elections.²

The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a premier
international forum for current research on the complex interactions between
culturally-variable norms, practices, and communication preferences, and
interaction with the design, implementation and use of information and
communication technologies (ICTs). CATaC has been ranked by the Australian
Research Council among the top 20% of conferences in terms of international
impact and significance.

Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the recognition that
the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around digital divides - often
involving mutually reinforcing cultural divides - extends beyond classic and
stubborn problems of access to new media and communication technologies.
Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference
points of emphasis:

- Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing 'culture'
- New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or
threatening cultural diversity
- Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance
- Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks
- Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning
- Culturally-variable approaches to online identity management/creation,
privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual property rights: recent
developments, culturally-variable future directions
- Culturally-variable responses to commodification in online environments

For further details on conference themes and topics, please see the
conference website, .

Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for
presentation. Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also
encouraged.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 17 February 2012
Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2012
Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 19 April 2012
Conference: 18-20 June 2012

Registration fees (including pre-conference field trip and conference
dinner)
Earlybird (until April 20, 2012):
Full: $515.00
Reviewer: $495.00
Author: $495.00
Author & Reviewer: $475.00
Student: $400.00
(After April 20, 2012, add $50.00)

The primary conference hotel is First Hotel Atlantic
(-Atlantic/>) Conference participants will receive a discounted rate for
accommodations.

Additional accommodations are also available: more details soon on the
conference website, along with further details regarding program, submission
and registration procedures, travel, etc.

We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus next June!

Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair
Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary
chair
Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria)
Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK)
Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA)
Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo)

Cognitio-Estudos abre chamada para trabalhos

Até 10/2, a Cognitio-Estudos, revista eletrônica do Centro de Estudos de Pragmatismo (Pós em Filosofia), recebe artigos originais, resenhas e traduções para a publicação do volume 9, número 1, de janeiro/julho de 2012. Os trabalhos devem ser submetidos online, mediante a realização de um cadastro como autor no site da revista. As normas para publicação também estão disponíveis no site. Mais informações: cognitio-estudos@uol.com.br.
http://www4.pucsp.br/pragmatismo/cognitio/cognitio_folha_rosto.html