[ecrea] CFP: Information and Communication Technologies and the Current Crisis: How Are They Connected?

> Call For Papers - Special Issue of tripleC 
> (http://www.triple-c.at): Information and 
> Communication Technologies and the Current Crisis: How Are They Connected?
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> The Crisis that began in 2007 continues to 
> convulse the world. Labelled by some as merely a 
> recession, yet it is associated with dramatic 
> changes in national and global power. Others 
> frame the Crisis as merely a consequence of 
> over-promoting a narrow range of financial 
> transactions associated with subprime mortgage 
> instruments. These were indeed overly 
> aggressively oversold by deregulated bankers, 
> but this was likely only an important trigger of 
> the Crisis, not the primary cause.
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>
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> In this special issue, we will explore the 
> notion that much of the basis of the Crisis 
> should be assigned to financial transactions not 
> just made possible but also strongly afforded by 
> use of computer technologies. Thus, those 
> operating at the highest levels of algorithmic 
> capacity bear substantial responsibility for the Crisis.
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> For students of technological innovation and 
> diffusion, many questions emerge about the 
> connection between the Crisis in general and 
> computerization. Some of the questions involve 
> the tight relationship between cultures of 
> technological empowerment and financial elites. 
> Others questions, while appearing initially to 
> be purely economic, turn out on examination to 
> articulate strongly with the public interest, 
> civil society, policymaking, and public discourse more generally.
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> These in turn lead to further, perhaps quite new 
> critical questions about the emerging 
> relationships between capitalism, democracy and 
> the data-information-knowledge-technology nexus. 
> Thus, equally important for responsibility is 
> specification of what is known within computer 
> science about the technological dimensions of 
> the Crisis of this crisis. Ultimately, a 
> rethinking of the very notion of ?crisis? itself may be needed.
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>
> Some specific questions authors may choose to address include:
>
> What kind of crisis is this, how is it different 
> from previous ones, how are these differences 
> related to automated ICTs and the changed practices they have afforded?
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> What role do computer professionals have in the crisis?
>
> Does this crisis suggest a dystopian post-human future?
>
> What media theories best explain the crisis, or 
> has the time arrived for newly radical approaches in this area?
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> How does public policy fit in the private world of computerization?
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> What historical guides are available as tools to 
> foster better analyses of technological crisis?
>
> Will the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, 
> China) be the ?winners? of this crisis?
>
> Are there artistic innovations that help refine 
> political and policy responses to this crisis?
>
> What new knowledge innovations are needed to 
> understand the forces at work in this crisis and 
> its implications for democracy?
>
> What new questions need to be addressed to 
> orientate research about the crisis?
>
> How are the computing-, information-, and 
> media-industries affected by this crisis? How will they develop in the future?
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> This special issue of tripleC is intended to 
> feature research from both theoretical and 
> practical perspectives. We seek contributions 
> from any theoretical, professional, or 
> disciplinary perspective that offers innovative 
> analysis that promotes debate about technology and the Crisis.
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>
>
> Submission deadline: Full papers should be 
> submitted until October 31st, 2009. All papers 
> will be peer reviewed. The special issue will be published in spring 2010.
>
> tripleC ­ Cognition, Communication, 
> Co-operation: Open Access Journal for a Global 
> Sustainable Information Society 
> (http://www.triple-c.at) promotes contributions 
> within an emerging science of the information 
> age with a special interest in critical studies 
> following the highest standards of peer review.
>
>
>
> Submissions must be formatted according to 
> tripleC?s guidelines 
> (http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#authorGuidelines), 
> make use of APA style, and use the style 
> template 
> (http://triplec.at/files/journals/1/template-0.dot). 
> Papers should be submitted online by making use 
> of the electronic submission system 
> (http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/user/register, 
> http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/login). When 
> submitting to the electronic system, please 
> select ?Special issue on crisis & communication? as the journal?s section.
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> ISSUE CO-EDITORS: David Hakken 
> ((dhakken /at/ indiana.edu)) and Marcus Breen ((m.breen /at/ neu.edu))
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> David Hakken is professor of informatics at 
> Indiana University. Marcus Breen is associate 
> professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.

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