[ecrea] Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Gender and Social Computing: The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)

Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Gender and Social 
Computing: The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)



IJEP is an official publication of the 
Information Resources Management Association

www.igi-global.com/ IJEP



Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)



International Editorial Review Board:



Advisory board



Ada Scupola, Carol Saunders, Christine Williams, 
Ezendu Ariwa, Lynne Markus, Philip Ein-Dor, 
Prashant Palvia, Robert Davison, Ron Rice, 
Shailendria Palvia, Shezaf Rafaeli, Steven Gordon, Symour (Sy) Goodman



Associate editors



Anastasia Deligiaouri, Anastasia Kavada, Andrea 
Calderaro, Arik Ragowsky, Balaji Rajagopalan, 
Carlo Bellini, Cathy Urquhart, Changchit 
Chuleeporn, Christopher Reddick, Dave Oliver, 
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Isaac Mostovicz, Itir 
Akdogan, Jack Quarter, Jens Hoff, Joan Francesc 
Fondevila i Gascón, Joy Peluchette, Karine 
Barzilai-Nahon, Katherine Karl, Katherine 
Ognyanova, Lakshmi Iyer, Laurie Schatzberg, Linda 
Coleman, Lorenzo Mosca, Luciano Paccagnella, 
Marick Masters, Myles Stern, Nada Kakabadse, Nava 
Pliskin, Naveed Baqir, Nico Carpentier, Nicolas 
Ducheneaut, Pierluigi Rippa, Pippa Norris, Ramesh 
Srinivasan, Sandy Staples, Stephen Fox, Tim 
Roberts, Toni Somers, Toru Sakaguchi, Yana Breindl, Yasmin Ibrahim



MISSION OF IJEP:



The primary objective of the International 
Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) is to lay the 
foundations of E-Politics as an emerging 
interdisciplinary area of research and practice, 
as well as, to offer a venue for publications 
that focus on theories and empirical research on 
the manifestations of E-Politics in various 
contexts and environments. E-Politcs is defined 
as influence attempts facilitated by or related 
to electronic media or to the information 
technology field. As such, it is seen as 
interdisciplinary, encompassing areas such as 
information systems, political science, social 
science (psychology, sociology, and cultural 
studies), security, ethics, law, management and others.



SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER AND SOCIAL COMPUTING



Recommended topics for the special issue include, 
but are not limited to the following:



1.      IT and Gender at Work

·         the behavior of men and women as 
on-line consumers, service providers, etc.

·         the roles that men and women play in virtual teams

·         the impact of gender on the IT profession

·         information technology as an enabler of 
leadership for women in various professions,

·         The effect of gender on adoption of IT in various professions

·         The impact of IT on changing the work/home balance



2.      eDating

·         The ways in which IT affects the 
balance of power between consumers of eDating services,

·         The ways that technology affects the behavior of eDaters

·         The impact of culture on eDating practices

·         The manner in which technology shapes different eDating environments



3.      Virtual communities and social networking

·         Gender relations in a social networking environments

·         Gender relations in gaming communities

·         Gender relations in virtual communities

·         Gender relation in virtual worlds

·         Gender relations in social networking 
environments that are supported by technologies 
other than the Internet (e.g., cell phones, Internet TV)



4.      ePolitics

·         Gender issues in IT supported party 
politics, including in the last US elections

·         Gender differences in IT enabled grass-roots politics

·         Gender issues in eVoting

·         Gender issues in the politics of eGovernment

·         Gender issues and the politics of cyber security



SUBMITTING TO IJEP:



Prospective authors should note that only 
original and previously unpublished articles will 
be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT 
THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at:



http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf



PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will 
be forwarded to at least 3 members of the 
Editorial Review Board of the journal for 
double-blind, peer review. Final decision 
regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be 
based on the reviews received from the reviewers. 
All submissions must be forwarded electronically 
to Celia Romm Livermore at (ak1667 /at/ wayne.edu).



PUBLISHER:



The International Journal of E-Politics is 
published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group 
Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science 
Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 
?Medical Information Science Reference? imprints. 
For additional information regarding the 
publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.





GENDER AND SOCIAL COMPUTING IMPRTANT DATES



February 1, 2010:  - paper submission

March 15, 2010 - Review Results Returned to authors

May 1, 2010 - Submission of final papers to editor

June 1, 2010 - Submission of all materials to the publisher



Inquiries and submissions should be forwarded 
electronically (Word document) to:



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Celia Romm Livermore (PhD)
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
School of Business Administration
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, 48202, USA
E-mail address: (ak1667 /at/ wayne.edu)
www.igi-global.com/IJEP



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