SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in Online Communities

Hi all,

Any chance this will be of interest to some of our Community Members?

Was wondering whether it's worth putting a news item up for it or
something. It's not directly related to PostgreSQL specifically, but
more of virtual communities in general.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:33:36 -0500
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>
> Call for submissions
> Deadline: 15/01/2005
>
>
> Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual
> Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power
> in Virtual Communities''
>
> Editors:
> Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto
> Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia
> Tech
>
> Submissions due January 15, 2005
>
> Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual
> Communities
>
> The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on
> virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral
> locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within
> the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves
> form mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online
> communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant
> forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of
> researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have
> heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as
> LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount
> the value of teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of
> Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar
> territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue
> will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership
> to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the
> edges of the event horizon.
>
> Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the
> overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual
> communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community;
> hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the
> value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism
> of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten
> virtual communities; and the code beneath the community - exploring
> programmer and system administrative communities.
>
> Submissions should be sent to both: jason(dot)nolan(at)utoronto(dot)ca and
> jhuns(at)vt(dot)edu Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup
>
> Templates for SIGGroup submissions:
> http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
>
>
>
> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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